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macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

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@dosdude1: Can one download older versions of your patcher? Seems 0.1b9 Post Install App is not running, refuses to start without any messages - in the package and when bootet via USB Stick or HD Partition. Mac Pro 3.1 / El Cap

Edit: found 0.1b8 in my Backup, Post Install App is running ok
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I'm having the same problem, 1b9 patcher won't allow me to run Post Install, trying again, reformat USB & SSD as well and redownload Patch from page 1.

have the 1b8 as well, going to try b9 1 more time
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Got the 1b9 patch to run post-install, 2010 iMac still panics at boot. Will keep trying....

2011 iMac boots further than previous patches. Progress bar almost complete and k/p
 
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In regards to SSE4.2 in the newer AMD drivers. Has anyone investigated Intel's software development emulator?

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-development-emulator
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-development-emulator#System configuration

It looks interesting and can emulate SSE4.2. might be good for testing.

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-development-emulator#everything

and it could be combined with

How to Load & Unload Kernel Extensions in OS X - OSXDaily
 
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-Hi, again. I tried to upgrade my High Sierra installation but it crashes. Shows this:
 

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Yeah, they are SSE4.2 too. Patched drivers are 10.12, and they have their problems on 10.13.
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I was able to take the High Sierra patches and reduce them down to get rid of the red and blue artifacts. I still had a timing issue with the shell screensaver. It would blink.

The El cap drivers are solid. But I don't know how much has changed from El Cap to Sierra as far as the video goes.

What I'll do is reproduce my fix on the HS and use that as a base for Mojave.

Will also look into emulating SSE4.2
 
Struggling here for the first time with Mojave, and lost as to what video card I need to run it with the latest patch.

Can anyone advise as to the best video card to buy to replace my current one if it's not going to ever have accelerated graphics.

Thanks
 

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xanhellx I fixed this by using a USB External Hard Drive instead of using an SD Card (maybe USB Stick in your case), as the destination you set when creating the USB Installer.
 
I downloaded the beta from my MacBook Pro and saved it to a usb stick then installed into my Mac Pros that way.
 
So I get this when I try to install any of the patches. What can I do?
 

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well that's odd. Plugged in my iPad Air 2 to my 2010 MBP. It doesn't seem to be charging but the data transfer works.
 
PC EVGA nVidia GTX 680 flashed with Mac efi rom is cheapest and surest solution. Already flashed for MacPro they can be found for about £100; with PC rom and needing to be flashed DIY they can be got for about £60.
There is one on Yahoo Auctions! (Japan) now for 16,000 yen.
Stay away from ZOTAC maker. The best are nVidia, EVGA and MSI.
The Mac efi rom for flashing can be got from netkas.org web page.
Or you can buy from macvidcards (UK branch) at https://www.macstoreuk.com/product-category/graphics-shop/ but not cheap.

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Struggling here for the first time with Mojave, and lost as to what video card I need to run it with the latest patch.

Can anyone advise as to the best video card to buy to replace my current one if it's not going to ever have accelerated graphics.

Thanks
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Hi hi!

Tried it today on a mid 2009 MBP.
Get this, and no boot with old high sierra...

Any ideas?
I dont have any other apple product.
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Thanks ctaylora1231. That is the solution (you need to name the USB to OS X Base System). It looks like a rare bug in the USB installer creation code. I've seen it once before this occasion.

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Perhaps I can help because I was able
to get mine to work after all. What my problem was, when the patcher is creating the USB installer, the USB was being renamed to OS X Base System and when the patcher is re-mounting the drive it was still looking for the name that I named the drive, not OS X Basic System. So either you need to name the USB to OS X Base System or if your first go around fails but it renamed the USB drive, just run the patcher again, took me three tries in a row before it completed without any errors .
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People, I can confirm that the patcher works super fine on my Mac mini 2009! if you keep it in dark mode like @dosdude1 suggests you won't even notice the ui glitches!

Keep up the awesome work guys! thank you all so much!
 
@dosdude1

is it safe to delete these files from the root after installation and post-patching?

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Thank you again this tool and for your time !
 
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@dosdude1

is it safe to delete these files from the root after installation and post-patching?

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Thank you again this tool and for your time !
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You ran the patch on a USB drive, right? NOT on the volume you intended to install macOS onto? Those files are copied to the drive used as the installer. If those files are in the root of your hard disk, then yes, you can delete them.
 
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Never managed to get a stable High Sierra install - so I'm running Sierra on my Late 2009 MacPro (flashed to 5.1) 3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon, with 24 GB 1333 MHz DDR3. Last month I upgraded the video card to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048 MB.
Think I can upgrade directly to Mojave and simply skip High Sierra?
 
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