Have you checked that the file
/System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist
on the volume you're trying to boot from has your Board-Id and model listed.
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/System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist
on the volume you're trying to boot from has your Board-Id and model listed.
I haven’t. Should I type something like the following in terminal using the Mojave installer USB?
Sudo nano /System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist
Well, first of all do you know your board-id and model? Make sure you know those first.
I've never used nano, because I'm a Unix-type person, but you can use whichever editor you're comfortable using.
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[doublepost=1535922672][/doublepost]I’ve no idea how to check and can only assume I can do that in terminal some how. I don’t currently know any of the required numbers. Need further research now.
[doublepost=1535922672][/doublepost]I’ve no idea how to check and can only assume I can do that in terminal some how. I don’t currently know any of the required numbers. Need further research now.
If you About This Mac and System Report, under Hardware Overview you'll find Model Identifier. Mine for example is MacBookPro5,1 (its a late 2008 MacBookPro)
board-id is slightly harder. In Terminal, paste this command
ioreg -lp IOService | grep board-id
and hit Return
In the PlatformSupport.plist there's a section for supported models and a section for board-ids. Your Model Indentifier has to be in the models list and the board-id in the other list. If they're not already there, use your favourite editor to add them - use existing entries as templates. Either that or you can edit existing entries - it doesn't matter which ones. All that matters is that your values are in there somewhere.
...but in my example the APFS recovery partition (disk2s3) seems to be in the same container as the APFS volume (disk2s2) on which Mojave is installed...however, I do not really understand what is the “synthesized” disk3 !!!
Thanks,
PJN
The “synthesized” disk3 is the virtual disk contained in the container on physical disk2.
You don't need to edit that file, ever. Just set -no_compat_check as a boot arg and you'll be good.
- Disable SIP
- nvram boot-args="-no_compat_check"
Alternately, add it to com.apple.Boot.plist as a Kernel Flag.
Merci,
I understand.
And what, exactly, is supposed to be in the "synthetized" disk ?
My apologies for this weird question,
PJN
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Exactly what I said, the container with all of the APFS partitions. It might be easier for you to think of this in terms of how virtual disks work with VMs like VirtualBox. Instead of using actual disk partitions on the users system disk, VirtualBox uses a virtual disk file which contains those partitions. The 'synthetized' disk could be considered to be analogous to the virtual disk file and the container being the partition map that holds those partitions. Note this is just a rough analogy but it gets to the crux of the idea.
I think the software update looks for info in the APFS container that allows you to update to each beta where if you are on HFS you don't have a APFS container so no update its best not to mess with it as I heard you can make your OS useless
It is?
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Oh yeah, it is. I didn’t even know. I’ve been waiting for half an hour. Maybe they’ll release it tomorrow?
My wifi card has an x on it and says wifi hardware not installed?? It's an atheros wifi card and is not on the unsupported list... I already tried the legacy wifi patcher twice but no result.. have tried the pram and the smc reset..no change...I have contacted dosdude1 via email and he told me to apply the legacy wifi patch but select force rebuild cache...I did that and still nothing..I'm at a lost...everything else works...even bluetooth...the wifi works in windows 7 that I'm dual booting with...so I'm not sure what is going on there.
Perhaps no new beta, if the Golden Master is close. The 12 September conference suggest it is.
What MacBook pro model are you on? During Apple Hardware Test mine doesn't register any hardware problem too. But it stopped working with an x (hardware not installed for wifi). I'm on MacBook Pro 2010 7,1 it used to work before 10.14.
The YouTube video that dosdude1 did last month
shows Mojave running on a MacBook Pro 4,1 and notes that, like other models, you will have to open up the unit and replace your wifi card with a supported card. I would suggest that you make sure the replacement card supports simultaneous dual-band so that AirDrop works and that it doesn't require the legacy wifi patch if possible. The AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x8E) Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.98.102.30) that I purchased off of Amazon last year for my MacPro 3,1 achieves both.
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I can confirm that my mac board ID is contained in the SupportedBoardId list and my model number is also contained within the SupportedModelProperties list. Still won’t successfully boot with these values present.