Bootable Samsung 960 evo M.2 configuaration on Mac Pro 2010

[Catsolo]

Hi, I'm new to the forum.

 

I have a 2010 Mac Pro 12 core which I am trying to keep valid and alive by installing a Samsung 512 GB 960 evo M.2 card connected to a  Glotrends M.2 PCIe Nvme or PCIe AHCI SSD to PCIe 3.0 x and M.2 SATA SSD to SATA III Adapter Card. I want to make this SSD my bootable drive. I've tried following the instructions here

 

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/pcie-m-2-nvme-on-macpro.2030791/

 

 

but I get a CPU kernel crash and reboot message when I try to run the program

 

• sudo kextload /Library/Extensions/NVMeGeneric.kext"
• A popup window should appear asking you to reinitialise the new detected support.

 

My full Specs are:

OSX High Sierra 10.13.4

ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB now (but moving to a  Radeon RX580 8 GB card)

64 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

2 x 3,46 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon

 

The drive can be seen by my system as an ejectable drive but I can's set it up as a bootable drive.

 

Can someone tell me how I can do this?

 

Any help will be gratefully received.

 

Best regards

 

Catsolo

 

 

 

[LouCioccio]

Have you tried running in safe mode? Reset NVRAM or PRAM?

Do this in terminal on the SSD whatever you named it. 

sudo chown root:wheel /Volumes/Harddrive/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
sudo chown root:wheel /Volumes/Harddrive/usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi
sudo chflags uchg /Volumes/Harddrive/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
sudo bless --folder /Volumes/Harddrive/System/Library/CoreServices --file /Volumes/Maverick/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi

 

Lou Cioccio

Edited August 25, 2018 by LouCioccio