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[Guide] Installing 10.9 Mavericks on older Macs. -HackerWayne
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Hello,
I'm putting this out there because I can find no useful information online. From my understanding, to run Mountain Lion on an unsupported Mac with 64-bit EFI, you need a patched boot.efi that supports booting the 64bit kernel (I know this is not required on Mavericks and newer). For an unsupported Mac with 32-bit EFI, you need a patched boot.efi as well, but a different one. I have tried using many different copies from multiple patchers with varying degrees of success. But there's one thing I haven't been able to find: Where the files come from. If anyone can track down two actual working files *and* where they come from (MacRumours post, GitHub repo, anything) I'd appreciate it. If you're a developer of some kind of patched boot.efi file, please contact me directly. Thank you.
Edit: Found out they were compiled from Piker Alpha's macosxbootloader repo on GitHub. Still having issues with them but I have located the source of them at least!
I'm putting this out there because I can find no useful information online. From my understanding, to run Mountain Lion on an unsupported Mac with 64-bit EFI, you need a patched boot.efi that supports booting the 64bit kernel (I know this is not required on Mavericks and newer). For an unsupported Mac with 32-bit EFI, you need a patched boot.efi as well, but a different one. I have tried using many different copies from multiple patchers with varying degrees of success. But there's one thing I haven't been able to find: Where the files come from. If anyone can track down two actual working files *and* where they come from (MacRumours post, GitHub repo, anything) I'd appreciate it. If you're a developer of some kind of patched boot.efi file, please contact me directly. Thank you.
Edit: Found out they were compiled from Piker Alpha's macosxbootloader repo on GitHub. Still having issues with them but I have located the source of them at least!
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I ended up getting it from softpedia
I was able to get my Mac mini 2006 running mavericks, but still no GPU acceleration or sound. Tried adding GMA950 kext from Lion, but didn't do anything...
Hey, I know this is a really old thread, however I recently installed NexPostFacto 10.9 on a late 2006 MacBook Pro with Radeon X1600.
Everything is working fine except one little thing. I cannot get automatic display brightness to work.
The option itself shows up in System Preferences, but doesn't do anything.
I tried reseting SMC, but didn't change anything. It worked on NexPostFacto 10.8 fine.
Thanks in advance for any help, or at least I wanted to report this as a problem.
Everything is working fine except one little thing. I cannot get automatic display brightness to work.
The option itself shows up in System Preferences, but doesn't do anything.
I tried reseting SMC, but didn't change anything. It worked on NexPostFacto 10.8 fine.
Thanks in advance for any help, or at least I wanted to report this as a problem.
Speaking of NextPostFacto, while I can appreciate the time the author put into it, his text file accompanying it is incredibly obtuse from a layman perspective, and the layman will almost certainly fail after wasting unseemly hours. Here is the relevant portion of that text file:
1. If you're not a coder, you won't know that "cd" stands for "change directory", and that you're going to have to drag-and-drop a mounted volume icon into Terminal to even have a prayer in hell.
2. Run: ./oipatch.sh" command fails every time with "No such file or directory", even when using drag-and-drop of the relevant apps and partitions into Terminal.
Why on earth is Mavericks, of all possible OS's, the bloody hardest thing on Earth to lay your hands on? Somebody please tell me that there's a better method of in-place patch/upgrading (*not* "clean"-installing) Snow/Lion/Mountain Lion installations on "blackback" and white imacs.
Thanks for reporting this. I am no longer developing NexPostFacto, and I don't have the hardware to reproduce this issue, but I added it to the list of reported issues on the page on my website.
EVERY version of OS X from Snow Leopard on is now available from an Apple authorised website.
Every version, that is, except Mavericks. WHY?.
I am long past the point of extending any furtive semblance of virtuous connotation to the phrase "Apple authorized". This is a company whose agents flat-out lie to their own present and prospective customers all the live-long day on apple.com forums. They're as ethically corrupt as, say, Disney now.