simon1337 do I understand correctly that you have successfully installed Catalina on an "unsupported" MacPro 5,1 SMBIOS? If so, that is very good to hear. I just this morning posted this very question here "Catalina compatibility...Old guard?" . I wonder if you would consider going to that link and adding a little more detail regarding precisely how you accomplished this? I would appreciate anything you might want share on how you accomplished the install at the link.View attachment 429242
Went quite good. I had to add-no_compat_check
in Clover and SSDT-EC.aml because my boot process stuck at "apfs_module_start:1683". Patched the Install macOS Catalina app with this guide. Maybe this helps someone.
Yes just tried and no luckhave you tried this method as suggested by Theophilius, I have a Gigabyte too
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macOS 10.15 Catalina is Now Available on the Mac App Store
Facing the same issue From my point of view it was the clover kext not being used and old ones in the /Library/Extensions. What you can try is : - download the last lilu, AppleAlc, WhateverGreen, etc from the kexts section ; - mount the / as rw ( sudo mount -uw / ) ; - saving the actual...www.tonymacx86.com
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Catalina upgrade stays stuck on apple load bar [SOLVED]
Hi guys, I feel at this point i've tried everything. I've done the following: 1. Tried upgrading with everything normal set up, no changes. 2. Tried upgrading by removing all unnecessary hardware like all graphics cards, ssd's , hdd's, wifi card and used my onboard hd4600 3. Tried to do a clean...www.tonymacx86.com
This fixed my Apple Logo stuck load bar. Update went fine after putting SSDT-EC.aml to EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/Patched
I tried that but the boot process is stuck at "apfs_module_start:1683"you guys with the ASUS boards, you definitely enabled -disablegfxfirmware, and put the WE/Lilu kexts in the EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other, right? (and maybe -lilubetaall, but that's only something I saw, didn't help me in the end) sorry I don't have the stamina to read the whole thread, and my answers are uncontrollably wordy even when I want to say something simple... hope you guys manage to get it working soon
the boot process is stuck at "apfs_module_start:1683"
Anyone with onboard sound issues, install the latest Lilu and AppleALC. I updated the top post to reflect.
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