MP 1,1-5,1 Troubleshooting OCLP install Mac Pro 5.1 and unfleshed RX580

[Matthias Borremans]

Hi All,

I have a Mac Pro 5.1 which had High Sierra installed. The RX 580 installed is unfleshed.

I followed the Guide on the project website for the unfleshed card, such as going through recovery to boot the EFI as default.

I get the first install screen, choose install Monterey. Then, I get to choose the drive, which is an ssd. All good.
I starts the first screen of 'Mac OS Monterey is being installed' with a time indicator.

That completes and then it seems to get stuck in a never ending loop of booting, selecting Mac OS installer and getting to 1/3rd of that line and rebooting.

I have disconnected all hard drives, only ssd is connected and usb installer with OCLP

 

[Macschrauber]

1st of all, enable verbose in OCLP settings.

A line is useless for troubleshooting.

Also check out the firmware version. If it was High Sierra before you should get the box to 144.0.0.0.0

 

[Matthias Borremans]

yeah, I'm currently creating a new installer with verbose on.

 

[Macschrauber]

yeah, I'm currently creating a new installer with verbose on.

you just need to update the OCLP bootloader with new settings.

 

[Arch3r]

Hey, mac-tribe!

Having the same issue with flashed 4.1->5.1 MP tower, tried with nvidia 120gpu & also with unflashed rx580.

Will try the verbose mode, will post where it stops.

 

[Arch3r]

Can anyone with sucessful installation of Monterey/Ventura/Sonoma can share the config.plist used, because it seems that without fixing it manually after created with OCLP(uses outdated fixes - at least from what I’ve garhered that after 12.1 Monterey there is no need to use SurPlus(Rand.gen), tho OCLP v1.2 still integrates it by default!? Why?
Verbose mode just makes impossible to locate boot drives, guess it’s cz of broken bless link.. was it harder using Clover? 😗🤔

With all due respect to OCLP team & supporters, guess you never can see/notice everything. Thanks.

 

[Macschrauber]

Stay away from clover on a real Mac !

You can brick the firmware of the machine.

 

[Arch3r]

Stay away from clover on a real Mac !

You can brick the firmware of the machine.

Couldn’t be so bad. I just use it to edit plist’s for that oclp generated efi

 

[Macschrauber]

Couldn’t be so bad. I just use it to edit plist’s for that oclp generated efi

You are refering to the Clover Editor, I to the Clover bootloader for Hackintoshes.