Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
macOS 10.12 Sierra Unsupported Macs Thread
- Thread starter redheeler
- WikiPost WikiPost
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
- Status
Time to experiment, I guess. It's 2:18 AM EST here and I will start checking out my dummy HD before I take a snooze.
Late 2009 uses DDR3, my Early 2009 uses DDR2 VRAM. That could be it.
But I'm currently working on modifying the installer to run on any Mac that can run 10.11. I can't get it though. But the method to run 10.9 Mavericks on the 2008 white MacBooks should work for all other 10.12 dropped Macs. Only thing with that method, you need access to a mac that natively supports 10.12.
What do you mean exactly? There's something with serial numbers?
Anyway, I have MacBook 5.2, if you need any help - please pm me.
Hi everyone!
I've got a MacBook 5,1. After Sierra being available on the web, I downloaded it and started exploring the installer. Anybody knows what'd happen if I just include the board ID everywhere it's necessary, create an install media and launch the setup from the USB?
I've got a MacBook 5,1. After Sierra being available on the web, I downloaded it and started exploring the installer. Anybody knows what'd happen if I just include the board ID everywhere it's necessary, create an install media and launch the setup from the USB?
That's my plan for later this afternoon on a MacBook Pro 5,5. I've already built the installer just need time to go through the install.
If I tried/successfully pulled this off, would it be enough to extract my modded boot.efi?
I'm not partially knowledgeable about editing the bootloader and install packages. I would appreciate a little guidance if you don't mind.
EDIT: Thinking about it, I installed a fully untouched copy onto an SSD, and yes I did mess with the Boot.efis but switched them back. Still having the same problem.
[doublepost=1465877885][/doublepost]Ok hopefully this helps a little bit. I restarted into Verbose mode and the last thing(s) the machine spit out was this:
View attachment 635764
My Macmini3,1 did exactly the same on USB. It gets further with Firewire but won't load the GUI, even in safe mode.
Good points there…. and another thing has just come up. The wired Apple keyboard that I have enjoyed using for the past 7 years has packed a sad. I went out to look for another; the large one was available locally until recently, but I couldn't find one. For now I am using the Apple keyboard I got back in 2005 (with the original Mac Mini). I never did like it, and that's not about to change.
I do, however, like the Magic Keyboard, which requires OS X 10.11.
Ok experience using Clover legacy so far.
Boots up (which is a huge shock to me), extremely slow but when you click on the hard drive partition to boot from, you get the good ol circle cross. So back to the drawing board. Unless there's a boot flag I'm supposed to be trying.
Boots up (which is a huge shock to me), extremely slow but when you click on the hard drive partition to boot from, you get the good ol circle cross. So back to the drawing board. Unless there's a boot flag I'm supposed to be trying.
A little experimenting on my part. I installed Sierra on my MBP 2012 and then removed the drive and tried booting from the drive on a Macbook 2008 and Mac Pro 2008. Both just show the no entry sign at startup.
I tried booting the MBP drive on a "supported" computer (MBA 2010) from an external HDD encosure, and that booted up fine with Sierra.
I tried booting the MBP drive on a "supported" computer (MBA 2010) from an external HDD encosure, and that booted up fine with Sierra.
I did try to install Sierra with the board ID placed in all necessary files, it gives me the USB error. Anybody knows what it's caused by?
[doublepost=1465911425][/doublepost]
1) You didn't include your Mac's board ID into some files which mention to the computer what models are allowed to boot Sierra.
2) Even if you did 1, it would've given the forbidden sign at 2/3 of the boot process.
[doublepost=1465911425][/doublepost]
1) You didn't include your Mac's board ID into some files which mention to the computer what models are allowed to boot Sierra.
2) Even if you did 1, it would've given the forbidden sign at 2/3 of the boot process.
It's caused because Something about the board isn't supported with USB anymore. Go ahead. Boot from a hard drive partition. You'll boot up 100% get the GUI and everything and have zero use with a mouse and keyboard
The keyboard and trackpad on my MacBook are not connected by USB, so I'll give it a try.
If they're connected to the board, they're connected through USB. It's a peripheral thing.
Someone should list the reasons why Apple should support macOS on the Mac models that are more capable than the Late 2009 Macbook and send it to Apple. Getting an official response from Apple, even if they choose not to change their mind, would at least be something.
Hello everyone, I am new to this forum but let's not get off the main topic here. So after going trough all pages here on the topic and trying to modify the gorgeous new Sierra Installer to run on my Macbook 5,1(Aluminium late 2008 Unibody),
I get stuck to the Locked(Read-only) partition OS X Install ESD(mainly the folder Packages), where I need to replace the OSInstall.mpkg and the InstallableMachines.plist. Tried: "sudo chflags -R nouchg", "sudo chmod a+rx", "sudo chflags 0" and then Reload Finder but I was not able to unlock it... And would be easier to just be created a guide like the one on page 5 by Hennesie2000 from the people who succeeded in installing the Sierra to their unsupported MacBooks. And I really like this idea of just letting Apple know that they have made a big mistake(obviously not an economical but environmental), it could change something considering the fact that they made a big mistake in messing up with the iOS 10 supported devices(iPod touch 5, I was so excited and baaaam after 3 hours: Oh sorry it's not supported!
) but thats a talk for another topic.
I get stuck to the Locked(Read-only) partition OS X Install ESD(mainly the folder Packages), where I need to replace the OSInstall.mpkg and the InstallableMachines.plist. Tried: "sudo chflags -R nouchg", "sudo chmod a+rx", "sudo chflags 0" and then Reload Finder but I was not able to unlock it... And would be easier to just be created a guide like the one on page 5 by Hennesie2000 from the people who succeeded in installing the Sierra to their unsupported MacBooks. And I really like this idea of just letting Apple know that they have made a big mistake(obviously not an economical but environmental), it could change something considering the fact that they made a big mistake in messing up with the iOS 10 supported devices(iPod touch 5, I was so excited and baaaam after 3 hours: Oh sorry it's not supported!
) but thats a talk for another topic.
Hello everyone, I am new to this forum but let's not get off the main topic here. So after going trough all pages here on the topic and trying to modify the gorgeous new Sierra Installer to run on my Macbook 5,1(Aluminium late 2008 Unibody),
I get stuck to the Locked(Read-only) partition OS X Install ESD(mainly the folder Packages), where I need to replace the OSInstall.mpkg and the InstallableMachines.plist. Tried: "sudo chflags -R nouchg", "sudo chmod a+rx", "sudo chflags 0" and then Reload Finder but I was not able to unlock it... And would be easier to just be created a guide like the one on page 5 by Hennesie2000 from the people who succeeded in installing the Sierra to their unsupported MacBooks. And I really like this idea of just letting Apple know that they have made a big mistake(obviously not an economical but environmental), it could change something considering the fact that they made a big mistake in messing up with the iOS 10 supported devices(iPod touch 5, I was so excited and baaaam after 3 hours: Oh sorry it's not supported!
I will be testing the old methods used for Yosemite this evening on my 2009 MacBook Pro and will report back. If it goes well I will create a new guide for Sierra with all of the board-ids that need to be added. The distribution file has also changed a little compared to Yosemite.
Are you talking about macmini4,1? how do you do that I can't find a tool
also the answer is no because macmini1,1 flashed to 2,1 couldn't install lion