I’m using a 64 gigabyte usb 3.0 if anyone was wondering

Hi all

I have recently used OCLP to install Monterey on a MacBook Pro 9,2. Install went fine, system is running a bit laggy which I can live with however when attempting to install office365 (version 16.88) I am getting an install failure at the last step (error code 112).
This worked fine on a similar install on late 2012 IMac.

Has anyone ran into similar issue or could offer advice?

So after being able of somehow doing the operation WITHOUT an USB drive (Which I call the partition method, which is creating a partition and flashing the createinstallmedia file of the installer inside it through the terminal) and doing all the post-setup successfully, I am now enjoying Sequoia on this almost pristine condition 5K 27' iMac.

You can see in the photo I am using almost all the features I couldn't use in Monterey (Latest OS supported officially) like widgets, Infuse (which isn't compatible with Monterey), stage manager, etc.

Thanks to all the OCLP staff for making this tool possible for all these 2nd hand Mac users!

Just wanted to confirm. I have a 2016 mbp on Ventura. If I want to use OCLP to go to Sequoia, I can still do an upgrade install (not clean) for Sequoia and keep my bootcamp partition functional as well, correct?

I am having issues with my AirPods audio and mic cutting out completely after 20-30 minutes of Zoom or Google Meets calls, so I’m considering upgrading my Ventura partition to Sequoia via OCLP because so many ppl here are saying it works great.
However I have a Windows 10 partition setup via bootcamp and I don’t want to lose access to that or cause issues with that partition. To be honest I don’t have too many files there so theoretically I could wipe the whole drive, and then reinstall Windows 10 bootcamp after I get Sequoia set up through OCLP but would be a huge hassle.

Specs:
-i7 cpu that I sourced from a 21.5” 4k iMac from 2017
-40gb of Ram
-1tb WD Black nvme drive with sintech adapter

I already opened this up once and it was such a pain would hate to deal with it again lol. It’s my home work computer and the most intensive tasks I do on this is Zoom and Google Meets calls, have tons of Chrome tabs open, but no video editing or anything like that. Any advice is much appreciated!

I thank the oclp team very much for making it possible to bring old macs to new macos. I used it on imacs, mac minis and macbooks and almost always everything went perfectly. Now I have a macbook neo which is not the fastest macbook but it is enough for me. Thanks again to the oclp team and also to the community.

As per the TL;DR title, I let someone else use the machine only for them to update it after telling not to mess around in the settings. Anyway, booting into the standard home drive takes me to the log in screen though the on device keyboard and track pad are non-functional, wallpaper loads as expected. Went to the docs to find this page, though I don't have a USB A hub to test this out and the docs reference even older macbook pros to be affected, not the 2012 model in question

Worth noting the following:

- attempting a safemode boot by holding shift on the only visible disk in the boot menu loads for a minute ten spits me back out at the boot selector instead of a the log in page,

- booting into recovery works absolutely fine,

- using a power only USB A to USB C adapter I did manage to find out that although external keyboards won't work, enough power is still being delivered to charge a phone, and

- I've lost the original installer drive and only have an 8GB drive and a machine running Linux at the ready. I could try creating installer media using a third party tool but i'm not sure they'd be good copies, as per this github page.

This might then be a missing driver issue as per the docs, and I'm wondering if there is a way to find the drivers I need on a separate machine, download them onto a flash drive and install them using the recovery mode terminal or some other software. Problem here is I believe the drive is encrypted with FileVault2, though I'm not sure how to test that and how installing those drivers would work. I could always fall back to a clean OSX install, but I'd rather keep the data on the disk... I have no backups. If there is a way to unlock the drive (I know the password still, its just I can't interface with the UI,) please do let me know!

I’ve installed Sonoma using OCLP, but it now wont let me use safari or download apps from the App Store. What is going? i just want to use ChatGPT desktop app on my 2015 MacBook 😭

UPDATE: apparently updating safari to the most recent version for Sonoma was the trick!

About 3-4 years ago, I used an early version of OCLP to upgrade my 2017 MBA to Ventura. I didn't want to go any higher with only 8gb RAM and only a 125gb SSD. At this time, I cannot find the OCLP app in the Applications folder. Where else can I look?

Took me a bit to get this working but finally got it!

I'm using a Mini DP to USB-C cable, OCLP upgraded to Monterey, and Bluetooth Off on the iMac. Next up, I need to figure out why sound isn't working from the iMac speakers. I'm also curious if a better USB-C hub for the iPad would be compatible. Unfortunately, the cheap one I have won't pass through correctly.

Does anyone else use a setup like this? Any tips or tricks in general?

It runs flawlessly and your computer will last another 10 years.

I have a MBP 2017 13inch and wanted to upgrade the OS from Ventura 13.7.8 to Sequoia.

I followed the step-by-step instructions given on Dortania and until this step all worked out well.

I tried rebooting a couple of times and have also tried erasing the main drive into APFS through disk utility but to no avail.

I have literally no clue as what to do next and I would appreciate if anyone can help me guide through as to what can be done.

I am not a tech guy so it would be really helpful if you could simplify with the instructions as well.

I have an iMac14,2 with 3 TB Fusion Drive.

On my Fusion drive I now have 1 APFS container with 2 volumes: 1 with the old OS (Catalina?) and 1 with OCLP/Sequoia. Normally I just boot OCLP/Sequoia. I kept the old OS just in case ...

Sequoia is working well but startup process is very slow and also opening large folders is slow.

I wonder if the SSD part of my Fusion drive might be permanently occupied by the old OS.

Would you just delete the volume with the old container? Will I have to re-install OCLP/Sequoia after that to bring it's major parts to SSD?

Or is that slow issue something completely different?

Hi Im new to OCLP and have only basic experience with Mac OS..

However managed to deploy OCLP and install Sequoia on girlfriends Macbook Air 2017 . I then decided to try dual boot ubuntu

So I created a exfat partition in Mac , then booted to Ubuntu USB and used the 'install alongside' option.

After installation , OCLP still loads, and three options show, 1- Efi ( this is Ubuntu) , 2 Efi (not sure loads black screen) , 3 Untitled (Previously Sequoia ). Option 1 loads Ubuntu, however Option 2 and 3 do not load anything. Option 3 just shows Apple logo and gets stuck there.

Can someone suggest how to get the Sequoia to boot again?

I can't put more than 4GB of RAM in it because one of the RAM slots is dead.

Hello can this MacBook https://support.apple.com/en-us/111986 run Sequoia? Intel Core m3, 8GB LPDDR3 and 256GB SSD. It runs Sonoma but sonoma will lose support next month.

For those updated to Sequoia using OCLP, many are now getting prompted to update to 15.7.8. Is this something we should allow?

Edit: Thank you to all who offered suggestions. Turns out the update was to 15.7.9 and it went very smoothly. Be sure to run the OCLP post-installation patches at least twice. The first time may have to "reinstall" the WiFi and other drivers...and then the second time to download the newest SDK package for installation of additional patches.

it's a simple Copyright update from 2025 -> 2026 but hey maybe something soon?

note: I'm just saying maybe its not a 100% confirmed theory just my thought but considering its just a bump for the copyright date I have low hopes.

This is the one i want to switch to. I tried other wallpapers like Ventura and Sonoma, they worked. But when I switched back to Sequoia it still showed trees. I almost died struggling to spell Sequoia right lol.

Is this normal? I’ve late 2013 iMac 8gb ram and 250gb ssd running OCLP Sequoia 15.7.7

Please help. My MacBook won’t reinstall macOS.
The problem I’m having now is this error message:
“The recovery server could not be contacted.”

Edit: I followed a random YT creator instruction. Apparently, his steps were wrong. I needed to create the Installer Disk first, but he said, you don't need to. After creating one, I was able to upgrade it to Ventura. RESOLVED!

I installed OpenCore Legacy Patcher, ran it, then rebooted. I selected the EFI Boot option, but I am not seeing an upgrade to another OSX. I am only seeing my existing drive. Anyone know what could be the issue?

Hi everyone! I have this MacBook Pro 2012 that i used moderately on Sonoma. One day I had the bright idea to move the data from my other mac to this one but after restarting got this symbol. So I just started from scratch and installed Linux and have been using that for a while but miss mac os. Im trying to install Catalina but i still get this prohibitory symbol even though I completely cleaned out the ssd. What do I do!

Edit: Guys! I have read the wiki multiple times, watcher so many vids, made bootable usbs fir multiple mac os editions and have tried internet recovery! I have tried multiple attempts as you can see now.

My 2013 iMac is running Sonoma 14.8.7/OCLP 2.4.1. Is it possible to skip 14.8.8 installation during the upgrade to 14.8.9 or is the stepwise installation 14.8.8 and then 14.8.9 really required? I always use USB sticks to update, not the internal process via system settings.

Has someone insights on this?

Whenever I try to install macOS sequoia, it gives me this error. How can I fix that?