macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

[pkouame]

Yes, it exports correctly but doesn't let import again back or at least I didn't succeeded. I guess @testheit is trying to edit the finder top menu bar (for the "light mode"), I don't see many other reasons why someone wants to edit a .CAR file.

zielinski's project hasn't been updated in a while (three years) so I'm refreshing the CoreUI framework headers to see if that has an effect. Definitely an issue though. @testheit has been making some excellent headway with CoreUI materials, hence the interest in .car and .caar files. Discussion under way in my git repo...

 

[thegurgz]

I upgraded my 2010 iMac with a GTX675. I was running High Sierra, and everything was working quite well after the upgrade. I then used DosDude’s installer and configured a bootable USB, and that worked as well. I booted from the USB, and the Mojave install seemed to be going fine, if not a little slow because of the thumbdrive. I left the computer unattended for some of the install, and when I came back the iMac was **** down. Tried rebooting, and I only get a black screen and the computer shuts down again. I’ve tried PRAM resets, SMC resets, and even startup manager (with no display visible). If I hold down the option key (for start up manager) at startup, the computer won’t shut down, so I tried using the arrow keys followed by return, hoping that I would get lucky.

Any suggestions or tips to get the computer booted, so I can repair whatever went wrong with the install?

Apologies if this has been discussed somewhere in the previous 9000 posts, but I searched and couldn’t find an answer.

Boot back onto the USB installer and apply post-install patches as said in the guide linked on the first page of this forum.

 

[Polydactyl]

Boot back onto the USB installer and apply post-install patches as said in the guide linked on the first page of this forum.

I can’t get it to boot from the USB installer. Any suggestions on how to do this? I’ve tried holding down option and pressing the right arrow (once, twice, etc.) followed by return to select the USB drive, but no luck. I should only have two bootable drives: the usb installer and the ssd with high sierra (or Mojave) on it. With the black screen I really have no idea what’s happening.

 

[nekton1]

Had a weird event this morning on MP3,1 with APFS and NVMe boot rom patches. Mac suddenly shutdown, not a KP but a shutdown. I'd seen this a few days ago but thought it was a one-off glitch or I had run shutdown by mistake.
I restarted and within seconds of logging-in it did the same. This happened 4 or 5 my times. I disconnected an external USB TM drive and managed to get it to stay running long enough to run DU on the boot drive. All nominal. Nothing special in Crash Reporter but there were shutdowns logged in Console at the relevant times.
I started AppZapper and removed many things that I rarely use: MalwareBytes, LockRattlr, Acrobat X Pro, iStat Menus, and a few other utilities and restarted. Then I manually removed all the mouse droppings that AppZapper had left behind in App Support, the various Libraries, Caches, Preferences, Pref panes, Launch Agents and Launch Daemons, etc., and restarted.
It seems stable again now but if it happens again, I think I'll reinstall a fresh OS from USB boot stick and repatch.

 

[ASentientBot]

I can’t get it to boot from the USB installer. Any suggestions on how to do this? I’ve tried holding down option and pressing the right arrow (once, twice, etc.) followed by return to select the USB drive, but no luck. I should only have two bootable drives: the usb installer and the ssd with high sierra (or Mojave) on it. With the black screen I really have no idea what’s happening.

Can you not just set a startup disk in System Preferences? That's what I did on my MacBook for a while when the screen was broken and I used an external monitor.

 

[jackluke]

Had a weird event this morning on MP3,1 with APFS and NVMe boot rom patches. Mac suddenly shutdown, not a KP but a shutdown. I'd seen this a few days ago but thought it was a one-off glitch or I had run shutdown by mistake.
I restarted and within seconds of logging-in it did the same. This happened 4 or 5 my times. I disconnected an external USB TM drive and managed to get it to stay running long enough to run DU on the boot drive. All nominal. Nothing special in Crash Reporter but there were shutdowns logged in Console at the relevant times.
I started AppZapper and removed many things that I rarely use: MalwareBytes, LockRattlr, Acrobat X Pro, iStat Menus, and a few other utilities and restarted. Then I manually removed all the mouse droppings that AppZapper had left behind in App Support, the various Libraries, Caches, Preferences, Pref panes, Launch Agents and Launch Daemons, etc., and restarted.
It seems stable again now but if it happens again, I think I'll reinstall a fresh OS from USB boot stick and repatch.

(Internal) Power Supply Unit faulty ?
I had a similar issue on another machine, randomly shutdown (instant power-off) despite the PSU temperature was fine on macfancontrol.
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I can’t get it to boot from the USB installer. Any suggestions on how to do this? I’ve tried holding down option and pressing the right arrow (once, twice, etc.) followed by return to select the USB drive, but no luck. I should only have two bootable drives: the usb installer and the ssd with high sierra (or Mojave) on it. With the black screen I really have no idea what’s happening.

I guess something is becoming faulty in your iMac, and since it's very annoying to open it, I would suggest to use Target Disk Mode holding T key at power on, through the Firewire 800 port you can connect another mac and boot from there with the internal disk of your iMac.

 

[Badruzeus]

However if that patch you use disables the Nvidia functions and make primary your Intel HD Arrandale, try to use the Arrandela Intel HD 10.12 Sierra kext, this was a @Badruzeus hint: Intel HD 2000 Arrandale

Just a hint that Intel HD 1st Gen vs HD2000 are two diff. graphics, the 1st (as we've known, it's actually GMA 4500MHD) is integrated into Intel Core i-Series (and Pentium P6xxx), while the 2nd is on (unsupported) Celeron CPU.

 

[jackluke]

Just a hint that Intel HD 1st Gen vs HD2000 are two diff. graphics, the 1st (as we've known, it's actually GMA 4500MHD) is integrated into Intel Core i-Series (and Pentium P6xxx), while the 2nd is on (unsupported) Celeron CPU.

You're right, the "Arrandale chipset" represents a kind of "Intel HD 1000", but I guess they share the same kexts in OSX, anyway about "generation" seems Intel indicates in different ways for example yours 4500MHD as fourth gen, while those machines equipped with i5/i7 should use: Intel Graphics Sixth generation

 

[miguelromm]

Which is your GitHub repository, @pkouame?

 

[Polydactyl]

Can you not just set a startup disk in System Preferences? That's what I did on my MacBook for a while when the screen was broken and I used an external monitor.

I finally ended up reinstalling the old video card, and patching the Mojave install. I used the Legacy Video Card patch since the ATI card was installed. Everythig worked, so I reinstalled the Nvidia card. Everything works now with the GTX765, except I don’t have hardware acceleration.

Is there anyway to uninstall the Lagacy Video Card patch? (e.g. revert to Mojave’s default Nvidia drivers). Preferably without rerunning the Mojave installer.

 

[PBear.SF]

Does anyone know what's happened to all the screensavers?
I like to see my pics as a screensaver.
They didn't work on Mojave beta now they're not even listed on Mojave final.

You don't say what model Mac you're using. I've never had a problem with any of the built-in screensavers, through all the Mojave betas and, now, the final. They have all always worked fine -- and still do.

 

[kinetos]

Hello I've installed Mojave on MBP 2011 15'' with intel HD 3000 and AMD Radeon HD 6490m. I've followed the guide of Dosdude1 to disable my AMD GPU but I think not works... When I've finished with the Dosdude1 software to disable the GPU I've always the two GPU in about this Mac. And I've grey bar and other graphic bug. I can't use luminosity on my keyboard too... I think acceleration does not work too... Have you an idea to solve that?

EDIT : I've patched again with the installer and I've the good graphic card in about this Mac, but I've not the possibility to change the brightness

 

[pkouame]

Which is your GitHub repository, @pkouame?

PM me if you are interested in supporting, testing, collaborating etc. And like getting into the technical weeds...It is a very "focused" development zone dedicated to various ways of solving UI Light mode glitches, not meant to compete with this general forum at all. Its products will eventually be officially released.

 

[physwizz]

You don't say what model Mac you're using. I've never had a problem with any of the built-in screensavers, through all the Mojave betas and, now, the final. They have all always worked fine -- and still do.

I have a mid 2011 21.5inch iMac.
I'm running an external SSD with High Sierra (apfs) on one partition and Mojave beta (hfs+) on the second partition and Mojave final (hfs+) on the third.
HS has all the screensavers. Mojave beta has them listed but only a couple work. Mojave final has only 3 in the list. None of them involving photos.

 

[kinetos]

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I installed Mac os mojave on a 20011 MacBook pro but no option for screen brightness... The sound keys work but not the brightness keys or in settings is no option it reads 3mb
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I've the same problem. I've not found solution for moment, I've just installed Brightness Slider but, I would like to use my keyboard to change the bright ;-)

 

[Ad1cted]

Guys i have a mbp early 2011. I installed mojave on another hdd i have for testing purposes. Everything is working fine brightnes etc. except the usual graphic glitches in dark mode, light mode, and bluetooth. I am just posting in case someone want to try and not to ask the same question. (did a clean install.) Btw is there any news on the dark mide glitch? If i can help somehow (mostly test) pm me.

 

[PBear.SF]

I have a mid 2011 21.5inch iMac.
I'm running an external SSD with High Sierra (apfs) on one partition and Mojave beta (hfs+) on the second partition and Mojave final (hfs+) on the third.
HS has all the screensavers. Mojave beta has them listed but only a couple work. Mojave final has only 3 in the list. None of them involving photos.

It looks like you have an iMac 12,1 (Mid 2011). (It's best to provide both those pieces of information when you describe your machine because some web sites will refer to it as only an "iMac (Mid 2011)" and others will refer to it only as an "iMac 12,1".) Also apparently, Apple released three iMac 12,1s in mid 2011, all of which contained either AMD Radeon HD 6750M or 6770M graphics processors.

On @dosdude1's page, you can see the following, under REQUIREMENTS:

- iMac12,x (systems with AMD Radeon HD 5xxx and 6xxx series GPUs will be almost unusable when running Mojave. More details are located in the Known Issues section below.)

So, it looks like you're trying to run Mojave on an iMac with Radeon HD 6xxx graphics -- which is flagged as a highly problematic combination, primarily due to there being no graphics acceleration. It could be that the Mac Mojave installer (whether running it through dosdude1's Patch Installer or not), when seeing what kind of graphics card you're using, is simply failing to load some graphics components that it doesn't think will work with your configuration.

There are other members on this thread who are much more knowledgeable about graphics issues than I am, so maybe one of them can join in with a more decisive explanation.
[doublepost=1539566323][/doublepost]As I just found out trying to add a link earlier in this post, all links to @dosdude1's pages in a message here are showing up like this:

http://************/mojave/

The main URL is nothing but a string of asterisks -- and, of course, clicking on the link is useless.

What the hey?!!

 

[ASentientBot]

It looks like you have an iMac 12,1 (Mid 2011). (It's best to provide both those pieces of information when you describe your machine because some web sites will refer to it as only an "iMac (Mid 2011)" and others will refer to it only as an "iMac 12,1".) Also apparently, Apple released three iMac 12,1s in mid 2011, all of which contained either AMD Radeon HD 6750M or 6770M graphics processors.

On @dosdude1's page, you can see the following, under REQUIREMENTS:

- iMac12,x (systems with AMD Radeon HD 5xxx and 6xxx series GPUs will be almost unusable when running Mojave. More details are located in the Known Issues section below.)

So, it looks like you're trying to run Mojave on an iMac with Radeon HD 6xxx graphics -- which is flagged as a highly problematic combination, primarily due to there being no graphics acceleration. It could be that the Mac Mojave installer (whether running it through dosdude1's Patch Installer or not), when seeing what kind of graphics card you're using, is simply failing to load some graphics components that it doesn't think will work with your configuration.

There are other members on this thread who are much more knowledgeable about graphics issues than I am, so maybe one of them can join in with a more decisive explanation.
[doublepost=1539566323][/doublepost]As I just found out trying to add a link earlier in this post, all links to @dosdude1's pages in a message here are showing up like this:

http://************/mojave/

The main URL is nothing but a string of asterisks -- and, of course, clicking on the link is useless.

What the hey?!!

Looks like the forum is blocking links to dosdude1's site since it's blacklisted in Google's safe browsing database right now. A few pages back, you can see that a lot of people were seeing malware warnings.

But no need to worry, it's perfectly safe. It's just that this stuff has a lot in common with malware -- it patches low-level aspects of the OS and bypasses some security features like SIP. It's no surprise that it gets flagged.

I hope this gets sorted out soon.

 

[physwizz]

It looks like you have an iMac 12,1 (Mid 2011). (It's best to provide both those pieces of information when you describe your machine because some web sites will refer to it as only an "iMac (Mid 2011)" and others will refer to it only as an "iMac 12,1".) Also apparently, Apple released three iMac 12,1s in mid 2011, all of which contained either AMD Radeon HD 6750M or 6770M graphics processors.

On @dosdude1's page, you can see the following, under REQUIREMENTS:

- iMac12,x (systems with AMD Radeon HD 5xxx and 6xxx series GPUs will be almost unusable when running Mojave. More details are located in the Known Issues section below.)

So, it looks like you're trying to run Mojave on an iMac with Radeon HD 6xxx graphics -- which is flagged as a highly problematic combination, primarily due to there being no graphics acceleration. It could be that the Mac Mojave installer (whether running it through dosdude1's Patch Installer or not), when seeing what kind of graphics card you're using, is simply failing to load some graphics components that it doesn't think will work with your configuration.

There are other members on this thread who are much more knowledgeable about graphics issues than I am, so maybe one of them can join in with a more decisive explanation.
[doublepost=1539566323][/doublepost]As I just found out trying to add a link earlier in this post, all links to @dosdude1's pages in a message here are showing up like this:

http://************/mojave/

The main URL is nothing but a string of asterisks -- and, of course, clicking on the link is useless.

What the hey?!!

Thanks for the reply.
Your evaluation sends logical.
PS my video card is 6770m

 

[dosdude1]

Looks like the forum is blocking links to dosdude1's site since it's blacklisted in Google's safe browsing database right now. A few pages back, you can see that a lot of people were seeing malware warnings.

But no need to worry, it's perfectly safe. It's just that this stuff has a lot in common with malware -- it patches low-level aspects of the OS and bypasses some security features like SIP. It's no surprise that it gets flagged.

I hope this gets sorted out soon.

My site should already be sorted... According to Google, it should now be removed from their database. I'll be re-adding links once enough time passes for browser caches to be updated.

 

[joelw135]

My site should already be sorted... According to Google, it should now be removed from their database. I'll be re-adding links once enough time passes for browser caches to be updated.

Great news, I guess MacRumors is working on doing the same.

 

[physwizz]

Great news, I guess MacRumors is working on doing the same.

I just loaded up the page using chrome and didn't get an error message.

 

[jackluke]

I just loaded up the page using chrome and didn't get an error message.

Yes, confirmed on Safari too whitelisted and the thread appears again into search engines, at Google they know how to be fast when they want.

 

[netsrot39]

Hello guys, I have an old MacBook Early 2009 on which I wanted to install Mojave. It works great under my 2 other unsupported Macs MacBook Mid 2010 and Mac Mini Early 2009. However on my MacBook Early 2009 there are some serious issues that make it rather unusable under Mojave.

These are the issues I'm experiencing running Mojave on the particular machine:

• Trackpad is detected as mouse (yes it is known) – BUT: In my case I can't scroll with two fingers, also right clicking is not working (three finger click)
• Brightness control does not work

I ran a patched version of High Sierra 10.13.4 before and all these problems mentioned above were not present. Would it help to use the kexts of this version? From 10.13.5 to the present macOS Version the trackpad and brightness persist.

I tried wiping the entire hard drive and reinstalling from scratch, however the same problems occur.

Does anybody else experience these problems on a MacBook Early 2009?

Thanks in advance for any useful information.

 

[0403979]

Hello guys, I have an old MacBook Early 2009 on which I wanted to install Mojave. It works great under my 2 other unsupported Macs MacBook Mid 2010 and Mac Mini Early 2009. However on my MacBook Early 2009 there are some serious issues that make it rather unusable under Mojave.

These are the issues I'm experiencing running Mojave on the particular machine:

• Trackpad is detected as mouse (yes it is known) – BUT: In my case I can't scroll with two fingers, also right clicking is not working (three finger click)
• Brightness control does not work

I ran a patched version of High Sierra 10.13.4 before and all these problems mentioned above were not present. Would it help to use the kexts of this version? From 10.13.5 to the present macOS Version the trackpad and brightness persist.

I tried wiping the entire hard drive and reinstalling from scratch, however the same problems occur.

Does anybody else experience these problems on a MacBook Early 2009?

Thanks in advance for any useful information.

Early 2009 MacBooks do not have three finger clicking, however, two finger scrolling should be functional to my knowledge.