macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

[oscarodas]

I didn't need the patch for the beta 2, for the beta 1 I did.

 

[whazzup]

It's more precautionary than anything, but it contains the installed kexts list, generated by "sudo kextcache -system-caches".

Hi @dosdude1 , can I ask for your little help to see my problem, please ? I've mentioned you several times here and try to contact you, but seems you miss a newbie post Thank you in advance.

Yes, maybe @dosdude1 can enlighten a bit more too.

There were various steps I've done to make Mojave run on my Macbook Pro 17 Early-2011 :
#1. Install Mojave > Post Install (for MacbookPro8,3) > CMD+S > NVRAM gpu-power-pref > stuck at Welcome Screen
#2. Install Mojave > Post Install (for MacbookPro8,3) > CMD+S > Follow steps here https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/267581/gpu-problem-boot-hangs-on-grey-screen (only Part.1) > never enter Welcome Screen, but "macOS needs to repair your library.." message keep showing with Mojave wallpaper behind, and cannot do anything
#3. @jackluke guide > stuck at Welcome Screen

 

[hiro5id]

too old, and no metal support

please forgive my ignorance. But what does "metal" support mean?
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too old, and no metal support

Gosh 7 years is not that old. I wish Apple would continue support out to at least 10 years. When I bought my 2011 laptop it was top of the line and paid about $3500 CND. Spread that over 7 years, that is about $500 a year. Which is like buying a new cheap crappy $500 laptop every year for 7 years.

EDIT:
Well I think I found my answer: https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/06/28/why-macos-mojave-requires-metal----and-deprecates-opengl

I still don't like the answer

 

[Elektronenhirn]

Hey,
I installed mojave on my MBP 8,2 with dosdude1 patcher.
Everything works finde but I can't adjust the screen brightness, the MB doesn't sleep if I close it and going into sleep-mode wakes the MB immediately up but the screen stays off.

I disabled the ATI in single-user-mode and installed your patch-program under Mojave again.

Is there any solution?

 

[Objectivist-C]

Has anybody installed this on a mid-2010 13" MacBook Pro ( MacBookPro7,1 / GeForce 320m)? How is it working for you?

Sorry, it's hard to search the thread for individual models.

 

[Fredblogg]

Hi all, after reading through the thread and the dosdude1 notes I am a little confused. I have an early 2008 MacPro 3,1 and have managed to upgrade through High Sierra fine over the years using the methods here. I have the Radeon HD 5770 card. The notes say is supported but I am not sure if the unusable comments refer to the MacPro3,1. Has anyone tried to update this particular model with the Radeon HD 5770 card?. Thank you!

 

[webg3]

Has anybody installed this on a mid-2010 13" MacBook Pro ( MacBookPro7,1 / GeForce 320m)? How is it working for you?

Sorry, it's hard to search the thread for individual models.

need SSD, with this is excellent.

But there are the artifacts (GPU non-metal), read the first page of that thread.

 

[jackluke]

Hi @dosdude1 , can I ask for your little help to see my problem, please ? I've mentioned you several times here and try to contact you, but seems you miss a newbie post Thank you in advance.

Don't you have any Sata 2,5" HDD or an external USB HDD ? If you have plug into your MBP 2011, just reinstall Mojave on it and check if you pass the Welcome Screen, in this way you could try without buy a new SSD, however I reaffirm the concept to me in your case is the SSD faulty.
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@dosdude1

I installed Mojave 10.14, official release, over the 10.14 GM, and since then my machine is caught in endless boot-loop.

I can't boot into single user mode, and in fact I can't mount the main drive via terminal commands, which I run from USB stick which holds the latest Mojave patcher (and the terminal.) To add to the puzzle, when booting with option key pressed, the Macintosh HD_boot drive no longer appears. I can see the drives, macintosh HD_boot and Macintosh HD, via "diskutil APFS list" command, but when trying to mount Macintosh HD drive (main volume), I get "...unable to mount message." Is there a way to break the boot-loop, and restore the Macintosh HD_boot drive contents; there is nothing on Macintosh HD_boot volume when I open it(?)

Thanks for any insights.


MacBook Pro 5,2 mid-2009 17 inch

If you are using APFS file system on a non-supported APFS machine, to mount APFS system you have to boot through your Mojave single user mode, however since you can't boot from there, then boot from USB Installer and launch Terminal typing:

diskutil list (there are many many ramdisk but looking for your current Mojave Volume diskXsY and its label)

fsck_apfs -fy /dev/diskXsY (this step is not mandatory however)

(try this to fix bootloop)
rm -R /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/System/Library/UserEventPlugins/com.apple.telemetry.plugin

reboot

 

[pascalfrencken]

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?

@dosdude1 Been looking back at the fix you added to the Sierra patcher two years ago, as shared in the macOS 10.12 Sierra Unsupported Macs Thread (https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/23730447/). Is the volume control patch in the Mojave patcher the same, or would it make sense to manually try to apply the kexts from El Capitan and then repair permissions?

 

[teobilly]

I have the exact config as yours and Mojave is simply unusable atm. The UI will be slow and glitchy unless you swap the default GPU with something that supports Metal. I've had great experience with Alienware GTX765 so far.

So it's better to stay with High Sierra on my iMac 27" Mid 2010 i7 Radeon 5750?!
Did anyone else have problems with my iMac model?

 

[jackluke]

So it's better to stay with High Sierra on my iMac 27" Mid 2010 i7 Radeon 5750?!
Did anyone else have problems with my iMac model?

Even if an i7 CPU together with a SSD could make up for the lack, if you need graphics acceleration for daily use, stay HighSierra on that iMac is far better.

And if you miss "dark mode", HighSierra does have one experimental too, from Terminal:

defaults write -g NSWindowDarkChocolate -bool TRUE
killall Finder

(To return normal light mode)
defaults delete -g NSWindowDarkChocolate
killall Finder

together with this as you already know:
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25158?locale=en_US&viewlocale=en_US

 

[interessiert]

I installed Mojave on my Mac Book Air Mid 2011 with the newest Patcher Tool 1.2.2 from COLLIN – all went as predicted without obstacles.

As with every update/upgrade of macOS in advance I cleaned the system (10.13.6) with OnyX with 2 restarts – so avoided again this so called "clean install" successfully as usual. Clean install is just the last option for troubleshooting

– Thanks a lot for his work (imagine, so many devices needs different patch settings) – of course I chose the DONATION option

 

[Enthuser]

Exactly, except of course the Radeon HD 5xxx and 6xxx series.

Hi, having trouble with Mac Pro 4,1 flashed to 5,1. Tried to load Mojave and stuck at firmware update. Used evga NVIDIA GeForce gtx680 and tried back on Radeon 5770. Both cards worked fine in HS before this. Tried both cards together, now can only get all fans at full speed and no startup. Help please!

 

[jhowarth]

says 2011 in the screenshot.

Then there probably is hole in Apple installation scripts which exempts the iMac12,2 from the firmware checks.

 

[Pinarek]

@jhowarth
yes otherwise I can not explain it to me, why it is only with him (with his iMac from 2011) and my iMac from 2009 = iMac10,1 not and many other users here are the beta updates 10.14.1 Beta1 and Beta2 neither.

The friend wants to explain to me how he has installed the USB stick and then the Betaupdates, because I'm curious how to do it.

 

[Sam1998]

Installed Mojave on my MacBook Pro early 2011, 15 inch. Will it be possible to get graphics acceleration anytime soon? The problem is that when I'm using dual monitors, the AMD graphics card is used.

Regards
Sam

 

[antony34]

The problem it's not only happens with Light Mode, in Dark Mode for example if you press in Photoshop "save as" when the target window appears, this it's in light mode and the sidebar is in gray and this little things are annoying.

Yes，but it still ok as the performance is good when compare with HS!

 

[Sam1998]

@dosdude1 Thanks for your tool for disabling the graphics card permanently, I guess I can also use it on HS with a failed/dead AMD graphics card on MacBook Pro 8,2

 

[dosdude1]

@dosdude1 Thanks for your tool for disabling the graphics card permanently, I guess I can also use it on HS with a failed/dead AMD graphics card on MacBook Pro 8,2

That won't disable it permanently.. Any PRAM reset or system update will re-enable it again. The only permanent solution is the one I've outlined here.

 

[webg3]

The problem it's not only happens with Light Mode, in Dark Mode for example if you press in Photoshop "save as" when the target window appears, this it's in light mode and the sidebar is in gray and this little things are annoying.

Now do you understand why I created two modes? A LightMode and a DarkMode?

DarkScript is to remove transparency in some cases, it is precisely at this point that you use opacity and have no problem, keeping the other elements in transparency, it is a hybrid mode for DarkMode with little vibration.

Only using it to perceive these differences.

Except that in the case, in Dark Mode, I left the opacity only in Spotlight, which is what bothered me, I would need to know how to flick the other elements to always maintain opacity.

Yet it is not a definitive solution.

 

[Sam1998]

That won't disable it permanently.. Any PRAM reset or system update will re-enable it again. The only permanent solution is the one I've outlined here.

Thx for your reply. I already did this, but it is quite risky and I ended up with a black screen. So the resistor had to be installed again. So it’s not a very good solution. Can you give us a prediction, how long it will take to get graphics acceleration on AMD GPU?

Regards
Sam

 

[dosdude1]

Thx for your reply. I already did this, but it is quite risky and I ended up with a black screen. So the resistor had to be installed again. So it’s not a very good solution. Can you give us a prediction, how long it will take to get graphics acceleration on AMD GPU?

Regards
Sam

It probably will never happen, unfortunately. If you got a black screen after performing that mod, you probably forgot to pull the LVDS_DDC_SEL_IG line high, or did not connect the necessary backlight/LCD_PWR enable lines.

 

[Sam1998]

It probably will never happen, unfortunately. If you got a black screen after performing that mod, you probably forgot to pull the LVDS_DDC_SEL_IG line high, or did not connect the necessary backlight enable lines.

Ok that could be the issue. Why can’t you enable graphics acceleration for AMD, but for NVIDIA GPUs? How can I enable the Intel GPU for Video Playback in Browser? It starts to lag when playing back a video :/.

 

[webg3]

Safari 12 has disabled and removed my Extensions now.

Have you been having this problem too?

Just close it and open again and I have to enable Extensions and the one I use to translate pages need to reinstall.

 

[ThaRippa]

iMac 7,1 /w Penryn CPU here, installation went fine (installed over an existing HS install) but as others already stated:

Legacy Audio / Volume Control Patch doesn’t work. I used to have to reinstall it after every minor MacOS update. Reinstalling from PatchUpdater seems to go way too fast and does not help anymore.

Other symptoms besides being stuck on full volume are periodic clicking during playback.

I’m trying to run the old scripts from the HS post-install utilities next, I noticed they are indeed different.