Actually it has changed, you can now boot windows from startup disk with SIP enabled. So yeah it changed...
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Actually it has changed, you can now boot windows from startup disk with SIP enabled. So yeah it changed...
Oh, nice! At least something. Did you look at updates for Windows BootCamp boot manager?
I'll check the windows side in a little while. I doubt anything hit there...
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Okay, I checked. Once you boot into windows you are stuck there until you do a PRAM reset. Of course if you are using BootRunner, or a similar app., there's no problem. Just use their boot selector as an alternative to "Startup Disk" and you don't need to go through that hassle.
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hello sir, sorry bother you with an old topic, but i need to know your evo 960 boot mac pro or not? it's not ahci, but nvme, if you did boot with it, which pcie adapter do you use please? thank you so much.
@marcoscc has a Highpoint 7101a and I reconstructed his BootROM, 138.0.0.0.0 with NVMe EFI module from MP61.0124.B00.
You get the message because Bootcamp Assistant isn’t supported on the cMP with updated firmware/macOS.
The fix is something only Apple can do.
Install BootRunner3 for a workaround. There are other Apps. that work fine too, I just happen to use this one at the moment.
Hi! first of all, I would like to thank everybody for all the information you guys posted in this and other posts. You guys are awesome.
I have a couple of questions, I got a Lycom and a Samsung 970, followed the GDoc tutorial and made the NVMe as a bootable drive. I haven't installed this new flash yet(138). Everything works flawlessly, excepting a couple of details:
1. I can't make the R/W speed past 800 MB. I've installed the PCI in the slot 3, so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong there.
2. and not that important, my mac shows the NVMe as an external drive.
Does anybody have had these issues? thanks in advance!
I have a couple of questions, I got a Lycom and a Samsung 970, followed the GDoc tutorial and made the NVMe as a bootable drive. I haven't installed this new flash yet(138). Everything works flawlessly, excepting a couple of details:
1. I can't make the R/W speed past 800 MB. I've installed the PCI in the slot 3, so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong there.
2. and not that important, my mac shows the NVMe as an external drive.
Does anybody have had these issues? thanks in advance!
All PCIe drives are external to the Mac Pro firmware. Upgrade to 138.0.0.0.0, enable trim, then test again.
Hey tsialex, do you believe FileVault could be enabled via a terminal command for those of us that have GPU's which support boot screens?
I have to investigate that, didn’t have time to look at this, but I think it’s possible.
I can boot NVMe balde installed in HIGHPoint SSD7101A card nom RAID configuration or Lycon DT-120 . Marcos Silva
I haven’t tested this in Mojave, but this may be of use to you.
http://www.mactricksandtips.com/2014/01/check-enable-and-disable-filevault-from-terminal.html
This too could be disabled in Mojave, you’ll just have to test.
Are you running Mojave with firmware 138.0.0.0.0 with SIP enabled and a non-EFI GPU?
My comments were specifically related to if Apple updated or changed the bootcamp drivers or default bootcamp assistant behavior. They have not...
Either way, the BCA drivers downloaded with BCA on a cMP don’t support win10 or APFS .
You can still install Win10, download the BC drivers, and install them manually without BCA. It’s not hard.
This isn’t officially supported, just like a lot of other things we do in the cMP world.
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Legacy Windows?
If yes, then AFAIK, this startup disk selector always work regardless SIP status.
Bootcamp Assistant is not required at the beginning for cMP users, and not the best way for us as well (even if it can work).
Since we can install multiple hard drives. It's so much better to install an independent hard drive that dedicated for Windows.
Simply install that hard drive (better to remove all other hard drives as well just to avoid accidentally pick the wrong drive to format during installation). Hold "C" to boot from the Windows 10 installation disc. Then flow the on screen instruction to install Windows natively.
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Storage, that should be SIP / EFI GPU independent, but can be affected by those NTFS software.
Already lots of install threads for this. We were discussing changes in BootRom and behavior changes discovered in today’s release. Sorry for leading thread off topic.
Yes to all of that. Do you only get the "Bootcamp not supported message" from Mojave? I just tried it from HS where it worked, so I figured whatever you saw was not related to FW 138. I didn't try running it from Mojave.
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In my case: Lycom DT-120 in slot 4, Evo 970, bootrom 138, High Sierra
I did not have to enable trim as it was already enabled, and got the right r/w speeds