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macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

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tsialex said:
Just replace your GPU. You have lots of options…
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Hi tsialex, but what options do I have... I have a two screen setup... Apple 27" LED Cinema Display (not thunderbolt) and an Apple 30" Cinema Display (old aluminium bezel)... so I need those self same ports on any new GPU.... I was recommended a RX580 8GB, but I don't see the ports I need...?

Could you give me a small list of suitable GPU cards I could use and still maintain my current setup.
 
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Anto38x said:
Hi tsialex, but what options do I have... I have a two screen setup... Apple 27" LED Cinema Display (not thunderbolt) and an Apple 30" Cinema Display (old aluminium bezel)... so I need those self same ports on any new GPU.... I was recommended a RX580 8GB, but I don't see the ports I need...?

Could you give me a small list of suitable GPU cards I could use and still maintain my current setup.
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If you still want two mini display ports, something like AMD 7870 will work without BootScreens and Sapphire 7950 Mac Edition will have BootScreens http://www.sapphiretech.com/productdetial.asp?pid=4602E84F-4A09-4B9A-B9F9-CBA9CF197B15&lang=eng

I'd buy a newer card and use adapters to converse DP to MDP.
 
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Unrelated, but Apple released "macOS High Sierra Supplemental Update 2"
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jackluke said:
Agree, probably Mojave APFS EFI script patch is doable, at the state of art it has already been done with Clover bootloader that has some variant of apfs.efi and apsfdriverloader.efi , but using Clover on real Mac is much more riskier than an APFS ROM patch on multiple EFI CHIP ID definitions.

Anyway to those who are not hungry to upgrade weekly their current Mojave beta, the Mojave Patcher offers the big chance to re-create a current USB Installer with HFS+ Installation, just refreshing it as @TimothyR734 has pointed some posts ago.

I would say luckily those who are on Mojave HFS+ don't run the risk to be forcedly converted into APFS drive resulting into an unbootable OS, so that's why is always useful to keep another previous High Sierra HFS+ (or minimum Sierra 10.12.6 HFS+) partition that is still capable to read/write an APFS volume to recover personal files in case.
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I would keep a small partition with El Capitan on the internal disk, or better if you can, try to install a (Patched) Sierra 10.12.6 HFS+ that is the last MacOS capable of read/write and use Disk Utility on an APFS Volume container.
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They asked for Metal 2 ? This does not promise anything good.
Don't worry your IntelHd4000 has minimum "GPUFamily 1 V3" set (check System Profiler/Information Graphics/Displays), while from Mojave it should have "GPUFamily1 v4" set, Metal 2 fully supported, so answer to them quietly. Be vague with them, send a screenshot of this zone "GPUFamily1 v4" System Information GUI app, GPU serial number should be "Device ID/Revision ID" or easier type this from Terminal and save into TextEdit file sending to them the resultant strings:
system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType

Thanks for that- I will get back to them.


Here some interesting stuffs:
https://developer.apple.com/metal/
https://developer.apple.com/metal/Metal-Feature-Set-Tables.pdf (here CMD+F for "v3" without quotes looking at the purple tabs)
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... after reinstall night shift, what can i do?
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try replacing and reboot try holding down your shift key until login screen boot in safe mode
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TimothyR734 said:
try replacing and reboot try holding down your shift key until login screen boot in safe mode holding down your option key brings up boot options
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I really don't know if your boots APFS natively or not when you installed Mojave did you use the current Mojave patcher ver 1.1.2 and installed the post install patches for 8,2
 
Is Lilu + NightShiftUnlocker working for anyone?

It doesn't work for me. I don't want to modify the plist every time.
 
thegurgz said:
It is indeed pure deprecation. Many have confirmed that updates will not come OTA on HFS+ disks, just APFS. I talked to an apple agent about HFS+ and APFS' future in Mojave and they told me that once it releases to the public, APFS will be required to run Mojave, but the developers at Apple are currently using HFS+ to develop Mojave, since APFS has proven to be buggy in the betas. As for if he is just spewing nonsense, only time will tell. However, this deprecation to HFS+ is a sign that in 10.14 or 10.15, HFS+ will be put to rest.
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HFS+ is not going to go away for a while because they work better on HDDs and things like Time Machine will need HDDs for backups since SSDs are still pricey.

Unless Apple makes APFS work better on HDDs, it won't go away.
 
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Veext said:
I can’t mount disk... also can’t erase... how to erase disk now?
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You might have choose the wrong format option it should be APFS or did you turn on FileVault under security and privacy
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SDAVE said:
HFS+ is not going to go away for a while because they work better on HDDs and things like Time Machine will need HDDs for backups since SSDs are still pricey.

Unless Apple makes APFS work better on HDDs, it won't go away.
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I am running APFS on both my HDD's internal and external no issues
 
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... after reinstall night shift, what can i do?
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Boot from your main Mojave volume disk (NOT Recovery or USB Installer) in single user mode holding CMD+S after power-on and try these steps:

[Probably since your main disk is Encrypted you should authenticate at the FileVault 2 pre-boot login/password before enter in single user mode, anyway after power-on keep holding CMD+S until you see a grey login page]

fsck -fy

mount -uw /

rm -R /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreBrightness.framework/Versions/A/CoreBrightness

cp -R /Users/YourUsername/CoreBrightness-backup/CoreBrightness.framework/Versions/A/ /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreBrightness.framework/Versions/A/

reboot


in this way you should boot Mojave at least in GUI mode, from there replace through Finder only this file I attached: NS Patched CoreBrightness binary exec
 
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Luckygreek said:
Supplemental Update 2 High Sierra 10.13.6 release is for 2018 Mac Book Pro, below is link,

https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1974?locale=en_US
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Posted the same info on the High Sierra Thread. In it, I posed the question if it only applies to the 2018 Models.
I have both a supported and un-supported HS apps. Haven't show up yet on Software Updates. So I was wondering. Mahalo.
 
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jackluke said:
Boot from your main Mojave volume disk (NOT Recovery or USB Installer) in single user mode holding CMD+S after power-on and try these steps:

[Probably since your main disk is Encrypted you should authenticate at the FileVault 2 pre-boot login/password before enter in single user mode, anyway after power-on keep holding CMD+S until you see a grey login page]

fsck -fy

mount -uw /

rm -R /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreBrightness.framework/Versions/A/CoreBrightness

cp -R /Users/YourUsername/CoreBrightness-backup/CoreBrightness.framework/Versions/A/ /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreBrightness.framework/Versions/A/

reboot


in this way you should boot Mojave at least in GUI mode, from there replace through Finder only this file I attached: NS Patched CoreBrightness binary exec
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Thanks! You are amazing :) It works great :)
One more question, how to format my drive in the future? APFS (encrypted) and when I do not have a password for FileVault2? (Deleting has fail)

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