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Big Mac, macOS 11 Big Sur and macOS Monterey disk installer and back up tool for Intel based Macs
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Mac Pro (Early 2009) 11.1V #129

Closed HeisenbergFl0w closed 2 years ago

HeisenbergFl0w commented 3 years ago

I bought second hand Mac Pro 2009 early with 11.1v. and there was already installed Big Sur on it, but how do I know if this is the Big Sur that StarPlayerX created? And how to install the new update? The mov. files does not show, only audio..

StarPlayrX commented 3 years ago

Read the readme is the best place to start. It also has picks of the different Big Mac 2 screens.

Try another browser to video the video files. You can also download the view files and view them using Quicktime Player. If still a no go, try viewing them on a supported Mac.

HeisenbergFl0w commented 3 years ago

dosdude1's APFS ROM Patcher, is not working. It says not compatible. What now? Because the mac pro does not even have the recovery mode.

StarPlayrX commented 3 years ago

If you want a native recovery partition install 10.11 El Capitan from Apple. If you want a new recovery mode, upgrade your firm ware, install Mojave. You will go through many firmware updates up until 144.0.0.0. Once you have the latest Mojave compatible firmware update and have installed Mojave, you will not need the APFS ROM Patcher.

Check your firmware in about this Mac to see what firmware you are currently running.

Note Mojave currently cannot create a bigmac2 disk.

If you have Big Sur 11.1 installed you should have no problem creating the BigMac2 installer disk. I'd use the macOS 11.2.3 option.

You can also look into OCLP - Open Core Legacy Patcher.