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macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread
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Not on a MacBook2,1. If it's a MacBook3,1 or 4,1, then yes, you can. All you have to do is remove one standoff from the bottom case, and use it for one of the 4 heat sink screws on the MacBook5,2 board. With that being said, you also will need the optical drive and heat sink for a MacBook5,2 as well, as both are different. (5,2 uses a SATA optical drive, 4,1 and older use IDE optical drives).
Unfortunately it's a 2,1 so I guess I'm screwed. Is there any other way to get Mojave or High Sierra like by replacing the CPU or something?
Nope, it has an i945 chipset. And 32-bit EFI. You can probably find a MacBook5,2 easily, they're pretty cheap. I've gotten some for under $20, one of which I used for my Axiotron ModBook project.
It's my sister's MacBook. I don't think she would want me to mess with it but if I can find a cheap 5,2 for the holidays or something that'd be good.
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Would you mind pointing me to some cheap ones? I can't seem to find any below 120 on Ebay. I can do without hard drive and ram cause I can take them from the older MacBook. (I know this is off topic, this is the last message on this subject that I'll send.)
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Pardon me for not being too familiar with dmesg. If the boot fails (and I subsequently power off), and then boot again from an internal drive (and successful), will my dmesg log include the messages from my failed boot? Or just the latest successful boot? Thanks again.
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I'm using a USB thumb drive to boot from. But, I will try step 2 as suggested. Thanks.
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My macOS patcher USB is 32 gb, and I'm installing Mojave on a bootable 128gb USB drive. Thanks.
It's not strictly necessary a dmesg log in this case, just from the power-on after the chime sound (grey/black screen) with the plugged in USB drive hold CMD+V (keep holding until you see the verbose mode booting instead of the grey apple logo) to check where it gives the prohibitory symbol. And then you can take a picture and post here.
OR maybe try a different USB Drive for your MBP5,3 , in rare cases even those could be incompatible acting as boot device on some legacy logic boards.
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I have understood you intend to use an external USB thumb drive 128 gb, not an external USB HDD SSD, if so here is my opinion:
unless it is an USB 3.0 Drive, but even in that case I discourage using as your Main MacOS disk it will be enough slow, an usb drive is more suited to be an USB Installer in this case (or as external storage for your documents/pictures/videos/apps or any downloaded file).
And consider also that any Operating System is made about of many hundred thousands files, and it does almost constantly continuos micro read/write operations.
I do not think it's reliable in long term, better using an external usb 2.5" spinning disk, or some ultra thiny usb SSD, or another partition on the internal SATA disk.
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it is always good to have another usb patcher if you accidentally pulled it out of the USB port without properly ejecting it may sometimes cause it not to work properly on another machine the other thing you could try is run first aid on your usb patcher and bootable ssd your installing Mojave on
You can use this simple script to dump logs about boot* kernel* kext* nvram* && system* under Sierra or higher versions (credit to black.dragon74).
chmod +x debug.sh //as usual
cd [dir] && cat *.log | egrep "CoreDisplay|WindowServer|SkyLight|Metal|IOAccel|IOGraphics|Ge|NVD" //whatever
cd [dir] && cat *.log | egrep "CoreDisplay|WindowServer|SkyLight|Metal|IOAccel|IOGraphics|Ge|NVD" //whatever
That might be a little off topic but can you guys tell me if handoff works under Mojave if I upgrade the bluetooth module in a MBP 8,1 or 8,2 with a newer one? (BroadCom BCM94331PCIEBT4)
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its hard as heck to write one line of metal code- writing the whole thing. Wow.
Yeah, none of us are Apple Developers (I mean people who work at Apple not people who have an Apple Developer account.).
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yep. I just never finished it (the missing function) but I'm too busy
I recently got a MBP 8,2 on the cheap, and I love it. I hope Radeon 5xxx/6xxx acceleration gets figured out in the coming weeks/months, as I'd like to move this to Mojave, just like my MacBook 7,1 and my iMac 9,1, without having to disable my GPU.
dosdude1 and others doing gods work here.
dosdude1 and others doing gods work here.
Awesome, thank you!!
I feel, in a project like this, it is always best to have all code and methods publicly shared. After all, there is no need for secrecy as we are all working towards a common goal. And the most unlikely people (like me!) may end up finding something. Thanks again.
New to this thread and not a programmer at all. Just a quick question:
As it stands right now, how will lack of graphics acceleration affect my iMac's performance if the lack of metal can't be sorted out?
I basically use it for YouTube videos, email, writing using Pages, and of course web browsing using Firefox.
My iMacs (two of them) Mid 2011, at least 12gb ram, Radeon HD 6750M. Another is a Mid 2011 with the Radeon HD 6770M graphics.
Thanks folks for what you do for the rest of us!!!
As it stands right now, how will lack of graphics acceleration affect my iMac's performance if the lack of metal can't be sorted out?
I basically use it for YouTube videos, email, writing using Pages, and of course web browsing using Firefox.
My iMacs (two of them) Mid 2011, at least 12gb ram, Radeon HD 6750M. Another is a Mid 2011 with the Radeon HD 6770M graphics.
Thanks folks for what you do for the rest of us!!!
After all this time, there is no way to update to beta 5 from beta 4 through software update?
Thanks for the reply. I suppose I could make a boot drive using an external drive or USB thumb drive, yes?
About the only time I might need Mojave is when TurboTax requires something higher than High Sierra. Maybe just stay stuck at Sierra or HS for years. I have an iMac 8,1 stuck at El Capitan in a summer home that still satisfies people.
I finally was able to install (and boot up successfully) Mojave on this unsupported MacBookPro5,3.
Thanks to your suggestions @jackluke, @TimothyR734 and @ASentientBot.
Used an external Hdd/Sata drive instead of USB thumb drive. Along with the internal SSD drive that has 2 partitions (1) High Sierra (2) El Capitan, I now have a (3) Mojave partition.
I do have 3 issues at the moment that are not that critical:
* Camera is not recognized (although I used @dosdude1's iSight patcher.
* No Wifi.
* Bluetooth is not on the Preference panes. So I cannot pair any of my bluetooth devices.
That's it for now. Thank you all and best regards.
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