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cankiulascmnfye
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For those who need root patches: did you ever wonder what AutoPkgInstaller.kext and AutoPkg-Assets.pkg are for? Well, I did.

 

In a nutshell: it allows auto-patching macOS during install from a USB flash drive. So no more laggy 1st time setup-screens, since it applies iGPU/GPU patches if your system needs them. It also installs OpenCore-Patcher.app on the system!

 

How? Add AutoPkgInstaller.kext to your kext folder and config, create a USB Installer, show hidden files (CMD+SHIFT+.) of the USB flash drive, navigate to "Library" folder, create "Packages" folder in it and add the .pkg file to it. Install  from USB and voila, working Wifi, BT, External Display right from the start.

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27 minutes ago, cankiulascmnfye said:

For those who need root patches: did you ever wonder what AutoPkgInstaller.kext and AutoPkg-Assets.pkg are for? Well, I did.

 

In a nutshell: it allows auto-patching macOS during install from a USB flash drive. So no more laggy 1st time setup-screens, since it applies iGPU/GPU patches if your system needs them. It also installs OpenCore-Patcher.app on the system!

 

How? Add AutoPkgInstaller.kext to your kext folder and config, create a USB Installer, show hidden files (CMD+SHIFT+.) of the USB flash drive, navigate to "Library" folder, create "Packages" folder in it and add the .pkg file to it. Install  from USB and voila, working Wifi, BT, External Display right from the start.

In a nutshell this

https://github.com/HorizonUnix/PatchSonomaWiFiOnTheFly/blob/main/README.md

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cankiulascmnfye
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2 hours ago, Anto65 said:

In a nutshell this

https://github.com/HorizonUnix/PatchSonomaWiFiOnTheFly/blob/main/README.md

 

Yes, but what the author of this doesn't seem to realize: it's not just a so-called "Wifi-on-the-fly" patch for Sonoma. It's a complete auto-root-patching system applying whatever patches are available for the machine during macOS install. So once the first time set-up screen is reached, everything is running smoothly already, sind iGPU/GPU acceleration will be working already as well.

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@allHi all my dear beta chasing darlings.

 

Sometimes I am just wandering where you guys are actually finding the time you spend on the beta development programs around macOS and it's ancillary developments to hopefully make beta stuff work for you, albeit sometime in the future, the future that seemingly never arrives. Personally I seem not to be able to muster that kind of time which seems to be required if I were also to follow the beta path you are pursuing in the depth you actually do.

 

I started hackintoshing for one simple reason only and that is to be able to benefit and enjoy the advantages of the Apple way of doing things, clear cut and straightforward, at a cost affordable to me. This has never been the case, at least as far as I am concerned, with MS, which for me just remains a huge incoherent heap of mess, even with Win 11.

 

What I am doing, on a daily basis with my hackintoshes without any problems and in a very a cost effective way  just cannot be accomplished with MS, fullstop.

 

Of cause if I were not, on a daily basis, heavily involved in the audio realm such as (Logic Pro, dBpoweramp and others) or Video editing (Final CutPro and others) Audacity, Handbrake, Adobe, MS Office for Mac, X-Plane, Resillio Sync, Amoeba, Dante and much more, I would naturally admit, without hesitation to be utterly bored with myself, on a daily basis and consequently be just as involved, as far as time spent on the various beta programs is concerned, as you darlings are.

 

I can however not see myself ever doing that, but I prefer to rather peek into the various beta offerings occasionally when time permits and concentrate on the activities that were the reason why I started hackintoshing originally.

 

Just my  2 cents.

 

Greetings Henties

   

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cankiulascmnfye
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Doesn't take me long to create a new APFS volume, download and install Apple's latest, reshttified, messOS and check if the basics are still working or not and document it. I seriously hope, that X86 support is killed next year, so that I don't longer have to do this. Otherwise I have to get into coding to fix this one goddang SDCArd kext that no longer works and no one cares about besides me.

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a bit late to the party. z690 hack updated from full install went well for me. I got time I'm  retired who likes to mess with stuff (it keeps me off the pot and porn joking)

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@eSaFIn stead of flying drones I fly all sort of "study level" planes including choppers, with my favorite flight sim, being X-Plane. In that environment I can even decide  the kind of weather which I want for when I am a "captain" of a 747 "the queen of the skies", or a Bombardier Challenge CL650 simulated by Hotstart and behaving as closely as it can get to flying the "real" thing. Of cause my collection of flying machines is not only limited to the 2 planes which I have singled out here. After having spent many years pursuing this passion of mine I even feel confident that I would be able to land some of the most sophisticated planes that grace our skies should I ever be a passenger during an extreme emergency in the flight deck, when for instance the captain as well as the first officer are totally incapacitated, even considering that my "youthfulness", which I once thought I would be able to enjoy forever, has long since departed my ageing frame, guess that a kind of serious "metal fatigue", for which there is no cure,  has finally gotten hold of me.

Happy hacking and welcome aboard on flight "Delta Foxtrot Wiskey Eight Zero from Heathrow to JFKWelcomeonboard.thumb.png.fd9a28ea257a800dda04376de9bc0796.png. 

 

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@eSaF, I did a test setup in this way and didn't notice any increase in time. Only time for installation of PKG and patch OCLP has been added.

The entire installation was completely automatic with the correct partition selection after each reboot. (Huananzhi PC)

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And since yesterday my hands are itching and the USB sticks come out of the drawer by themselves 😆
but at the moment I have nothing to patch the DW1820a I put it on my nephew's laptop
... it makes no sense for me at the moment to try that method  🤷 to give an evaluation

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cankiulascmnfye
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4 hours ago, eSaF said:

Relating to the posts by @cankiulascmnfye and @Anto65 I thought I'd do a test disk fresh install using the pre-loaded OCLP Mac installer USB.

This was done using the same type of external disk connection to a USB port I do with all my Test installs.

 

My thoughts on this type of installation are, whilst this nicely ties up the WIFI connection with the install, Man Oh Man it is mind numbing slow compared to the other way.

I did not time the install but I would hazard a guess, it took about one hour and a half to complete.

 

This could be just my rig and the type of connection but I am comparing it to the previous usual way I do my test installs.

During the first stage install it stays at 13 minutes left for about 20 or so minutes. If not for the activity light flickering on the cable connected to the drive, I would swear the install was in a loop.

 

Another part that was frustrating, after each reboot, at the boot menu it would always default to the first install of the process from the USB instead of the files on the disk.

In essence, it is not a process that can be set running without interaction like the conventional way.

 

In saying all this, it could be the findings are local to my setup and will not necessarily be like this for all.

In the end the installation was done albeit painfully slow.

 

After some research I found out that this package install feature is an undocumented feature of macOS. I guess you probably can also throw other apps in .pkg format into this "Packages" folder to have them installed unattendedly alongside macOS.

 

And: the AutoPkg-Assets.pkg.file will be added to the installer automatically if you create the USB installer with OCLP. If you install macOS via the app in the programs folder only then you have to add the AutoPkg-Assets.pkg to the installer manually, as described earlier.

 

I've tested the USB method last night on a fresh apfs volume on my Ivy Bridge notebook with Sequoia 15.2 and my experience was really good. I didn't have any of the problems you mentioned: installation took a bit longer, but once the setup-assistant was visible, everything was working immediately: WiF, BT, iGPU Acceleration, external display. But I had to run the patcher again in 15.2 since OCLP needed to download the latest metallib package in order to get transparency working properly. And this is only possible once the GUI can be displayed. Once you hit the button to apply root patches it will checks for the metallib thingy online. That's why it's a good idead to use LAN when working with OCLP if Wi-Fi requires patching first in order to work).

 

BTW: I probably will create a seperate repo for all the OCLP Wintel guides on the OC-Little repo soon. It's about time to bridge the gap to the OpenCore install guide (which just stops at 10th gen Intel Core and BigSur/Monterey) and the OpenCore Legacy Patcher guide which is for real Macs only…

 

 

 

 

 

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mnfesq
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I lost bluetooth functionality with 15.3 beta 1.  Resetting bluetooth with "sudo killall -9 BlueTool bluetoothd" multiple times did not help.  I'll keep tinkering and report back.

 

EDIT:  I put the laptop to sleep for about 2-3 minutes.  After waking it up, bluetooth worked.  Go figure.  I remember back in the day there was a sleep/wake trick to getting video to work on some laptops.  Sometimes, the old solutions still work.

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2 minutes ago, mnfesq said:

I lost bluetooth functionality with 15.3 beta 1.  Resetting bluetooth with "sudo killall -9 BlueTool bluetoothd" multiple times did not help.  I'll keep tinkering and report back.

 

For me, Resetting NVRAM, forgeting the device and then recoupling it helps on Broadcom.

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