MP 1,1-5,1 Manually Configured OpenCore on the Mac Pro

[donzubeck]

before you do that, did you try changing this switch? open core doesn't like one of these I don't remember what one it is off hand. shut down your computer flip the switch and reboot worked for me.

Scanning the thread I've seen hints my second hand RX 580 might be the problem if the BIOS has been messed with, but I'm getting over my head and all the solutions I can see point to using Windows. Can I confirm / fix this without access to a windows machine?

I can dig out my stock NVIDIA card from storage if necessary, but it's not immediately to hand.
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[ithinkitsnice]

before you do that, did you try changing this switch? open core doesn't like one of these I don't remember what one it is off hand. shut down your computer flip the switch and reboot worked for me.

Scanning the thread I've seen hints my second hand RX 580 might be the problem if the BIOS has been messed with, but I'm getting over my head and all the solutions I can see point to using Windows. Can I confirm / fix this without access to a windows machine?

I can dig out my stock NVIDIA card from storage if necessary, but it's not immediately to hand.

Thanks, I already stumbled across that as a possible fix but mine doesn't have the switch, so no luck there.

edit: Is there a way to boot from my Windows install USB (it's otherwise all ready to go) without using the picker, e.g. from a terminal command? If I could do that, could I use Windows tools to reflash the 580?

 

[startergo]

Is there a way to boot from my Windows install USB (it's otherwise all ready to go) without using the picker

You don't need Windows to flash AMD vbios, now there is a UEFI tool, but you would need to boot to UEFI shell. For that you would need a boot screen (catch 22). Don't you have the original MAC card? Just use it to boot to UEFI shell from OC and use the UEFI VBFLASH SHELL VERSION.

 

[eikic1]

Very little detail here. Did you follow the first post wiki as outlined below?
Reboot into recovery

• In recovery, open Terminal (see Utilities in the menu bar)
• Find the EFI volume of Disk A by entering: diskutil list

The identifier should be something like diskAs1. Replace the actual identifier in the following step.

• Mount the EFI volume by entering: diskutil mount /dev/diskAs1
• Bless the volume for booting by entering: bless --mount /Volumes/EFI --setBoot

Spoiler: If the previous command fails...
Try: bless --mount /Volumes/EFI --setBoot --file /Volumes/EFI/EFI/BOOT/BOOTx64.efi --verbose

thansk bro for respon and now fix for me
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anyone who have OC06 bootpicker with Radeon VII?
thanks
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for now im using OC 059

 

[ithinkitsnice]

You don't need Windows to flash AMD vbios, now there is a UEFI tool, but you would need to boot to UEFI shell. For that you would need a boot screen (catch 22). Don't you have the original MAC card? Just use it to boot to UEFI shell from OC and use the UEFI VBFLASH SHELL VERSION.

Ah great, yes the stock card is somewhere. I'll try that.

 

[GSXB]

I just did a quick test with NdkBootPicker. I simply copy the icons form here to make the icon in my previous post.
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Rename the png file to the icns required, then I can get this in NdkBootPicker
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I haven't really explorer OpenCanopy yet. Not sure if its icns is the same format as the latest NdkBootPicker use. For NdkBootPicker, it's extremely easy, you can make any icon you want in 256x256 size, output that to png, then rename the file to the associated icns.

How do you output it at 256 x 256

 

[nobullone1964]

I love OpenCore!

 

[donzubeck]

I am having a hard time doing a fresh install of Mojave 10.14.6 on a 4TB HD. The installer opens and runs reboots, then about 2 minutes into the install it quits. The dialog screen says can't complete because I need a firmware update, My computer is at 144.0.0.0.0. I have installed Mojave on this machine before with no problems. It is a 2010 Mac Pro with open core 0.6 installed from Martin's post 1314. I have tried to Toggle the VMM flag and ran the OC config plist check script, that has not helped. Can anyone help point me what I may be missing?

 

[J3NK0M80]

I'm wondering if it's worth following the tutorial in post #1 to enable hardware acceleration on my 5,1 with Catalina OS and RX580 GPU (using OpenCore)? Is it a worth-while upgrade?

It would be great to have my computer running as fast as possible, but I have read about fan control/OpenCore issues in the forums. Has a safe work around been discovered yet? If so, please could someone point me in the right direction.

 

[6DecadesLater]

I'm wondering if it's worth following the tutorial in post #1 to enable hardware acceleration on my 5,1 with Catalina OS and RX580 GPU (using OpenCore)? Is it a worth-while upgrade?

It would be great to have my computer running as fast as possible, but I have read about fan control and safety issues in the forums. Has a safe work around been discovered yet? If so, please could someone point me in the right direction.

I did all the hardware acceleration without any issues. My specs in signature. Fans spin up high momentarily at boot but settle in quickly. Whether it is worth it depends on what you are doing that may benefit best from the acceleration. I do basic stuff, no gaming and only a little video editing. Not sure I take full advantage of the acceleration but can confirm it is safe for my setup with OC0.5.9 and now OC0.6.0.

 

[J3NK0M80]

I did all the hardware acceleration without any issues. My specs in signature. Fans spin up high momentarily at boot but settle in quickly. Whether it is worth it depends on what you are doing that may benefit best from the acceleration. I do basic stuff, no gaming and only a little video editing. Not sure I take full advantage of the acceleration but can confirm it is safe for my setup with OC0.5.9 and now OC0.6.0.

Thanks for getting back so quick. That's really good news to hear, I'll consider following the tutorial then. If it can keep the 5,1 feeling a little newer, for longer, then it's well worth it.

Quick question, does your 5,1 now identify as an iMac Pro (or the likes)?

 

[dvbcheck]

I am having a hard time doing a fresh install of Mojave 10.14.6 on a 4TB HD. The installer opens and runs reboots, then about 2 minutes into the install it quits. The dialog screen says can't complete because I need a firmware update, My computer is at 144.0.0.0.0. I have installed Mojave on this machine before with no problems. It is a 2010 Mac Pro with open core 0.6 installed from Martin's post 1314. I have tried to Toggle the VMM flag and ran the OC config plist check script, that has not helped. Can anyone help point me what I may be missing?

you need a special config only for Updates (no spoofing)
you can find examples on the HW acceleration thread
smbiosupdate is concerned

 

[ithinkitsnice]

My 5,1 Mojave is no longer sleeping since installing OC.

There are no apps preventing sleep in Activity Monitor, and even when I manually select sleep from the menu bar the displays sleep but the machine itself never powers down (solid power light, fans running).

Any ideas?

 

[startergo]

My 5,1 Mojave is no longer sleeping since installing OC.

There are no apps preventing sleep in Activity Monitor, and even when I manually select sleep from the menu bar the displays sleep but the machine itself never powers down (solid power light, fans running).

Any ideas?

what is the result of:

pmset -g everything | grep 'Wake'

 

[joshuaelm]

Does this work on mac pro 3,1?

edit: i tried and it got boot loop. I recovered it but open core is no longer on it. Thank you.

 

[6DecadesLater]

Thanks for getting back so quick. That's really good news to hear, I'll consider following the tutorial then. If it can keep the 5,1 feeling a little newer, for longer, then it's well worth it.

Quick question, does your 5,1 now identify as an iMac Pro (or the likes)?

It sees itself as Mac pro (Mid 2010) in "About This Mac" and macPro5,1 in the "System report"

 

[naerct]

I've finally been able to get back to my 6-core and 12-core 2009 cMPs. I had both working with 5.8 or 5.9 with many of the features, and got to OS 15.6 on one and 15.5 on the 12-core. After switching around the NVMe blades with the purchase of a new 1 TB 970 EVO+, I have a single 960 in the 4-core and 2, 1 TB 970s in the SYBA bifurcation PCI device, an EVO and an EVO+. I pulled all the other drives and tried to get the current 0.6.0 version working. After trying all day, I cannot get it to boot recovery, using the supplied command. It just reboots the Mojave boot. I used a single 960 as my Mojave drive, and tried a SATA SSD for the "A" disk in one of the drive bays, onboard on my SATA3 Sonnet card, and as an eSATA device connected to the Sonnet (and USB power). The results were all the same, even though I used new downloads of the .6 version for each attempt. Any suggestions how to get it to boot into recovery?

 

[GSXB]

I'm sure I followed the instructions here after opening the 'spoiler' and I did of course change the UUID to my own. but i must be making an error somewhere as this is the result I get.

I repeated the steps several time in case I did something obviously wrong but I get the same result ... No such file or directory

/dev/disk4 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +479.9 GB disk4
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume ⁨SSD BigSur beta 2 - ...⁩ 274.2 GB disk4s1
2: APFS Volume ⁨Preboot⁩ 360.1 MB disk4s2
3: APFS Volume ⁨Recovery⁩ 887.8 MB disk4s3
4: APFS Volume ⁨BigSur beta⁩ 15.8 GB disk4s4
5: APFS Snapshot ⁨com.apple.os.update- ...⁩ 15.8 GB disk4s4s1
6: APFS Volume ⁨VM⁩ 1.1 MB disk4s6

david@Davids-QuadPro-4 ~ % sudo diskutil mount disk4s2

Password:
Volume Preboot on disk4s2 mounted

david@Davids-QuadPro-4 ~ % ls -l /System/Volumes/Preboot
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 11 _nsurlsessiond _nsurlsessiond 352 Jul 22 14:47 1B08D35B-CCDB-4E60-8BCB-B5A71C2F9054

david@Davids-QuadPro-4 ~ % sudo mv ~/Users/apple/Downloads/.disk_label.contentDetails /System/Volumes/Preboot/1B08D35B-CCDB-4E60-8BCB-B5A71C2F9054/System/Library/CoreServices/.disk_label.contentDetails

mv: rename /Users/david/Users/apple/Downloads/.disk_label.contentDetails to /System/Volumes/Preboot/1B08D35B-CCDB-4E60-8BCB-B5A71C2F9054/System/Library/CoreServices/.disk_label.contentDetails: No such file or directory


david@Davids-QuadPro-4 ~ %



What am I doing wrong that I cannot see?

Just drag and drop it in the folder
Is all you have to do
Remember to shift/cmd/. To reveal hidden files

 

[pbsxr]

Is it possible to use OC on a MacBook 7.1 (white) and MacBook Air (Mid2011) just to get rid off the Dosdude Pacher?

 

[h9826790]

Is it possible to use OC on a MacBook 7.1 (white) and MacBook Air (Mid2011) just to get rid off the Dosdude Pacher?

That won't work in most cases.

We Mac Pro 5,1 users can do this because our Macs are upgradable (e.g. GPU, Wifi, Bluetooth...). Therefore, we can upgrade the Mac to a hardware config that can run the latest macOS without any patching. And all we need is just a work around to allow us to install / boot to that particular OS.

For most other unsupported Mac, without proper hardware upgrade, some functions won't work. e.g. For a GPU that has no Metal support. It's impossible to run Catalina flawlessly without any patching. Or you will need to patch the driver, otherwise, the original wifi card won't work. In this case, Dosdude patcher is the easiest way to go.

Of course, you can still boot to the latest macOS via OpenCore on those Mac, but you will have to fix all the software / driver issues by yourself. And you still end up with a highly patched OS.

 

[pbsxr]

I had in my mind that the devices above are mostly compatible...

 

[h9826790]

I had in my mind that the devices above are mostly compatible...

I don't think GeForce 320M or Intel HD3000 series has Metal support.

 

[6DecadesLater]

I've finally been able to get back to my 6-core and 12-core 2009 cMPs. I had both working with 5.8 or 5.9 with many of the features, and got to OS 15.6 on one and 15.5 on the 12-core. After switching around the NVMe blades with the purchase of a new 1 TB 970 EVO+, I have a single 960 in the 4-core and 2, 1 TB 970s in the SYBA bifurcation PCI device, an EVO and an EVO+. I pulled all the other drives and tried to get the current 0.6.0 version working. After trying all day, I cannot get it to boot recovery, using the supplied command. It just reboots the Mojave boot. I used a single 960 as my Mojave drive, and tried a SATA SSD for the "A" disk in one of the drive bays, onboard on my SATA3 Sonnet card, and as an eSATA device connected to the Sonnet (and USB power). The results were all the same, even though I used new downloads of the .6 version for each attempt. Any suggestions how to get it to boot into recovery?

Instead of using the terminal command, try rebooting and using Command + R to get to the recovery - be patient as it can take a long time to see any progress. Or try doing a NVRAM reset (boot while holding Command+Option+P+R - hold until you hear a second boot chime, then let keys go and quickly press and hold Command + R.

 

[joshuaelm]

That won't work in most cases.

We Mac Pro 5,1 users can do this because our Macs are upgradable (e.g. GPU, Wifi, Bluetooth...). Therefore, we can upgrade the Mac to a hardware config that can run the latest macOS without any patching. And all we need is just a work around to allow us to install / boot to that particular OS.

For most other unsupported Mac, without proper hardware upgrade, some functions won't work. e.g. For a GPU that has no Metal support. It's impossible to run Catalina flawlessly without any patching. Or you will need to patch the driver, otherwise, the original wifi card won't work. In this case, Dosdude patcher is the easiest way to go.

Of course, you can still boot to the latest macOS via OpenCore on those Mac, but you will have to fix all the software / driver issues by yourself. And you still end up with a highly patched OS.

So i have mac pro 3,1. Do you think i'd be able to natively update to Catalina? Because i can upgrade all those things. Or would in the long run the better solution be dosdude 1 witch i am running now. The only issue i have with the patch is that i'm stuck on osx Catalina 10.15.3 witch is not the latest version of Catalina. Also i have no wi-fi card if thats important.

 

[joevt]

So i have mac pro 3,1. Do you think i'd be able to natively update to Catalina? Because i can upgrade all those things. Or would in the long run the better solution be dosdude 1 witch i am running now. The only issue i have with the patch is that i'm stuck on osx Catalina 10.15.3 witch is not the latest version of Catalina. Also i have no wi-fi card if thats important.

I have a MacPro3,1. Just use the dosdude1 patcher to download the latest Catalina 10.15.6, create USB installer, install Catalina over your 10.15.3 to update it. Shouldn't be a problem unless you have 64 GB or RAM.