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Yosh Im looking at his repo and not organization. Thanks @zirkaiva. Cc: @crusher ;(((

 

@Intelimac open 2 uefitool. 1 with new/patched rom as a source & do extract. And 1 with original to replace. Search items first to make sure guid is identical.

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Well finally got my second display back just by switching it to the 3rd dvi port. Don't know why it would suddenly stop working on the port it's been in for the past two years but oh well. Unfortunately I still get no output when I try and boot Sierra and have to switch to igpu in the bios to get any picture. Any suggestions of boot args I could add besides nvda_drv=1?

 

IronMan, I tried your disable nvidia suggestion but it didn't seem to change anything.

 

Cecekpawon, I'll give it a try here shortly, thanks

 

Hmm weird stuff. I've got nvda_drv=1 in nvram, and then activated web drivers in sierra and rebooted. This actually fave me both monitors: one plugged into the igpu and ime in the 960. I then switched back to auto in bios and rebooted, plugged the one monitor back into the 690, and again as soon as the sierra desktop should load I lose all video. Frustrating.

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Yosh Im looking at his repo and not organization. Thanks @zirkaiva. Cc: @crusher ;(((

 

@Intelimac open 2 uefitool. 1 with new/patched rom as a source & do extract. And 1 with original to replace. Search items first to make sure guid is identical.

Ok have them both up. Extracted the defaults.plist I want, but how do I insert it into the other bios file and replace the existing defaults.plist?

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Maybe you should test it first by placing it in  /EFI/Oz ...

I've never been able to get that to work. It just never seems to take.

 

It's kinda moot at the moment though cuz I jacked everything up and couldn't boot at all, so I just did a clean install. Honestly if I could just get video working from the 690 when init display first is set to auto I'd be happy. I can live with Mac mini sysdef for the moment. 

 

Right now I've got both displays working, but only with init display first set to IGPU, which is lower resolution at 1080p, and then the second display comes on once I switch to web drivers. But no matter what I've tried I can't get any video at all when I try to use just the 690 under Sierra. The other fun part of using the internal graphics is whenever I wake the display from sleep, I get a ton of artifacts and flickering. Rebooting fixes it.

 

So here's an odd little... thing. I should get an Oz folder on my boot drive when I install, right? Well it's not on my boot drive. It's on one half of my RAID0 time machine drive. It's disk3s1. I thought it was supposed to be created on disk0.

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I've never been able to get that to work. It just never seems to take.

 

Don't you think you should fix that first ? If ti does not take in /EFI/Oz it is because ..

i) The content of the file is invalid

ii)  Not located where it should

 

if i) then putting it in BIOS will not help ..might even make it worst.

 

OK form the top ...

 

Defaults.plist must be placed into  /EFI/Oz on ESP partition that is closer to  BIOS .. that is stupid mumbo jumbo ... make sure the drive that will contain Defaults.plist is connected to SATA 0,0 (and that should be your main System drive. It is not a requirement but makes it so much simpler).

When you modifiy Defaults.plist you have to clear NVRAM so the changes become in effect. The way I do it is boot with F12 and at the boot selection screen I press Command-Option-P-R the screen flashes red, you can't miss that it did clear it.

 
Nothing prevent you from putting a dummy variable in the plist file. then by doing nvram -p you can see if your variable is set and thus prove or disprove if the Defaults.plist file was processed successfully. When your Defaults.plist works thhen you can think about moving it in BIOS (but I do find that having it in ESP is much more versatile than in ROM)
 
BTW you do not need to be 'MacMini6,2' to do Sierra...you can use any personnality supported by Sierra (I am sticking with my iMac13,2 SysDef).
 
Have you upgraded  your El Cap drive to Sierra or installed Sierra on another partition/drive  ?
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Yeah ideally you're right, and since I just reinstalled everything it's an opportune time. SO...

 

My boot drive is disk0, but the efi/oz folders are not there. Only the Apple folder. I have no idea why, but the only efi/oz folders on my system are on my Time Machine drive, which is a Western Digital thunderbolt drive that has two disks in a RAID. Efi/oz is on one of those disks somehow. Should I just copy it to my boot drive and delete it from the external drive? Seems like that's too simple. 

 

P.S. yes, since I had to do a clean install anyway, I just installed Sierra on my main drive and that's all I'm working with at the moment.

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Where is your boot drive connected on the motherboard ?  The simplest way is to have your boot drive connected to port SATA 0,0 (it does not matter if it is refered to as disk0 because those assignation are arbitrary made by the OS)

Out of curiosity those TM drives , were they internal at some point in time ? 

 

Use DarwinDumper to produce a Boot Log ..and attach or send to me .. that will give us the complete drive picture

 

Here is extract from mine .. you can see it finds Defaults.plist and tells where it did find it ...


00:000 00:000 Ozmosis 1.03.167X-MASS RELEASE (2015-12-24 09:12:07 VS2013x86) on 2016-07-19 21:51:42
00:000 00:000 Found Firmware UEFI Spec  :2.31:
00:000 00:000 Found Firmware Vendor     :American Megatrends:
00:000 00:000 Found Firmware Revision   :4.653:
03:974 03:974 BootOrder 00 03 08 01 05 06 09 0A
..
03:979 00:000 Found Storage PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1F,0x2)/Sata(0x0,0xFFFF,0x0)/HD(1,GPT,F6F43E84-D730-4FAA-8DAD-548ACCC0767B,0x28,0x64000)
03:985 00:005 Found Defaults \Efi\Oz\Defaults.plist
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Edit: Got it. Apparently it should be run from the Applications folder. Corresponding lines to yours:

 

00:000 00:000 Ozmosis X.MASS-master-50-iNDi gb6f70d7 DEBUG (2016-06-15 12:02:20 VS2015x86) on 2016-08-31 14:22:31

00:000 00:000 Found Firmware UEFI Spec  :2.31:

00:000 00:000 Found Firmware Vendor     :American Megatrends:

00:000 00:000 Found Firmware Revision   :4.653:

11:043 00:000 BootOrder 00 01 0D 0E 0F 10 11 12 13 14 15 0C

 

11:095 00:000 Found Storage PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1C,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Pci(0x3,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Pci(0x3,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0xFFFF,0x0)/HD(1,GPT,A0DD8FDD-BB19-46E7-87AF-24AB61FAA461,0x28,0x64000)

11:096 00:000 Found Defaults 99F2839C-57C3-411E-ABC3-ADE5267D960D

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So just select boot log and hit run? When I do that all I get is:

 

AppTranslocation/B49E016D-A2F9-4266-B2BA-80643D203BD2/d

*Symlink check: Symlink exists, but does not point to this version of the app.
*UI: User clicked the run button
*Save path verify: Path exists.
*Save path verify: Path is not writeable.
*Save path verify: Path does not end with DarwinDumperReports.
*Save path: Creating /private/var/folders/ry/2txkd_rx52zbgysv1f3b2mgc0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/B49E016D-A2F9-4266-B2BA-80643D203BD2/d/DarwinDumperReports and setting permissions.
*Save path: Setting permissions for /private/var/folders/ry/2txkd_rx52zbgysv1f3b2mgc0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/B49E016D-A2F9-4266-B2BA-80643D203BD2/d/DarwinDumperReports.
*Save path: Currently owned by user: of group: with permissions: 
*Save path: Ownership error for /private/var/folders/ry/2txkd_rx52zbgysv1f3b2mgc0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/B49E016D-A2F9-4266-B2BA-80643D203BD2/d/DarwinDumperReports
*Save path: Failed to match user:501 of group:20
*Save path: Failed to change ownership/permissions for /private/var/folders/ry/2txkd_rx52zbgysv1f3b2mgc0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/B49E016D-A2F9-4266-B2BA-80643D203BD2/d/DarwinDumperReports
===========================================================
Error: UI: STOP2
-----------------------------------------------------------
To help improve DarwinDumper, please send the containing temporary directory
together with a description of the problem to either of the following links:
-----------------------------------------------------------
 
Thank you

 

 

Choose a Custom Save Path that is under your user ..

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Edit: Got it. Apparently it should be run from the Applications folder. Corresponding lines to yours:

 

00:000 00:000 Ozmosis X.MASS-master-50-iNDi gb6f70d7 DEBUG (2016-06-15 12:02:20 VS2015x86) on 2016-08-31 14:22:31

00:000 00:000 Found Firmware UEFI Spec  :2.31:

00:000 00:000 Found Firmware Vendor     :American Megatrends:

00:000 00:000 Found Firmware Revision   :4.653:

11:043 00:000 BootOrder 00 01 0D 0E 0F 10 11 12 13 14 15 0C

 

11:095 00:000 Found Storage PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1C,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Pci(0x3,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Pci(0x3,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0xFFFF,0x0)/HD(1,GPT,A0DD8FDD-BB19-46E7-87AF-24AB61FAA461,0x28,0x64000)

11:096 00:000 Found Defaults 99F2839C-57C3-411E-ABC3-ADE5267D960D

Attach  .zip the full Boot Log  plz ...

It says it found Defaults in BIOS  .. see no path ..

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Oh well yeah i could've told you that. I'm not using a defaults.plist in efi/oz right now because it somehow got placed on the time machine drive. Plus I just wiped my main drive and did a clean install. I need to get efi/oz on the proper disk.

 

What I can tell you is I just dug into my case and the boot drive definitely isn't on sata 0. Fixing that now.

 

Oops I lied. I'm not sure. It's either on 0 or 1. It's plugged into the bottom white sata port. I think that's 0.

Sorry. I've been up all night working on this. Starting to get fuzzy eyed.

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