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macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

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avz said:
Updated my system to 10.14.2 without any issues.
1. Clean installed 10.14.1(did not want to waste my limited data on downloading 10.14.2 app, as I already had a 10.14.2 standalone update)
2. Manually patched and successfully installed 10.14.2 update.
3. Restarted to usb and applied post install patches(had to do it twice as the first time I forgot to force cache rebuild).
4. Safari, Mail, Appstore failed to launch, so used Onyx to fix it.
5. Manually patched the Night Shift as per Piker Alpha guide.

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Macbook trackpad, camera, sound, WI-FI and screen brightness all function OK?
 
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Kevbasscat said:
It is by far my favorite thread, and I own a new 27", 2017 5k retina, 3.8Ghz i5 iMac with supported Mojave. I just learn more here in general.

I can't help but wonder what, and how @dosdude1 feels about 10.15. After creating patchers for 10.12, 10.13. 10.14 and dealing with a mind boggling amount of petty details because people don't actually want to learn how to do this. They want someone to hand them the info, then hold their hand while they get it wrong and then fix it for them He's been on a long arduous work and school schedule. At some point he will need a breather. I have mad respect for him, but I've managed people my whole life, and the shorter his responses are, are clear indicators of the increasing stress to his massive workload under a timeframe. He's dealing with it amazingly well. At some point, not too far away, he must consider that balance is key, and his need to catch his breath and/or focus on other opportunities, including his own business as a consultant, repair and mod entity. Everyone does this process their own way. I really hope he does this, for him and so I can just sit here and watch the lazy ones squirm:). Thanks Dosdudes1 for your tireless work ethic and amazing problem, solving skills, and we haven't even spoke about his commitment. Without him, we might still be griping how terrible El Cap is and how we're all stuck on it. You give us hope.
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Dosdude1 is the most dedicated Mac person I know and just sent him a small donation. If he has made your Mac life easier, please send him a token of your gratitude. merry macOSXmas!
 
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Macbook trackpad, camera, sound, WI-FI and screen brightness all function OK?
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Yes, all those things are working perfectly.

Edit: Keep in mind that MacBook5,1 seems to be in the "rare air" as some earlier or later models DO experience some of the issues you mentioned.
 
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Heatshiver said:
I originally formatted to AFPS then installed Mojave, but it would never get to the desktop. Once I changed it back to Mac OS Extended (Journaled), then it had no problem booting.
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It may be somewhat like what I had to go through. Get to the install OS screen and use the terminal. Convert your drive back to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and reinstall. It should boot then.

Here's a video that'll give you the commands:
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My iMac isn't formatted for APFS it already is formatted to MacOS Extended (Journaled).
 
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as soon as I thought I was in the clear I have no audio! I tried reinstalled the legecy audio patch through the updater included in the patcher. No luck though. Anyone have a fix for this?
 
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olad said:
Thank you for expressing so well the opinion of many who visit this site.
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Look what he does for us? Shouldn't we be much more appreciative, considering he's saving many of us an avg. of $2,000-$3,000 because we can't really function on El Cap apps, that have no new updates or choices for new apps. That's how I ended up here.
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Dosdude1 is the most dedicated Mac person I know and just sent him a small donation. If he has made your Mac life easier, please send him a token of your gratitude. merry macOSXmas![

My point exactly. @dosdude1 deserves to be shown how much we appreciate him, because he has shown his unwavering dedication to us, by enabling our legacy machines to operate on three separate unsupported OS's. IF, lol Apple were smart they'd offer him a hefty incentive to "change his focus", or outright hire him. He's costing them millions upon millions of dollars each time he creates these workarounds. I have no idea how he feels about that, although I imagine there is a great deal of satisfaction in beating this behemoth at their own game. To use his extensive skills as a public service alone is more than enough reason to shower him with love, and we all know love is a verb. The only way to express it is by doing or giving. If we each gave 3% to 5% of what he has saved us, given the current cost of replacing them, which seems much more than fair in anyone's book, he would truly feel our gratitude, not just hear it in cheap words. Or...Imagine our world without him, and/or all the other skilled contributors to these threads. How much is that worth to you? "Saying Thank You," is just like saying I'm sorry, cheap words with no intention of lifting a finger to make it right, because you're simply too selfish or ungrateful. Being a person of real character is is earned by your actions.

A side note, to make a point of what I mean about his priorities. I sent him an mbp 8,2 at least two months ago, and he wrote back saying with all that is going on, I'll need to be patient, as he is tapped. Ignoring his own business to help us, is self sacrifice at his expense and it affects his clients. That's simply...not cool, and I promise, that won't continue long. These are basic human rights people, not some sacrifice. If you don't believe me, then erase everything you've received here and revert back to El Cap, that. will change even the most stingy and stubborn of hearts in quick order. Btw, I don't think he know's we're making these reasonable requests, and chime in if you agree or have other reasons why he deserves these blessings. On top of that he's a true gentleman. Now try to find a reason not to show him your gratitude, I dare you.
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Macbookprodude said:
I decided to get rid of the 2011 and go 2012. Now I can run Mojave until Apple no longer supports 2012 MacBook pros.
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May I ask where you picked it up? I'm looking for one also. Any advice would be appreciated, thank you.
 
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albertdrake said:
For what I've seen, mine is not on the supported list. It has a GeForce 9400M / GeForce 9600GT.

I wouldn't describe animations as choppy or anything. In fact, I noticed the same acceleration curve in a recent MBP (2018). Where it lags is when I'm using Chromecast Casting. I haven't tried to play a big video (FullHD or something).
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Your graphics hardware is fully supported. It´s just not written clearly on the first page.
All Nvidia 8600/8800/9400/9600 chips are working fine under Mojave! (I´m going to add this info to #1).
 
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Yojx21 said:
Ok, but once again, both 2008 white macbook got Penryn CPU (T8100 / T8300). ;)
So that's probably the main reason ?
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You´re right. I fired up one of my old MB white 2008 (MacBook 4,1) to see how far I could get with the patched installer or with some harddrive volume containing a working 10.14.2 from another ´book.
The installer times out and throws a "no" sign or if booted in verbose mode, it seems to hang at the same place the first patch experiments did: It seems to power down or lose USB connectivity and then times out with a weird black/gray/white mixture of kernel panic outputs.
On the other hand: The 10.14.2 working install goes straight through to the login screen (with graphics probably unaccelerated) but there also no USB port works. Bluetooth does not work either, so with my machine that has a broken internal flex keyboard/trackpad cable, I´m stuck here, see photo.
Could be interesting to have the MB 4,1 in the patch list for the patcher tool as well, @dosdude1 , for such a machine is not worse off than the ATI equipped hardware-unaccelerated boxes, wouldn´t you think? PM me if I can help in any way by supplying exact setup or other info.
 

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Larsvonhier said:
You´re right. I fired up one of my old MB white 2008 (MacBook 4,1) to see how far I could get with the patched installer or with some harddrive volume containing a working 10.14.2 from another ´book.
The installer times out and throws a "no" sign or if booted in verbose mode, it seems to hang at the same place the first patch experiments did: It seems to power down or lose USB connectivity and then times out with a weird black/gray/white mixture of kernel panic outputs.
On the other hand: The 10.14.2 working install goes straight through to the login screen (with graphics probably unaccelerated) but there also no USB port works. Bluetooth does not work either, so with my machine that has a broken internal flex keyboard/trackpad cable, I´m stuck here, see photo.
Could be interesting to have the MB 4,1 in the patch list for the patcher tool as well, @dosdude1 , for such a machine is not worse off than the ATI equipped hardware-unaccelerated boxes, wouldn´t you think? PM me if I can help in any way by supplying exact setup or other info.
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Maybe the installer won’t boot because the telemetry plugin is killing SSE4 devices. It boots to the system because that has been removed? Maybe the telemetry plugin has been the problem all this time.
 
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0403979 said:
Maybe the installer won’t boot because the telemetry plugin is killing SSE4 devices. It boots to the system because that has been removed? Maybe the telemetry plugin has been the problem all this time.
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The telemetry plugin comes way later - upon logging in to the user account. The installer crashes much earlier, when USB and other hw is not properly enabled. And it would "kill" non-SSE4 devices/CPUs. Also: I used the latest installer created with the v1.2.3 of the patcher - should be removed there already.
 
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Larsvonhier said:
You´re right. I fired up one of my old MB white 2008 (MacBook 4,1) to see how far I could get with the patched installer or with some harddrive volume containing a working 10.14.2 from another ´book.
The installer times out and throws a "no" sign or if booted in verbose mode, it seems to hang at the same place the first patch experiments did: It seems to power down or lose USB connectivity and then times out with a weird black/gray/white mixture of kernel panic outputs.
On the other hand: The 10.14.2 working install goes straight through to the login screen (with graphics probably unaccelerated) but there also no USB port works. Bluetooth does not work either, so with my machine that has a broken internal flex keyboard/trackpad cable, I´m stuck here, see photo.
Could be interesting to have the MB 4,1 in the patch list for the patcher tool as well, @dosdude1 , for such a machine is not worse off than the ATI equipped hardware-unaccelerated boxes, wouldn´t you think? PM me if I can help in any way by supplying exact setup or other info.
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I had a similar issue and fixed through another mac laptop using the T key target disk mode through Firewire cable, you have to inject inside your installing path /System/Library/Prelinkedkernel/ a "patched prelinkedkernel" with embedded in the IOUSB legacy kexts, then you will able to use any BT input devices, except keyboard/mouse with broken flex cable, of course.
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0403979 said:
Maybe the installer won’t boot because the telemetry plugin is killing SSE4 devices. It boots to the system because that has been removed? Maybe the telemetry plugin has been the problem all this time.
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Absolutely not, I have done all the possible experiments about that, the ONLY mandatory plugin required to reach the "stage1 apple logo progress bar" and pass the "stage2 logon screen" is this one: com.apple.remoted.plugin

All the others plugins are almost unuseful.
 
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mshifrer said:
So this is where Im at right now. I did the installation of Mojave with both the 2600 and the 770 installed. Finished the installation applied the required patches (not the legacy video card patch) shut the computer down. Pulled the old 2600 out, but Im still getting the same result. No video from the 770. When the 2600 is installed both cards show up in the system profiler, so I know the card is working its just a matter of not getting any video out from it.
[doublepost=1545921207][/doublepost]I finally figured out the issue. It turns out that Mojave has dropped support for anything that uses VGA adaptors. I just tried a straight DVI to DVI cable from my MP to my monitor and everything is working like it should! Thank you to everyone for all the help and support you guys have provided to keep this machines going and going!
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Hello, your problem is not mojave vga suport, since I have two hp2007w vga monitors atached to my macbook pro 8.1 and they are working fine. One is connected with a thunderbolt to vga adaptor and one with a usb to vga displaylink adaptor.
 
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mshifrer said:
as soon as I thought I was in the clear I have no audio! I tried reinstalled the legecy audio patch through the updater included in the patcher. No luck though. Anyone have a fix for this?
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No problems with 10.14.2 with the legacy audio patches here on a MacPro 3,1 with GTX 680. Make sure you have the correct output selected for the audio to route to your speakers.
 
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Larsvonhier said:
The telemetry plugin comes way later - upon logging in to the user account. The installer crashes much earlier, when USB and other hw is not properly enabled. And it would "kill" non-SSE4 devices/CPUs. Also: I used the latest installer created with the v1.2.3 of the patcher - should be removed there already.
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The plugin is still present in the installer though.
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jackluke said:
I had a similar issue and fixed through another mac laptop using the T key target disk mode through Firewire cable, you have to inject inside your installing path /System/Library/Prelinkedkernel/ a "patched prelinkedkernel" with embedded in the IOUSB legacy kexts, then you will able to use any BT input devices, except keyboard/mouse with broken flex cable, of course.
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Absolutely not, I have done all the possible experiments about that, the ONLY mandatory plugin required to reach the "stage1 apple logo progress bar" and pass the "stage2 logon screen" is this one: com.apple.remoted.plugin

All the others plugins are almost unuseful.
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I said that I thought removing it would fix it. I know it’s useless.
 
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I have a MacBook Air Mid, 2011 and a MacBook Pro Late 2008. Is it worth the risk of me trying to install Mojave on these machines? Will it help me any? I need some perspective here and advice. Thanks in advance.
Paul
 
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Larsvonhier said:
You´re right. I fired up one of my old MB white 2008 (MacBook 4,1) to see how far I could get with the patched installer or with some harddrive volume containing a working 10.14.2 from another ´book.
The installer times out and throws a "no" sign or if booted in verbose mode, it seems to hang at the same place the first patch experiments did: It seems to power down or lose USB connectivity and then times out with a weird black/gray/white mixture of kernel panic outputs.
On the other hand: The 10.14.2 working install goes straight through to the login screen (with graphics probably unaccelerated) but there also no USB port works. Bluetooth does not work either, so with my machine that has a broken internal flex keyboard/trackpad cable, I´m stuck here, see photo.
Could be interesting to have the MB 4,1 in the patch list for the patcher tool as well, @dosdude1 , for such a machine is not worse off than the ATI equipped hardware-unaccelerated boxes, wouldn´t you think? PM me if I can help in any way by supplying exact setup or other info.
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Yeah, I've wondered about older MacBooks too. I have a MacBook3,1 that I figure could probably boot Mojave; it has a Penryn CPU with SSE4.1 so that's not an issue. But there's no way to get acceleration on the GMA 950 and it's slow even on Lion, so I never bothered trying. It would be an interesting exercise though!

Edit: Looks like I'm stupid -- wrong on both counts. It's got neither a Penryn CPU nor a GMA 950. It has a Merom CPU and a GMA X3100. I got the specs totally mixed up with a different machine. Sorry about that!
 
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Kevbasscat said:
Look what he does for us? Shouldn't we be much more appreciative, considering he's saving many of us an avg. of $2,000-$3,000 because we can't really function on El Cap apps, that have no new updates or choices for new apps. That's how I ended up here.

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May I ask where you picked it up? I'm looking for one also. Any advice would be appreciated, thank you.
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Ebay.. they have a lot of them and not too expensive. I have the hard ware test and ASD for it, so i don't need the whole thing in the box. Just be sure the 2012 is in great shape and not with a lot of problems. Use best judgment and a 2012 will be in your reach.
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jackluke said:
I believe your 2012 machine will be supported at least until 10.16 future release osx "Very High Mojave".
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At that point hopefully the 2015 MacBook pros will be affordable.. i can't afford 2K for a computer.
 
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