Greetings, I just loaded Monterey on a mid 2010 iMac, everything seems to be working well no major problems in MacOS, but I noticed two things about my installation that I haven’t been able to figure out yet.
The more notable issue that I’d like to solve is if I don’t catch the boatload screen with the Alt key the bootloader will try to default to my primary volume (APFS) where Monterey is loaded and it results in a grey question mark. If I catch it at the chime with Alt I can select the EFI bootloader and it will boot successfully using the OCLP EFI bootloader, is there any way to make this the default choice. I do have a Windows bootcamp volume that still works if I select it from the Apple boot selection screen I don’t know if this is why it’s not defaulting to the EFI loader? I tried in the system configuration once Monterey is loaded but the OS does not see the EFI loader to select it as the default. I’m hoping there’s a way to get this set, I am savvy with technical tools and terminal / command line if that is the only way to select the EFI bootloader. I might have just messed up my install this was my first go around with OCLP so maybe that EFI install wasn’t supposed to be separate from my APFS volume I didn’t see any other posts with others having as much trouble as I’ve had with this.
The only other issue I’ve run into is VERY minor, it’s not end of world if I can’t get it resolved. My primary SSID (WiFi 5E 5GHz + 2.4GHz at the Access point) will not successfully connect it just gives me an error about the router not being in range but it does see the network SSID and shows full bars for signal strength in the selection menu, it also never gave me trouble under High Sierra. I also have a secondary IoT network that is hard set at 802.11G 2.4GHz and that network connects and works fine. I didn’t see a forget network settings option in system configuration to try and clear the connection setting password etc. Or maybe is there a required WiFi driver update needed for Monterey to support this card on 5GHz networks since this is a really old iMac I wouldn’t be surprised, but the card does seem to work otherwise so I wasn’t totally sold yet that it’s a driver issue.
Any help on these two things would be greatly appreciated! Trying to breathe some life back into this machine if I can get the steps down to make it fully functional on Monterey, I’m going to chug it full of RAM and add an SSD as it seems like the HDD is the main bottleneck in both MacOS and Windows.
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