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dieselengine

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Jan 29, 2024
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Hi. I have got macbook pro 2012 and some good experience with OCLP. My problem is, I cannot enable Root account. I tried different ways with no success.
So to clarify. I installed Catalina without OCLP and enabled root account successfully. Logged into root account. No problem. I installed on it OCLP and Big Sur, Ventura, Sonoma and in neither I could enable root Account. I could enable but when I try to login, I get logged in but get spinning beachball of death and nothing can be done other than hard reset.
I tried clean install without Catalina step, same result.
Tried to Google it but because of key word "root", Google only throws results related to "root patches" which I installed anyway.
Can anyone help me or it is time to relearn windows as I am not fan of new Macs at all.
Thank you.
 

Bigwaff

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Sep 20, 2013
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Can anyone help me or it is time to relearn windows as I am not fan of new Macs at all.
Why do you need to enable "root"? Is "sudo" not sufficient? I understand the exercise here but seems to be quite melodramatic to jump over to Windows... unless you were being sarcastic.
 
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