macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

[Badruzeus]

So I expanded the .pkg file, BUT changing the function FileSystem1 was NOT necessary because it looked already like this , without changing anything:

There should be error logs from "Window - Installer Logs", take a look into it and find what caused these issue.

 

[Pralaya]

This too complicated for me, thanks, I quit.

 

[monyker]

I used the Mojave patcher to create a USB installer (16GB Verbatim UFD), and tried booting to the USB drive on a Mid 2011 Mac mini and secondly an Early 2008 Mac Pro. High Sierra is currently installed on both, patched to date. When I attempt to boot to the Mojave USB flash drive, I see the Apple logo, the progress bar gets to around 50% or so relatively quickly, then from there it very slowly advances until it appears to be at 100%, but never moves beyond that screen. I did a verbose boot on the Mac Pro and eventually I see a lot of (apparently repeated) lines like:

com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] - <Notice>: Service exited due to SIGSEV
com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] - <Notice>: Service only ran for 0 seconds, pushing respawn out for 10 seconds
com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] - <Warning>: Service exited with abnormal code

I see many repeated entries like the above, for com.apple.trustd, com.apple.WindowServer and com.apple.pluginkit.pkd

Any ideas/suggestions?

Thank you!

 

[krishnajha]

MacBookPro8,1 the update (10.14.3) went fine from the system update app. Nothing to reinstall.

 

[Rico]

Just wanted to express my gratitude to @dosdude1 and the rest of the heroes who've made it possible for me to hack my aging iMac 10,1 (SSD, max RAM) to Mojave for some development needs not possible in a VM (my unkillable Mac Pro 3,1 3.2GHz 8 core is stalled on Sierra because HS was a bomb and my nVidia card turned out to be a pricey Mojave gamble fail while I await the new Mac Pros).

Other than the ugly display issues in Light Mode (couldn't take Dark Mode for more then 15 minutes), I seem to be in good shape -- I even have my iSight camera, WiFi, etc.

Giving some thought to sticking a $30 WiFi/BT 4.x card I have laying around (just need the $5 adapter) to get some extra Handoff and Continuity goodness; and I don't see why the family can't continue to use this for a year or two more (display issues ugliness aside).

Question: besides @dosdude1 's donation page, should I be throwing anyone else some love?

EDIT: PS: I love that after 18.5 years, I'm still a 'newbie'.

 

[L Caputo]

This too complicated for me, thanks, I quit.

If you want to try again, this works.

Download the update.

Open the update.

Move the update.pkg to Desktop.


Open Terminal.


Enter pkgutil --expand now drag and drop the .pkg from the Desktop into the Terminal window and type after a space ~/Desktop/Expanded hit Return and wait, this takes a little while.


Open Expanded folder and then open Distribution file in Text Edit


Scroll down to the line


function InstallationCheck(prefix) {


enter the text return true; so it looks like this


function InstallationCheck(prefix) {return true;

Now save the changes


If you are trying to install the update to an HFS+ disk then there is another alteration you can make, before flattening and creating the package.

Again in the Distribution file scroll down to


function VolumeCheck(prefix) {


again enter return true; after the bracket, so it looks like this,


function VolumeCheck(prefix) {return true;


Save changes


Go back to Terminal enter pkgutil --flatten ~/Desktop/Expanded ~/Desktop/Modified.pkg

Using the .pkg extension is crucial.


One thing to note is if your Mac like mine has different OS's on it on other drives this method will tell you that all drives are able to install the update, DO NOT INSTALL ON ANY DISK/ PARTITION, ONLY INSTALL TO A DISK/ PARTITION THAT HAS MOJAVE ON IT. Select your disk wisely, and double check.

 

[LuisN]

Hello everyone,

my MacBook 5,2 and I, we celebrated our 10 years companionship this month.

Today I opened the MacBook to identify the type of EEPROM in order to choose the right type for flashing APFS Rom-Patcher.

Unfortunatly, I couldn't find the EEPROM.

Please, can someone tell on which side of the printed circuit board the EEPROM is soldered?

The OTHER side.
you must remove the board to be able to access the efi chip

 

[avz]

Now this is more like it but still showcases why the late 2008 unibody MacBooks have aged extremely well:


Full results: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/compare/11978364?baseline=11966552

Sorry guys, no more numbers.

 

[0403979]

Just wanted to express my gratitude to @dosdude1 and the rest of the heroes who've made it possible for me to hack my aging iMac 10,1 (SSD, max RAM) to Mojave for some development needs not possible in a VM (my unkillable Mac Pro 3,1 3.2GHz 8 core is stalled on Sierra because HS was a bomb and my nVidia card turned out to be a pricey Mojave gamble fail while I await the new Mac Pros).

Other than the ugly display issues in Light Mode (couldn't take Dark Mode for more then 15 minutes), I seem to be in good shape -- I even have my iSight camera, WiFi, etc.

Giving some thought to sticking a $30 WiFi/BT 4.x card I have laying around (just need the $5 adapter) to get some extra Handoff and Continuity goodness; and I don't see why the family can't continue to use this for a year or two more (display issues ugliness aside).

Question: besides @dosdude1 's donation page, should I be throwing anyone else some love?

EDIT: PS: I love that after 18.5 years, I'm still a 'newbie'.

CAT doesn't work on Mojave or even High Sierra.

 

[mychalme]

Mac Mini Mid 2011. Upgraded to 10.14.3.

No audio after upgrade. Re-applied the patches, audio is now working.

Seems to be all ok.

 

[patsio]

MacBookPro8,1 the update (10.14.3) went fine from the system update app. Nothing to reinstall.

Facetime doesn't work for me, any ideas pls? (MBpro early 2011, 13")

 

[Balaur]

Happy to report that Supplemental Update 10.14.3 went great through the System Preferences. There was no need to apply post install patches!

Same for my machine, updated through System Preferences, no need to apply post install patches.

 

[dosdude1]

Now this is more like it but still showcases why the late 2008 unibody MacBooks have aged extremely well:

View attachment 820709
Full results: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/compare/11978364?baseline=11966552

Sorry guys, no more numbers.

With some upgrades, you can get some pretty ridiculous performance out of these systems: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/11524751

If you're curious as to how this was achieved, I made a video about the CPU upgrade process here:

 

[VSEPR]

With some upgrades, you can get some pretty ridiculous performance out of these systems: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/11524751

If you're curious as to how this was achieved, I made a video about the CPU upgrade process here:

If I supplied the replacement chip, how much would I have to pay you to do this upgrade for me?

 

[Bluep7]

Hi everyone new poster here,

Thanks for all your effort I now have Mojave running on my Macbook Pro 6,2. All is working well there is just one glitch I wanted to ask if anyone has any ideas on how to fix, I think it has something to do with permissions but not sure. When the discrete graphics switches to the integrated graphics the cursor disappears for a few seconds/the screen freezes and I noticed there's some error messages in the console about the contextstored writing a value but can't due to the sandbox/permissions:



Seems to only be when going from discrete to integrated, integrated to discrete is fine/has no freeze. It's not important as all is running well and it's great to be on the latest software, but just wanted to ask, thanks.

 

[alphascorp]

Hi,
The Supplemental Update 10.14.3 (18D109) went well on my MBP5,3 without having to re-apply the post install patches.
However, in order to install this update, I had to modify the "Distribution" file contained in "macOSUpd10.14.3Supplemental.pkg" like this:

function InstallationCheck(prefix) {return true;

and this because I am on a HFS+ disk

function VolumeCheck(prefix) {return true;

these lines did not need to be modified because they were correct:

function FileSystem1(prefix) {
if (my.target.filesystem &amp;&amp; my.target.filesystem.type == 'hfs') {
return true;
}
return false;
}

 

[MTBnBeer]

Supplemental Update 10.14.3 (18D109) installed flawlessly on my 17" Early 2008 MBP4,1 without having to re-apply the post install patches.

 

[Tanith]

[...] can't connect to bluetooth speakers. [...] It tries to connect to speakers, connects for a couple of seconds (a led light on speakers confirms the connection, but without sound) and immediately disconnects. Is there a way to fix it [...]?

You should use these two kext IOBluetoothFamily.kext and IOBluetoothHIDDriver.kext taking from a Mojave clean installation [...] using those inside the USB Installer I guess won't work cause they are smaller in size so presumably can't cover all the BT devices.

In case you don't have, I attach both the Bluetooth kexts from a clean Mojave GoldenMaster, replace the ones inside your Mojave /System/Library/Extensions/ after you have to launch Terminal and type:

sudo chmod -R 755 /S*/L*/E*
sudo chown -R 0:0 /S*/L*/E*
sudo kextcache -i /
sudo reboot

Thank you so much! I did not found out why my AirPods could not be connected to my old Mac mini despite it has a supported bluetooth modul. With changing the Bluetooth kexts from version 6.0.10 to the ones from a clean Mojave GoldenMaster (version 6.0.8) and updating the kext caches it know works perfectly fine.

 

[avz]

With some upgrades, you can get some pretty ridiculous performance out of these systems: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/11524751

If you're curious as to how this was achieved, I made a video about the CPU upgrade process here:

Yeah, you did a great job! If I was in the states I would definitely asked you to do a BGA swap for me, even though I don't really need much power, it is still very cool!

 

[0403979]

With some upgrades, you can get some pretty ridiculous performance out of these systems: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/11524751

If you're curious as to how this was achieved, I made a video about the CPU upgrade process here:

Can you replace the CPU on a MacBook7,1?

 

[h123]

IT IS here ! and VERY SMALL.

The image I've uploaded shows the position. Reading the number to identify yours is difficult. I first tried a magnifying glass. Even that didn't help. I tried taking a photo with my iPhone - I couldn't get it to focus well. I succeeded taking a 2400 pixel per inch color scan using a flat-bed scanner - then zooming in on the picture - I added an annotation on picture giving the number for future reference.

Here is mine cropped and blown up to 200%

Thank you very much. I didn't dare to disassemble the MB further - I just disassembled the keyboard so far.

My MB 5,2 dates back to Early 2009, yours too?

Best regards
Heinz

 

[Mikki77]

CAT doesn't work on Mojave or even High Sierra.

Why do you think? I've got the exact same iMac 10,1, updated Airport Card and running all Continuity features by applying CAT.
The only tweak you have to do is manually whitelisting your model (maybe you don't even need CAT after that anymore?!?). However, it works that way.

 

[h123]

The OTHER side.
you must remove the board to be able to access the efi chip

Thank you, LuisN. I am going to drill down within the next days.

 

[olad]

Hi,
The Supplemental Update 10.14.3 (18D109) went well on my MBP5,3 without having to re-apply the post install patches.
However, in order to install this update, I had to modify the "Distribution" file contained in "macOSUpd10.14.3Supplemental.pkg" like this:

...
View attachment 820737

Forgive me, but how do I get into package? I see no 'Show Package Contents' for it with a right-click. Thank you for your help.

 

[dosdude1]

Can you replace the CPU on a MacBook7,1?

Yes, I can indeed. A 3.06 GHz T9900 can be installed.