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macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

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Fusion Drive APFS

- Backup full files macOS (Time Machine)

Terminal in Recovery

diskutil list
diskutil coreStorage create Macintosh /dev/disk0 /dev/disk1

Logical Volume Group
(Core Storage LVG UUID: DHHDURJ-48BF-4678-B7HD-25DD89JS46S7 example)
Finished

diskutil coreStorage createVolume DHHDURJ-48BF-4678-B7HD-25DD89JS46S7 apfs "Macintosh HD" 100%
Finished coreStorage operation
 
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ks23 said:
Hello,

silly question: I'm running 10.14.0 on a Mac mini 3,1 (HFS+).
Software update 10.14.1 isn't showing.

Have I to do something special to see the update?
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I have the same machine. Download Patcher v1.2.3, download full Mojave 14.1 from the Patcher, make a brand new USB with 14.1 through the Patcher and finally proceed to instal as per @dosdude1 instructions.
Forget about updates from Software Update and Mojave betas. Both are a pile of trouble. Especially betas are for moments when you are bored to death and are looking for ways to complicate your life. Most of the time the benefit of betas is pretty much zero.
 
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b4ore said:
Ahh. Ok...gotcha. Yeah. it's booting fine, just don't have bluetooth.
I've got 10.14.1 (18B75) installed. I should have waited, I know better to see what other issues arise, but I was key happy and pulled the trigger. LOL.
The previous build I had running perfectly fine was 10.14.0 Final, build 18A391. I think I'll live using corded mouse and keyboard if I can't get into Screen Sharing like I normally do from my MBP.

Thanks again for your help thus far!
Cheers!
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Hello,

I have the same problem, no bluetooth.

Update: I replaced the kext IOBluetooth * .kext in S / L / E by the corresponding kext of High Sierra and now the Bluetooth functionnality is working again.

Regards,
 
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Although a full USB install of 10.14.1 started very slowly before successful completion on a MP3,1, the install started 3 times faster and completed much faster on an iMac 11,1
 
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Update to macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
First, use the Mac App Store to update your operating system to macOS High Sierra 10.13.6. Don't upgrade your Mac Pro (Mid 2010) or Mac Pro (Mid 2012) to macOS Mojave directly from macOS versions prior to 10.13.6.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208898

If Apple even asks to upgrade to High Sierra instead of doing a clean install on these older devices, I think that's the way some of us should do, if you're having trouble installing Mojave, try this, install the High Sierra 10.13.6 first and from it upgrade, I did it both times (GM 10.14 and now in 10.14.1) and it worked very well...
 
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ks23 said:
Hello,

silly question: I'm running 10.14.0 on a Mac mini 3,1 (HFS+).
Software update 10.14.1 isn't showing.

Have I to do something special to see the update?
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If you have the MacOS Mojave 1.2.3 patcher you can install 10.14.1 over your previous version I did on my MacBook 5,2
[doublepost=1541044942][/doublepost]looking good :)
 

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b4ore said:
Ahh. Ok...gotcha. Yeah. it's booting fine, just don't have bluetooth.
I've got 10.14.1 (18B75) installed. I should have waited, I know better to see what other issues arise, but I was key happy and pulled the trigger. LOL.
The previous build I had running perfectly fine was 10.14.0 Final, build 18A391. I think I'll live using corded mouse and keyboard if I can't get into Screen Sharing like I normally do from my MBP.

Thanks again for your help thus far!
Cheers!
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I was suggesting you to replace from your HighSierra /S/L/E/ into your Mojave /S/L/E/ these kext:

AirPortBrcmNIC-MFG.kext
IOBluetoothFamily.kext
IOBluetoothHIDDriver.kext
IO80211Family.kext
IO80211FamilyV2.kext

but before attempt this last chance to fix your Bluetooth 4.0, I guess @thicla01 is right, most probably only replacing IOBluetoothFamily.kext and IOBluetoothHIDDriver.kext from your HighSierra should work into your Mojave 10.14.1 , after replaced just install them from the Mojave Terminal procedure as you already know.
 
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Sveto said:
I have the same machine. Download Patcher v1.2.3, download full Mojave 14.1 from the Patcher, make a brand new USB with 14.1 through the Patcher and finally proceed to instal as per @dosdude1 instructions.
Forget about updates from Software Update and Mojave betas. Both are a pile of trouble. Especially betas are for moments when you are bored to death and are looking for ways to complicate your life. Most of the time the benefit of betas is pretty much zero.
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Wait a moment.
Is it possible to upgrade from 10.14.0 to 10.14.1 without using the official system update?
Am I missing something here?
 
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Hi guys.
MacBook Pro 2011 13" here with 10.14.1.

For some reason notes app crashes immediately after opening. Can't figure out what's wrong. All necessary patches for my model have been installed. Any ideas?
 
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Sveto said:
I suggest we postpone the talk about making the useless Recovery work. At this moment it only spams the conversation here. Let us focus on successfully updating from 14.0 to 14.1. Some are still having issues and that is more important. Next we need an updated Light/Dark mode from @pkouame. And once all of this is cleared we can continue experimenting with things like proving a point by making Recovery work. There is plenty of time to waste until 14.2 (not earlier than 1-2 months from now)
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But "proving a point" of what? My procedure if followed carefully works at 99%, anyone has its own priorities to me is more important to have another emergency bootable partition with CMD+R available than upgrade immediately to 10.14.1 that essentially it's an minor update that to me doesn't add nothing new.

Using an internal Recovery apart many troubleshooting you can do to the disks, I have a macbook laptop, for example without booting from an USB Installer, I can save battery power; then another example if I have only 2 USB ports on the logicboard, booting from my internal Recovery I can plug two external USB independent unlocked drives, because as you know when you boot from an USB Installer the USB port used input/output is busy and the device is locked.

That said, in few points I could be agree with your argument.
 
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Thanks to all for answering my question :)

Another question about APFS.
Are there any disadvantages or risks when switching to APFS?

I had High Sierra (APFS) installed on an external SSD and sometimes I got an error message during the boot process and had to reboot several times.

If the switch to APFS is safe, how can I switch from HFS+ to APFS?
 
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Mac Pro 3.1 stock rom, stock 5870, hfs+ HDD

I updated 10.14.0 on Mac Pro with 10.14.1 full Install and Dosdude 1.2.3 Patcher with forced Cache Rebuilt.

Also i did for test sake a clean install of 10.14.1 with 1.2.3.

Boot stucked a little, 3 minutes more than expected. But as always use verbose mode I ve seen progress happen.
 
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Mac Mini 4,1, APFS-formatted drive:
- OTA update to 14.1 = boot loop repeating every 2 seconds
- OTA update to 14.1 + patching the install from a new @dosdude1 1.2.3 patcher tool = boot progress bar stuck at 2/3 for 6 hours. No network connection up, so not even remote ssh.
- reinstall 14 to 14.1 using 1.2.3 patcher and 14.1 installer (including post-install patching) = boot progress bar stuck at 2/3 for 4 hours, no network connectivity as well.

Now rolling back to 14 from a backup, so it is a fail from me, but YMMV.
 
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Here is an interesting APFS feature a bit uncovered:

Without doing a full TimeMachine backup, booting normally from your working Mojave, you can take a snapshot of your current system state, similar as MS Windows restore points or to any Virtualization Software's snapshots.

Unlike GUI TimeMachine these manual snapshots are not stored into the external disk but locally on the internal one, so you need to have some free space, but don’t worry, the terminal command will advise if you can’t take a snapshot because lacking of available space.

It seems still an experimental feature but it works enough fine, I cannot guarantee that a snapshot will work even after a major macOS upgrade.

To take a snapshot open Mojave Terminal and type:
sudo tmutil snapshot

Once you took a snapshot of your current system state, to show a list of them type:
sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /

to delete a snapshot just specify only its date-time label:
sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots 2018-10-29-003015

Then in case, to troubleshooting your main system, instead of re-installing or doing a full (all day long) TimeMachine, you can boot from CMD+R Recovery (using my hated APFS Recovery fix) or from any USB Installer (higher than Sierra to support APFS), simply launching the GUI TimeMachine Utility your snapshots restore points will be there ready-to-use.
 
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jackluke said:
Here is an interesting APFS feature a bit uncovered:

Without doing a full TimeMachine backup, booting normally from your working Mojave, you can take a snapshot of your current system state, similar as MS Windows restore points or to any Virtualization Software's snapshots.
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I believe it is just as old as TimeMachine is. https://support.apple.com/en-bh/HT204015
 
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So localsnapshot can be taken also in HFS+?
I would be good to fast restore a working Snapshot , in case of crashing updated os.
 
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hwojtek said:
I believe it is just as old as TimeMachine is. https://support.apple.com/en-bh/HT204015
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Not exactly.
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pippox0 said:
So localsnapshot can be taken also in HFS+?
I would be good to fast restore a working Snapshot , in case of crashing updated os.
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No, it's an exclusive feature of APFS file system. I mean the way how it stores locally, and how it restores back on the disk.

That apple link who reported @hwojtek is a similar concept but it's treated differently on APFS file system through Terminal commands. I mean what you did on HFS+ of course will be different on APFS.
 
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Macbook Air 4.2 (2011) 4GB/256GB:
Upgrade from 10.14.0 to 10.14.1 via System preferences failed (maybe I did not wait long enough: 3 hours).
Upgrade via USB using dosdude1's Patcher 1.2.3 worked perfectly: Success. Many thanks to dosdude1.

I will report in this message here later how the upgrade of iMac9.1 will go, in order to not flood this thread with messages with little content.

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Macbook Pro 7.1 upgrade from 10.14.0 to 10.14.1 via USB Patcher: Success
iMac9.1 8GB/1TB SSD upgrade from 10.14.0 to 10.14.1 via USB Patcher: Success
iMac 9.1 4GB/640GB HDD upgrade from 10.14.0 to 10.14.1 via USB Patcher: Success
 
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