d620osx 24 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 (edited) Hi With the help of @MacNB on the thread below we got the machine working fine on Catalina using Opencore. Machine does work fine and thought at that stage it would not work with BigSur, however another thread on here about installing BS on a legacy system got me looking again. I have found on another forum that someone has got BS working on the same machine with the same GPU as I have. I have also seen the thread where @Hervé has got it running on a Vostro 200. I could not see the upgrade option on machine as on my OC config I have the machine set up as a iMac 14,1, amending that to 14,4 showed up the upgrade to BS in system preferences. I all starts off and then fails at the install stage. Initially I had an issue with the firewire card that I have installed, so I removed that and tried again but seem that it fails at the same stage. The error I get is as below, and the EFI folder I am using is also attached. Any help in getting BS running on the machine will be greatly appreciated. Thank you EFI.zip Edited March 14 by d620osx Link to post Share on other sites
d620osx 24 Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 Found that the issue was the usb I was using to upgrade needed to be formatted in Windows as FAT32. Once the key was formatted correctly I had to use F12 at boot and select the UEFI partition, and boot into Catalina, from there select upgrade, at reboot again had to make sure I selected the UEFI partition on the USB twice and the system was updated to BS. If I updated bios to use UEFI and tried that way it would error at install, but just selecting the it as a boot option seems to have worked. Once updated to BS I am able to boot using the previous version of OC that was already on the SSD. Thank you 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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