awesome!
just replaced the boot.efi and did a restart and there you are, iCloud works!
and the boot was at least 5 times faster!
Thank you very much, you made my day!
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[Guide] Installing 10.9 Mavericks on older Macs. -HackerWayne
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awesome!
just replaced the boot.efi and did a restart and there you are, iCloud works!
and the boot was at least 5 times faster!
Thank you very much, you made my day!
What about the iMac's?
Hi guys,
It seems from reading through the thread that the MacPro's have all the fun of Mavericks lately and our little iMac's are still running MLPF 0,3 with Mountain Lion.
Do we know if Hackerwayne is still alive? Also, is there now an "easy, noob" way to get Mavericks running on our iMac's?
Thanks to let me know and point me in the right direction....
Desperately willing to try anything to run Mavericks on my late 2006 C2D iMac!
Thanks a lot for your replies.
Z
Hi guys,
It seems from reading through the thread that the MacPro's have all the fun of Mavericks lately and our little iMac's are still running MLPF 0,3 with Mountain Lion.
Do we know if Hackerwayne is still alive? Also, is there now an "easy, noob" way to get Mavericks running on our iMac's?
Thanks to let me know and point me in the right direction....
Desperately willing to try anything to run Mavericks on my late 2006 C2D iMac!
Thanks a lot for your replies.
Z
The good news and the bad...
GOOD NEWS...
NO MLPF Needed in order to run Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.5 on older iMacs or any other unsupported Mac with ATI X1600 Inboard Graphics by executing these steps:
First and foremost in constructing/compiling your system, remember that google is your friend.
Use the app “Kext Wizzard” or the appropriate terminal commands for installing additional/needed kext files. It is also necessary to have another bootable OS system (Snow Leopard/Lion) so that you can mount your Mountain Lion system on it and have access to it while building it.
Starting with using the full OS X 10.8.4 (app store).app follow this excellent guide by dead.xx in creating your installer: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1404548/.
***The ONLY difference one needs to make in the dead.xx guide is that instead of using the supplied "boot.efi" file found there instead, use Tiamo's "boot.efi" found here: https://forums.macrumors.com/attachme...6&d=1385188522
Once created, install OS X 10.8.4. Once completed, restart though restart to your supported OS system and not your Mountain Lion drive/partition at this point.
Using the .app “Kext Wizzard” and with your Mountain Lion drive/partition mounted on the desktop, select the appropriate mounted mountain lion drive/partition in the pull down tab, and install the following kexts found in both of these download links:
http://www.file-upload.net/download-...-X1600.7z.html
https://forums.macrumors.com/attachme...5&d=1393544777
ATI1600Controller
ATIFramebuffer
ATIRadeonX1000
ATIRadeonX1000GA
ATIRadeonX1000GLDriver
ATIRadeonX1000VADriver
ATISupport
AppleHDA
IOAudioFamily
Also and again while having the Mountain Lion drive/partition mounted, open the following folders in this sequence: System/Library/Frameworks and locate both the OpenGL & OpenCL folders and move them both to the trash and delete them. Once deleted, copy both patched versions of the same namesake (Google !!!) into the same System/Library/Frameworks folder.
That basically should get anyone with an unsupported Mac possessing ATI X1600 graphics a “non MLPF” OS X 10.8.4 64 bit OS system that I have estimated @ 100 % full functionality.
To update that to OS X 10.8.5, head on over to: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1325709/ AND ON page 139 of that forum refer to the following specific post and dialogue between myself and Rastafabi # 3456, 3457, & 3459 to update your OS X 10.8.4 to OS X 10.8.5. Done.
ALSO regarding a recovery partition firstly, you will have to create one manually as your Installer formulated from the dead.xx guide will not do so.
You have two choices when creating a recovery partition, you can elect to create one using an app such as the one found here:
https://github.com/MagerValp/Create-...tion-Installer
…and create a Mountain Lion Recovery Partition which will require you to replace the stock boot.efi with Tiamos boot.efi files just as was necessary in building your installer OR use the same app and create a OS X 10.7 Lion recovery partition which of course will boot on its own accord without any manipulation involved
BAD NEWS:
I believe it safe to conclude at this juncture that as far as unsupported macs and OS X 10.9 Mavericks, anything except the Mac Pro is out of luck and you can pretty much kiss that possibility goodbye.
GOOD NEWS...
NO MLPF Needed in order to run Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.5 on older iMacs or any other unsupported Mac with ATI X1600 Inboard Graphics by executing these steps:
First and foremost in constructing/compiling your system, remember that google is your friend.
Use the app “Kext Wizzard” or the appropriate terminal commands for installing additional/needed kext files. It is also necessary to have another bootable OS system (Snow Leopard/Lion) so that you can mount your Mountain Lion system on it and have access to it while building it.
Starting with using the full OS X 10.8.4 (app store).app follow this excellent guide by dead.xx in creating your installer: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1404548/.
***The ONLY difference one needs to make in the dead.xx guide is that instead of using the supplied "boot.efi" file found there instead, use Tiamo's "boot.efi" found here: https://forums.macrumors.com/attachme...6&d=1385188522
Once created, install OS X 10.8.4. Once completed, restart though restart to your supported OS system and not your Mountain Lion drive/partition at this point.
Using the .app “Kext Wizzard” and with your Mountain Lion drive/partition mounted on the desktop, select the appropriate mounted mountain lion drive/partition in the pull down tab, and install the following kexts found in both of these download links:
http://www.file-upload.net/download-...-X1600.7z.html
https://forums.macrumors.com/attachme...5&d=1393544777
ATI1600Controller
ATIFramebuffer
ATIRadeonX1000
ATIRadeonX1000GA
ATIRadeonX1000GLDriver
ATIRadeonX1000VADriver
ATISupport
AppleHDA
IOAudioFamily
Also and again while having the Mountain Lion drive/partition mounted, open the following folders in this sequence: System/Library/Frameworks and locate both the OpenGL & OpenCL folders and move them both to the trash and delete them. Once deleted, copy both patched versions of the same namesake (Google !!!) into the same System/Library/Frameworks folder.
That basically should get anyone with an unsupported Mac possessing ATI X1600 graphics a “non MLPF” OS X 10.8.4 64 bit OS system that I have estimated @ 100 % full functionality.
To update that to OS X 10.8.5, head on over to: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1325709/ AND ON page 139 of that forum refer to the following specific post and dialogue between myself and Rastafabi # 3456, 3457, & 3459 to update your OS X 10.8.4 to OS X 10.8.5. Done.
ALSO regarding a recovery partition firstly, you will have to create one manually as your Installer formulated from the dead.xx guide will not do so.
You have two choices when creating a recovery partition, you can elect to create one using an app such as the one found here:
https://github.com/MagerValp/Create-...tion-Installer
…and create a Mountain Lion Recovery Partition which will require you to replace the stock boot.efi with Tiamos boot.efi files just as was necessary in building your installer OR use the same app and create a OS X 10.7 Lion recovery partition which of course will boot on its own accord without any manipulation involved
BAD NEWS:
I believe it safe to conclude at this juncture that as far as unsupported macs and OS X 10.9 Mavericks, anything except the Mac Pro is out of luck and you can pretty much kiss that possibility goodbye.
Tried running it on my MacPro1,1 2x3ghz Dual-Core Intel Xeon with Lion v.10.7.5. No Luck. The App Store still doesn't allow me to Download Maverick.
Many thanks for taking the time to write this up and sharing with us, gpatpandp. But why would one want use your process instead of MLPF for upgraded C2D iMac x1600?
Doesn't this completely contradict HackerWayne post #1? Provided he still is alive to eventually share his trade secrets...
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Hello late to the party. But I opened the MDE.zip. followed the directions on my macpro1,1 with an ati 5770. Ha and I'm stuck on the very first dang step. Using a 16gb zip drive that I restored in disk utility with the MDE.dmg
But when I go to the startup window. The disk with the MDE.dmg on it, isn't even there to select
Tried three times. This is a bad omen when I can't even do the first step haha. Any help appreciated
osx 10.6.8
Thanks
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GOT IT!
But when I go to the startup window. The disk with the MDE.dmg on it, isn't even there to select
Tried three times. This is a bad omen when I can't even do the first step haha. Any help appreciated
osx 10.6.8
Thanks
EDITED-
GOT IT!
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First and foremost, a MLPF Mountain Lion system runs in 32 bit mode, exactly the same as OS X 10.7 Lion is supported to run on your computer. The outline that I have detailed runs OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion in 64 bit mode just as it does on a supported mac. There are also significant limitations to a MLPF OS X 10.8 system such as the inability to repair permissions in disk utility and install apps such as Little Snitch etc. Conversely, the system I have outlined is a 100% fully working OS X 10.8.5 os that does not possess such limitations.
I have been following/contributing to these forums for sometime now and I have also performed a fair amount of "hacking" on my own accord. I believe that my impressions are very intuitive...nothing further can really be done as far as getting an unsupported Mac Pro to operate OS X 10.9 any better and as there are no working systems/files to borrow from as was the case with Mountain Lion and developer preview one (DP1), unless someone completely re-writes/creates kext drivers for the Intel GMA 950, X3100 and the ATI X1600 unsupported inboard graphics which allow/enable them to "jive" with the advanced Open GL frameworks of OS X 10.9 Mavericks unfortunately as I have stated previously I believe it is just not possible.
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Might I also add and as I have mentioned here before...my 2007 MacBook Pro 3,1 which is a fully SUPPORTED Mavericks laptop simply will not run OS X 10.9 without my having to manipulate it. As the case with my MacBook Pro and it being problematic with Mavericks is well documented despite being supposedly able to do so, I guess I just can't see our iMac w/ ATI X1600 doing any better then OS X 10.8.5.
Cool, no more waiting, hoping, and praying for 10.9 for me then. I'll use your process for getting onto 10.8.5.
BTW, some of the links in your post are bad.
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Sorry, they worked at the time of my post...
I am not sure why this continues to be the case however link wise, as I have had to "relink" the links on my post on several occasions so far and as it is becoming rather tedious here are directions to the more reliable/stable link...
go here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1325709/
locate last post by the poster/member (it is post #3670) by ID: "ta-bas-co"
...within this members post, he links a link that was provided to him...it is the very last line of his post. This link downloads every single fie needed from start to finish in order to successfully complete this procedure.
As far as any other link, sorry but they must have changed and I would have to do the same as anyone looking for the info in googling the subject matter and finding them again.
Hope that helps.
Cool, no more waiting, hoping, and praying for 10.9 for me then. I'll use your process for getting onto 10.8.5.
BTW, some of the links in your post are bad.
I am not sure why this continues to be the case however link wise, as I have had to "relink" the links on my post on several occasions so far and as it is becoming rather tedious here are directions to the more reliable/stable link...
go here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1325709/
locate last post by the poster/member (it is post #3670) by ID: "ta-bas-co"
...within this members post, he links a link that was provided to him...it is the very last line of his post. This link downloads every single fie needed from start to finish in order to successfully complete this procedure.
As far as any other link, sorry but they must have changed and I would have to do the same as anyone looking for the info in googling the subject matter and finding them again.
Hope that helps.
Okay, so I've got a mid-2007 Macbook that I want to use to access my Pages files. Unfortunately, most of them have been upgraded to the new version that requires 10.9.
So, if I'm understanding the consensus here, there's no way I'm getting Mavericks on that machine, right?
Follow-up question, then: Is there anyway I can coax the new version of Pages on to 10.7?
So, if I'm understanding the consensus here, there's no way I'm getting Mavericks on that machine, right?
Follow-up question, then: Is there anyway I can coax the new version of Pages on to 10.7?
There's a Guide in Post #914. Use the Guide.txt in the linked "Mac-Pro-Xserve.7z" for the Installation respectively the linked App-Script "SFOTT" to create a Install Medium. Please note that the iMac 5,1 has a unsupported graphics chipset (ATI X1600) and therefore no graphics acceleration (QuartzExtreme/CoreImage) is available without appropriate 64bit Kernel Extensions (Kexts) and patched OpenCL/GL Frameworks.
A alternative might be Parallels Desktop 9, see the Parallels Knowledgebase, Article-ID: 118806.
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the installer says "Osx can not be installed on this disk. you can only install this software on the disk that is running osx??
I'm sorry if this was covered already in the 50 pages of this thread, but I would greatly appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction to find out if this is supported on a MacBook Pro 1,1 with the 2.16 intel core duo with the ATI RadeonX1600
My current max is 10.6.8, but I'd LOVE to get lion so I can get above CS5 on this guy. Is it possible with this video card? I was looking at this thread but that's for 10.8 - I'd settle for 10.7
Not quite; 10.7 Developers Preview 1 (or maybe 2, can't remember) is the last time 32-bit binaries were bundled. The GM version is a no-go.
Unless you can find a working image of that on the webs somewhere, you are forever stuck with Snow Leopard on a Macbook 1,1.
Afraid you're mistaken as 10.7 is the last version of OS X that supported 32-bit hardware. On the other hand, you are correct that he is stuck with 10.6.
Proof? I know I have read more than once on these boards that the Finder in 10.7 GM was compiled 64bit only.
Unless my mind is failing me...
"System requirements[edit]
x86-64 CPU (64-bit Macs, with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Core i3, Intel Core i5, Intel Core i7, or Xeon processor.)[11][20]
At least 2 GB of RAM[21]
Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later (Mac OS X 10.6.8 is recommended)[21]
At least 7 GB of free hard drive space[21]
AirDrop is supported on the following Mac models:[21] MacBook Pro (late 2008 or newer), MacBook Air (late 2010 or newer), MacBook (late 2008 or newer), iMac (early 2009 or newer), Mac Mini (mid-2010 or newer), Mac Pro (early 2009 with AirPort Extreme card and mid-2010 or newer)."
You're right.
It's a common misconception that 64-bit applications can't run off a 32-bit kernel. Lion dropped support for 32-bit processors but it didn't drop the 32-bit kernel, that was 10.8.
You didn't really answer my question. A 32-bit kernel all by it's lonesome is useless in this situation.
But please prove me wrong; I also have an old Macbook CoreDuo that is crying out for an updated OS.