hey guys it's lance at max sound solutions and today for the hell of it i'm going to
install monterey on a backup ssd i first used carbon copy cloner i have
11.6 installed not 11.6.1 but just 11.6 with open core version 0.7.3 version 2.
it's important do not i i don't think you should use 7.4 yet as there's been some rebooting issues
into other systems so i'm sticking with 0.7.3 version 2. and the first thing you have to do
aside from backing up your system which you should always do if you're going to mess around like this
is to and i'm going to be installing monterey on the backup so i have two backups i have my real
backup and then i'm just using a dedicated ssd to clone my system i boot it up into that system it's
running fine now in the background here and the next thing you want to do is in the open
core config playlist you want to enable the vmm flag so here i am launching clover configurator
i'm mounting my efi that has my open core package already installed and i'm going to go
mount the partition so i'm scrolling down to my system drive that has open core installed on it
and then you click on mount partition just double checking i'm mounting the right one
and put in my password and then the if i will mount on my desktop now because i have three
monitors it's actually mounting on the other screen so you're not going to see
my efi folder but regardless you go into the efi folder you open that up now i've tried to
bring it over but no it's going to pop back over to the other monitor so now that i've opened it
though i go into the efi folder and i go to the open corp folder and those popped open for some
reason and i'm going to go to config playlist the one on the bottom not the dot efi but dot playlist
i almost clicked on the wrong one and then you're going to scroll down and find
and i'm using bb edit which is free but you can also just use the regular text edit
but you don't get those nice numbers on the left you can use apple's text
edit edit your config playlist as well so i'm going to scroll down and find the spot
that i have to change to enable the mm flag so here is the spot line 251 it says
see pewid mask or whatever that is and below it as that long string of a's so you want it to be
exactly the same as the line above it and you want to replace the a with a capital c
and once you do that you're going to go over and hit save so it saves it if you closed it without
saving it would revert back probably so i'm going to close it and then i'm going to reopen it
just to make sure that it was in there properly and that letter c has to be exactly
in the right place so you've got one two three four five six seven a's after the c
so it looks good now i'm going to reboot so once monterey is successfully installed you need to
go back and re-edit the config playlist and set the letter c back to a otherwise cpu turbo boost
will be disabled once you're all done with the install if it goes well fingers crossed and it
supposedly takes a really long time like two hours and there's like five or six reboots that the
computer has to do so you just gotta stick with it and when you think it's stuck don't force shut it
down just wait and reboot and let it reboot itself and be patient so i'm not going to film the whole
install process but at after i'm done if i'm successful or even if i'm not i will tell you
what happened and how many reboots it took and how long it took wish me luck and i'll see you on the
other side okay i had one scary moment where it looked like it was booting into my actual main
system drive i'm not really sure because i wasn't paying attention and it rebooted the open core
boot picker came up it looked like it selected my regular system drive and i'm like oh no it's going
to install it on that but then it rebooted again that might have just been a little firmware thing
i don't know what it was then it rebooted again and it picked the correct drive and continued
the install and as you can see i have monterey running on my 51 mac pro the first thing i noticed
right away is bluetooth does not work hopefully there's going to be a fix for that i have the old
bluetooth original card but i was like what if i just plug in my trackpad wire with the wire with
the lightning cable and lo and behold she works so uh that was a workaround and i also had a mouse um
little wireless gaming mouse that i use that does not use bluetooth and that worked also so
that's pretty cool again this is just testing it out i'll be able to see if pro tools runs
in there i'm going to try cinematic mode editing with final cut pro x that's what i'm really hoping
will work because i'll just edit in monterey going forward for these videos and then i can
mess around with that focus boca stuff buca boca i don't know anyway we're in monterey
on a mac pro 2009 running open core now i'm going to see if i can boot back into my old system
and uh hopefully continue working with pro tools because i know pro tools won't work with monterey
for some time yet so just a quick review of the process i cloned my big sur system to a
new ssd it was 11.6 and i was using open core 0.7.3 version 2. then i turned off the vmm flag
in open core config playlist after i did that i then rebooted and i booted off the clone drive
so i selected my clone drive instead of my original 11.6 i picked the clone 11.6 the copy
and i started the monterey install process selecting that drive as the drive for monterey
to be installed on about 10 minutes went by to download the installer your mileage may vary
because i have gigabit internet then on the first reboot after it downloaded the installer
i got a short apple black screen with a little apple in the progress bar and that went by really
quickly and then it rebooted again this is where it looked like it could the boot picker could have
selected my old system drive but i it was just a short glance so i wasn't quite paying attention
i was thinking i might have to you know select the the clone drive so i'm not sure what drive
it picked on that reboot and then it did a bunch of installing it took some time
then it rebooted again and this time it definitely was picking the correct drive
um and it rebooted one more time and then i was in so basically four reboots and the whole process
took about 45 minutes including the download so not as long as other people were reporting
so a couple of other notes after you successfully install it you want to go turn the vm flag off
again bluetooth does not work my trackpad works plugged into my usb 3 hub but it does not work
i can't even turn bluetooth on it just flips back off every time i try and switch it on
and hopefully there'll be a fix for that uh it's the legacy bluetooth it's not the newer cards
but i heard the newer cards also don't work and that also wi-fi does not work but ethernet does
and i don't use wi-fi i don't even have a wi-fi card in my mac pro so i'm hardwired and my video
card works very nicely my rx 5700xt running my three monitors working nicely in final cut
i edited this in final cut as i said before all seems good i will try pro tools next
even though i know it's not supported but can't hurt to give it a spin okay thanks for watching
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