macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

[jackluke]

Ok but when i type this command in the terminal a receive error:

nvram: Error setting variable - 'boot-args' : (iokit/common) general error

i am in 10.13.5

You have to reboot in MacOS Recovery and give first from Recovery Terminal: "csrutil disable"


After you have set the boot-args, for safety return back to Recovery again and type: "csrutil enable"
The variable "no_compat_check" will remain until you do a PRAM Reset

 

[bossjjd]

So the Radeon HD 4870 that came with the '09 Mac Pro is NOT a GPU that supports Metal?

Very true. I just sold my 4870 for $50 and bought a Nvidia GT 640 for $129.00

 

[Vilain]

You have to reboot in MacOS Recovery and give first from Recovery Terminal: "csrutil disable"

Works! yes! thank

 

[balthazar.riviere]

I have a 2011 17" MBP as well and am super appreciative of all the activity on this forum to get Mojave working on our older machines! That said, given the uncertainties of if (and how well) the new OS will work on our laptops, I'd probably hold off on spending money on upgrades until the official release. If you're happy with High Sierra (which should still receive security updates for a while), then the upgrades are fully worth it: I maxed out the RAM and added an SSD to the existing HDD a few years ago. Couldn't be happier with the performance, especially given the age of the machine.

As a word of caution, there are other things that can go wrong with an ageing machine: for example, I just started experiencing display quality issues that seem too costly to fix and might leave my machine in the dust soon. Something to consider since the upgrade parts wouldn't fit a newer MBP.

TL/DR: If you want guaranteed support for Mojave and reduce the chances of "wasting" money on upgrades in case of a failing machine, sell your 2011 MBP now (while it still supports the latest official OS) and get a souped up newer-gen model like a 2012+ MBP.

Thanks a lot. I'll be waiting for the release and decide and see how is going. Hopefully if I decide to buy a 2012-3 model won't happen the same in 2-3 years.

 

[Vilain]

Work on my macbook air mid 2011... but with display glitch and no sound...

 

[jackluke]

Work on my macbook air mid 2011... but with display glitch and no sound...

Not sure, for sound you could try to replace AppleHDA.kext and IOAudioFamily.kext from your 10.13.5 but never had a 11” mbair so don’t know really.

 

[BookEmDanno]

How do you do that??

Just reboot the mac in recovery mode (command-R), run Terminal and issue the following command "nvram boot-args="-no_compat_check -v" and then reboot once once again. note: the -v option is for verbose mode. I like to see the boot method list some details on the screen. After booting, you can check your nvram settings by issuing "nvram -p" on terminal and it will show info on your nvram settings.

Have fun.

 

[JCsHands2]

Here is what I did to install it on my MacBook Air 2011

1. Installed 10.14 to a USB drive using my Hackintosh.
2. Copied the following kexts from my 10.13.6 install to /S/L/E on the USB drive.
   1. AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB.kext
   2. AppleIntelHD3000Graphics.kext
3. On my 2011 MacBook AirBooted into Recovery
4. Ran the following in Terminal:
   1. csrutil disable
   2. nvram boot-args="-no_compat_check"
5. Booted my MacBookAir 2011 from the 10.14 USB drive.

It's slow and but kind of usable. The sound card is also not detected.

It would be cool if something could be done about the acceleration, but for now it's back to 10.13.

 

[iphone2g&3gfan]

nVidia ceased out the driver support for Fermi (on Windows and Linux), so maybe this is the last year when Apple support it. Maybe Kepler is a better option.

* On linux Fermi is quite well supported with the nouveau open source driver...
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Very true. I just sold my 4870 for $50 and bought a Nvidia GT 640 for $129.00

I sure hope the GT 640 you got is kepler - as in the table in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_600_series#GeForce_600_(6xx)_series

GT 640 has an incredible 5 revisions, one of which has a GF116 (Fermi) chip.

This is partly why the Fermi OpenGL inclusion (without metal) into mojave makes sense to me - 1) You don't know if your GT 640/610/620/730 is Fermi or Kepler, and both variants are often sold side-by-side without ANY mention of the architectural differences, so Apple wants to not create a doubt that you might get the wrong card, and 2) the OpenGL only acceleration is a stopgap solution (i guess) until you can get a kepler or higher card.

Evidently not having metal is a dealbreaker for Fermi but its not as bad as completely lacking acceleration.

 

[rmendez011]

Ok so I got macOS Mojave running on my 2011 MacBook Pro with the AMD Radeon HD 6490M, using:

I patched image.
it has force-install mode.

but you should edit boot-args by typing this above
(반드시 아래의 코드를 terminal에 입력해주세요.)
sudo nvram boot-args="-no_compat_check"

this is our system requirements
(최소사양-HighSierra랑 동일)

• iMac (Late 2009) 및 이후 모델
• MacBook (Late 2009) 및 이후 모델
• MacBook Pro (Mid 2010) 및 이후 모델
• MacBook Air (Late 2010) 및 이후 모델
• Mac mini (Mid 2010) 및 이후 모델
• Mac Pro (Mid 2010) 및 이후 모델

This is unstable version. please do not use this with your main OS.
(불안정한 버전입니다. 멀티부팅으로 구성하여 설치하시기 바랍니다.)
Download_Link(다운로드)



If you want to make USB bootable installer,
use this tool.
download disk tool

but obviously, there are a few issues, the Intel HD 3000 is not detected hence why the Discrete GPU is running, sound doesn't work, there is no Graphics acceleration, and the screen brightness cannot be lowered or made brighter, everything else seems to work, Bluetooth and WiFI seem to be working

Edit: The microphone doesn't work either

 

[parrotgeek1]

Not sure, for sound you could try to replace AppleHDA.kext and IOAudioFamily.kext from your 10.13.5 but never had a 11” mbair so don’t know really.

just applehda ok

 

[olad]

Thanks a lot. I'll be waiting for the release and decide and see how is going. Hopefully if decide to buy a 2012-3 model won't happen the same in 2-3 years.

upgrading to an SSD is ALWAYS worth it. the difference in performance is truly great.

 

[smokesletsgo]

Any progress on HD3000 full acceleration? How plausible it is to succeed for those who are working on it ? I suspect my MBA 13" 2011 finally needs to retire xD If only Apple offered the same top stuff as they used to, prices stay the same, quality - not so much (new MBP keyboard)...

 

[bossjjd]

Ok so I got macOS Mojave running on my 2011 MacBook Pro with the AMD Radeon HD 6490M, using:



but obviously, there are a few issues, the Intel HD 3000 is not detected hence why the Discrete GPU is running, sound doesn't work, there is no Graphics acceleration, and the screen brightness cannot be lowered or made brighter, everything else seems to work, Bluetooth and WiFI seem to be working

Edit: The microphone doesn't work either

Thank you. I have a Mac Pro 2009 which I did the firmware update to identifier 5,1. It's working great! It did recognize my Nvidia GT 640 card. I'm not able to change the date and time and the sound is not working. It must be Apple's beta.

 

[Ozboy-berlin]

Hey guys, is it possible to install on my good old macpro 2,1 from 2007 ?
problem on this machine is only 32 bit System i have running System with 10.10.5 with modify kernel and have upgrade this mac with GeForce Nvidia GTX 960.

Or is it easyer to try this Project with Mojave on my Imac 27 inch from 2010 ?

 

[olad]

Any progress on HD3000 full acceleration? How plausible it is to succeed for those who are working on it ?...

god give me patience... and i want it RIGHT NOW! this is the FIRST beta, for crying out loud!

 

[smokesletsgo]

god give me patience... and i want it RIGHT NOW! this is the FIRST beta, for crying out loud!

please, just don't cry xD It's a question. Just thoughts on how is it going and how usefull this might be (running Mojave on unsupported machines). Probably not so much but some might elaborate more, given their knowledge.

 

[jackluke]

I’ll definitely have to download macOS Mojave tomorrow and start testing on MBP Mid 2010 (GeForce 320M). It’s hard keeping up with forum conversations.

Try this App: https://mactracker.ca/

Hi TMRJIJ, I'm trying to boot an external usb apfs drive with Mojave Beta 1 on a unibody Macbook 2010 same specs as your Nvidia 320M GPU, assuming I have nvram boot-args="kext-dev-mode=1 -no_compat_check -v" to avoid both invalid signature kext and platform unsupported, I have detected from HS system profiler that kexts involved to load Geforce 320M GPU are:

NVDANV50HalTesla.kext
NVDAResmanTesla.kext
NVDAStartup.kext
GeForceTesla.kext
GeForceTeslaGLDriver.bundle
GeForceTeslaVADriver.bundle

I have installed in S/L/E path and correctly kernel cached them, and can reach a valid verbose mode, even single user (without laptop keyboard and trackpad but I use external usb ones), when it passes almost all checks I get an immediate reboot apparently no kp, in safe mode same result, I think this could be due to a missing machine EFI firmware update from 10.14 beta, since on the internal SSD I am on an official 10.13 EFI firmware while 10.14 was installed on a usb drive from a supported mac, I suppose that the EFI firmware core is installed ever on the machine EEPROM chip nevertheless the SSD is external, so apart required Metal feature, to me only solution is to install Mojave Beta directly from an unsupported mac to force a EFI firmware update. Anyway do you have made any progress at least successful booting Nvidia 320M even without acceleration?

 

[olad]

please, just don't cry xD It's a question. Just thoughts on how is it going and how usefull this might be (running Mojave on unsupported machines). Probably not so much but some might elaborate more, given their knowledge.

ok... no more crying . from my time on the threads on unsupported macs (sierra/high sierra/mojave), if it can be done, it will be. the guys on these threads who work on being able to use the newest OSes are incredible in the things they do, and i learnt to wait.

 

[rmendez011]

Thank you. I have a Mac Pro 2009 which I did the firmware update to identifier 5,1. It's working great! It did recognize my Nvidia GT 640 card. I'm not able to change the date and time and the sound is not working. It must be Apple's beta.

I'm pretty sure it's not Apple's Beta that's causing us to not have sound, it might be a missing kext, but dodon quote me on that

 

[iphone2g&3gfan]

I'm pretty sure it's not Apple's Beta that's causing us to not have sound, it might be a missing kext, but dodon quote me on that

Most likely it is just an Info.plist pci id mod, just waiting to be done. By that I mean just get the pci id of your audio codec/chip, and add it into pciprimarymatch in info.plist.

 

[volodi]

I have managed to make hd3000 work 60% in 10.14 you just have to rename hd 4000 as hd 3000 in inf.plist and macos also tried to include my device id but when I put 0x01268086 I get a kernel panic not including devive id works very well forgive my english You also have to install AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB.kext to load

QE/CI is working? And do you rename kexts hd4000 in S/L/E in hd3000 or any else?

 

[thewebgal]

Hey guys, is it possible to install on my good old macpro 2,1 from 2007 ?
problem on this machine is only 32 bit System i have running System with 10.10.5 with modify kernel and have upgrade this mac with GeForce Nvidia GTX 960.

Or is it easyer to try this Project with Mojave on my Imac 27 inch from 2010 ?

Its early beta stages so probably best to wait for a few more results - but -
since the MacPro 5.1 folks are told to wait for the next beta, and they may or may not be workable,
I'd presume earlier macPros are not really workable, esp if its a 32 bit system.
Try the big iMac.

 

[iphone2g&3gfan]

Its early beta stages so probably best to wait for a few more results - but -
since the MacPro 5.1 folks are told to wait for the next beta, and they may or may not be workable,
I'd presume earlier macPros are not really workable, esp if its a 32 bit system.
Try the big iMac.

MacPro2,1 lacks SSE4.1 instructions (or rather, the "harpertown" xeons that DO have them are not compatible with them) and macOS Sierra+ has SSE4.1 instructions. So, unless someone does what nawcom did with his legacy kernel (implement an sse3 emulator in the kernel) and puts an SSE4.1 emulator in the kernel, this won't be possible. AMD kernels have various emulators, but I don't think SSE4.1 is one of them (ssse3 was the most common emulator.)

 

[visberry]

Dang, I thought I had something going, so, I made a Clover configurator, or whatever it's called, and I plugged it into my 2011 MacBook Pro, and I pressed the option key while booting, and selected "EFI" and the Clover bootloader shows up, and I select install MacOS 10.14 Beta, AND it starts booting up, but..... It gets stuck here.....

How is yours a black screen?
[doublepost=1529197125][/doublepost]So... does macOS Mojave require Apple File System (APFS)?