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i've figured out a solution to not having to use a USB stick to get into mac OS Catalina 1) run diskutility 2) create a 200mb partition (choose MSDOS Fat and give it a name of "EFI") on the highest level of your main drive 3) copy over your EFI folder that you've been using (the one you've been...

how do I set it up properly?

do you mean that the efi partitions need to be always visible? How do I do that?

Problem: I can't boot into catalina without the installation usb stick. More Info: I've just reinstalled catalina using opencore and the files that the Modmike provided, and I've opened the efi of my usb stick and the the efi on my installation drive, and copied over from the usb (replacing...

Thanks. I did as instructed and both drives have EFI partitions and both have EFI folders. What do I do?

How can I determine which drive has the hidden EFI partition?

Hi, I have two m.2 SSD in my pc and I have an older installation of MAC OS installed on the other. I alternate between drives when I upgrade to new versions of MAC OS, because I want to ensure I have a stable installation before migrating. My question is, if I now format the other drive, will...

I swapped out the RAM for 32GB today, and now my Mac wont sleep. As soon as it attempts to sleep, it wakes up. I tried restarting, running Mac Optimizer / extras / execute all. Still wakes up immediately. What should I check first? I used terminal and it says that [powerd:sleepWake] Wake from...

I'm finding that 16GB of RAM is not enough. I'm contemplating getting 32GB of RAM. Is there anything that can cause a problem just swapping out the RAM I have and putting in 32GB of RAM (2x16GB)? Same speed 3200MHz same timing.

Yes, it happens after sleep. I'm using ModMikes EFI, and, yes, I have the DW1560. In regards to the guide for activating read/write on Catalina, I've narrowed down the config.plist entry to change, but Im at a loss. NVRAM/ADD/7C436110-AB2A-4BBB-A880-FE41995C9F82/csr-active-config should be set...

Will take a look. Thanks. I've started having another issue. When coming out of sleep, my Bluetooth is not working. My mouse and wireless keyboard won't respond. I have to plug in a USB cable to get my keyboard to work, and use a wired mouse. When I check the Bluetooth settings, it shows as...

I've tried that. I get the following error:

Anyone have a way to change permissions for Catalina boot drive to be both read/write? I've Googled it, and every way I've tried fails.

I woke up early this morning, and had to boot of Windows installation USB. Installed Windows 10 again onto my SSD. Then load EZ Updater and reflash the BIOS. Now I'm back into Catalina. I'm not making any new changes to my BIOS settings as it may corrupt my BIOS again.

An odd issue just arose. I went into my BIOS and turned off the LED lighting when in sleep mode setting, saved, and then the BIOS keeps loading back up. It’s not detecting my M.2 install drive as being attached. Just disappeared. I tried setting LED lighting back on, but that didn’t correct the...