Mike Greco

I'm saying with 11.2.3 you don't need BM. You just need the big sur media (the 11.2.3 dmg file) ... and then micropatch the usb installer. I didn't have to...

The other thing I usually do post Big Sur installation is I set up the machine to never sleep, although I enable a screen saver, and there's a disable_animations script...

AHHHH ! must be something with the USB kext that ships with bigmac vs what gets loaded from barrykyn !

People are going to think I'm lying when I tell them this ... I downloaded 11.2.3 using that python project and mounted the dmg. I put the installer onto the...

I'm going to wipe and try this out on a 2011 MBP ... that I have the original Sur release on. ON the 2011 MBP you have to shut off...

Sorry @bugbomber ... the python script is here -> https://github.com/grahampugh/macadmin-scripts and when you run ./installinstallmacos.py that allows you to get the Big Sur dmg file from Apple. Then once it's...

Sorry @bugbomber ... the python script just downloads Big Sur dmg file. Again that python script lives here -> https://github.com/grahampugh/macadmin-scripts. When you run ./installinstallmacos.py that allows you to get the...

You need to make sure the SSD is formatted as a "MacOs Journaled with GUID partition map" BEFORE you run the BS installer. Again... you load the Big Sur distribution,...

The SSD has to be MacOS Journaled ... that's the middle selection ... and then GUID Partition Map. The installation of Big Sur converts it to APFS along the way...

Yeah my SSD is internally installed in my MacPro.