cgilley Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 So, I have this mac mini from 2012. It ran fine when I bought it, I upgraded the ram and slapped an SSD into it. It smoked. A couple of years later, one of my grandsons needed a machine and I offered this. It tried to wipe the SSD (I'm mainly a Windows / Linux developer) and I think I may have bricked it. This pisses me off. I've gone through apples not so support site where they say just boot the recovery partition. Yeah well no, nothing on the SSD at this point. Apple support is ridiculously useless at this point - leave their eco system and well, you're screwed. I've been trying to go through the OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher site and other places. Am I on the wrong website for asking questions? In essence I'm looking to take a blank SSD, stick it in a mac mini and get Catalina running. Appreciate any pointers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/360553-trying-to-revie-a-2012-mac-mini-point-me-in-the-right-direction-to-the-appropriate-forum/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Hosehead Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 I assume you want something like this: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/MODELS.html But Late 2012 MacMini model supports Catalina so why leave the eco-system? If you can get the MacOS installer on a USB drive or DVD, it should boot from that. Here is a site that downloads an ISO file. https://archive.org/details/mac-os-catalina Here is more interesting information on Ivy Bridge installs: https://github.com/5T33Z0/OC-Little-Translated/blob/main/14_OCLP_Wintel/Guides/Ivy_Bridge.md 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/360553-trying-to-revie-a-2012-mac-mini-point-me-in-the-right-direction-to-the-appropriate-forum/#findComment-2829922 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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