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macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

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0403979 said:
How to Install macOS Mojave 10.14.1 Betas

If you're having firmware update issues on your device that makes installing macOS Mojave 10.14.1 betas impossible, then you can use the script I have developed in conjunction with the update package to install manually by copying over the files directly from the package to your system.

To use the script, download it from this post and run chmod +x /path/to/script to make it executable. If you're running the script from a normal system then you must run sudo /path/to/script. If you're running it from a recovery or an installer volume then you have to run it without sudo.

The script will ask for two paths, the path for your package and the and path for your volume. For the package, you have to enter the full path to the folder containing the package. For the volume you have to enter either / if you'd like to install on the volume you're currently booted from or /Volumes/volume/ if you're running from a recovery volume, an installer volume, or simply would like to install on another volume altogether.

You have to use the full path for the package folder, which means, if you have it on your desktop for example you can't do ~/Desktop/, instead you have to do /Users/username/Desktop/ or /Volumes/volume/Users/username/Desktop/ if you're running from a recovery or an installer volume.

You can also run the commands manually if you prefer. If you want to do that then you must run these commands one after the other and wait for them to complete.

pkgutil --expand-full /path/macOSUpd10.14.1.pkg /path/macOSUpd10.14.1
sudo cp -rf /path/macOSUpd10.14.1/Payload/ /Volumes/volume/ or /

You can download the update package from here.
If you have any questions or issues please don't hesitate to contact me.

A newer version is available: Version Two.
A newer version is available: Version Three.

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This is way beyond me had to wipe my iMac three times get so mad at what is a super user put a crack in my screen
 
TimothyR734 said:
This is way beyond me had to wipe my iMac three times get so mad at what is a super user put a crack in my screen
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You have to put sudo before the path of the script.
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Loyd-01a said:
Hello,

@0403979,

I found these older versions of dosdude1' Patcher :

0.1b1,
0.1b10,
0.1b12-1,
0.1b12-2,
1.1.0,
1.1.1,
1.1.2,
1.2.0,
1.2.1.

Do you need them all, or do you already have some of them ?
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I only need beta 1 and 10.
 
I'm on a MacBook Pro 5,4 with High Sierra 10.13.6 through the patcher tool.

Today a Mojave installer spontaneously popped up asking me to upgrade to Mojave: Can I do this or should I use the Mojave patcher tool??
 
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dosdude1 said:
Yes, for Maxwell and later cards, you have to wait for nVidia to release the drivers. Kepler cards (GT 6xx series/some 7xx series) and older will work just fine though.
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Thank you., Dosdude. One last thing: by "will work just fine" you mean that I will have full hardware acceleration under Mojave? With every Kepler-based card?
 
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LarryJoe33 said:
Good to know, but clicking a few buttons on CCC and walking away for an hour is something I am used to. I clone regularly, it's a life saver.
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I'm oriented too in cloning versus re-installing, however, it seems that apple's DiskUtility is a bit underrated, I do large use of it and also the Terminal version "diskutil", don't forget that DiskUtility can compress images into its stock dmg and lets customize it as you want (read-only, read/write, encrypt and so on), after all, these cloning softwares are based on the "man diskutil" (asr, dd and hdiutil included) features, just adding a nice GUI around it. And DiskUtility behaves very well with the new APFS file-system.
 
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jhowarth said:
Keeping in mind that if you want access to the option boot selector and startup splash screen, you will want o pick a card like that GTX-680 which can be flashed to Mac EFI ROMs.
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Just to know, but using GPUs without an official Mac EFI ROM, does "single user mode" is viewable at screen ?

Acknowledged that without a GPU's Mac EFI ROM only the post-boot GUI screen is shown, if booting from an USB Installer (or Recovery), after passing the "viewless" verbose splash screen, does it show the GUI screen into the "installer/recovery environment"? Or it needs the full GPU kext loaded ?
 
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jhowarth said:
Keeping in mind that if you want access to the option boot selector and startup splash screen, you will want o pick a card like that GTX-680 which can be flashed to Mac EFI ROMs.
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He's using an eGPU setup, so flashing is not necessary. The boot screen will be displayed using the internal GPU.
 
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joelw135 said:
I wonder was 10.14.1 release out today? If yes would it work as a Install with patcher, or we would still have the problem on Core Two CPU's?
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It wasn't in the software catalog when I looked at it earlier today. Somebody can confirm this though?
[doublepost=1540917121][/doublepost]Also! Off-topic, but I just went to an Apple Store and copied the new attract loop screensaver for Mojave. If anybody wants it, I posted it on reddit here. I like to collect them. They're pretty :)
 
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macOS 10.14.1 Mojave build 18B75 has been officially released.

Screen Shot 2018-10-30 at 18.03.26.png
 
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ASentientBot said:
It wasn't in the software catalog when I looked at it earlier today. Somebody can confirm this though?
[doublepost=1540917121][/doublepost]Also! Off-topic, but I just went to an Apple Store and copied the new attract loop screensaver for Mojave. If anybody wants it, I posted it on reddit here. I like to collect them. They're pretty :)
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Amazing what you have done there, discovering Pricing.app and booting Recovery at kiosk mode computers. The loop videos are very nice, especially the kaleidoscopic ones, great work, thank you.
 
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