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

[cdf]

Is this safe with opencore now?

Yes, as long as Windows is booted through OpenCore and ProtectSecureBoot is enabled (as in the configuration provided with the guide).

 

[zero1304]

Hello guys, I´m on 10.14.6, everything works great so far!
When I try to download Mac OS Catalina using SoftwareUpdate I got the failure u see in Picture 1, I cannot Download the installer.

When I download the installer with the Dosdude tool I get another error...
I´m on Firmware 144.0.0.0.0

Can anybody help me to find a solution?

 

[startergo]

I had previously read that UEFI installations of windows 10 can corrupt the NVRAM By adding additional boot certificates. Is this safe with opencore now? Thanks

It is indeed. As long as the:

OpenCore on the Mac Pro

Yes, as long as Windows is booted through OpenCore and ProtectSecureBoot is enabled (as in the configuration provided with the guide).

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Yes, as long as Windows is booted through OpenCore and ProtectSecureBoot is enabled (as in the configuration provided with the guide).

@cdf Sorry I missed your response.

 

[dme881]

I have been reading a lot here about this particular problem. My windows 10 (bootcamp) is in Legacy BIOS Mode so I can not see Windows in the OpenCore Boot picker. I just can open windows because I still have a flashed GPU with EFI selector.

Can you please confirm us that procedure you mention in you EDIT2 (Microsoft MBR2GPT command line tool) transformed your Legacy BIOS windows to UEFI Mode without issues and from then you can open Windows from Opencore Boot picker?

My Bootcamp Windows 10 is in a Partition of one SSD (different drives for my Mojave and my Catalina with Opencore)

Sorry if something is not clear. I am just a nonprofressional user. I know this problem has been treated in many places here but not in the users level, I should say. Thank you all the people here!

I can now boot into windows 10, but it crashes on startup. I think it's because I was lazy and did the conversion under normal windows. I will try some commands in recovery mode. Disk shows up at least.

Also, I had to change the timeout in config.plist to 15 sec, because otherwise I could not se the OpenCore menu.

 

[cdf]

Big update: The guide now includes a how-to for hardware acceleration. No boot arguments needed

 

[startergo]

Big update: The guide now includes a how-to for hardware acceleration. No boot arguments needed

How about multiple videocards? No wegtree? For external-->internal drives there is still need for something like Innie, right?How about DRM decoding?

 

[cdf]

How about multiple videocards? No wegtree? For external-->internal drives there is still need for something like Innie, right?How about DRM decoding?

I believe that the device properties for one GPU provides the settings for all of them. These settings take care of device renaming (wegtree) as well as Shiki for DRM. For internal drives, I will add a section for adding the built-in property; alternatively, Innie can be used.

 

[vit9696]

OpenCanopy 0.5.9 got basic hotkey handling. It still has no voice over support or arrow indication, but stuff like Ctrl + Enter may work. The thing will need to undergo testing, so use & test with care.

 

[dataid]

Thanks for this great enhancement to the Wiki post.

 

[TECK]

Big update: The guide now includes a how-to for hardware acceleration. No boot arguments needed

Working great, thank you! HWAccel and Night Shift, damn name typo.

Quick question for the NdkBootPicker, which is the name for external disk yellow icon, like in your screenshot? I'm about to install it and I need a dark theme that matches the dark boot blackground. I would like to delete the background and use a plain black color instead. If you know a clean basic black there of you have one in the works, please let me know. Your screenshot has beautiful text under icons, mines looks pixelated and way bigger.


I attached the extracted disk.icns from Catalina, internal and external.

 

[h9826790]

Hello guys, I´m on 10.14.6, everything works great so far!
When I try to download Mac OS Catalina using SoftwareUpdate I got the failure u see in Picture 1, I cannot Download the installer.

When I download the installer with the Dosdude tool I get another error...
I´m on Firmware 144.0.0.0.0

Can anybody help me to find a solution?

You forget to turn off SMBIOS spoofing

 

[h9826790]

How about multiple videocards? No wegtree? For external-->internal drives there is still need for something like Innie, right?How about DRM decoding?

As far as I can see, that covered everything we did in the boot argument, but with specific device path. Still have agdpmod=pikera, shikigva=80, and -wegtree. Just in another format. So, all functions should work properly.

I am thinking, for multiple graphic cards setup, this should be a better approach, because we can specify which GPU to handle HWAccel.

Boot argument of course is easier, because WEG will automatically do all required patch for us, but we also have no control about which graphic card to do HWAccel.

 

[cdf]

I am thinking, for multiple graphic cards setup, this should be a better approach, because we can specify which GPU to handle HWAccel.

Boot argument of course is easier, because WEG will automatically do all required patch for us, but we also have no control about which graphic card to do HWAccel.

Actually, the device properties for one GPU provides the settings for all of them. Using device properties is a good practice that follows the OpenCore philosophy of reserving boot arguments for temporary configurations.

 

[h9826790]

Actually, the device properties for one GPU provides the settings for all of them. Using device properties is a good practice that follows the OpenCore philosophy of reserving boot arguments for temporary configurations.

I mean multiple different GPU. e.g. A RX580 + Radeon VII

Should that make any difference?

 

[cdf]

Should that make any difference?

If it worked before with the boot arguments, then adding the device properties to one GPU (out of possibly several different ones) should also work.

 

[startergo]

I mean multiple different GPU. e.g. A RX580 + Radeon VII

Should that make any difference?

I just noticed something:

If we can manipulate metal default device maybe we can prioritize in a multi-GPU setup?

 

[cdf]

Quick question for the NdkBootPicker, which is the name for external disk yellow icon, like in your screenshot? I'm about to install it and I need a dark theme that matches the dark boot blackground. I would like to delete the background and use a plain black color instead. If you know a clean basic black there of you have one in the works, please let me know. Your screenshot has beautiful text under icons, mines looks pixelated and way bigger.

The screenshot is actually of OpenCanopy (the official OpenCore graphical user interface), which is intended to replicate the look and feel of the native Startup Manager. HiDPI support for the legacy gray background and HiDPI fonts should be available in OpenCore version 0.5.9. You are of course free to experiment, but for now the guide will not cover this.

 

[TECK]

The screenshot is actually of OpenCanopy (the official OpenCore graphical user interface), which is intended to replicate the look and feel of the native Startup Manager. HiDPI support for the legacy gray background and HiDPI fonts should be available in OpenCore version 0.5.9. You are of course free to experiment, but for now the guide will not cover this.

Thank you for letting me know, I'll wait for the 0.5.9 release and try it. I switched for now to the black newer boot screen.

@cdf do we need the Hibernation Fix on our 5,1s?

GitHub - acidanthera/HibernationFixup: A Lilu plugin intended to fix hibernation compatibility issues

A Lilu plugin intended to fix hibernation compatibility issues - acidanthera/HibernationFixup

github.com

 

[equals]

Hey guys,
Thanks for your giant work and useful tips!

I finally had time to OpenCore my cMP. Used the pre-configured 0.5.8 package provided in AMD HWAccel related topic. UPDATE: Built everything from scratch by @cdf's excellent guide. Everything works like a charm but I still have a couple of cosmetic issues.

First.
I have a dual display setup. They both are 27-inch models but the main one is 3840x2160 and the second one is 2560x1440. And I have the macOS UI scaling set to 150% for the primary display to match the "physical" size of the interface on the secondary display. So, if I set OpenCore UIScale to "AQ==" mode then the Apple logo on my primary 4K display looks too tiny until it switches to the OS output. If I set UIScale to "Ag==" HiDPI mode then it looks too large until it switches to the OS output. Unfortunately I can't set OpenCore resolution to 2560x1440 because my OC log shows that there is no such GOP mode for my primary display (and, respectively, only black screen until macOS starts up if I try to force such resolution). And if I switch my 1440p display to primary and set OpenCore UIScale to "AQ==" then logo sizes perfectly match. But I don't want to switch my primary and secondary displays because it would really disturb my workflow. So, how do you think guys, is there any workaround for this issue? Maybe I can somehow disable the macOS UI scaling only on the login screen?

Second.
Just before OC output switches to OS output there appear some graphical glitches for a few seconds on the top part of the screen (same on any of both displays). Horizontal black stripe and some minor coloured dashes and dots here and there around it. Maybe someone had the same issue and found any fix for that?

 

[naerct]

Better late than never, I finally got my cMP 2009 5,1 booting Catalina. I still have a lot of work to do, and reading as well. I wanted to thank OP, cdf and all the other contributors to this thread. Having a disk picker and Catalina are not the be all end all, as I'm rooted to the past at 72. I really like the concept, and how well it worked, especially to overcome the corporate overseer. Now to the acceleration...

 

[TECK]

Used the pre-configured 0.5.8 package provided in AMD HWAccel related topic.

I'm sorry if I misunderstood, but I believe you downloaded a pre-packaged zip file from the HWAccel thread. Any reason why you did not follow the simple instructions provided by @cdf into OP for HWAccel? Personally I build everything from scratch and pull all files directly from developer repos. Even the provided config.plist should be looked at and compared with original documentation.

I'm using a shell script that builds the /Volumes directory with all OC required files, in a git repo (which also stores scarce required files with references), so I can track easy the changes. If @cdf is okay with it, I can make the repo public and add him as contributor.

 

[unpapapro]

did someone test the CPU after upgrading to Catalina using OpenCore ?!

I just did it... There is no enhancement on my "default" Mac Pro 2012... I bought it last week, updated to Mojave yesterday morning and then used Opencore in the evening... so here it goes:

I have my loading screen, GPU is native*(used a GT120 for upgrading to Mojave though), and I use the 1,2,3,5,6,7 slots to add 8Gbs of RAM each... so it's 20% faster in results.. you know that deal, right... And it updated without a flaw... added the details of the first post for acceleration etc...

 

[Ludacrisvp]

Second.
Just before OC output switches to OS output there appear some graphical glitches for a few seconds on the top part of the screen (same on any of both displays). Horizontal black stripe and some minor coloured dashes and dots here and there around it. Maybe someone had the same issue and found any fix for that?

Have you installed Lilu and Whatevergreen?
Depending on which GPU you have there may be a test done during boot of the GPU VRAM that is writing into the framebuffer. A semi recent version of Whatevergreen stops the Apple AMD drivers from doing that test which prevents the lines and in some cases the computer to panic and reboot.

 

[startergo]

Second.
Just before OC output switches to OS output there appear some graphical glitches for a few seconds on the top part of the screen (same on any of both displays). Horizontal black stripe and some minor coloured dashes and dots here and there around it. Maybe someone had the same issue and found any fix for that?

I get these with my MVC flashed EFI card and OC. Some incompatibility in the EFI header in my videocard vbios I guess.

 

[equals]

Any reason why you did not follow the simple instructions provided by @cdf into OP for HWAccel?

Re-built everything from scratch. Updated the message.
Unfortunately, my questions are still the same.

Have you installed Lilu and Whatevergreen?

Of course. The latest versions (1.4.4 and 1.3.9 respectively). HWAccel works like a charm.

Depending on which GPU you have

I get these with my MVC flashed EFI card and OC.

I have AMD Vega Frontier Edition.