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[Guide] Installing 10.9 Mavericks on older Macs. -HackerWayne
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No, it's not but as for you (iMac, right?) graphics is not working everything that's in the graphics ram now is stored in the system ram and the graphic itself is rendered by the CPU which make your machine work even slower.
iMac5,1 (20" Late 2006) with 3GB of ram
i used the untouched Mavericks from the AppStore
... do you think i can get away with using VoodooHDA and Garageband? VoodooHDA is working for my audio ... i didn't actually see anything about fixing the audio in your guide yet
but i did follow your guide the one for the Mac Pro
Of course.
- It's free!What's your issue with GarageBand?
Well, the first attempt to fix audio is installing the included AppleHDA.kext and IOAudioFamily.kext - if this does not work the second fix is installing VoodooHDA.pkg.
Else you may have success with this guide. I tried, but did not succeed, as I did not understood the actual fixing part.
As you may have the same audio-chip you can just get my linux dump file, if you are interested so you won't have to create & boot linux (live-CD) on your mac. (I will post later… file-upload currently does not work.)
There currently are no other guides but Mac Pro ones.
Many thanks for this link.
SUCCESS!
I was able to make a bootable USB-Stick with the Guide inside the Mac-Pro.7z. I was also able to install Mavericks from the created Stick onto another one and could boot it on a MacBook Pro 2,2 (late 2006, with ATI X1600).
At the 1st boot I had forgotten to remove the "/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/kernelcache". It caused the error that the boot process hangs after the line "Waiting for DSMOS...". After removing the kernelcache Mavericks booted fine and works
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Many thanks for this link.
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SUCESS!
I was able to make a bootable USB-Stick with the Guide inside the Mac-Pro.7z. I was also able to install Mavericks from the created Stick onto another one and could boot it on a MacBook Pro 2,2 (late 2006, with ATI X1600).
At the 1st boot I had forgotten to remove the "/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/kernelcache". It caused the error that the boot process hangs after the line "Waiting for DSMOS...". After removing the kernelcache Mavericks booted fine and works
Trying now to install Mavericks in Parallels Desktop 9 .....
Great job! I'm also on a MBP2,2 and am wait to try this out later - hopefully on the weekend…
How's the MBP performing?
Do You know any way how to install Maverick on old MacBook Pro?
Yes, there is now a way to install Mavericks on a old MacBook Pro (without MacPostFactor), see Post #914
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I would not get to elated...
As it has been pointed out/strongly reinforced, despite what is actually achieved, the OS is barely usable if at all. Heck given my curiosity as to what is actually new about it, I basically used a year and half old guide (google dead.xx 10.8) files and all almost verbatim that I know from memory at this point (the exceptions being an additional edit to the "InstallableMachines.plist" and the VoodooHDA.kext for sound/audio) and I easily was able to get to a desktop of Mavericks on an iMac with ATI X1600 inboard graphics (don't let the 2.33 GHz fool ya...merely a CPU upgrade on the 17" 2006 that I was able to do for dirt cheap) with hardly any effort whatsoever:
Yes, there is now a way to install Mavericks on a old MacBook Pro (without MacPostFactor), see Post #664 on Page 27 in this Thread.
As it has been pointed out/strongly reinforced, despite what is actually achieved, the OS is barely usable if at all. Heck given my curiosity as to what is actually new about it, I basically used a year and half old guide (google dead.xx 10.8) files and all almost verbatim that I know from memory at this point (the exceptions being an additional edit to the "InstallableMachines.plist" and the VoodooHDA.kext for sound/audio) and I easily was able to get to a desktop of Mavericks on an iMac with ATI X1600 inboard graphics (don't let the 2.33 GHz fool ya...merely a CPU upgrade on the 17" 2006 that I was able to do for dirt cheap) with hardly any effort whatsoever:
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It depends on the used Drive. I've used a quite slow USB-Stick (Thumb Drive) and I have to be very patient.
I would recommend to use a HDD or SSD.
As in the Guide of the 'Mavericks Install Tools' described, the Graphics is not accelerated and for this (and other Fixes) we have to wait on MacPostFactor.
But I'm glad that Mavericks is running now on my MBP2,2 ...
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Unfortunately no, because I have no Lion
I'm still using Snow Leopard because of the Rosetta Emulation.
For me, Mavericks is more for testing purposes than for working with it.
Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.5 is an entirely different story...
The best 10.8 hack for the iMac with ATI X1600 graphics that I have found currently is the utilization of the appropriate OS X 10.7.5 ATI kexts coupled with both the patched GL/CL frameworks. This set up provides a OS X 10.8.5 non "MLPF" 64 bit system that I would estimate @ 99.8 % full functionality. Repairing permissions, Little Snitch, graphic acceleration, are among several key components that fully operate in this set-up. And while nvram is not supported on this system, I have found that porting over an account from an OS X 10.7.5 Lion system coupled with the addition of the "PlatformUUID.kext" gets FaceTime/iCloud (though still no iMessages) to work.
I had been running the same system save with OS X 10.8.4 up until several weeks ago when Rastafabi, whom I have communicated/collaborated with on these topics now for some time informed me that the same set-up could be easily applied when upgrading to OS X 10.8.5 which I have since done.
The best 10.8 hack for the iMac with ATI X1600 graphics that I have found currently is the utilization of the appropriate OS X 10.7.5 ATI kexts coupled with both the patched GL/CL frameworks. This set up provides a OS X 10.8.5 non "MLPF" 64 bit system that I would estimate @ 99.8 % full functionality. Repairing permissions, Little Snitch, graphic acceleration, are among several key components that fully operate in this set-up. And while nvram is not supported on this system, I have found that porting over an account from an OS X 10.7.5 Lion system coupled with the addition of the "PlatformUUID.kext" gets FaceTime/iCloud (though still no iMessages) to work.
I had been running the same system save with OS X 10.8.4 up until several weeks ago when Rastafabi, whom I have communicated/collaborated with on these topics now for some time informed me that the same set-up could be easily applied when upgrading to OS X 10.8.5 which I have since done.
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Mavericks can be installed directly in a empty VM and runs fine in Parallels Desktop 9, see the Parallels Knowledgebase, Article-ID: 118806.
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I have yet to get Parallels 9 to run an OS X VM when running Macericks on my Mac Pro 1,1. Keeps telling me that I need to be running OS X 10.4.11 or higher. I don't know if it has something to do with the fact that I used Chameleon to boot but it shouldn't really.
Though it is quite possible that I might be over simplifying matters and while referring specifically to those machines with unsupported ATI X1600 inboard graphics, it seems apparent to me that Mavericks could potentially run rather well and done with minimal effort if another series of patched Open GL/CL frameworks were to be constructed/produced.
no problems with GarageBand using VoodooHDA, but I am disappointed to discover that Mac GarageBand doesn't have Smart Instruments with Autoplay like iOS GarageBand does...
Somebody knows, if the Kexts and other missing parts can be extracted from the OS X Combo-Updates?
Would be very interesting if its possible to make a patched Mavericks for older Macs only with original files from Apple without any hacking (apart from the configuration files).
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this worked for me on my iMa5,1 (Late 2006) with 3GB of RAM even though the Guide is designed specifically for Mac Pros
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/18357265/
Mavericks on iMac 24" 2.16 7300GT (late 2006)
So Mavericks on iMac 24 inch Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz with 7300GT (late 2006).
Worth the try? Or can't the video card be supported in any way?
So Mavericks on iMac 24 inch Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz with 7300GT (late 2006).
Worth the try? Or can't the video card be supported in any way?
Not possible or rather impossible. There are three things that prevent 10.9 from installing on a unsupported mac with inboard graphics.
The first is the lack of EFI64. Mavericks as has no support for 32bit kernel and extensions so it will not boot. This is true of many early Intel macs.
The second thing is that checks are made by the installer; against a supported machines list. If your mac isn’t on the list, it refuses to install.
The third thing is that as the graphics card/chip in these machines is soldered onto the logic board and it is impossible to change them out for a card/chip that is supported in OS X 10.9.
Apple ceased producing drivers or kexts for these graphics cards as of OS X 10.8. Therefore unless the software components that are no longer made to communicate with the older graphics kexts are "patched" again to do so, it will be impossible to use any newer Mac OS X operating system on older macs with any measure of functionality at all.
Non mlpostfactor method
Hi gpatpandp,
You mentioned you found a way of running 10.8.5 without mlpostfactor and about 99.8% functionality..... I've got four imac 5,1's that I would like to upgrade to 10.8.5. Could you point me to a tutorial for your method? I would like to try it out. Many Thanks. Charles
Hi gpatpandp,
You mentioned you found a way of running 10.8.5 without mlpostfactor and about 99.8% functionality..... I've got four imac 5,1's that I would like to upgrade to 10.8.5. Could you point me to a tutorial for your method? I would like to try it out. Many Thanks. Charles