Introduction

This project is a new and updated branch of the Yosemite tree and is targetted at OS X 10.11 El Capitan with SIP support, automatic installer detection and fake board-id injection for unsupported models of the MacPro and MacBook Pro.

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  1. 1st SSD is OpenCore EFI partition and MacOS. 2nd SSD is Windows 10 EFI partition + Windows. I boot Windows by selecting then in OpenCore boot menu. Things seems to work for some time, and then usually Windows stop booting - they get stuck on a black screen after displaying and hiding a blue Windows logo. I investigated heavily, and it seems that.
  2. Mac computers equipped with a T2 chip have an added feature called secure boot. It prevents unsigned operating systems from running on your Mac. Secure boot helps protect against bootkits, or malware that infects the master boot record (MBR) on your computer.
  3. The Mac OS X boot loader is located in /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi. When loaded by the firmware, it displays a dark grey Apple logo on the screen. Then it loads the Darwin kernel from disk, as well as the essential driver extensions.
  4. When you don't use the Boot Camp utility to remove Windows, the Windows boot image on your EFI partition is not removed. This is what you see when you hold down ⌥ during boot. The procedure to solve this is not for the faint of heart. You need to mount the EFI partition in OS X (normally, it only gets mounted for system updates).

The boot loader for Macs using EFI firmware is called 'Boot.efi' and is located on a small 200MB hidden partition that is set up by the GUID partition scheme, which is the default on Mac systems. Plug the USB flash drive in USB 2.0 port and boot to boot menu Select your USB with the UEFI prefix and it will boot to clover Select Boot macOS Install from Install macOS High Sierra/Sierra/Mojave and press enter to boot. Note: When having a Dual GPU laptop, you'll need to disable the discrete GPU in order to boot the installer.

All downloads of boot.efi should be done from this project page. All other sources are unsupported.

Download your copy of the prebuild (32-bit) version of boot.efi for El Capitan (compiled on Microsoft Windows 10 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015) with a black background and white Apple logo now, and verify the download by entering (either one) in a terminal window:

Or download the one for legacy hardware, with a grey background and logo for your Mac Pro and verify the download by entering (either one) in a terminal window:

Note: If the output is different, then your copy of boot.efi should not be used!

If your Mac is using a firmware password, you're prompted to enter the password. Option-Command-P-R: Reset NVRAM or PRAM. If your Mac is using a firmware password, it ignores this key combination or starts up from macOS Recovery. Shift (⇧): Start up in safe mode. Disabled when using a firmware password. D: Start up to the Apple Diagnostics.

Compilation

Don't want a prebuilt copy of boot.efi then compile the source code yourself, with either Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 or 2015. The latter requires you to update the solution files, but that should be done automatically in the MS Visual Studio IDE.

Note: See also Compiling-Instructions

Thanks To

Cr2 file converter mac free download. This project would not have been possible without the help of Peter Holbrook, Mike Boss and a number of other people. Peter did all compiling and Mike ran dozens of test builds that Peter pushed out over at forums.macrumors.com Awesome work guys. Job well done!

Du meter latest version crack. I'd also like to thank everyone else whoh helped with testing our nightly builds. Thank you so much!

Help

If you need help with the setup then please visit this macrumor thread. Developers, or people who need help with compiling boot.efi themself, can visit this macrumors developer thread.

Note: I myself don't own any unsupported Apple hardware with a 32-bit EFI implementation, so I can probably do not much for you, but there may be others to help you.

Bugs

Bugs can be reported here

Note: Please provide a clear step by step procedure to reproduce the bug. Thanks.

License

My work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License and as such you must add a link to this license. Even if you only use a download link. Also note the term 'NonCommercial' because I don't want to see my work end up anywhere else but here.

Note: 'Tiamo' released his work under a BSD-3-Clause license

Disclaimer

Copyright (c) 2014-2016, by Pike R. Alpha – All right reserved.

Please forgive my probable ignorance as I'm not a programmer, other than HTML and CSS. I hope someone can walk me through what I'm doing wrong. I've read through the manual, but it doesn't address the issue I'm experiencing. I've also read any number of threads in this forum, implementing several suggestions, but I still can't get the blasted thing to work.

SOFTWARE SPECS
VirtualBox 5.2.12r122591 (Qt5.6.3)
Host OS 10.11.6, 64-bit, preinstalled by macsales
Guest OS 10.5 Server, 32-bit (assumption), bought from eBay
10.6.3 Personal, 32- and 64-bit compatible, bought from Apple
HARDWARE SPECSBoot

Mac Os Efi Boot Manager

Mid-2011 iMac 12,1

Mac Os X Efi Boot

2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
500 GB SATA hard drive

Mac Os X Efi Boot

VM CREATION
I created an 80 GB partition and specified the VM was to be created on that partition, then created a fixed 50 GB VDI. The VM was created successfully, but I was unable to install either 10.5 Server or 10.6.3 Personal as a Guest. Regardless of settings, the VM consistently boots into the UEFI Shell. I noted that neither installation disk remained in the optical drive for more than a couple minutes, and it seems to me it generally takes much longer than that to install an OS.

Mac Os Efi Boot Usb

SETTINGS
  • General > specified bidirectional shared clipboard and drag 'n' drop
  • System > specified 2048 MB base memory, chipset ICH9, PS/2 mouse, 1 CPU at 100%, boot order as optical then hard drive, and minimal paravirtualization, and disabled nested paging
  • Display > specified 128 MB video memory and 1 monitor at 100% scaling, enabled 3D acceleration, disabled 2D video acceleration and HiDIP output
  • Audio > enabled audio output only using CoreAudio driver and Soundblaster 16 controller
  • Network > set up all four adaptors: NAT, Bridged, Internal, Host-Only
  • Ports > enabled USB 2.0 controller (after installing the extension pack), entered every detail for my keyboard and mouse, including the serial numbers

VBOXMANAGE
  • changed to a supported Mac, specifically iMac8,1
  • provided the serial number from the 10.5 Server installation disk
  • changed the screen resolution to 1280x1024

QUESTIONS

Mac Os Efi Boot Download

  • Will deleting or renaming 'AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext' from the Host have any effect on its operation? Is this something that would help?
  • One forum thread suggested deleting the CpuIdTree code from the .vbox file. Would this help and, if so, how do I do it? The only option given in 'Open…' is vboxstarter.app.
  • What am I doing wrong? And how can I fix it? I'm close to tearing out my hair, and I'm pretty sure I taught my neighbors some new profanity. I'd eventually like to be able to virtualize 10.6.8 to use software that El Capitan will no longer run.
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