I got the same, tried several times reformat USB, but I get full progress bar and hangs booting from USB.
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I got the same, tried several times reformat USB, but I get full progress bar and hangs booting from USB.
macOS updates are through the software update in system preferences in Mojave
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are you using a 16 gb usb drive
Ah ok, good to know. Thanks. I just checked, and when I look in Software Update through System Preferences, it says my Mac is up to date on macOS Mojave Beta 10.14. I'm on DP6, so there should be an update available.
for now until there is a fix for the software update if you have version 1.1.2 of the Mojave patcher you can download DP7 and create a bootable usb and install over DP6 after macOS is installed boot back into your usb apply the post install patches, force rebuild caches you should be good to go and after you get in your desktop go to your utilities folder and reinstall the night shift patch with the patch updater
Yeah, I'm downloading DP7 through the patcher now and intend to install over the top like that. I assumed since no updates showed in the App Store that it wasn't possible to update the beta on an unsupported Mac.
Yep, same one I've used from the beginning
1.1.2 Patch
latest OS Mojave download Install, although I got interrupted by System Upgrade, cancelled USB and let sys install, however that's where it all goes bad. So I've reformatted USB reapplied Patch to USB (from ext FW) still no joy in booting either from USB or internal SSD, I get no entry symbol.
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It is not just the Clover boot loader, but also the FakeSMC kext, that is essential for Hackintoshing today (unlike some years ago). FakeSMC configures SMC in a way so that macOS can boot on non-Apple hardware or unsupported Macs. Prior to Clover, the widespread boatloader was Chameleon (still used by some), that needs legacy (BIOS) to work, to emulate Apple UEFI, standard UEFI had be avoided altogether. FakeSMC existed since Chameleon times, but it works better with Clover, that works differently. Clover emulates an Apple UEFI environment, for legacy (BIOS) machine, but also for non-Apple UEFI machines. It descends from the Duet boot loader, used to emulate general UEFI for general BIOS machines. FakeSMC still remains yet an essential component of booting in Hackintosh. Running Mojave on an unsupported Mac is, in a way at least, a form of Hackintosh. Clover+FakeSMC works differently then Dosdude1 patch, but, in certain situations, like my own, those two can work together, but you need to know what to do. Perhaps fusing those two methods can create something better both for unsupported Macs and Hackintoshes alike.
I am waiting for public beta, for legal reasons. No DPs for me. What do you mean by registry? Windows has registries, macOS, Linux and other Unixes do not. You mean something analogous to Windows registry or something else altogether?
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If you're asking me yes, started from scratch, just hangs with full progress bar booting from USB
Mojave tends to overheat the hardware. I have had with HS a issue with overheating that created a block at shutdown, the system sometimes failed to shut down, just after CPU halted (on verbose mode). On Mojave HWsensors show more heat then on HS and the shut down block happens more often. I have disabled Dynamic wallpaper in order to keep the hardware less stressed (Intel Core2 Duo E8500 and 2 gb ram ddr3, Nvidia Geforce 6200, old hardware).
Is this true that DP7 was pulled out due to some issues by Apple?
Is this true that DP7 was pulled out due to some issues by Apple?
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I don't see that on my MBP late 2011... It doesn't overheating more or less than HS... If I must say I think it heats less on mojave... Have you reset nvram for instance?
I think my dGPU inside my MBP 8,2 just died again. I had it replaced one year ago with a new chip and now I get red horizontal stripes during boot and it stays grey so I cant log in.
Can I use dosdude's Mojave patcher do disable the dGPU?
It's just frustrating.. Yes, it's an old device, but until that it worked perfectly fine. Even the battery is still alright.
Everybody is talking about sustainability nowadays and what would be a better thing to do then using technical equipment as long as it is up for the task? It's not about the money, that machine paid off years ago.. I just like it and didn't see any reason to replace it. Damn!
Can I use dosdude's Mojave patcher do disable the dGPU?
It's just frustrating.. Yes, it's an old device, but until that it worked perfectly fine. Even the battery is still alright.
Everybody is talking about sustainability nowadays and what would be a better thing to do then using technical equipment as long as it is up for the task? It's not about the money, that machine paid off years ago.. I just like it and didn't see any reason to replace it. Damn!
I made the installer, and installed the graphics are not correct . i tried reinstalling the graphic drivers still have a problem on a iMac 11,2
should i remake the installer?
should i remake the installer?
There are several ways to disable it, but try this first: http://dosdude1.com/gpudisable/
Edit: You can make it work temporarily if you heat up the gpu to 150c for 10 min or so. Or just turn on the MacBook, wrap it up in a blanket and let it be for 30 min or so, shut it down and let it cool for a while. This is only temporary so you can set the nvram gpu variable set to integrated.
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No overheating here, on various machines - iMac, MB Air, MB Pro (4,1 / 5,2).
So I clean installed dp7 coming from dp5, and now the dock gets white when I select reduce transparency on light mode. I tried to apply the patches again and force cache rebuild but still the same.
Dark mode seems fine, so I'll be trying that out now
Dark mode seems fine, so I'll be trying that out now
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Ahh well umpteenth time of trying to get the Public Beta update via System Preferences and still no go, here's my install log.
I've just installed DP7 over the top of DP6 on my late 2011 iMac, and have a very weird problem. Everything has a bluish tint. On bootup, it's fine. And even the beach ball looks normal. But everything else is all blue! Now here's the really weird part. I checked my display settings and verified ColorSync Utility, so I decided to see what it was like on my external display. I have an HDMI cable running from my iMac to my TV, and as soon as I turned the TV on, the iMac's internal display went back to normal. Even the screenshot I took of it all blue went back to normal colours. I had to photograph it with a camera to get a screenshot of it.
I can repeat this reliable. Turn my TV on to enable the external display, and the iMac display is normal. Turn it off, and the iMac display turns blue. Rebooting made no difference, and neither did completely powering off and starting up again.
Here's a photo of how it looks when malfunctioning:
And here's how it should look:
Of course, I can try reinstalling again over the top, but I'd rather not do that if there's a fix I can apply.
I can repeat this reliable. Turn my TV on to enable the external display, and the iMac display is normal. Turn it off, and the iMac display turns blue. Rebooting made no difference, and neither did completely powering off and starting up again.
Here's a photo of how it looks when malfunctioning:
And here's how it should look:
Of course, I can try reinstalling again over the top, but I'd rather not do that if there's a fix I can apply.
So I clean installed dp7 coming from dp5, and now the dock gets white when I select reduce transparency on light mode. I tried to apply the patches again and force cache rebuild but still the same.
Dark mode seems fine, so I'll be trying that out now
Well, I'm still on DP6 and if I reduce transparency in "light mode" the dock becomes dark grey, if in DP7 you get white dock with "reduce transparency" in "light mode" that's a good sign I would say.
The plot thickens. Here is a photo of my Mac with the external display off. As you can see, the background has gone back to being blue tinted, the Finder icons are wrong, as are the icons in System Preferences. BUT, in the screenshot on this web site shown within this screenshot, you can see that it is displaying the colours correctly. This is very odd, since when I opened the original screenshot (rather than the one uploaded here), it also was tinted blue. I have absolutely no idea how this is possible.
What GPU is in that iMac? radeons don't have acceleration and some of them, you have to use something like Res Xtreme to change the depth to 4 bits
mine did the same thing, reinstalling the patched drivers did not fix it either ??
It’s a Radeon HD 6750M 512MB. It didn’t do this on DP6. Was I just lucky, or is this only a problem with DP7?
Did you manage to fix it?
no.. I'm going to do a clean install and see if it fixes it.. i also have the 512mb video card