- Joined
- Jun 15, 2015
- Messages
- 6
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z77P-D3
- CPU
- I7-3770
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Good afternoon, I tell you about my journey with Big Sur. When Public Beta 6 came out, I tried to install Big Sur with Opencore 0.6.3, prepare the EFI folder with the necessary programs, according to my processor.
Everything was perfect, audio, wifi, Ethernet, USB, etc. I did the test on a 500GB HDD at 7200 RPM for testing. I was updating all the Public Betas without problem, until the final version, and it was updated. I tried to update from my Catalina 10.15.7 with Clover Release v5.1 r5126, and it failed. I could not boot and had to boot with the Catalina installation usb created with UniBeast, reinstalling the version of clover that comes with UniBeast for Catalina . I was able to reboot from the hard drive, but the boot became very slow. Willing to damage everything and reinstall from scratch, I first tried…., I opened the EFI partition from Clover Configurator, And drag the EFI folder of Catalina to the trash, and instead load the EFI folder that I had created for Bit Sur Public Beta, modify the config.plist with the same parameters that I have in Catalina, iMac 18.2, copy the serial number that I had in Catalina and added it to the config.plist with Opencore Configurator, save changes and reboot. I start without problems and veryyyy fast. I upgraded to Big Sur from Catalina, and here I am enjoying Big Sur without any problem. I only had to log back into iCloud after changing the EFI folder, and I keep my serial number.
Ivy Bridge i7 3770
GA-Z77P-D3
16GB DDR3 1600
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB
Samsung SSD 250GB
Everything was perfect, audio, wifi, Ethernet, USB, etc. I did the test on a 500GB HDD at 7200 RPM for testing. I was updating all the Public Betas without problem, until the final version, and it was updated. I tried to update from my Catalina 10.15.7 with Clover Release v5.1 r5126, and it failed. I could not boot and had to boot with the Catalina installation usb created with UniBeast, reinstalling the version of clover that comes with UniBeast for Catalina . I was able to reboot from the hard drive, but the boot became very slow. Willing to damage everything and reinstall from scratch, I first tried…., I opened the EFI partition from Clover Configurator, And drag the EFI folder of Catalina to the trash, and instead load the EFI folder that I had created for Bit Sur Public Beta, modify the config.plist with the same parameters that I have in Catalina, iMac 18.2, copy the serial number that I had in Catalina and added it to the config.plist with Opencore Configurator, save changes and reboot. I start without problems and veryyyy fast. I upgraded to Big Sur from Catalina, and here I am enjoying Big Sur without any problem. I only had to log back into iCloud after changing the EFI folder, and I keep my serial number.
Ivy Bridge i7 3770
GA-Z77P-D3
16GB DDR3 1600
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB
Samsung SSD 250GB
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