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What did you do to exit the endless reboots? Or is your Mac just rebooting into macOS after the installer starts?

Note that booting OC from a USB drive should be fine as long as the drive is blessed properly, otherwise boot selection routing may fail, and that is important for installations and updates. Also, as mentioned in the wiki, the VMM flag is not needed in Big Sur provided that you've enabled hybridization.
Thanks, I'll try re-blessing the drive. I suspect it's getting confused đź‘Ť
 
Maybe someone can help me:

I can't get the OpenCore Label of my Mojave disks renamed.
I once had the name "blade" and do ccc copies. Now all my copies have the name "blade" in the OC selection list.

Volume Name is not "blade" no more of course.

I used oc disklabel command to add the tags to both Coreservices directories of Preboot and System APFS Volume.

even checked .disk_label.contentDetails, file was correctly written

where does OpenCore gets the name in the selection list from?

Just use text mode if that counts.

And PickerAttributes set to 2.
 
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In what respect? Both RP and OC run there.
Edit: you ask about BS I presume ? Than not yet.


11.3 Beta 20e5210c has "nice" glitches:

won't install with a Kepler Card, I popped a GT120 in.

after installation put the Kepler back in everything works regarding GPU.

Won't boot if an Apple AHCI Blade is in. Buddy told same with a NVMe.
 
11.3 Beta 20e5210c has "nice" glitches:

won't install with a Kepler Card, I popped a GT120 in.

after installation put the Kepler back in everything works regarding GPU.

Won't boot if an Apple AHCI Blade is in. Buddy told same with a NVMe.
My BS is on NVME. Could b be a problem
 
I'm thinking about setting up a Windows10 boot partition on my OpenCore 5,1 and could appreciate pointers in the right direction to make sure I stay out of trouble.

First, what are the pros and cons of booting with a so called "legacy" windows install (and boot without OpenCore I guess?), vs what is described in CDF's guide by using OpenCore to protect the UEFI, and avoid "legacy" mode, whatever that is?

Any recommendations for partitioning a place for Windows in order to avoid messing up an existing Catalina, Mojave or Big Sur boot partition on the same physical drive? One spare place I have with some room for windows is on the drive where I have Mojave.

ps - I also use RefindPlus, so I am able boot Windows with or without OpenCore...doesn't matter to me which way I set it up, but want to understand the pros and cons of doing it through OpenCore vs legacy mode or whatever...
 
if you don't really need Uefi Windows (because of running it from a NVMe for example) I'd avoid the risks and run it in legacy.

As you do (and me) you can run it thru RefindPlus or

thru OpenCore with chainloaded Refind. I tried both.
 
My BS is on NVME. Could b be a problem
Big Sur 20e5210c is a kinda freaking mess, crashes 2 out of 3 times due to IONVMEFamily.cpp but the one time does decide on booting zero issues in Mac OS even when running from an NVME.
 
I'm thinking about setting up a Windows10 boot partition on my OpenCore 5,1 and could appreciate pointers in the right direction to make sure I stay out of trouble.

First, what are the pros and cons of booting with a so called "legacy" windows install (and boot without OpenCore I guess?), vs what is described in CDF's guide by using OpenCore to protect the UEFI, and avoid "legacy" mode, whatever that is?

Any recommendations for partitioning a place for Windows in order to avoid messing up an existing Catalina, Mojave or Big Sur boot partition on the same physical drive? One spare place I have with some room for windows is on the drive where I have Mojave.

ps - I also use RefindPlus, so I am able boot Windows with or without OpenCore...doesn't matter to me which way I set it up, but want to understand the pros and cons of doing it through OpenCore vs legacy mode or whatever...
I recommend to use a different drive, not a partition.
 
@cdf @h9826790 is there a way to check if HEVC hardware encoding is available? What should I check in Handbrake?

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@cdf @h9826790 is there a way to check if HEVC hardware encoding is available? What should I check in Handbrake?

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A second way to confirm is by installing VideoProc. That application provides a visual confirmation that hardware encoding and decoding is available if everything is configured correctly.

Apart from that, iStat menu will also show GPU info such as load when the GPU is tasked with encoding or decoding source media.
 
How is bigsur on the 5.1? I install it on my macbook pro 2013 and it seems alittle sluggish compared to Mojave. Just curious if bigsur runs well on 5.1...
 
I installed it on my 5,1 and it benchmarked 10% lower on multi-core as compare to Catalina. My usb midi controller didn't work. I'm back on Catalina, will try BigSur 11.3 when it comes out.
 
I'm running 11.3 Beta 4 on my 5,1 MacPro and OC 0.6.3 without issues so far on my PCIe NVME M.2 drive.
 

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