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HackinDROM App for OpenCore EFI Creation and Update

Amazing how people just don't want to learn anything, just expect everyone else to do it for them.
I've been sysadmin for NASA for 25 years. I spend every waking minute learning things. If I couldn't leverage the knowledge other people already have struggled to gain it would be impossible to sustain my workload. So settle down and don't make assumptions.
 
I've been sysadmin for NASA for 25 years. I spend every waking minute learning things. If I couldn't leverage the knowledge other people already have struggled to gain it would be impossible to sustain my workload. So settle down and don't make assumptions.
At NASA for 25 years!?!, please except my sincere apologies. You guys send G3 iMacs into space to explore Mars and look deep into the universe with stunning JWST images!. I know we have a couple of NASA engineers here, maybe you know @wstrohm?, his JWST Status thread is awesome!.
Are you downloading the 'Z490 Vision D' EFI from HackinDROM?, I see it's listed and matches your profile. I would download that to a USB's EFI partition and start removing or adding things to see what works and what doesn't. You'll have your working EFI to fall back on. CaseySJ is very busy debugging Ryzen 7000 at the moment.
 
I've been sysadmin for NASA for 25 years. I spend every waking minute learning things. If I couldn't leverage the knowledge other people already have struggled to gain it would be impossible to sustain my workload. So settle down and don't make assumptions.

Good points. We all learn from others here but can't know everything.

The whole idea of HackinDROM is to present all the work one person has done for the benefit of others. And that's useful.

But yes, for a Ventura build the very latest OC system is recommended.

:)
 
At NASA for 25 years!?!, please except my sincere apologies. You guys send G3 iMacs into space to explore Mars and look deep into the universe with stunning JWST images!. I know we have a couple of NASA engineers here, maybe you know @wstrohm?, his JWST Status thread is awesome!.
Are you downloading the 'Z490 Vision D' EFI from HackinDROM?, I see it's listed and matches your profile. I would download that to a USB's EFI partition and start removing or adding things to see what works and what doesn't. You'll have your working EFI to fall back on. CaseySJ is very busy debugging Ryzen 7000 at the moment.
If I actually had a burning need to ask Casey to do that, I would ask on his Golden Build thread for my mobo. It was just a "would be nice" comment. As it stands with the Apple march to ARM in progress I figure I'll have an M2 mini when they eventually start selling them. Not sure what the future of the Hackintosh looks like these days. Mine will likely be relegated to a Winblows 11 or Linux box. I had to trade in my NASA Mac for a Windoze entry level laptop last month because they have put a stop to Macs connecting to Win servers with MS RDC. Mac RDC can't do CAC card in the NASA environment, and that is now mandatory. So by policy it's not allowed for Macs to RDC to Windows servers. I hope I get to retire before they kill off Macs altogether.
 
Good points. We all learn from others here but can't know everything.

The whole idea of HackinDROM is to present all the work one person has done for the benefit of others. And that's useful.

But yes, for a Ventura build the very latest OC system is recommended.

:)

I updated to 0.8.6 (right click) from 0.8.3 right after I did the 13.0.1 update. So far no issues, but I'm not a very demanding user. I don't own an iPad and I don't use WiFi. I mainly care about audio and midi, and USB has not been terribly reliable since going to Ventura.
 
I updated to 0.8.6 (right click) from 0.8.3 right after I did the 13.0.1 update. So far no issues, but I'm not a very demanding user. I don't own an iPad and I don't use WiFi. I mainly care about audio and midi, and USB has not been terribly reliable since going to Ventura.

Yes, no matter what PC hardware you throw at it, the latest USB stacks have suffered from power-delivery problems - failing to connect, dropped connections etc. We use those SSDTs, and code in USBPorts.kext, to ameliorate this but there are often still issues. Apple seems to have reworked their code quite a lot for recent releases. What doesn't help is that PC motherboards offer more types of physical sockets than any real Mac does.
 
** Using HackinDROM App to Update OpenCore when New Version is Released **
Please do not quote this guide in its entirety. Post a link or excerpt instead.​

Different options will appear depending on circumstances. Here we see the possible options:
  • Reinstall OC → if latest version is already installed​
  • Install OC → if OC is not installed​
  • Update to X.Y.Z → if older version is installed and newer version is available​
  • OpenCore requires X MB → if there's not enough disk space in EFI partition​
Trying to go from 0.8.3 to 0.8.5, but I am getting the not enough disk space message. I deleted a 14MB backup file and current EFI is about 70MB. 0.8.5 needs 140MB?

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Trying to go from 0.8.3 to 0.8.5, but I am getting the not enough disk space message. I deleted a 14MB backup file and current EFI is about 70MB. 0.8.5 needs 140MB?

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My bad, setting backup location to somewhere else took care of the space issue. Now I need to figure out what this means:

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My bad, setting backup location to somewhere took care of the space issue. Now I need to figure out what this means:

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Your config.plist is probably borked by OpenCore Configurator.
You may fix it by re-opening your config.plist with OCC (with OC 0.8.6 compatible settings ) and save the file again
 
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