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UHDbits / M73-Tiny-OpenCore

An OpenCore 1.0.0 Hackintosh configuration for the Lenovo ThinkCentre M73 Tiny, M83 Tiny, and the M93p.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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hide everything except default icon on boot #15

Closed fragolinux closed 1 year ago

fragolinux commented 1 year ago

no issue, just a suggestion: I added this to my plist, to hide everything except the default boot icon (for the others, just press space to unhide):

Misc > Security > ScanPolicy = 17760515: Hide EFI from OC boot menu (this is the OC default and had previously been set to 0 which shows all).

took this from this page, there's an other option there, but as I was just sawing the efi icon, that line solved my issue

UHDbits commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the suggestion! I have actually researched this before, and I noticed that the issue with this is that I am pretty sure this hides USB devices, which makes it impossible to actually install macOS. This may also hide the ability to boot from Windows on the OC config. I do think this is a good change to make after macOS is installed, but because it's after the install, I can make those changes in this GitHub repo. If you know of any other ways to hide the EFI partition without hiding things like the "Install macOS" partitions on USBs, please let me know.

UHDbits commented 1 year ago

Okay, so I may have just found a way to hide the EFI boot entry (using .contentVisibility). I can't test this right now but I will try to test it soon. Thanks for reporting this, because I was researching this a while ago but ended up not finding an answer, but hopefully, this way will work.

UHDbits commented 1 year ago

I have just committed the files, so I will try them once I get home.

fragolinux commented 1 year ago

but this just hides the entries, if you press space they're still all there, isn't this enough? btw, i manually did this many times, but yesterday i just binned old efi folder and replaced with your latest one (after changing the serial and usual stuff), and i had the efi icon back... i didn't remember how i removed those, i had to compare the 2 xml files again, then i remembered that other thread i use on my other hackintosh... thanks for your work!

fragolinux commented 1 year ago

oh, right, and in that same page talks about contentVisibility, right :)

UHDbits commented 1 year ago

I already have "HideAuxiliary" enabled in the configuration, but that seems to keep the "EFI" partition listed in the bootloader. I do think that the contentVisibility should be able to hide it.

I know that the EFI partition used to be hidden in OpenCore by default, but when the version with .contentVisibility was released, I saw the files inside of the OpenCorePkg download, but I never ended up adding them because I didn't know what they were for. Well, it seems like in that release, they made it so that you have to have contentVisibility in the EFI partition to hide the entry, which is why the EFI partition now shows. Again, hopefully, the latest commit should fix this but I will double-check once I get home. If it's fixed, I'll close this issue.

Thanks for reporting and thanks for appreciating my work! I hope it has and will continue to work well for you.