macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

[dosdude1]

I have a Hackintosh with a HDD, not a SSD. Yet, I was wondering what is it. An older version of Clover shows different variables of „EFI Fusion Pair”. If I install Mojave on HFS+, it works faster, but no updates. The differences in EFI Fusion Pairing varibles are probably due to Clover, not Mojave itself, right? This line is the most clear difference that appears on Mojave on HFS+ vs. APFS.

Ah, sorry, I was thinking you were the one having issue with the SSD running at 1.5 GB/s. Anyways, I'm not sure why it would cause performance issues. But, the "Fusion Pair" line you mention is simply debug output, and is not of any importance at all.

 

[Vyzantion]

Ah, sorry, I was thinking you were the one having issue with the SSD running at 1.5 GB/s. Anyways, I'm not sure why it would cause performance issues. But, the "Fusion Pair" line you mention is simply debug output, and is not of any importance at all.

Yet, it depends on Clover or on Mojave? I am tempted to try an older Clover version and update that one, to keep some settings. I have an issue, when a lot of work is done on the PC, the CPU gets hot and the OS blocks on shutdown, just when it has to finish the shutdown. It happend on High Sierra as well, that ran on HFS+, but on Mojave is worse. Mojave was on HFS+ was better on this then Mojave on APFS. Those days both Clover and FakeSMC were updated, the variable of EFI Fusion Pairing were the same. The get Mojave via the Dosdude1 patch I use the customized Clover from Multibeast for High Sierra, updated with the latest Clover build, to preserve the custom tweaks from the Multibeast version. On Tonymacx86 I have not got any answer regarding what those tweaks were, to reproduce them.

 

[Starplayr]

Yet, it depends on Clover or on Mojave? I am tempted to try an older Clover version and update that one, to keep some settings. I have an issue, when a lot of work is done on the PC, the CPU gets hot and the OS blocks on shutdown, just when it has to finish the shutdown. It happend on High Sierra as well, that ran on HFS+, but on Mojave is worse. Mojave was on HFS+ was better on this then Mojave on APFS. Those days both Clover and FakeSMC were updated, the variable of EFI Fusion Pairing were the same. The get Mojave via the Dosdude1 patch I use the customized Clover from Multibeast for High Sierra, updated with the latest Clover build, to preserve the custom tweaks from the Multibeast version. On Tonymacx86 I have not got any answer regarding what those tweaks were, to reproduce them.

APFS was never designed for hackintoshes. Clover uses a kext to access APFS boot volumes. Possible issue would be the levy is not fully compatible. You could try not using the APFS kext option in clover and patch the volume with the Mojave patch tool or run hfs+ instead and simple do full updates on top of your installation. When I had a hackintosh, I always waiting for updates. Anyways, your questions might best be answered on ac OSx86 board like insanlymac.com.

 

[Vyzantion]

APFS was never designed for hackintoshes. Clover uses a kext to access APFS boot volumes. Possible issue would be the levy is not fully compatible. You could try not using the APFS kext option in clover and patch the volume with the Mojave patch tool or run hfs+ instead and simple do full updates on top of your installation. When I had a hackintosh, I always waiting for updates. Anyways, your questions might best be answered on ac OSx86 board like insanlymac.com.

I did that, but no clear answer.

 

[joelw135]

Here are my final results. So far it looks like my final install from scratch has taken. My SSD reads 3 GBz on both Link. I am on a Late 2009 3,1 Mac Mini. I changed the WiFi card, but gained WiFi but lost Bluetooth. The System report says Bluetooth is installed but my keyboard and mouse don't connect. I am using a wired keyboard and mouse. Now I am curious how do we Know when a new OS is available. I installed the Beta access file, hoping that would help.

A link to a Bluetooth Dongle would be helpful, if there is one.

 

[Starplayr]

I'm selling off my 2012 Mac mini even though it can run Mojave fine, I'm gonna stick with the Towers and my main machines. https://preview.tinyurl.com/y9n32pkp

I also tested the GPU with CL!ng and my 2008 with the Titan PC Card ran lots of circles around the Mac mini. The mini is still a good box with SATA 3 and Thunderbolt, but its integrated GPU is for **** even though it can run Metal its OpenCL and Metal times are not much faster than its CPU. It served me well as a developer Mac and I like my Thunderbolt Display til I got a reasonable 4k display off eBay. The Titan supports 4k and 5k. The Mini could only run it at 2x scaling.
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It's just one of the lines that shows when the APFS EFI driver is loaded by Clover. This is completely normal, and nothing to worry about. Though, you should NOT be using Clover, and ESPECIALLY not FakeSMC on a real Mac. Any performance issues you experience are due to an incompatibility with your SSD and the nVidia MCP79 chipset. A different SSD will probably fix any performance issues you may have.

I agree. Since Mojave runs on most mac's now thanks to the effort here there is no point in running Clover. It's only advantage was you could run Apple's install method and is does "support" APFS, but if you don't find a good SMC setting, it can could more harm than good. if you are gonna use it, use Clover Configurator. Still don't need it and it does not play nice with PC Cards on Macs either (you usually will have a black screen with no EFI on a PC Card w/ Clover).

Dosdudes1 installer runs 16 minutes or less. Apple's method literally can take an hour or longer.

I keep 2 clones using Carbon Copy Cloner and one install is first in my boot chain, so if I ever have to zap the PRAM or SMC, it will boot up. My second partition it boots from is Dosdude's Patcher. And my 3rd and 4th are my main boot partitions. I do this because I don't have an EFI video card, so if something goes weary, my machine will still boot one off my Mojave installs.

 

[ASentientBot]

It looks like I am out of luck with my 2011 mac mini because of the AMD GPU, but does anyone know how a mid-2010 White Macbook MC516LL/A Model A1342. Is there any hardware acceleration? Is this model afflicted with the Finder Light Theme bug? Has anyone tried this model? How is the performance compared to High Sierra? And have you experienced any issues with it? Thanks in advance for any feedback!

I have that MacBook (I'm actually the first person to successfully install Mojave on that model!) and it works fantastically. Performance: same as HS. Acceleration: full. Transparency glitch: yes (like all non-metal GPUs), but it's fine in dark theme. I love it.

 

[joelw135]

Does anyone know if "Unlock with Apple Watch" is available in Mojave? I looked in Security but not available. I do miss it.

 

[webg3]

@dosdude1 Hello my friend! Is there any way to fix the Recovery (Mojave) partition with patcher update or reinstall Recovery (High Sierra) for MacBookPro 7.1?

Since the patcher is gray, it does not allow to apply this correction post-installation.

Thank you for your efforts.

I have much esteem and appreciate your hard work.

 

[Blackriton]

Hello dosdude1, I try to run the APS ROM Patcher again and afte the first window I got the message : "Overwite Backup ROM":a backup is stored at Users/.......Are you sure you want to overwriteit ?Its not recommended.....
Do I have to press Overwrite or Cancel ??????

Many thanks for your help and tremendous work.

 

[dosdude1]

Hello dosdude1, I try to run the APS ROM Patcher again and afte the first window I got the message : "Overwite Backup ROM":a backup is stored at Users/.......Are you sure you want to overwriteit ?Its not recommended.....
Do I have to press Overwrite or Cancel ??????

Many thanks for your help and tremendous work.

Save the backed up ROM somewhere else first so it doesn't get overwritten. Although, if you have a backup ROM, that means you've run the APFS ROM patch before. You should NOT run it a second time (unless of course it failed or didn't work the first time).

 

[Blackriton]

Save the backed up ROM somewhere else first so it doesn't get overwritten. Although, if you have a backup ROM, that means you've run the APFS ROM patch before. You should NOT run it a second time (unless of course it failed or didn't work the first time).

I ran the patch yesterday morning first but I got an ERROR message and cancel it. Then a tried a second time and I got the overwrite message then and found the backup in my Users folder......... I displaced the backup from that folder now.
Should a try to run the patch again or its over and no chance to patch ???????

 

[Fiachers]

On a MacPro 3,1 with ATI HD2600-XT graphics using the legacy graphics patch, Mojave runs fine in dark mode with no graphics issue except for the gray translucent elements in bright mode. So just stay in dark mode.
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Note that the GTX 689 models have Mac compatible ROM images available which can be flashed onto them. Especially if you stick to the EVGA brand and 2 Gb model so you can use the original unmodified Mac ROMs from EVGA.

Thanks but my Radeon HD is different. Even in dark mode I get strange colours (inverting colours doesn't fix it) and other graphics defects. No transparencies either. Everything's grey. It's like all 2D acceleration is disabled in Mojave too for my HD 5xxx card. My Time Machine restored High Sierra overnight.

 

[fintematic]

I have that MacBook (I'm actually the first person to successfully install Mojave on that model!) and it works fantastically. Performance: same as HS. Acceleration: full. Transparency glitch: yes (like all non-metal GPUs), but it's fine in dark theme. I love it.

i also installed successfully Mojave on Macbook mid 2010 (macbook7.1)

It looks like I am out of luck with my 2011 mac mini because of the AMD GPU, but does anyone know how a mid-2010 White Macbook MC516LL/A Model A1342. Is there any hardware acceleration? Is this model afflicted with the Finder Light Theme bug? Has anyone tried this model? How is the performance compared to High Sierra? And have you experienced any issues with it? Thanks in advance for any feedback!

When i installed mojave (on beta 3), it worked well, there was some transparency glitch, but it was mojave beta 3, now i think it will be better. Performances were good as HS, but performances depends also on your mac configuration. My macbook has 8GB RAM and the SSD, so it works very well

I have 2 questions:

- Is it advisable to bring the ram to 16 GB?

- To install mojave, should I wait for September 24th?

 

[jackluke]

i also installed successfully Mojave on Macbook mid 2010 (macbook7.1)

When i installed mojave (on beta 3), it worked well, there was some transparency glitch, but it was mojave beta 3, now i think it will be better. Performances were good as HS, but performances depends also on your mac configuration. My macbook has 8GB RAM and the SSD, so it works very well

I have 2 questions:

- Is it advisable to bring the ram to 16 GB?

- To install mojave, should I wait for September 24th?

In my humble opinion, 16 GB RAM are wasted on any old mac, the only thing they will bring is a huge sleepimage size that on an SSD isn't ideal, while next monday I bet the Mojave App Store Final Release will match the beta 11 build number, so don't need to wait.
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@dosdude1 Hello my friend! Is there any way to fix the Recovery (Mojave) partition with patcher update or reinstall Recovery (High Sierra) for MacBookPro 7.1?

Since the patcher is gray, it does not allow to apply this correction post-installation.

Thank you for your efforts.

I have much esteem and appreciate your hard work.

I have a doubt, I write in general, but to those who fail in "Force cache rebuild", are they targeting the right "Mojave Volume partition" and NOT the "USB Mojave Installer Label" ?

Because it seems that everyone for mistake could rebuild the prelinkedkernek even on the USB Mojave Installer, with the risk to make it unbootable.

 

[arqueox]

I don't know about GM, but maybe DP11 is the GM... Pages, keynote and numbers updated last day to night mode... So, apple is updating all their apps to final release.

 

[16v]

A little OT-Question:
Can i test my MM1 on a Windows PC?
Cause touch is not working on mojave beta...

 

[0403979]

Has anyone investigated the APFS encrypted and WiFi issues on patched USBs? The WiFi is not important to me, but it's an issue and should be mentioned. However, the issue is with APFS encryption is extremely annoying to me because I can't use encryption on my SSD since I won't be able to patch it then.

 

[NoobMacUser]

Suddenly, my Mac sound is dead...
is there any way to run diagnostic?

 

[jackluke]

A little OT-Question:
Can i test my MM1 on a Windows PC?
Cause touch is not working on mojave beta...

You can, but I guess those "soft tap features" are MacOS exclusives, anyway on Windows 10 you should find and use this driver: AppleWirelessMouse64.exe

(probably together with AppleBluetoothBroadcom64 but I don't think this is mandatory)

but at least the "soft touch" vertical scrolling should work without issues in Windows 10.

 

[16v]

No, dont work. Also right click in windows dont work...

 

[jackluke]

No, dont work. Also right click in windows dont work...

Ok, you can test on a Windows PC, but you have to use this driver (also for the right click) taken from any Bootcamp archive: AppleWirelessMouse64.exe

in this way you can discover if the MM1 is faulty.

 

[John Fu]

hi all,

I have success creat the USB drive and boot up from the USB drive get into the install menu, after I refomat the SSD and install the OSX10.14, but it keep tell me the install fail, i have to restar the NB, here is my mac

model: 2008 late macbook unibody
memory: 16g
ssd:256g

can anyone help?

Thank you
jOHN

 

[16v]

Ok, you can test on a Windows PC, but you have to use this driver (also for the right click) taken from any Bootcamp archive: AppleWirelessMouse64.exe

in this way you can discover if the MM1 is faulty.

Yes i have this driver.
But nothing.

 

[dosdude1]

I ran the patch yesterday morning first but I got an ERROR message and cancel it. Then a tried a second time and I got the overwrite message then and found the backup in my Users folder......... I displaced the backup from that folder now.
Should a try to run the patch again or its over and no chance to patch ???????

No, you can go ahead and run it again.
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Suddenly, my Mac sound is dead...
is there any way to run diagnostic?

Re-install Legacy Audio Patch using Patch Updater.