My OpenCore Legacy Patcher video is here! You asked for it and waited months for this video and it's finally here. The fact that OpenCore Legacy Patcher now supports Beta Graphics Acceleration for 2008-2011 Macs is huge news! I've been running Big Sur using open core for a bit now and it's running great! Let me know if you have any questions!
Hello, very clear description of how to do it. So far I was able to follow up completely. Unfortunately my audio recording apps "Cubase, Nuendo and Wavelab" do not get access to the microphone. I tried out all troubleshooting hints, but none of it worked. If I go to security and click on microphone: 1. there is no icon infront of the microphone tab. 2. no applications are listed access being granted. 3. Impossible to add any application to it. :( I have a 17" Macbook Pro from 2011) As I cannot fix it, I am already considering to go back to Catalina or even Mojave, where most of my older applications are working fine. So any idea for that issue??? Thanks a lot!
@Mr. Macintosh thank you so much for this wonderful and amazing work! I've got Big Sur 11.5 on my MacBook Pro 2008 13". Also to the OCLP team, thank you guys! You really did a great job. 👍
Thank you very much. Another successful upgrade to an early 2011 MacBook Pro. What a blessing! I also thank those responsible for doing this for free, because of their love for diving in deep, and then serving us. Thanks again.
Just a reminder everyone, please watch the WHOLE video, not like me, impatient and didn't watch the whole thing, All is good now that finished watching your video and finished with the EFI boot. I do this to myself every time. GREAT VIDEO! I do not need to search anywhere else for Mac help, I just go to your channel.
Thanks Harold! I know it's a long video but I tried to include all situations and having all the info in once place really cuts down on the questions 👍
Very clear instruction! After flashing my GPU BIOS, using this tutorial I am able to get Big Sur and brightness control on my 2011 21.5' iMac. Btw, not until I changed by drive format to APFS, I couldn't proceed with the install so if you have the error of "You may not install to this volume because the computer is missing a firmware partition", you can try that.
thank u for Chow Andrew. I faced same problem that is " the computer is missing a firmware partition " on macBook Pro mid 2013 model and external HDD. firstly I chode mac jurnal for format but that is happen to this problems . after change APFS ,I can install
Man, you are a a lifesaver! I tried many hours trying to use the online walkthroughs on OpenCore for my MBP 8,1, and just couldn't get it to configure properly and felt I was going in circles. You my friend did it just right! Thank you!!!!
@@Mr.Macintosh now I would expect reverse way -a tool that adds some frameworks introduced in Catalina/BigSur into Mojave or adding OpenGL to Big Sur, because probably adding 32-bit support is impossible
thank you, I did you the usb upgrade a year ago and forgot to install to the hard drive, just searched your video and completed the install. I thank you and all the other wonderful people that are helping everyone with their older and still functioning mac. I will also email khornos to donate an older mac
Your step by step was so easy and clear, even learned some new stuff with this video too, I'm running 11.4 and because i am a beta tester the OTA recognizes that and shows that i can download and install macOS Big Sur 11.5 Beta!
I just finished this with my mid 2012 MBPro and it's working like a dream. I had to update so I could run FCP - if this hadn't worked I literally had no other option other than buy a new MacBook; you've saved me a fortune. My system is running 16GB with a 1TB SSD. Everything has passed into Big Sur smoothly including custom keyboard shortcuts and mouse settings. Thank you SO MUCH. I spent a working day trying to this via other more outdated methods. Advice to anyone doing the same - follow his instructions to the letter. It's tedious but I tried to skip ahead, made a couple of mistakes and ending up wasting more time than if I'd just paid due attention from the get go.
@Charcoal Yoga, I really appreciate this comment. Your 2012 MBPro still has a LOT of life left in it. This is my main goal of these videos, keeping older Macs on the road!
Thanks very much for this video. I had been trying many other methods from around RUclips and kept running into issues. Your explanation is perfectly clear and straightforward.
@Steven He, this is exactly what I was aiming for. I wanted this walkthrough to help beginners and intermediate users get Big Sur installed on their older Macs!
Yup! That did it! Man, I’m so glad I found your channel on RUclips (and immediately subscribed). I did exactly as you told and everything went smooth. Big Sur installed flawlessly on my 2013 iMac with support for metal and even did the OTA updates! Can’t thank you enough 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼👍🏼😊
@@Moledmc Hi Pete, everything works like a charm! If you follow the instructions step by step, then your iMac should run Big Sur without any problem :) So yes, I can heartily recommend upgrading your ‘old’ rig this way! I’m going to try to upgrade to Monterey with my machine, so hopefully I can squeeze a little more juice out of my iMac 😉
Greetings Mr. Macintosh, I want to say thank you so very much. I just completed a clean install on macOS Big Sur without any problem thanks to your video.
@@Eggscellent01 The only thing I’ve noticed as I’m still currently on Big Sur is FireWire is broken. At the time I was using an RME Fireface 802 which has high speed USB and FireWire 800. I just needed to install the the USB drivers, then I was good to go. 👍🏽
@@Mr.Macintosh one thing I will say is that on my iMac 2011 after all was done and I restarted I had really bad color strobing and flickering . The fix was to simply download “resxtreme” and set the resolution via that . Now it’s all perfect and working 100 percent . Saved me money on a new gpu as I was just about to pull the trigger on that. So glad I didn’t as I don’t need the gpu power for most of what I do, the acceleration was my only issue !! So I’ve ordered an ssd now and 32gb ram along with an i72600 … all that cost me less than the single gpu lol . Really appreciate it man
You bet! That iMac is still a very powerful computer. The graphics acceleration works great on Big Sur! I'm glad that your iMac will be running well into the future 👍
@@Mr.Macintosh just need to go and learn how to move time capsule back up in to the ssd and use that as my bootable drive lol . But again man that video is excellent . I tried big sur a while back and it was unusable. So many different unclear videos make it a bit confusing but your video was so easy to just load on the iPad and go through step by step . Legend
Update ,,, installed the 2600 and now my Mac isn’t working . Changed back to old cpu , same issue , the diagnosis light inside has the first light on . So might be power supply or logic board .. I have a 2015 5k 27 inch also so I might just convert the broke 2011 to an hdmi monitor . Not sure what to do , don’t wanna waste 50 quid on a psu and it ends up the logic board ,,, I’m lost lol
Thank you Mr. Macintosh. I install big sur on my macbook air late 11 I follow all the advice you you give. Even when my mac have only 2 GB Ram, it's working very fast. Thanks again.
@@harsamc123 yes. That will work but you would have to flash the graphics card so that I works with the machine. There are some guides on how to do it online. I did it a while ago with a k2100m. Plus the graphics card is metal compatible, so you wouldn’t have any issues at all once the computer is set up.
Good morning Mr Macintosh. I am writing to thank you for such a fantastic video and precise set of instructions. I followed your instructions to the letter with great success and I now have Monterey on a late 2012 Imac and it works so well. I used an external SSD and I could not be more pleased. Thank you sir from the United Kingdom.
Just completed Big Sur on our mid 2010 MacBook Pro. Took a little time to fully install, but works just fine. Came from High Sierra. Thank you for the step by step process.
I appreciate you and the developers who worked on the patch! Thank you so much, followed every steps and was able to install BigSur 11.4 Specs: Early 2011 MBP i5, 8gig RAM and 250GB SDD Pros: Gave life to my old Mac! it runs flawlessly able to install apps and run apple updates excellent graphics and UI reboot takes 30s (10 sec on High Sierra) Cons: Minor glitches unnoticeable, I bet it's due to powerful graphics won'tI Battery performance slightly decreased
How would you say the quality/life/speed of your your early MacBook Pro, weeks after using ¿ would you say it’s worth it ¿ i have the same MacBook & considering upgrading
This actually worked for my 2012 MacBook yiur amazing and I honestly felt smart after I did it thank you so much and I wish you luck on growing yiur RUclips channel
Well, amazing as it is, I get to the boot picker screen (black with white apple) and the progress bar never changes, it just remains at the beginning with no progress at all, and it stays there 4 ever! What have I missed?
I have the same exact issue on my 2010 mac mini. Black screen/White Apple. Progress bar gets to almost the middle, then hangs forever. Mr Mackintosh is very thorough with his tutorials, soooo I'm asking too. What did I miss?
@@bigbhadwolf5598 I eventually got big sur installed on my 2010 mac mini. I let the progress bar hang in the middle for close to two days, and finally got tired and when to restart holding down the option key to get to the boot picker screen. This time instead of selecting the usb drive, I selected the Big Sur picture with the logo of the hard drive over it, and it installed fully.
I’ve had this on Mac Pro 5,1 too… if you hold power, restart… select the Drive, not USB… this may be 1-n times it will complete and then finish install. On other OpenCore configurations, I’ve had this as well. I’m on a SSD HD connected to SATA connector. Tried this today, very smooth setup and it rebooted better than other OC setups… but it did hang a few times on Install.
Hey Andrew! I think you will like it. I still can't believe that my 2011 15" MacBook Pro is running macOS Big Sur (and it's pretty quick!) The video was long as it was, but I wanted to include performance checks and GeekBench scores. I ran the benchmark before on 10.13 and after on 11.3 and the benchmark numbers were a bit faster on both single and multicore tests!!!!
@@Mr.Macintosh For the 2011 15" MacBook Pro you had to disable the AMD dedicated GPU ? If yes, have you disabled the GPU before installing BigSur, correct?
@@Mr.Macintosh I really appreciate your hard work. I'm making music as a little hobby of mine and was considering purchasing a 2010 imac for my needs. Was afraid that it might not work well with some of the programs I'm using then you showed up :) Thanks again.
Thanks for the video, installed on my iMac late 21.5" 2009 10,1 with non metal AMD HD4670 & 16GB Ram with 1TB SSD. Installed straight over existing Mojave Dosdude1 patch without removing any files first. Took a bit of time to install but I have to say runs really well, much better than Mojave with the original patch. There are a few graphical glitches on the menus but overall awesome. Not sure if it's because I am running in Dark mode. Hopefully future graphics drivers for legacy non metal models will fix these small issues. Cheers
Thank you for the Great step by step Tutorial. Did it on a white MacBook7,1 with 8GB Ram and 256 SSD and it works perfect. Now updating to latest BigSur 11.5.2. 🙏🏻
I have several things to say: 1. Running Big Sur can be quite resource consuming for an old Mac, so you should absolutely clean install, meaning you save your data and format the internal drive as APFS before installing. 2. 4GB of RAM is OK, you don't need 8GB like the video says. However, if you have only 2GB, do not install Big Sur unless you can upgrade your RAM. That's why the 2008-2009 macbook airs and maybe other models that are stuck to 2GB of RAM aren't really supported as the website says. It will work but I would highly recommend that you don't patch these, as the performance under Mojave that is fine with 2GB of RAM are already really poor. 3. An SSD is not exactly needed, I already installed Big Sur to a USB 3.0 external hard drive and it runs fast enough. What is important is that you clean install and to use a SATA 6 Gb/s 7200RPM drive if possible (or even better, an SSD) Having one of those three features for the drive would already be great!
I think is required the "EFI Boot" icon of the internal hard drive, because the USB flash drive should have been removed before, it's not necessary anymore at that moment. Sorry if I'm wrong.
I appreciate you Mr.Macintosh. My MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) is now running on Big Sur. Every app works well and also gotten apps that run only on Big Sur.
Big thanks I was actually going to get rid of these macs being that the graphic card went bad but now they work great. Great Job to the Opencore Legacy Patcher Team two thumbs up.
Same thing Tommy, I had a busted 2011 that was basically trashed due the dGPU not working. I was able to use OCLP to disable it and upgrade to big sur. It's like a new laptop!!!
@@Mr.Macintosh could you be kind enough to tell me how to do it? I have my Macbook Pro 15'' from 2011 with my GPU busted, running Sierra, and I disabled the GPU with the help of a tutorial (with code). Don't know how to do it with Big Sur...
no longer works tried creates media no problems when I go to run open core and patch the usb stick no usb stick present at all only displays internal drive only.
John, you need to go back into disk utility and erase the USB again. Click the top level USB drive on the left hand side then hit erase, be sure to select GUID Partition Scheme in the 3rd option pull down. Then the drive will show up.
@@Mr.Macintosh Did that does not show up at all Tried it again and again and again same results and the legacy drivers cause rainbow flickering on certain graphics cards so graphics acceleration is still a no go
@Daniel García Probably because when someone answers they will see the update, but to answer the question, Yes, when a new version of opencore comes out you apply it you will need re-patch the system to take advantage of the changes.
Great Instructions....only thing is after i was done with everything can't turn off the picker under patch settings......i hit the option to make it false but when i reboot still there...and i missing something
Great video, thank you! Question, please: After having installed Big Sur on my late 2012 iMac, do I have to to go through the whole process again to install Monterey when it becomes available (i.e. by using OpenCore Legacy Patcher), or can I just update via the Software Update in my System Preferences? Thanks
This is one of the best parts of OCLP! All you need to do install the latest version of OCLP, patch your hard drive with the settings then upgrade to Monterey through system preferences!!! Pretty cool huh ?
@@Mr.Macintosh ...which is what I've done to install Big Sur on my late 2012 iMac. So, to upgrade to Monterey, I would just go through the system preferences, right? No need to patch again via OCLP?
Thank you so much for this software and the easy to follow video! I partitioned my SSD and installed Big Sur on the new partition to make sure I liked it and it had no issues as you mentioned in the video. I like Big Sur and want to keep it. I followed the post-install instructions and the MacBook now boots directly from the new partition containing Big Sur. Question: Can I remove the ORIGINAL partition via Disk Utility or do I have to remove the new partition and then reinstall everything again? Thanks again.
Question: Can I remove the ORIGINAL partition via Disk Utility or do I have to remove the new partition and then reinstall everything again? Answer: Yes you can. Boot into the system you want to leave, open Disk Utility and (Cmd+2 show all devices) select the top-layer one (it should say something SSD) and click "Partition." Choose the partition you want to delete and click the minus sign to delete it. And then, choose the partition left and change its size to the max.
can anyone help me ? 16:27 i give error ( Cannot continue installation because the installer is damaged. redownload the installer and try again ) what can i do ?
Is the performance when using the patcher similar to when using an officially supported macOS version? Or is it noticeably slower? I am using a 2010 13 inch MBP btw.
Justin, the video was already too long but I tried to fit everything in. The parts that I had to cut were the benchmark tests. The geekbench score was actually higher on Big Sur!!! I was happy with the performance on my Early 2011 and it even has the AMD Graphics card disabled!
@@Mr.Macintosh I also have an Early 2011 15" MacBook Pro and have re-flashed the GMUX using the wonderful Dosdude's hardware method (with brightness fix). So the AMD GPU is properly disabled. Will I be safe to ahead with this Big Sur method and if so any special precautions for this modded, Intel GPU only machine? Fantastically helpful video. Thanks.
Hello, I have an iMac Mid 2011. I got as far as downloading the Install Assistant pkg 11.6.3 from your webset. I tried to run it but it said it says "Installation Failed". Now I'm stuck. Please help.
Great vid! Been digging through all like this and choosing this one as my go to! Question: I'm using a Mac Pro 5'1 flashed with a SSD bootdrive / 128gb 1333MHz / 12 core 3.46 / Radeon VII 16 gb-- So once I do all you stated, It will be safe to continue with Apples security updates, etc? Like can I simply act as if all is well from now on with all regular updates? A bit scared it'll crash down the road or something. Subbed / liked already of course. :)
Hello, unfortunately the latest open core legacy patcher (1.5.0) do not find the external usb drive. the drive is available and ready because I ran successfully the create install media script.
Hi, same model here. How well it perfoms? Apps crashing, system functions/elements not working? tell me your experience with big sur please, i want to know Hola, tengo el mismo mac que tu, puedes decirme como va? algun programa,funcion y/o elemento del sistema que falle o no sirva? cuentame tu experiencia en genral con big sur por favor, quiero saber para probarlo yo mismo
Hello all; I am having issues with Wake on lan on both windows 10 and Mac OS. (MacBook Pro 2011 8,1 13 inch) If i access the MBP within an hour of entring sleep mode, it works fine. but if i wait longer it doesn't wake up on both windows 10 & big sur. I have noticed also something in Big Sur when i access via screen sharing app from another mac it wakes up, but not via VNC viewer (which is the important because i am trying to access from ios or windows machine). I believe it is waking up via screen share app because it has something to do with Bonjour services; not sure though. I checked on windows the supported Sleep states via "powercfg /availablesleepstates" command and the supported sleep modes were ( Standby S3 , hibernate & Hybrid sleep) , I disabled hibernate via "powercfg.exe /h off" command but also the same issue is still happening not able to wake the w10 installation after an hour. I believe that there is some setting in the EFI that is overruling the Mac & W10 sleep mode configuration. Any suggestions?
I trayed to install at 15:35 but at half of progress , conputer is restarted .I try to do again but that is repeated... I can not finished install.....please some one help me .....
Awesome. Thanks for the video. Just an FYI - there have been numerous reports of initial versions of Big Sur impacting battery functionality (across multiple models). I have a MacBook Pro 17" mid-2009 (MacBookPro5,2) with a weak battery. Followed your steps.... got hung at the Apple logo mid-way and stuck forever when booting from USB for installation. Disconnected battery from MB and sure enough..... installation went through OK. Reconnected battery after setup; all good now. Just throwing this out for those that might face this issue. Disconnect battery, install and patch per the guide and then reconnect battery. Good luck !
14:53 Although I have not tried creating a new partition from a volume I have tried installing Big Sir on an existing partition created in Disk Utility on 10.13 and it did not work. It seems to be installing and the. After about 15 min it reboots and it can’t finish the install. I tried not APFS and Mac OS Extended journaled partitions.
Did all things but still waiting for a patch that allows OPENCORE on my MAC that allows Big Sur 11.4. I can't seem to go past 11.0.1 without being told it'll crash. :-/
Thank goodness for people with truthful knowledge that care to help keep macs going. We know how much it cost so much , at least this is a way to deal with discontinued lazy supporters who make expensive sales then a few years ditch us. Thank you so much!
Ok I admit it! I jumped ahead and installed Monterey on a 2012 iMac. I did have to patch it for performance. But man! It runs pretty good. I cannot express my thanks to Mr. Macintosh. It is great you do this too keep us in the game on these older Mac. I have a 2013 MBP to upgrade too. :)
Thank you very much i have followed the process and installed Big Sur on my mac mini mid 2011, however i have encountered some problems with the software that i install cant work properly eg logic pro waves plugins and others is there a way can get them to work
I have a late 2008 MacBook and how do I get the backlight to work. The adjust brightness is missing how to fix it. I follow the video and it works great. Just need help fixing the adjust keyboard brightness
Mr Macintosh, thanks for sharing this, Now I have my Early 2009 Macbook 5,2 running BigSur 3 Issues I found: iSight Camera, seems to be unrecognized by the system. Keyboard Function Keys for Brightness, volume, playback, not working at all. Trackpad is being recognized as a Mouse, no gestures working (Scroll, zoom, basic ones). If you can guide me how to solve this it would be appreciated!
Tried it on my mid 2010 mac mini. It restarted automatically in the middle of installing big Sur from its recovery. Then it guided me to go to install MacOS big Sur and it is stuck at less than a minute remaining after the progress bar is complete. Tried it a couple of times still the same issue
Hi there I tried exactly the same steps but when I went to terminal and in the password part it doesn’t come up with the next option it says sorry try again. Help will be highly appreciated , I’m using Mac OS 2013 8GB ,200 GB Thanks
hello, i have a problem7:56 command not found, I did the same thing with patched Sur, is there an "automatic" open legacy patcher that handles the terminal?
After upgrade to Big Sur everything is working fine . thank you ! but Key board backlight adjust option in not available under keyboard preference . so unable to adjust keyboard backlight ! Could you please assist to fix this its 2011 Macbook Pro
I'm getting stuck at 11:17, patching the installer; my USB drive does not show on the Select Disk screen, only the SSD. I see the note about "Missing disks?" but I noticed no mention of an EFI or FAT32 partition during the USB installer creation. I followed the instructions exactly. Any idea why my USB installer does not show? (Installing on MacBookPro6,1 2010 17", OCLP release 0.2.4)
I'm at the reboot stage with the Apple logo and progress bar but it seems to freeze up about half way. I've left it on for almost two hours and nothing changes even after 3 attempts. Trying to install in a flashed Mac Pro 2009 5,1. Any help?
I finally made it work but not with an external USB drive or external hard drive. I had put the external drive as an internal drive for it to work. For some reason the USB ports would cut out half way through installation boot up.
Thanks for the video! I'm having an issue, would be nice to get a little help! 😁 Specs: MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2011) currently running on Catalina 10.15.7 1. I installed the 11.6.2 version of Big Sur - success 2. Erased my USB drive (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)) - success 3. Followed the terminal instructions and I got this error message Usage: createinstallmedia --volume Arguments --volume, A path to a volume that can be unmounted and erased to create the install media. --nointeraction, Erase the disk pointed to by volume without prompting for confirmation. --downloadassets, Download on-demand assets that may be required for installation. Example: createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled What should I do in this scenario to fix the issue? Thanks in advance!
I have a question, I got though the installer successfully and installed all the things I need and it works great, however now It says I can just upgrade to Mac OS Monterey, should I not do that?
You can! Or you can wait, it's up to you. If you decide to make the jump to Monterey I created a full walkthrough of the process ruclips.net/video/T-q0ZTDN5AI/видео.html
Hey sir am trying to install Catalina on my MacBook Air late 2010 and is show me error like this sign 🚫 during first step. that place on apple logo loading. What is the problem?
i have run this twice on a Mid-2012 Macbook Air, but after installation, the OS will only run if I have the USB drive still plugged in. I'm guessing the bootable part is not making it to the internal SSD. Any ideas on how to fix this?
I already have Monterey installed, how do I downgrade to Big Sur? My MacBook Pro is mid 2012 i7, I want to downgrade because the trackpad misses some swipes here and there and would like to give Big Sur a try. Thank you
I have two SSDs in my 2012 MBP non retina, will I still be able to still boot into my older second MT Lion drive if I install OCLP and Big Sur on my main SSD.
Just wanted to share my experience with this.I have a mid 2010 13" macbook pro 500gb ssd 16g ram. I had a really hard time getting this on my mac. I did it from scratch several times on a micro sd card,even wiped my old HD and loaded the installer on there(after OCLP step 2 mac wouldn't detect the external HD when it got to the install part multiple times) went back to sd card method,tried in usb stick,tried sd directly into mac,back to usb stick etc...many hang ups,white screen,another grey screen showing nothing for an OS multiple times.Got stuck many times,stopped installing many times,each time I would wait a long while before rebooting multiple times to hope it continued installing. I was really thinking maybe this is not gonna work for me but with all that failure it eventually finished and booted to Big Sur and I have to say it is working great now!!! Thank you for all your fantastic tutorials Mr. Macintosh! As always you ROCK!!!!!!!
@@paulallague879 I just kept at it. Every time it got stuck for very long periods I rebooted and let it continue with the update. I don't think there is an exact science to it and I think there is a little bit of dumb luck thrown in there lol. Good news is none of this bricked my macbook so these old ones are tough! If it gets really stuck you can start from scratch again following the tutorial from the beginning. I did several times.
Hello. I install it on my late 2011 MacBook Pro however shows that my display it's a 21 inch and I can not adjust anything? where did I go wrong help please. thanks
MR MAC I NEED HELP. IM TRYING TO DO THIS ON A 2009 IMAC. Everything went smooth until I had to create the partitions in disk utility, I'm not getting the popup message you display. It does allow me to create 2 partitions within the internal Hitachi hard drive. After this i do what you say regarding transferring the big sur files but then it doesn't reboot into big sur it reboots into the old operating system. I NEED HELP PLEASE
thanks for doing the video i just toke a old I Mac running 10.6.8.snow leopard to Monterey. i had to get to 10.8 before it would work. so i had install 10.11 El Capitan before i put the big Sur patch on it. every thing work well . OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher is up to 0.3.1 it was a little different from the video put work well thanks again for showing the way.
I cannot seem to boot to the options menu to select the efi patcher. I installed the built open core patcher via terminal. I hit restart holding option and nothing boots, no option menu. I held the option key for at least 20 minutes. I have a 5,1. Mac Pro running Mojave with a wx9100 I'm aware that there is no boot screen with my current configuration before installing opencore. at 11:57 you state "open it up" after entering option 1 (install command to usb drive)was that another step that I missed of are you reiterating what you just did ?
Hello, I followed all the steps to prepare the usb, during the 2nd reboot the installation hangs at 50%, I'm going to leave it overnight to see if I finish tomorrow, I have a macbook pro mid 2010 (6.2)
Hello, open up disk utilities and click view then show all devices. Click on the top level of your USB drive and click erase. You should now see a 3rd option for partition scheme. Click GUID and erase again.
can I do this on my 2010 macbook pro and then transfer that drive with big sur onto my 5,1 mac pro? my video card in mac pro GTX 680 does not have the boot screen
Hi your video is great but when I boot it doesn’t go to Apple logo and comes code first and when I shutdown and turn on same thing happens. Could you please tell me why this happened. Thank you
Kindly @mr maintosh....I have already used the installer and the open core legacy patcher to install this big sur on my unsupported MacBook but one it keeps on shutting down when am tryna stream anything from RUclips ...it even shuts up randomly and I don't know the solution kindly help me out.😓
Great video, but I cannot get past the first step. I download the latest install assistant file and and it fails during the install. I have tried 4 different versions of it with the same vague error...The installation fails....with a big yellow triangle with an exclamation in it. It does not give any other helpful information. I am also using an early 2011 MacBook Pro 8.2. It is a 15 inch model with an 2.0 Ghz Intel i7 with 16GB of ram. It is on MacOS 10.7.5. Any ideas what is going on?
Maybe that is the problem Cranston 10.7.5. Could you backup your files and upgrade to High Sierra first from the app store? That would work for sure as it would be the same example I show in the video.
@@Mr.Macintosh Well, I was able to put Sierra on my Mac and the installer ran. Now when I get to the part to create the USB drive and it asks for my admin password, it gives an error. I have no password set and I have nothing to type in. It got late and I just gave up on it. I will try again tomorrow. Thanks for your help with this. By the way, I tried to get on Discord, but it would not let me login.
I got High Sierra installed, then got Big Sur on my Mac! The only issue I have now if when I try to install the OpenCore patcher to the hard drive, it does not show up. All it sees is my USB drive. Before I started all of this. I did a clean install of the Apple OS that shipped with this laptop, which I guess was Lion. I am at work now, but will look at it again this eve.
I've followed every step and everything worked fine, until I wanted to actually do the EFI-Boot: I've picked EFI-Boot, I've clicked on "Install MacOS Big Sur", but then it went to the black background, white apple logo and kept beeping three times with a small gab in between every 3 beeps, and it wouldn't stop beeping. Is there any reason for it doing that? (Mid 2011 iMac 27")
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My OpenCore Legacy Patcher video is here! You asked for it and waited months for this video and it's finally here. The fact that OpenCore Legacy Patcher now supports Beta Graphics Acceleration for 2008-2011 Macs is huge news! I've been running Big Sur using open core for a bit now and it's running great! Let me know if you have any questions!
Hey does it work on 2010 15 inch MacBook Pro or 2010 white polycarbonate MacBook
Hello, very clear description of how to do it. So far I was able to follow up completely. Unfortunately my audio recording apps "Cubase, Nuendo and Wavelab" do not get access to the microphone. I tried out all troubleshooting hints, but none of it worked. If I go to security and click on microphone: 1. there is no icon infront of the microphone tab. 2. no applications are listed access being granted. 3. Impossible to add any application to it. :( I have a 17" Macbook Pro from 2011) As I cannot fix it, I am already considering to go back to Catalina or even Mojave, where most of my older applications are working fine. So any idea for that issue??? Thanks a lot!
@Mr. Macintosh thank you so much for this wonderful and amazing work! I've got Big Sur 11.5 on my MacBook Pro 2008 13". Also to the OCLP team, thank you guys! You really did a great job. 👍
@@paulallague879 do you finally have graphics acceleration? How does it perform?
@@vihaansingha8340 so far its working good, but i need to upgrade the ram though as i only had 4gb ram
Thank you very much. Another successful upgrade to an early 2011 MacBook Pro. What a blessing!
I also thank those responsible for doing this for free, because of their love for diving in deep, and then serving us.
Thanks again.
Just a reminder everyone, please watch the WHOLE video, not like me, impatient and didn't watch the whole thing, All is good now that finished watching your video and finished with the EFI boot. I do this to myself every time. GREAT VIDEO! I do not need to search anywhere else for Mac help, I just go to your channel.
Thanks Harold! I know it's a long video but I tried to include all situations and having all the info in once place really cuts down on the questions 👍
No the length is perfect, its me, i need to measure twice cut once. I need to be more patient. 😀
Very clear instruction! After flashing my GPU BIOS, using this tutorial I am able to get Big Sur and brightness control on my 2011 21.5' iMac. Btw, not until I changed by drive format to APFS, I couldn't proceed with the install so if you have the error of "You may not install to this volume because the computer is missing a firmware partition", you can try that.
thank u for Chow Andrew. I faced same problem that is " the computer is missing a firmware partition
" on macBook Pro mid 2013 model and external HDD. firstly I chode mac jurnal for format but that is happen to this problems . after change APFS ,I can install
Man, you are a a lifesaver! I tried many hours trying to use the online walkthroughs on OpenCore for my MBP 8,1, and just couldn't get it to configure properly and felt I was going in circles. You my friend did it just right! Thank you!!!!
This is huge work. We need to save the planet using old computers as long as we want, despite Apple wants us to buy new things
THIS!!!! ^
@@Mr.Macintosh now I would expect reverse way -a tool that adds some frameworks introduced in Catalina/BigSur into Mojave or adding OpenGL to Big Sur, because probably adding 32-bit support is impossible
thank you, I did you the usb upgrade a year ago and forgot to install to the hard drive, just searched your video and completed the install. I thank you and all the other wonderful people that are helping everyone with their older and still functioning mac. I will also email khornos to donate an older mac
Your step by step was so easy and clear, even learned some new stuff with this video too, I'm running 11.4 and because i am a beta tester the OTA recognizes that and shows that i can download and install macOS Big Sur 11.5 Beta!
I just finished this with my mid 2012 MBPro and it's working like a dream. I had to update so I could run FCP - if this hadn't worked I literally had no other option other than buy a new MacBook; you've saved me a fortune. My system is running 16GB with a 1TB SSD. Everything has passed into Big Sur smoothly including custom keyboard shortcuts and mouse settings. Thank you SO MUCH. I spent a working day trying to this via other more outdated methods. Advice to anyone doing the same - follow his instructions to the letter. It's tedious but I tried to skip ahead, made a couple of mistakes and ending up wasting more time than if I'd just paid due attention from the get go.
@Charcoal Yoga, I really appreciate this comment. Your 2012 MBPro still has a LOT of life left in it. This is my main goal of these videos, keeping older Macs on the road!
This channel is lacking....
Lacking of subs and likes... Really people? Great works... Keep it up!
Haha! Thank you Fred 👍
@@Mr.Macintosh one problem though, my keyboard backlight, is not working now, before in HS its workin great
@@frederickcasbadillo8914 I have the same problem.
@@frederickcasbadillo8914 same problem here. I hope there's a fix
@@jenniferlopez5329 hi Jlo... 😊 I think they have not yet solve this problem, anyway i stayed at catalina for the meantime...
Thanks very much for this video. I had been trying many other methods from around RUclips and kept running into issues. Your explanation is perfectly clear and straightforward.
This is absolutely excellent - you are a master of explaining things simply and efficiently, thank you!
Insane quality video! Really filmed for non-technical people to understand.
@Steven He, this is exactly what I was aiming for. I wanted this walkthrough to help beginners and intermediate users get Big Sur installed on their older Macs!
Thank you so much for your first class instructions! Just upgraded my 2008 macbook pro to Big Sur! Amazing work Mr.Macintosh!
Thank you Tomasz!
Yup! That did it! Man, I’m so glad I found your channel on RUclips (and immediately subscribed). I did exactly as you told and everything went smooth. Big Sur installed flawlessly on my 2013 iMac with support for metal and even did the OTA updates! Can’t thank you enough 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼👍🏼😊
hey dude! Ive got imac 2013, how did you get on? Would you recommend? Thanks
@@Moledmc Hi Pete, everything works like a charm! If you follow the instructions step by step, then your iMac should run Big Sur without any problem :) So yes, I can heartily recommend upgrading your ‘old’ rig this way! I’m going to try to upgrade to Monterey with my machine, so hopefully I can squeeze a little more juice out of my iMac 😉
Greetings Mr. Macintosh, I want to say thank you so very much. I just completed a clean install on macOS Big Sur without any problem thanks to your video.
I recommend doing an APFS volume instead or partitionning
First of all huge thanks for this installation tutorial. Mid 2010 Mac Pro here. I’m up and running Big Sur because of this video.
how's the experiance? is it choppy i mean the switching animations and stuff
@@Eggscellent01 The only thing I’ve noticed as I’m still currently on Big Sur is FireWire is broken. At the time I was using an RME Fireface 802 which has high speed USB and FireWire 800. I just needed to install the the USB drivers, then I was good to go. 👍🏽
By the way using an Antelope Orion 32 Gen 3 now. Still on Big Sur. And I get all 32 channels.
Amazing really appreciate how clear this was . Perfect video even for a layman
Glad it was helpful Gary!
@@Mr.Macintosh one thing I will say is that on my iMac 2011 after all was done and I restarted I had really bad color strobing and flickering . The fix was to simply download “resxtreme” and set the resolution via that . Now it’s all perfect and working 100 percent . Saved me money on a new gpu as I was just about to pull the trigger on that. So glad I didn’t as I don’t need the gpu power for most of what I do, the acceleration was my only issue !! So I’ve ordered an ssd now and 32gb ram along with an i72600 … all that cost me less than the single gpu lol . Really appreciate it man
You bet! That iMac is still a very powerful computer. The graphics acceleration works great on Big Sur! I'm glad that your iMac will be running well into the future 👍
@@Mr.Macintosh just need to go and learn how to move time capsule back up in to the ssd and use that as my bootable drive lol . But again man that video is excellent . I tried big sur a while back and it was unusable. So many different unclear videos make it a bit confusing but your video was so easy to just load on the iPad and go through step by step . Legend
Update ,,, installed the 2600 and now my Mac isn’t working . Changed back to old cpu , same issue , the diagnosis light inside has the first light on . So might be power supply or logic board .. I have a 2015 5k 27 inch also so I might just convert the broke 2011 to an hdmi monitor . Not sure what to do , don’t wanna waste 50 quid on a psu and it ends up the logic board ,,, I’m lost lol
Thank you Mr. Macintosh. I install big sur on my macbook air late 11 I follow all the advice you you give. Even when my mac have only 2 GB Ram, it's working very fast. Thanks again.
is it working still today?
This is amazing. I thought my 2010 iMac was going to stay stuck on Catalina forever
is this method work for your machine?
@@PraveenKumar-xv5lj yes just make sure it doesn’t have an amd 5000 or 6000 series though, as it won’t work with that
Will it work with the nvidia k610m?
@@harsamc123 yes. That will work but you would have to flash the graphics card so that I works with the machine. There are some guides on how to do it online. I did it a while ago with a k2100m. Plus the graphics card is metal compatible, so you wouldn’t have any issues at all once the computer is set up.
@@jacobbrown6086 thanks for the info
Good morning Mr Macintosh. I am writing to thank you for such a fantastic video and precise set of instructions. I followed your instructions to the letter with great success and I now have Monterey on a late 2012 Imac and it works so well. I used an external SSD and I could not be more pleased. Thank you sir from the United Kingdom.
Best macOS systems guy on YT! Awesome! 😁👍🏼✨
Thank you Hal!!!!!!
Just completed Big Sur on our mid 2010 MacBook Pro. Took a little time to fully install, but works just fine. Came from High Sierra. Thank you for the step by step process.
You bet Smokey! Thanks 👍
You are amazing Thanks for helping me update my Mac mini 2012 Your instructions was very simple and clear helped out a lot 👏🏾
Thank you very much @Mute Tation !!!👍
This copy of the Install macOS Monterey application is damaged!! Not sure what went wrong..
same
I appreciate you and the developers who worked on the patch! Thank you so much, followed every steps and was able to install BigSur 11.4
Specs: Early 2011 MBP i5, 8gig RAM and 250GB SDD
Pros:
Gave life to my old Mac! it runs flawlessly
able to install apps and run apple updates
excellent graphics and UI
reboot takes 30s (10 sec on High Sierra)
Cons:
Minor glitches unnoticeable, I bet it's due to powerful graphics
won'tI
Battery performance slightly decreased
Pretty cool that we can install big sur on an old 2011 MBP right? Nice work I'm glad you made it.
How would you say the quality/life/speed of your your early MacBook Pro, weeks after using ¿ would you say it’s worth it ¿ i have the same MacBook & considering upgrading
This actually worked for my 2012 MacBook yiur amazing and I honestly felt smart after I did it thank you so much and I wish you luck on growing yiur RUclips channel
Thank you very much @Red Phenix!!!!
Well, amazing as it is, I get to the boot picker screen (black with white apple) and the progress bar never changes, it just remains at the beginning with no progress at all, and it stays there 4 ever! What have I missed?
I have the same exact issue on my 2010 mac mini. Black screen/White Apple. Progress bar gets to almost the middle, then hangs forever. Mr Mackintosh is very thorough with his tutorials, soooo I'm asking too. What did I miss?
I have a 2009 White MacBook and I'm having the same thing happen
@@bigbhadwolf5598 I eventually got big sur installed on my 2010 mac mini. I let the progress bar hang in the middle for close to two days, and finally got tired and when to restart holding down the option key to get to the boot picker screen. This time instead of selecting the usb drive, I selected the Big Sur picture with the logo of the hard drive over it, and it installed fully.
I’ve had this on Mac Pro 5,1 too… if you hold power, restart… select the Drive, not USB… this may be 1-n times it will complete and then finish install. On other OpenCore configurations, I’ve had this as well. I’m on a SSD HD connected to SATA connector. Tried this today, very smooth setup and it rebooted better than other OC setups… but it did hang a few times on Install.
whenever i boot up to pick the "install MacOS big sur" i just see the apple logo and nothing happens for 15 min+
Okay this is very interesting, my 'spare' MacBook is a MBP 2011 Pro stuck on High Sierra, will definitely try this out!
Hey Andrew! I think you will like it. I still can't believe that my 2011 15" MacBook Pro is running macOS Big Sur (and it's pretty quick!) The video was long as it was, but I wanted to include performance checks and GeekBench scores. I ran the benchmark before on 10.13 and after on 11.3 and the benchmark numbers were a bit faster on both single and multicore tests!!!!
@@Mr.Macintosh For the 2011 15" MacBook Pro you had to disable the AMD dedicated GPU ? If yes, have you disabled the GPU before installing BigSur, correct?
@@Mr.Macintosh will Final Cut Pro work on that machine?
@@williiambjones5918 probably seeing as it has accelerated graphics.
@@Mr.Macintosh I really appreciate your hard work. I'm making music as a little hobby of mine and was considering purchasing a 2010 imac for my needs. Was afraid that it might not work well with some of the programs I'm using then you showed up :) Thanks again.
I enjoy your videos. Thorough without being boring or overly long.
Thanks for the video, installed on my iMac late 21.5" 2009 10,1 with non metal AMD HD4670 & 16GB Ram with 1TB SSD. Installed straight over existing Mojave Dosdude1 patch without removing any files first. Took a bit of time to install but I have to say runs really well, much better than Mojave with the original patch. There are a few graphical glitches on the menus but overall awesome. Not sure if it's because I am running in Dark mode. Hopefully future graphics drivers for legacy non metal models will fix these small issues. Cheers
That's great news @RADDAV! I'm glad you made it to big sur 👍
Please help, my MacBook Pro 8.1 photos app keeps crashing not working
Followed your whole video and I have finally updated my 15inch 2012 retina MBP. Thanks man, appreciate your step by step guidance.
Any issues so far?
Had no issues until now actually. Running smoothly even if my unit has just 8gb ram
wow .. just wow. One of the D BEST explanations I've come across in YEARS ! Thank you so much !!. You made this gentleman into a happy chappy !
you bet! Thank you very much Nevstar!
Thank you for the Great step by step Tutorial. Did it on a white MacBook7,1 with 8GB Ram and 256 SSD and it works perfect. Now updating to latest BigSur 11.5.2. 🙏🏻
@@saudi1canadian Heyho, it works pretty well. Use OCLP 0.4.5 and you will be fine.
I have several things to say:
1. Running Big Sur can be quite resource consuming for an old Mac, so you should absolutely clean install, meaning you save your data and format the internal drive as APFS before installing.
2. 4GB of RAM is OK, you don't need 8GB like the video says. However, if you have only 2GB, do not install Big Sur unless you can upgrade your RAM. That's why the 2008-2009 macbook airs and maybe other models that are stuck to 2GB of RAM aren't really supported as the website says. It will work but I would highly recommend that you don't patch these, as the performance under Mojave that is fine with 2GB of RAM are already really poor.
3. An SSD is not exactly needed, I already installed Big Sur to a USB 3.0 external hard drive and it runs fast enough. What is important is that you clean install and to use a SATA 6 Gb/s 7200RPM drive if possible (or even better, an SSD)
Having one of those three features for the drive would already be great!
Thank you for your video and easy to follow instructions! I upgraded my 2012 Mid MacBook Pro onto Big Sur and runs extremely well!
18:58 Do I use the EFI with the hard drive icon or flash drive icon?
EFI Boot 👍
@@Mr.Macintosh there are two of them
@@issacman1870 i got stuck on the same point do you have an answer for me?
I think is required the "EFI Boot" icon of the internal hard drive, because the USB flash drive should have been removed before, it's not necessary anymore at that moment. Sorry if I'm wrong.
I appreciate you Mr.Macintosh. My MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) is now running on Big Sur. Every app works well and also gotten apps that run only on Big Sur.
Big thanks I was actually going to get rid of these macs being that the graphic card went bad but now they work great.
Great Job to the Opencore Legacy Patcher Team two thumbs up.
Same thing Tommy, I had a busted 2011 that was basically trashed due the dGPU not working. I was able to use OCLP to disable it and upgrade to big sur. It's like a new laptop!!!
Now if I can just get my titan Ridge working for peer to pear I can get back to farming. Render farming that is....lol
@@Mr.Macintosh could you be kind enough to tell me how to do it?
I have my Macbook Pro 15'' from 2011 with my GPU busted, running Sierra, and I disabled the GPU with the help of a tutorial (with code). Don't know how to do it with Big Sur...
no longer works tried creates media no problems when I go to run open core and patch the usb stick no usb stick present at all only displays internal drive only.
John, you need to go back into disk utility and erase the USB again. Click the top level USB drive on the left hand side then hit erase, be sure to select GUID Partition Scheme in the 3rd option pull down. Then the drive will show up.
@@Mr.Macintosh Did that does not show up at all Tried it again and again and again same results and the legacy drivers cause rainbow flickering on certain graphics cards so graphics acceleration is still a no go
When a new patcher comes out with upgraded items, do you re-download it and run the build and the patch for non metal systems?
@Daniel García Probably because when someone answers they will see the update, but to answer the question, Yes, when a new version of opencore comes out you apply it you will need re-patch the system to take advantage of the changes.
Great Instructions....only thing is after i was done with everything can't turn off the picker under patch settings......i hit the option to make it false but when i reboot still there...and i missing something
I try it on 2010 pro and don't install, sad (The update cannot be installed on this computer)
Great video, thank you! Question, please: After having installed Big Sur on my late 2012 iMac, do I have to to go through the whole process again to install Monterey when it becomes available (i.e. by using OpenCore Legacy Patcher), or can I just update via the Software Update in my System Preferences? Thanks
This is one of the best parts of OCLP! All you need to do install the latest version of OCLP, patch your hard drive with the settings then upgrade to Monterey through system preferences!!! Pretty cool huh ?
@@Mr.Macintosh ...which is what I've done to install Big Sur on my late 2012 iMac. So, to upgrade to Monterey, I would just go through the system preferences, right? No need to patch again via OCLP?
Really amazing video with detailed point-to-point information even beginners can understand how to Mac iOS upgrade
Thank you so much for this software and the easy to follow video! I partitioned my SSD and installed Big Sur on the new partition to make sure I liked it and it had no issues as you mentioned in the video.
I like Big Sur and want to keep it. I followed the post-install instructions and the MacBook now boots directly from the new partition containing Big Sur.
Question: Can I remove the ORIGINAL partition via Disk Utility or do I have to remove the new partition and then reinstall everything again?
Thanks again.
Question: Can I remove the ORIGINAL partition via Disk Utility or do I have to remove the new partition and then reinstall everything again?
Answer: Yes you can. Boot into the system you want to leave, open Disk Utility and (Cmd+2 show all devices) select the top-layer one (it should say something SSD) and click "Partition." Choose the partition you want to delete and click the minus sign to delete it. And then, choose the partition left and change its size to the max.
@@stevenhe3462 thanks!
can anyone help me ? 16:27 i give error ( Cannot continue installation because the installer is damaged. redownload the installer and try again )
what can i do ?
Is the performance when using the patcher similar to when using an officially supported macOS version? Or is it noticeably slower? I am using a 2010 13 inch MBP btw.
Justin, the video was already too long but I tried to fit everything in. The parts that I had to cut were the benchmark tests. The geekbench score was actually higher on Big Sur!!! I was happy with the performance on my Early 2011 and it even has the AMD Graphics card disabled!
@@Mr.Macintosh i own the early 2011 macbook , maybe i'll try
@@Mr.Macintosh I also have an Early 2011 15" MacBook Pro and have re-flashed the GMUX using the wonderful Dosdude's hardware method (with brightness fix). So the AMD GPU is properly disabled. Will I be safe to ahead with this Big Sur method and if so any special precautions for this modded, Intel GPU only machine? Fantastically helpful video. Thanks.
Hello,
I have an iMac Mid 2011. I got as far as downloading the Install Assistant pkg 11.6.3 from your webset. I tried to run it but it said it says "Installation Failed". Now I'm stuck. Please help.
Great vid! Been digging through all like this and choosing this one as my go to! Question: I'm using a Mac Pro 5'1 flashed with a SSD bootdrive / 128gb 1333MHz / 12 core 3.46 / Radeon VII 16 gb-- So once I do all you stated, It will be safe to continue with Apples security updates, etc? Like can I simply act as if all is well from now on with all regular updates? A bit scared it'll crash down the road or something. Subbed / liked already of course. :)
Hello, unfortunately the latest open core legacy patcher (1.5.0) do not find the external usb drive. the drive is available and ready because I ran successfully the create install media script.
thx, working in mackbook mid 2009
Nice! that's great news @Memes Diarios!!!!
Hi, same model here. How well it perfoms? Apps crashing, system functions/elements not working? tell me your experience with big sur please, i want to know
Hola, tengo el mismo mac que tu, puedes decirme como va? algun programa,funcion y/o elemento del sistema que falle o no sirva? cuentame tu experiencia en genral con big sur por favor, quiero saber para probarlo yo mismo
@@moguellss hola, funciona perfectamente, por ahora no tengo ningun problema, tengo un SSD de 256 GB y 4 GB de RAM
Thank you so much !!!
You're welcome @monsieur!
You’ve helped me upgrade my Mid 2012 MacBook Pro, you got a new subscriber 😁
Awesome 👏 tutorial man, Thank you 😊
You bet, thanks Eric!!!
Hello all;
I am having issues with Wake on lan on both windows 10 and Mac OS. (MacBook Pro 2011 8,1 13 inch)
If i access the MBP within an hour of entring sleep mode, it works fine. but if i wait longer it doesn't wake up on both windows 10 & big sur.
I have noticed also something in Big Sur when i access via screen sharing app from another mac it wakes up, but not via VNC viewer (which is the important because i am trying to access from ios or windows machine).
I believe it is waking up via screen share app because it has something to do with Bonjour services; not sure though.
I checked on windows the supported Sleep states via "powercfg /availablesleepstates" command and the supported sleep modes were ( Standby S3 , hibernate & Hybrid sleep) , I disabled hibernate via "powercfg.exe /h off" command but also the same issue is still happening not able to wake the w10 installation after an hour.
I believe that there is some setting in the EFI that is overruling the Mac & W10 sleep mode configuration.
Any suggestions?
You sound like DosDude1's cousin
DosDude5 and I go way back!
I trayed to install at 15:35 but at half of progress , conputer is restarted .I try to do again but that is repeated... I can not finished install.....please some one help me .....
Awesome. Thanks for the video. Just an FYI - there have been numerous reports of initial versions of Big Sur impacting battery functionality (across multiple models). I have a MacBook Pro 17" mid-2009 (MacBookPro5,2) with a weak battery. Followed your steps.... got hung at the Apple logo mid-way and stuck forever when booting from USB for installation. Disconnected battery from MB and sure enough..... installation went through OK. Reconnected battery after setup; all good now. Just throwing this out for those that might face this issue. Disconnect battery, install and patch per the guide and then reconnect battery. Good luck !
14:53 Although I have not tried creating a new partition from a volume I have tried installing Big Sir on an existing partition created in Disk Utility on 10.13 and it did not work. It seems to be installing and the. After about 15 min it reboots and it can’t finish the install. I tried not APFS and Mac OS Extended journaled partitions.
Did all things but still waiting for a patch that allows OPENCORE on my MAC that allows Big Sur 11.4. I can't seem to go past 11.0.1 without being told it'll crash. :-/
Thank so much. It worked perfectly
I upgraded my high sierra on MacBook 2009 with 8gb and SSD to the latest bigsur
Thank goodness for people with truthful knowledge that care to help keep macs going. We know how much it cost so much , at least this is a way to deal with discontinued lazy supporters who make expensive sales then a few years ditch us. Thank you so much!
Ok I admit it! I jumped ahead and installed Monterey on a 2012 iMac. I did have to patch it for performance. But man! It runs pretty good. I cannot express my thanks to Mr. Macintosh. It is great you do this too keep us in the game on these older Mac. I have a 2013 MBP to upgrade too. :)
Thank you very much Josh!!!
Josh - what OS did you update from. Did you do an update, or wipe and fresh install, and I assume you did it with OCLP? Thanks.
@@MatC-d7y I did a clean wipe. The patcher brought it back to life.
Thank you very much i have followed the process and installed Big Sur on my mac mini mid 2011, however i have encountered some problems with the software that i install cant work properly eg logic pro waves plugins and others is there a way can get them to work
I have a late 2008 MacBook and how do I get the backlight to work. The adjust brightness is missing how to fix it. I follow the video and it works great. Just need help fixing the adjust keyboard brightness
Mr Macintosh, thanks for sharing this, Now I have my Early 2009 Macbook 5,2 running BigSur
3 Issues I found:
iSight Camera, seems to be unrecognized by the system.
Keyboard Function Keys for Brightness, volume, playback, not working at all.
Trackpad is being recognized as a Mouse, no gestures working (Scroll, zoom, basic ones).
If you can guide me how to solve this it would be appreciated!
Tried it on my mid 2010 mac mini. It restarted automatically in the middle of installing big Sur from its recovery. Then it guided me to go to install MacOS big Sur and it is stuck at less than a minute remaining after the progress bar is complete. Tried it a couple of times still the same issue
I just left it all day and eventually worked
@@EarthlyHabits Guess I'll give it a shot. I'll let you know if it works in my case
Hi there I tried exactly the same steps but when I went to terminal and in the password part it doesn’t come up with the next option it says sorry try again.
Help will be highly appreciated , I’m using Mac OS 2013 8GB ,200 GB
Thanks
hello, i have a problem7:56 command not found, I did the same thing with patched Sur, is there an "automatic" open legacy patcher that handles the terminal?
After upgrade to Big Sur everything is working fine . thank you ! but Key board backlight adjust option in not available under keyboard preference . so unable to adjust keyboard backlight ! Could you please assist to fix this its 2011 Macbook Pro
You bet! --> dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/ACCEL.html#keyboard-backlight-broken
I'm getting stuck at 11:17, patching the installer; my USB drive does not show on the Select Disk screen, only the SSD. I see the note about "Missing disks?" but I noticed no mention of an EFI or FAT32 partition during the USB installer creation. I followed the instructions exactly. Any idea why my USB installer does not show? (Installing on MacBookPro6,1 2010 17", OCLP release 0.2.4)
Hello Matthew, when you erase the top level USB drive in disk utility be sure sure to select GUID partition scheme. Your drive should then show up.
it works except one minor issue, the backlight keyboard doesn't illuminate.
This is on macbook pro early 2011
I'm at the reboot stage with the Apple logo and progress bar but it seems to freeze up about half way. I've left it on for almost two hours and nothing changes even after 3 attempts. Trying to install in a flashed Mac Pro 2009 5,1. Any help?
I finally made it work but not with an external USB drive or external hard drive. I had put the external drive as an internal drive for it to work. For some reason the USB ports would cut out half way through installation boot up.
Thanks for the video! I'm having an issue, would be nice to get a little help! 😁
Specs: MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2011) currently running on Catalina 10.15.7
1. I installed the 11.6.2 version of Big Sur - success
2. Erased my USB drive (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)) - success
3. Followed the terminal instructions and I got this error message
Usage: createinstallmedia --volume
Arguments
--volume, A path to a volume that can be unmounted and erased to create the install media.
--nointeraction, Erase the disk pointed to by volume without prompting for confirmation.
--downloadassets, Download on-demand assets that may be required for installation.
Example: createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled
What should I do in this scenario to fix the issue? Thanks in advance!
I have a question, I got though the installer successfully and installed all the things I need and it works great, however now It says I can just upgrade to Mac OS Monterey, should I not do that?
You can! Or you can wait, it's up to you. If you decide to make the jump to Monterey I created a full walkthrough of the process ruclips.net/video/T-q0ZTDN5AI/видео.html
Hey sir am trying to install Catalina on my MacBook Air late 2010 and is show me error like this sign 🚫 during first step. that place on apple logo loading. What is the problem?
i have run this twice on a Mid-2012 Macbook Air, but after installation, the OS will only run if I have the USB drive still plugged in. I'm guessing the bootable part is not making it to the internal SSD. Any ideas on how to fix this?
I already have Monterey installed, how do I downgrade to Big Sur? My MacBook Pro is mid 2012 i7, I want to downgrade because the trackpad misses some swipes here and there and would like to give Big Sur a try. Thank you
I have two SSDs in my 2012 MBP non retina, will I still be able to still boot into my older second MT Lion drive if I install OCLP and Big Sur on my main SSD.
My usb flash drive doesn't appear on select disk
Just wanted to share my experience with this.I have a mid 2010 13" macbook pro 500gb ssd 16g ram. I had a really hard time getting this on my mac. I did it from scratch several times on a micro sd card,even wiped my old HD and loaded the installer on there(after OCLP step 2 mac wouldn't detect the external HD when it got to the install part multiple times) went back to sd card method,tried in usb stick,tried sd directly into mac,back to usb stick etc...many hang ups,white screen,another grey screen showing nothing for an OS multiple times.Got stuck many times,stopped installing many times,each time I would wait a long while before rebooting multiple times to hope it continued installing. I was really thinking maybe this is not gonna work for me but with all that failure it eventually finished and booted to Big Sur and I have to say it is working great now!!! Thank you for all your fantastic tutorials Mr. Macintosh! As always you ROCK!!!!!!!
Gerry, patching an unsupported Mac can have troubles for sure but you hung in there and got it working. Nice work, and thank you for the comments!!
Hi Gerry! I have same problm with my 2008 MacBook Pro 13", 500gb. I was stuck at 12 minutes left then rebooting itself in loop. Any advice? Thanks.
@@paulallague879 I just kept at it. Every time it got stuck for very long periods I rebooted and let it continue with the update. I don't think there is an exact science to it and I think there is a little bit of dumb luck thrown in there lol. Good news is none of this bricked my macbook so these old ones are tough! If it gets really stuck you can start from scratch again following the tutorial from the beginning. I did several times.
Hello. I install it on my late 2011 MacBook Pro however shows that my display it's a 21 inch and I can not adjust anything? where did I go wrong help please. thanks
MR MAC I NEED HELP. IM TRYING TO DO THIS ON A 2009 IMAC. Everything went smooth until I had to create the partitions in disk utility, I'm not getting the popup message you display. It does allow me to create 2 partitions within the internal Hitachi hard drive. After this i do what you say regarding transferring the big sur files but then it doesn't reboot into big sur it reboots into the old operating system. I NEED HELP PLEASE
thanks for doing the video i just toke a old I Mac running 10.6.8.snow leopard to Monterey. i had to get to 10.8 before it would work. so i had install 10.11 El Capitan before i put the big Sur patch on it. every thing work well . OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher is up to 0.3.1 it was a little different from the video put work well thanks again for showing the way.
just installed this on my mid 2012 MBP and it works like a charm and also I got software update to Monterey..Cool..
I cannot seem to boot to the options menu to select the efi patcher. I installed the built open core patcher via terminal. I hit restart holding option and nothing boots, no option menu. I held the option key for at least 20 minutes. I have a 5,1. Mac Pro running Mojave with a wx9100 I'm aware that there is no boot screen with my current configuration before installing opencore. at 11:57 you state "open it up" after entering option 1 (install command to usb drive)was that another step that I missed of are you reiterating what you just did ?
I saw a response to the key board back lighting issue further down. Awaiting an update that may correct it. Thanks.
Hello, I followed all the steps to prepare the usb, during the 2nd reboot the installation hangs at 50%, I'm going to leave it overnight to see if I finish tomorrow, I have a macbook pro mid 2010 (6.2)
I use macbookpro 7,1 MB13" mid 2010 when I installed macOS Big Sur on my MB I could not run Adobe photoshop ever.
Same
Successfully upgraded my mid 2009 MacBook Pro! Everything works perfectly except my keyboard backlight isn’t working😣 would you happen to know a fix
Hi! I'm stuck at the 11:39 partmy usb drive is missing in the list! I need some help please
Hello, open up disk utilities and click view then show all devices. Click on the top level of your USB drive and click erase. You should now see a 3rd option for partition scheme. Click GUID and erase again.
can I do this on my 2010 macbook pro and then transfer that drive with big sur onto my 5,1 mac pro? my video card in mac pro GTX 680 does not have the boot screen
Hi your video is great but when I boot it doesn’t go to Apple logo and comes code first and when I shutdown and turn on same thing happens. Could you please tell me why this happened. Thank you
Kindly @mr maintosh....I have already used the installer and the open core legacy patcher to install this big sur on my unsupported MacBook but one it keeps on shutting down when am tryna stream anything from RUclips ...it even shuts up randomly and I don't know the solution kindly help me out.😓
I am doing all this process in my macbook pro late 2011 but apple apple music is not working how to fix this problem
Great video, but I cannot get past the first step. I download the latest install assistant file and and it fails during the install. I have tried 4 different versions of it with the same vague error...The installation fails....with a big yellow triangle with an exclamation in it. It does not give any other helpful information. I am also using an early 2011 MacBook Pro 8.2. It is a 15 inch model with an 2.0 Ghz Intel i7 with 16GB of ram. It is on MacOS 10.7.5. Any ideas what is going on?
Maybe that is the problem Cranston 10.7.5. Could you backup your files and upgrade to High Sierra first from the app store? That would work for sure as it would be the same example I show in the video.
@@Mr.Macintosh Thank you! I did not think of that. I will try that this eve and let you know how it goes!!
@@Mr.Macintosh Well, I was able to put Sierra on my Mac and the installer ran. Now when I get to the part to create the USB drive and it asks for my admin password, it gives an error. I have no password set and I have nothing to type in. It got late and I just gave up on it. I will try again tomorrow. Thanks for your help with this. By the way, I tried to get on Discord, but it would not let me login.
I got High Sierra installed, then got Big Sur on my Mac! The only issue I have now if when I try to install the OpenCore patcher to the hard drive, it does not show up. All it sees is my USB drive. Before I started all of this. I did a clean install of the Apple OS that shipped with this laptop, which I guess was Lion. I am at work now, but will look at it again this eve.
Done! It now boots from the hard drive. The only thing I can see not working is the keyboard backlight. Thank you for this great guide!
I've followed every step and everything worked fine, until I wanted to actually do the EFI-Boot: I've picked EFI-Boot, I've clicked on "Install MacOS Big Sur", but then it went to the black background, white apple logo and kept beeping three times with a small gab in between every 3 beeps, and it wouldn't stop beeping. Is there any reason for it doing that?
(Mid 2011 iMac 27")