macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

[thicla01]

Hello,

I installed Mojave (macOS 10.14 (18A391)) successfully on my Mac Pro 3,1 with Dosdude1 patcher tool.

Here is the configuration

Mac Pro (Early 2008)
Processor 2 x 3,2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory 32 Go 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
Graphic card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 4096 Mo (from MacVidCards.com)
SSD: Samsung SSD 850 PRO 1TB
USB 3.0 PCIe card: Allegro Pro USB 3.0 PCIe
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The only thing that doesn't work right now is the Brio Pro Webcam from Logitech. That webcam work well on the same mac pro with high sierra and also on a mac mini 2014 running Mojave. I've connected the camera on USB 3.0 port and on native USB 2.0 port. The webcam is detected but no video is sent to Camera Settings app or Facetime app.

Same result with Logitech C920.

Is there anyone who has tested this webcam on a Mac Pro 2008?

 

[ZigMac]

Hi Guys, I have installed Mojave on my Mac Pro 3.1 the gpu is a Nvidia Geforce GTX 680 Mac Edition, everything is okay except VLC won't play any vids at all, it just flashes, QuickTime does play them but there is a little stuttering at times as does Itunes player, I have a seperate HD running High Sierra and VLC and QuickTime and Itunes work fine with vids, so its not the gpu. Has anyone else had problems with videos with the same or similar setup?

Thanks in advance

Mate did you ever find a fix for this? I have the exact same issue

 

[dosdude1]

Mate did you ever find a fix for this? I have the exact same issue

First thing I need to know: Do you have graphics acceleration?

 

[thicla01]

Just tried VLC version 3.0.4 and it worked fine on my Mac Pro 3,1. I have a GTX 770 from MacVidCards. According to MacVidCards.com, the GTX 770 use the same drivers as GTX 680.

http://www.macvidcards.com/store/p9/Nvidia_GTX_770_2_GB_and_4_GB.html

I tried different video files with WMV3, H264 and MPEG-2 codecs.

No problem with iTunes or QuickTime.

 

[scottuf]

I have just realised that you can get rid of anomalies in Mojave Light mode if you do the follwing:

go to "System Preferences" -> “Accessibility” -> “Display" -> select “Reduce transparency” .

mine was apparently already selected, maybe why I didn't notice any anomalies.

 

[wim1732]

Installed sucessfully on iMac 8,1. Only issue is volume control that was fixed by the "Volume Control Patch" on High Sierra, tried running the High Sierra "macOS Post Install" to install the patch but that did not fix it. Can anyone help me?

 

[gugadj]

update Mac Pro 3,1 10.14.1 Beta 18B45d

 

[nekton1]

de nada

That surely fixed it. Thanks Nekton1!

[doublepost=1538351628][/doublepost]Is that ATI HD4870 what it shipped with from Apple b/c it is not Metal 2 compliant. You need to read the special conditions Apple requires for GPUs to install Mojave on a 5,1.

hi.

i have a Mac Pro 4.1 with 5.1 Firmware ( Late 2009)
My System
ATI HD 4870 512MB
48 GB RAM
Boot Rom MP51.0089.B00
SMC-Version (System): 1.39f5
SMC-Version (Prozessormodul): 1.39f5

wy i can`t install Mojave without Patch ?
I have High Sierra.

THX

 

[yeiyei0891]

For some reason my searchbars in Finder are ugly and have unreadable text. Also some windows have miniscule black borders in the bottom of the window. This is on dark mode btw.
Metal is supported on my GT640 on a Mac Pro 3.1

Any ideas?

Same issue with searchbar in Finder on my Macbook 6,1.

 

[Starplayr]

For those who want to make a High Sierra Patch Disk from the Mojave Release. Simply name your patch disk disk 'OS X Base System' and it will copy all the files properly. I noticed this after it failed. So I just hit the recycle button and selected the disk 'OS X Base System' and the patch tool was able to complete the task.

 

[jbarley]

For those who want to make a High Sierra Patch Disk from the Mojave Release..

So you're saying I can use the Mojave install release to make a patch disk for use on High sierra?
Sounds a bit odd to me, if I'm wrong feel free to enlighten me.

 

[BookEmDanno]

For those of you who need to try Xcode 10.1 beta and have a developer's account, you can download and install it on your unsupported Mac device that is on Mojave 10.14 final release. FYI.



Have fun!

 

[mac14159]

Mojave installation on a MacBookPro 7,1 went smoothless. I did a clean install on SSD (APFS formatted) and I installed all default patches.

However, SIP seems to be disabled now:

$ csrutil status
System Integrity Protection status: disabled.

Is it possible to enable SIP again ?

 

[Kal-037]

Would getting an eGPU and disabling my AMD 6750 work to get Mojave (still using the patch installer to install it) but after that will I be able to use it without any issues to fix, or am I always going to have things to patch?... or do I even have to use the patches supplied/created by dosdude1?
Sorry, I am really trying to understand Mac's as I have only had one for a month and have only ever used Windows PCs.


Kallum.

 

[TimothyR734]

Mojave installation on a MacBookPro 7,1 went smoothless. I did a clean install on SSD (APFS formatted) and I installed all default patches.

However, SIP seems to be disabled now:

$ csrutil status
System Integrity Protection status: disabled.

Is it possible to enable SIP again ?

Yes in recovery mode using terminal csrutil enable but you might have issues if you installed the post install patches

 

[roronl]

Mojave installation on a MacBookPro 7,1 went smoothless. I did a clean install on SSD (APFS formatted) and I installed all default patches.

However, SIP seems to be disabled now:

$ csrutil status
System Integrity Protection status: disabled.

Is it possible to enable SIP again ?

No, it is not recommended to enable SIP on a patched device.

 

[whazzup]

Previously I tried clean install : APFS formatted SSD (as @dosdude1 suggest on his website), but cannot boot. Displaying blinking ? folder, cannot see the drive on Startup Manager. Then I revert back to HFS+ formatted SSD, but stuck at Welcome Screen (always reboot after input username and click Next).

Sorry for my bad English. But I really need advice.

Thank you.

Hi, anyone can help me?

 

[roronl]

Hi, anyone can help me?

Did you follow step 8, 9, 10, 11? -> (http://dosdude1.com/mojave/)

 

[jackluke]

Hi, anyone can help me?

From your previous post, you have a Macbook Pro 17 Early-2011 dual GPUs (AMD 6xxx and IntelHD3000), i5/i7 cpu Intel Chipset you don't need the C2D fix and probably neither the USB fix, I guess you should try to re-install Mojave and boot without the "Legacy Video Card Patch" applied.

Or without reinstalling try this, single user mode, after power-on hold CMD+S until you reach a Mojave Terminal and type:

fsck -fy
mount -uw /
cd /System/Library/Extensions/
mv AMDRadeonX3000.kext AMDRadeonX3000.kext2
reboot

 

[pascalfrencken]

Installed sucessfully on iMac 8,1. Only issue is volume control that was fixed by the "Volume Control Patch" on High Sierra, tried running the High Sierra "macOS Post Install" to install the patch but that did not fix it. Can anyone help me?

Have the same on my iMac8,1. Indeed the volume control patch in the Sierra and High Sierra patchers used to work fine, but the Mojave volume control patch is not working.

Does anyone have this working correctly on an iMac8,1? Or is there a workaround available?

 

[lobitox]

Sorry if this has been asked before.

I have a mid-2011 macbook air, and I almost managed to install Mojave with the "macOS Mojave Patcher" tool. I have downloaded the OS with the same tool, which also verified it. After formatting the SSD with APFS and launching the installer, it hangs when the message "time remaining one minute" is displayed.

I think it may be related to the creation of the installation USB. In a first attempt (not yet formatted the ssd), when finished the creation of the USB, this only occupied 2 GB (of the 16).

Today I'll try to reinstall High-Sierra and recreate the USB, unless there's another way. Has anything like this happened to anyone? And if so, have you managed to solve it?

Thanks in advance

 

[Hughmac]

Superb; have just installed Mojave faultlessly to my iMac 11,2 and Macbook 6,1 so thanks to everybody for all their efforts

To be honest I am fairly happy with light mode as it is so haven't tried to fiddle with it.

Donation has been made

Cheers

Hugh

 

[olad]

Sorry if this has been asked before.

I have a mid-2011 macbook air, and I almost managed to install Mojave with the "macOS Mojave Patcher" tool. I have downloaded the OS with the same tool, which also verified it. After formatting the SSD with APFS and launching the installer, it hangs when the message "time remaining one minute" is displayed.

I think it may be related to the creation of the installation USB. In a first attempt (not yet formatted the ssd), when finished the creation of the USB, this only occupied 2 GB (of the 16).

Today I'll try to reinstall High-Sierra and recreate the USB, unless there's another way. Has anything like this happened to anyone? And if so, have you managed to solve it?

Thanks in advance

There are two MBAs from 2011 - MBA4,1 (11") and MBA4,2 (13") - information from the free MacTracker App. It might be worth your while to search this forum for whichever version your MBA is, and see if anyone has similar problems. But most often, the more experienced folks here will probably suggest you start with recreating the USB installer and/or use a different USB stick (min. size 16Gb). But you were already going to do that, weren't you?

 

[rafapoza]

Hi, first of all, thank you very much for your work.

That's the third time I've use @dosdude1 patch for my macbook pro 5.1, and I'd like to ask you one thing.

Since High Sierra I have not got keyboard backlight, although the keys (to light up/down the keyboard) seems to work fine. is this issue known by you? Has anyone of you the same behavior?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,

 

[yeiyei0891]

I installed Mojave in my Macbook 6,1 (suport High Sierra and APFS) and now I need boot on recovery mode but when press CMD+R the recovery partition is missing. Doesn't work recovery mode with Mojave (installed with Movaje patcher tool)?