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

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Hi, Ive checked that RequestBootVarRouting is Enabled and also ProtectSecureBoot which is also enabled.
Ive tried selected the Windows Volume as the Start Up Disk but when boot picker starts it still only shows the usual Volumes?
 
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Are there any components, kexts, PCI or usb devices causing the Monterey Beta 7 update to fail? I have several times tried, always ends up hanging on the progress bar, not showing how much time is left like a usual update, sometimes boot looping, sometimes getting kernel panics, eventually ends up booting me back to Beta 6.
Some have updated successfully but I still can't currently, I recently tried by enabling the VMM flag and getting it via OTA, same result.
Edit, Second VMM attempt worked, but I had to manually do SMC resets every time the process hanged and disconnect every USB that was plugged
 
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An annoyance I could use some help on. Whenever I boot my 5,1 - either warm or cold - it always boots into Windows if I do not engage the boot picker and force a macOS install. I have tried from Mohave, Big Sur, and Monterey - it always boot Windows. When I reboot from Windows it boots to Windows! arg.

I want to have a persistent OS to boot into UNLESS I intercept it and select something else in the boot picker. Is there a way to do this?

Thank you!
 
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I want to show the progress bar when my Mac starts up.
My background is in #8,977, but I would like to revive the above. To sum up, I'm running into a problem where I do a PRAM reset and nothing is output to the display until the desktop view.
OpenCore's config.plist has been restored to what it was before when there was no problem. And I also set the EFI partition with bless command.

How do I configure config.plist to show the Apple logo and progress bar?
 
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Hello friends. I just used OCLP 2.5 to install Big Sur in my cMP5,1 and USB keyboard doesn't work... Any workaround? Thanks in advance!
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1. Use front USB ports.
2. OCLP issue tracking is available here. Keep in mind that if you waste developers' time with a "my keyboard is not working" before exhausting all the options, including but not limited to attaching via an USB hub, checking with a powered hub, checking all the USB ports, checking a different keyboard - you are not going to last there.
 
ZNDK said:
How do I configure config.plist to show the Apple logo and progress bar?
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Your previous post shows a broken OCLP installation which you broke even further by using an alpha ("nightly") version of OCLP instead of a release version. Your computer also shows signs of being out of order (boot-args not passed by OC to the system? Gotta be kiddin' me).
Obviously your GPU isn't fired up until login screen, which comes most probably from a misconfiguration in the config.plist.
This is NOT an OCLP help thread, however I'd suggest you used the text-based version of the tool, selected "9 developer tools" and forced the AMD GPU. Build a minimum OCLP installation then, do not decorate your config.plist with anything fancy and pray your PRAM is still capable of managing the boot process.
 
ZNDK said:
How do I configure config.plist to show the Apple logo and progress bar?
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I was able to figure it out. I intentionally ran bless against a completely different EFI partition, and then ran bless against the correct EFI partition. Then, the OpenCore version was successfully displayed in "nvram 4D1FDA02-38C7-4A6A-9CC6-4BCCA8B30102: opencore-version". And successfully I was able to see the apple logo and progress bar on Mac startup.

Thanks,
 
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Fantastic news that we now can use our Mac Pro 5.1's with 11.3+ operating systems. Has anyone tested performance with the AMD 6800 or 6900 cards yet? I'm specifically interested in Red Raw decompression and debayer performance at full 6k and 8k resolutions. My Mac Pro's with 5700XT cards are almost real time at 6k full debayer.
 
For some reason my cMP 5,1 cant wake up after sleep in BigSur. Is this a known problem or only me having this issue?

Can someone please shed some light into this please? My config: OC 0.7.3 + BS 11.6. My GPU is Nvidia K600 (Kepler)

[Sleep and Wake up works under Mojave (with and without OC)]
 
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this was unexpected... RC Beta(i think) 11.6.1 went perfect. OpenCore/OCLP/SurPlus
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@cdf, I finished coding the Patch feature into OpenCore Plistlib Generator, allowing an user to easily insert patches, see #116 in progress. This is related to the SurPlus fix, thank you @Syncretic for your great findings.

I'm waiting for OC 0.7.4 to be released, so I can also add the new release settings. You can take a peak how the new setup.py file will look with @Syncretic's patches applied.
 
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protocold said:
For some reason my cMP 5,1 cant wake up after sleep in BigSur. Is this a known problem or only me having this issue?
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My Mac is always set to go into Sleep mode and never had issues to wake-up. OC 0.7.3 EFI built with OpenCore Plistlib Generator + BS 11.6
 
If your running Os Catalina and want to install Big Sur do you need to enable the VMM Flag?
I'm getting update reminder to update to Big Sur 11.6, and running the latest Martin's Package v2. Can you just go ahead and update?
 
Thanks again, sorry for all the questions just making sure I don’t cause a problem. So after installing Big Sur you don’t need to worry about the VMM flag then
 
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