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

[358]

There's quite a bit of stuff in there that you probably don't need (in particular, with a real Mac you really don't need to add the system UUID or serial number to your config). If you're up to it, you may want to consider a fresh OC setup by following the guide in this thread.

hey buddy, thanks for that. This was my first attempt and yes i used that guide but kept digging in other places as well as looking at multiple tools like hakintool etc. Getting rid of the Serial number an UUID should not require a rebuild should it?

It took me ages to build this the first time and id really appreciate some pointers

 

[358]

About memory - it is obvious that the picture does not show memory 5.1 - and the error is clearly that you are too smart in the config, that memory slots are recognized as in 7.1

I can only talk about my situation or about my research in working with Thunderbolt
Gurus who write patches or ssdt tables should know more

how could I make sure the thunderbolt on macpro 4.1/5.1 is a very capricious thing
the thunderbolt is connected to the psi, and the SSDT table makes powercontrol,
1. the functioning depends on the correctness of the SSDT table (other pci devices may conflict with each other)
2. Martin Lo wrote that aml is needed for the hotplug to work
3. as such, the hotplug does not work for me (only USB-3, but it works without aml) because:
4. I bought Alpine Ridge on ebay as a flashed (but Tsialex wrote to me that it is probably non-flashed, since the resistor is in place) - it means for me it doesn’t matter if there is an aml or not
5. aml affected sleep/wakeup in 12.4 and 12.5 but everything was fixed for me on 12.5.1 and now wakeup does not crash the system despite the <true> or <false> argument
6. I always see USB-c devices, but to see the devices connected to the thunderbolt, you need to do a warm reboot
7. sleep/wakeup breaks thunderbolt and requires reboot after sleep to see thunderbolt devices again (USB-c devices works after wakeup)
8. devices connected to the Thunderbolt can affect the reboot, and can even lead to panic (because usually they have their own power, which is likely to feed back to the psi- and can probably lead to panic)
9. as I could understand, the presence of aml affects the work when loading into Windows. to boot into windows I use the config without aml (but this is not confirmed - since I have not tested all the possibilities in windows yet)
I can notice that when installing windows I have to unplug all pci and all hdd
10. I also confirm that any device that has ssdt after wakeup behaves differently, for example, a GPU without ssdt turns on much faster than a GPU with ssdt - it takes a much longer time to wait before power or something else gives a command and display signal will appear - also the video card is responsible for the operation of the keyboard, mouse and sound on the display

now the work of macro requires tricks, you must study the behavior of your equipment yourself
check which ports are working - maybe one of them works before login, and you connected to the port that turns on only after login

see the posts in the thunderbolt section, there are gurus who will help

more that I could notice (personally for myself)
Martin's config contains a partial SIP disable - I'm not sure if this is useful in 12.5.1 - there may be an error occurring there

you may also need to replace the battery (only use the BR2032 - not the CR2032)

and also fix nvram - since the work of nvram is not so important in mojave or Catalina, but it is extremely important in Monterey - contact Tsialex - he knows how to fix

SSDT is prepared by people who understand hackintosh, I know at least one - ask a startergo - he understands this

on setting up a thunderbolt - as far as I know, KevinClark understands

how to make opencore config ask cdf

My CMP 4.1/5.1 dual cpu xeon 5680, 96gb RAM, radeonpro W6800 (also W5700 and W5500 and RX580 and RX570), nvme crucial 2tb, evo plus 1tb, TB3 alpine ridge, oc 0.8.3 or ML 0.8.0, mac os 12.5.1

Thank you so much for taking the time and giving me some real advice, I am very grateful, kudos

 

[PeterHolbrook]

Apparently, OC 0.8.4 has been released. I haven't tried it yet. Lilu and WhateverGreen remain the same.

EDIT: I've updated to OC 0.8.4. My config.plist has remained the same. Everything's working just fine.

 

[cdf]

The guide has been updated to OpenCore version 0.8.4. The changes to OpenCore are very minor this month, so as correctly observed by @PeterHolbrook, you can just reuse your config from 0.8.3. Happy updating!

 

[rfarnold47]

Help, and apologies. I haven't been able to find an answer to my OC on cMP question through search. And I also don't know how to create a new thread... so I am sticking this question here, with apologies, however it is related. I have OC installed on my MacPro 4,1 flashed to 5,1 and I want to install an AMD Radeon RX 580 card. I have read that the RX 580 (stock, not Mac flashed) will work with OC and provide the OC boot screen. My question is ALL variations of the RX 580 (of which there seem to be quite a few)? If not, then WHICH? I would prefer not to use the SAPPHIRE RX 580 because it blocks the next pcii-e slot which I need. Will the slimmer XFX AMD Radeon RX 580 8-gb black edition work? Does it need any other modifications to OS in order to work? Can anyonepoint me in the direction of relevant information here? THANK YOU AND AGAIN APOLOGIES FOR posting in the wrong place/manner.

 

[PeterHolbrook]

In my experience, the XFX is not a good choice. There are artifacts and it will eventually hang your Mac Pro.

 

[hwojtek]

Any RX 580 will do, though.

 

[KingKongUser]

OC 0.8.3. Monterey 12.5.1.

Any chance you can share your config.plist? I’m struggling to install 12.5.1 on a new SSD. Just get reboots once I select installer from the usb

 

[PeterHolbrook]

Any chance you can share your config.plist? I’m struggling to install 12.5.1 on a new SSD. Just get reboots once I select installer from the usb

It's 0.8.4 now. There probably are better examples of config.plist files around. Be that as it may, here's mine:

 

[TECK]

Any chance you can share your config.plist?

You can also take a look at the OC 0.8.4 clean EFI directory I generated with my Plistlib Generator, based on @cdf's recommended settings. It should help you get a better understanding of the required files structure.

The configuration implements the following customizations, see the example setup.py:

• OpenCanopy implementation on a black boot screen
• Pulse RX580 GPU hardware acceleration support, through Mac Pro hybridization (system specific device path)
• NVMe external disks displayed as internal disks (system specific device path)
• Night Shift enabled with FeatureUnlock Lilu plugin

 

[JanezP]

You can also take a look at the OC 0.8.4 clean EFI directory I generated with my Plistlib Generator, based on @cdf's recommended settings. It should help you get a better understanding of the required files structure.

The configuration implements the following customizations, see the example setup.py:

• OpenCanopy implementation on a black boot screen
• Pulse RX580 GPU hardware acceleration support, through Mac Pro hybridization (system specific device path)
• NVMe external disks displayed as internal disks (system specific device path)
• Night Shift enabled with FeatureUnlock Lilu plugin

Many thanks for sharing your config.plist. After few steps my cMPro booted into OS 12.5.1 for the first time. Now, I'm transferring my data and holding my breath. Support from this excellent community helped me to extend shelf life of an old cMP. Thanks again.

 

[840quadra]

Thanks to the awesome community we have here for keeping this thread and information updated!

Just did an upgrade to my OpenCore that hasn't been touched in 2 years, operation went flawlessly due to the great posts here!

Funny thing, I had ZERO idea I missed a couple key steps last time, so it actually works better than before. I totally missed some of the resource files during my original install.

Now to look at some other minor updates to the cMP. I think it is going to get another solid year as my primary Mac at home.

 

[fatespawn]

Can I get a little help? I'm trying to upgrade from Mojave in a 4,1>5,1 and I can't get OpenCore to work at all - I'm not even to the "1st successful boot" phase.

Don't look at my signature...

I have an RX460, and 2 SSD's installed. One is an 850EVO in the Lower drive bay. One is an 850EVO connected via a Velocity X2 PCI card. Both drives have cloned installs of 10.14.6

I tried installing on the EFI partition of the PCI card using the manual/basic method in this wiki. Blessing the drive goes through with no problems. But on the reboot, I get a normal boot chime, then a few moments go by... then another reboot chime loop. I can't even get to a recovery partition. NVRAM reset lets me boot to my alternative drive. Then I can select either drive via Sys Prefs for startup.

My second attempt was on the SSD in the Lower bay's EFI partition using OLCP. Slightly different result. Boot, chime, but then shutdown. Turn it on again... boot, chime, shutdown.

I'm sure I'm not giving enough info... any suggestions though?

 

[sfalatko]

Can I get a little help? I'm trying to upgrade from Mojave in a 4,1>5,1 and I can't get OpenCore to work at all - I'm not even to the "1st successful boot" phase.

Don't look at my signature...

I have an RX460, and 2 SSD's installed. One is an 850EVO in the Lower drive bay. One is an 850EVO connected via a Velocity X2 PCI card. Both drives have cloned installs of 10.14.6

I tried installing on the EFI partition of the PCI card using the manual/basic method in this wiki. Blessing the drive goes through with no problems. But on the reboot, I get a normal boot chime, then a few moments go by... then another reboot chime loop. I can't even get to a recovery partition. NVRAM reset lets me boot to my alternative drive. Then I can select either drive via Sys Prefs for startup.

My second attempt was on the SSD in the Lower bay's EFI partition using OLCP. Slightly different result. Boot, chime, but then shutdown. Turn it on again... boot, chime, shutdown.

I'm sure I'm not giving enough info... any suggestions though?

Well start by letting us see your drives/partitioning. Can you post a copy of "diskutil list" from terminal?

Do you have a mac graphics card that shows the Apple Boot menu when you boot with the option key?

To confirm - your bootrom is updated to 144.0.0.0.0?

 

[fatespawn]

Well start by letting us see your drives/partitioning. Can you post a copy of "diskutil list" from terminal?

Do you have a mac graphics card that shows the Apple Boot menu when you boot with the option key?

To confirm - your bootrom is updated to 144.0.0.0.0?

Thanks for the feedback...

No, I don't have a graphics card that shows a boot menu, but good news- I got OpenCore running from the "manual" instructions on the OpenCore Thread. I think something in these variables was causing me grief:

Setting ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀	Value ⠀ ⠀	Explanation ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀
ForceBooterSignature	true	true is required for Hibernation
SetApfsTrimTimeout	9999999	Use Mac value (9.999999 seconds)
ThirdPartyDrives	true	true is recommended to enable trim on standard SSD drives
HideAuxiliary	true	Hide Recovery (press Space at the boot menu to reveal)
LauncherOption	Full	Full is recommended to ensure boot persistence of OpenCore
DirectGopRendering	false	false is recommended so long as the boot menu still appears
PickerAttributes	80	Enable pointer control and hide shutdown and restart buttons
ShowPicker	false	Hide the boot menu (hold Escape at startup to show)
Timeout	0	Disable timeout when boot menu is shown
ExposeSensitiveData	0	Minimize traces of OpenCore
SecureBootModel	Default	Default is recommended for security (compatibility depends on spoofing)
WriteFlash	true	true is only recommended if your firmware chip is healthy (need to check?)
AppleBootPolicy	false	false is recommended so long as Recovery still loads

The wiki alludes they are all pretty benign, but something was a problem.

I reinstalled from scratch and did NOT apply any of these options (except LauncherOption because I felt that was pretty important).

So, I'm up and running now. One by one, I've applied some of the additional recommended kext's in hopes to install Monterey this week. Still can't get the boot menu working but it's not super important as long as I can eventually install Monterey.

I have a nice cloned boot backup. I have a good backup of a functioning EFI volume. So, if something goes wrong I should be back up and running pretty quickly.

I"ve set up:

"spoofing and enabling missing features"
"Power management override"
"AVXpel"

Anything else recommended before I try to install Monterey?

 

[cdf]

The wiki alludes they are all pretty benign, but something was a problem.

I reinstalled from scratch and did NOT apply any of these options (except LauncherOption because I felt that was pretty important).

So, I'm up and running now. One by one, I've applied some of the additional recommended kext's in hopes to install Monterey this week. Still can't get the boot menu working but it's not super important as long as I can eventually install Monterey.

I have a nice cloned boot backup. I have a good backup of a functioning EFI volume. So, if something goes wrong I should be back up and running pretty quickly.

I"ve set up:

"spoofing and enabling missing features"
"Power management override"
"AVXpel"

Anything else recommended before I try to install Monterey?

It would be interesting to know which options were problematic in your case. SecureBootModel could be an issue for booting Mojave if -no_compat_check was removed, but provided that your firmware chip is healthy, SecureBootModel=Default is the best way of moving forward with updates in Big Sur and later. Given that you can recover easily, maybe you could still try applying this option.

Regarding the boot menu, the problem is likely the firmware of your graphics card. Try flipping the tiny switch on the card (if you have one) or flashing a good VBIOS. There are a few posts in this thread that address this matter.

With what you've set up, you should be able to install Monterey. Note that if you end up not using SecureBootModel, you'll need to temporarily enable the VMM flag (look for VMM flag in the guide).

 

[PeterHolbrook]

Has anyone updated to Monterey 12.6, released today? Has the kernel been bumped up to version 21.7.0 or something like that?

 

[trifero]

New Safari is horrible when resizing windows.

 

[mike.101]

Has anyone updated to Monterey 12.6, released today? Has the kernel been bumped up to version 21.7.0 or something like that?

Yes, without problems. Kernel version unchanged.

 

[6DecadesLater]

Smooth update to 12.6. All good so far. No resizing issues with updated Safari as far as I can see.

Used update method #2 from first post.

 

[Dewdman42]

gulp, will try to see if this fixes my recurring KP's and hung boots

hold on to your butts

 

[trifero]

Smooth update to 12.6. All good so far. No resizing issues with updated Safari as far as I can see.

Maybe it´s my GPU, an HD 7950. Didn´t happen with previous Safari.

Later: No, it´s not the Radeon on the Mac Pro. On my my Macbook Pro 16" core I9 the same. So laggy that it´s incredible.

 

[Dewdman42]

seems working fine for me so far.

 

[Gustav Holdoff]

For the first time I was able to update MacOS using method 2 (post#1- macOS) -without using the VMM flag.
Everything went well, now I will test the standard work with 12.6
I see Xcode 14 became available

➋ Clean install with bootable installer, or installer app in Big Sur and later, or OTA update in Big Sur and later

• SecureBootModel is set to Default
• Hybridization is used
• Firmware features are updated

My CMP 4.1/5.1 dual cpu xeon 5680, 96gb RAM, radeonpro W6800, nvme crucial 2tb, evo plus 1tb, TB3 alpine ridge, oc 0.8.4, mac os 12.6

 

[6DecadesLater]

Maybe it´s my GPU, an HD 7950. Didn´t happen with previous Safari.

Later: No, it´s not the Radeon on the Mac Pro. On my my Macbook Pro 16" core I9 the same. So laggy that it´s incredible.

I do now notice some lag. It is not huge for me but it is there. I usually dismiss such things to the crazy number of windows and tabs I have open but maybe it is worse than before.