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macOS 10.12 Sierra Unsupported Macs Thread

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ac2334 said:
Got it, thank you. To your knowledge should this keep the ability to rebuild my Bootcamp intact?

To explain, what I have always done on El Capitan and now with Sierra is to install the way that you are describing (no formatting in Disk Utility) in existing setups where I had Bootcamp (I always use Bootcamp).

What I found is that of course the partition stays intact, but that trying to boot into the parititon results in an operating system not found error message. This is easily fixed using a utility called Gdisk to rebuild the hybrid MBR.

In my testing I have found that Bootcamp can always be salvaged this way so long as the partition size is not altered (then it breaks).

So, do you have any insight on this? I am going to do the following, please let me know if this is correct:

1. Rebuild the USB installer with the public beta using your utility
2. My current Sierra install is on my partition named "Macintosh" - I am going to chose to install the new beta on Macintosh, without reformatting it first in Disk Utility
3. Following install it will most likely not boot up giving me a "no smoking" sign - I will reboot to the USB and run the post-installation patch
4. Hope for the best

Am I missing any steps? Thank you
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Yep, that's exactly right.
 
Hi Dosdude1....I'm a newbie as well. Can you send me link to MEGA for the Maci's Sierra public beta. Great work . Cheers
 
47 pages and its hard to find specifics. I have a late 2009 macPro, with the nVidia GeForce GT120 w/512Ram. I swapped in an SSD for the boot drive in Feb. I used the tool last week to flash it so it shows as Mac 5,1 - I just added memory to bump it to 24GB. I've just signed in and downloaded the "Install macOS Sierra public beta", and have a "spare" 8GB USB stick to load ...
Can someone point me to info on copying the installer files to the USB stick and anything else I may have forgotten?

And thanks so much for all of this - you all are amazing!
 
thewebgal said:
47 pages and its hard to find specifics. I have a late 2009 macPro, with the nVidia GeForce GT120 w/512Ram. I swapped in an SSD for the boot drive in Feb. I used the tool last week to flash it so it shows as Mac 5,1 - I just added memory to bump it to 24GB. I've just signed in and downloaded the "Install macOS Sierra public beta", and have a "spare" 8GB USB stick to load ...
Can someone point me to info on copying the installer files to the USB stick and anything else I may have forgotten?

And thanks so much for all of this - you all are amazing!
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Flashing to a 5,1 should make it work as a fully supported Mac, so just use the createinstallmedia tool as normal to create an installer.
 
Has anyone else had Siri not working for them when testing this? Siri worked for me when I first installed it but it won't work anymore.. The mic just pops up and dings, but there isn't the Siri Waves or any response... Mid09 MBP

Edit: Had to boot through the patcher again and then it worked fine.
 
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etechgeek24 said:
Has anyone else had Siri not working for them when testing this? Siri worked for me when I first installed it but it won't work anymore.. The mic just pops up and dings, but there isn't the Siri Waves or any response...
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Been working last two days...only used it about a dozen times.
 
I'm going to install Sierra public beta on an external drive connected to my 2010 MacBook 7,1
It just makes the cut for supported macs but I'm not expecting it to run very well, especially on external drive.

However what I'm wondering is what would happen if I was then to plug the external drive in to an unsupported Mac (Early 2009 imac 9,1 which just missed the supported list). Will it even boot up? Has anyone tried this?
 
bmac89 said:
I'm going to install Sierra public beta on an external drive connected to my 2010 MacBook 7,1
It just makes the cut for supported macs but I'm not expecting it to run very well, especially on external drive.

However what I'm wondering is what would happen if I was then to plug the external drive in to an unsupported Mac (Early 2009 imac 9,1 which just missed the supported list). Will it even boot up? Has anyone tried this?
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It will not boot.
 
Hey is anyone else having sound volume issues. I have an early 2008 iMac that I first had the developer preview on and now I'm on the public beta. I can turn the volume all the way down on the keyboard and it shows in settings that it is muted but the sounds are still coming out at max volume.
 
Mr Dosdude1...can u please send me the link on MEGA of the Macos Sierra public beta?....thanks for the great work, m8!
 
new patcher works perfekt with MacOS Sierra public beta ! many thanks to all for the hard work :)


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Hey @dosdude1, I used your patcher v2.5 on my MacBook5,1 and it doesn't work. The installer partition shows the "forbidden" sign when I select it in the "option" menu.
 
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@dosdude1

Yay! It works like a charm on my MacBookPro5,5. You're really awesome! Again many thanks.

(Just for the record, I added the -p option to the cp calls in the script1.sh script, since, as a perfectionist, I prefer the file time stamps to be preserved, even though it doesn't really make a difference for the OS installation. It's just something I always do in shell scripts myself)

One question though. Is it required for SIP to be kept disabled after successful installation and post-installation?
 
adsalpha said:
Hey @dosdude1, I used your patcher v2.5 on my MacBook5,1 and it doesn't work. The installer partition shows the "forbidden" sign when I select it in the "option" menu.
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You may be using an old version (I've done some updates without changing the version number). Try re-downloading the patch, and creating your drive again.
 
dosdude1 said:
You may be using an old version (I've done some updates without changing the version number). Try re-downloading the patch, and creating your drive again.
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I redownloaded from your site, recreated, the same. I assume that the issue is in some .plist file, because when I boot the installer in verbose mode it tells me straight away my Mac's board ID isn't supported. You might've deleted some line in your code because the first version worked fine.
 
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