Trouble with macOS on UNSUPPORTED MACs with OpenCore?

A lot of you guys already installing macOS on  unsupported macs with OpenCore - and i give you   the link to the tutorials if you haven't yet - so i  decided to make this video to answer some of the   questions, to help you with some of the problems  there is maybe an easy fix for or to point you   in the right direction to overcome that problems  and to run macOS on your old unsupported Macs... so to make things crystal clear: you  install OpenCore on your unsupported mac   and suddenly an update message appears - whoa it  works! so you click "update" - now make sure every   time your mac reboots the option "Macintosh HD"  is selected otherwise the update won't work and   the old version of your macOS just will boot when  you do a install of macOS on an empty hard drive   or whatever make sure that as long as the option  "macOS installer" is available in the OpenCore   boot selector this option is selected this will  disappear after two or three reboots and then the   name of your hard disk appears just select this  and you're done with the installation process   if you would click "install macOS Monterey"  you would just start the installer that is   on your usb drive again and that doesn't help  during the install so the most common question i read about in the comments is you have set up everything your mac is working perfectly with   the new macOS Monterey but it won't boot without  the usb drive! right, because you boot the OpenCore   from the usb drive which enables macOS Monterey  on your unsupported mac. so the easy solution is   you go back to the legacy patcher, you select  "Build and Install OpenCore" but this time   you select your system drive as a destination  not the usb drive anymore. then there should be   the EFI partition of your system drive and  you install OpenCore to that EFI partition   now do a reboot without usb drive, keep the "option" key  pressed go to the apple boot selector and now you   select "EFI Boot" from your system drive which is  OpenCore which is now installed there. then you   select your macOS and now your mac should remember  that setting that it first boots the OpenCore   and then your macOS... so when you're in the apple boot selector or in the boot selector of OpenCore if you want to set a boot option to "standard" just hold "shift" and if you hold the shift key you see that the symbol below the selected option changes to a circle which means you define   this as the standard boot option and your mac  remembers this until you change it again if you run into problems installing the OpenCore on your  system drive - so you're installing it but when you   restart and keep the "option" key pressed in the  apple boot selector there's no "EFI Boot" option   it might be either the "System Integrity Protection" (SIP)  that is still on you might switch that off or it might be the formatting of your system  drive so i strongly suggest if you start with a   clean hard disk installing OpenCore and macOS  to format it to "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" not to "APFS"   some of you especially with older macs like from  2010, 2011, 2012 do ask what about the graphics it's   like very slow and it's not displaying correct and  there are some problems with wi-fi and bluetooth   so there's a lot of stuff that the "Post  Install Root Patch" can fix you find this   in the legacy patcher as a second button from the  top: you just click it, you install that to your   system drive, reboot and a lot of that should be  fixed another tip i got from one of the comments if you install the "Post Install Root Patch" you should do that twice so you install it, then you have to enter your password and when the legacy  patcher restarts, install it simply again before  you reboot so if you run into troubles with  your display resolution try the "Post Install Root Patch"   in the legacy patcher and if that doesn't  help, it might help when you select a different   frequency in the "system preferences" under the  tab "display" if you change that, then another   menu should pop up that should let you select  the correct display resolution another very common question was if i install macOS  over my current macOS will i lose any data?   no you won't! it's as easy as that, if you create  a usb drive and you start with OpenCore and you   start the installer and then you select "install macOS" it means "update macOS". your files and your data   and your config will be kept but be careful if  anything doesn't work you might not be able to   recover your system so i strongly advise you to  test it first with the usb drive if it boots take   another hard drive and do a clean install to  test everything and if everything's fine with   your mac then maybe you just migrate your data  to the new drive or you do the update on your current system  there's advice from "dosdude1" the  guy who created the patched macOS: don't mix up   a patched macOS with the OpenCore and the regular  versions of macOS that are just being loaded by   the OpenCore bootloader if you're trying to install OpenCore on a MacPro with a updated PC graphics card, you won't see the apple boot selector because this is only possible with a mac   graphics card. so how to get your MacPro now  boot EFI Boot (the OpenCore) from the usb drive?   the easy way is to just use any old mac  graphics card you might have laying around   or you get one of eBay for cheap money and use it  just for install - after install swap back to the   modern card - if you don't have such a card, just connect  one (1) empty hard disk and the usb drive and your mac   should boot from the OpenCore EFI  Boot because there's no other option   and afterwards you come to the OpenCore boot  selector which works with a PC graphics card   there's an incompatibility between the iMac or  the MacBook Pro from 2011 that cannot work with   GarageBand or Logic Pro because you get "graphic  incompatibility error" messages - i strongly advise   if you're intend to use this music software that  you do not upgrade your 2011 Macs to Monterey...

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Length: 8min 20sec (500 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 01 2022