Thanks for your work. On both my MacBook 6,1 and MacBookPro 5,1 using the GeForce 9400M sometimes videos on FaceBook or YouTube will not play. Would your script fix this?
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Hugh
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Cheers
Hugh
Those interested in forming a Q&A, where do we put it and who should have edit access? I guess Google Docs, a GitHub wiki, or maybe even another thread? Edit access depends on if we want a community edited Q&A or one edited by people with a higher level of understanding of certain subjects.
I would honestly just use ReadTheDocs. Quite a good menu, full-text search and indexing by Google, versioning, coupled to GitHub etc.
I would like to contribute to this project by starting to write up some of the issues I encountered incl. fixes, so you have a more distanced End User POV if you so will.
e.g. the APFS stuff or that I couldn't get @dosdude1's macOS Mojave Patcher to work on MBP Late 2018 running Mojave with multiple USB sticks. No issues when running the application on older macOS versions.
I guess we'll start on there with us two as editors? I'm not sure what I'll contribute yet but I could do a write up of the patches used and how they work. Who will be the account owner? (We should maybe continue this in a dm.)
Can you give a link to a similar video that does not play? On youtube (i don't have facebook account)
Idk if it's the best idea for him to own the account. I think the idea of a Q&A is helpful to him because it means he has less questions to respond to. Would be better if he didn't have to manage it either.
Nah, I don't mind. I can make the account and just add people to contribute to it.
Ok. I don't want to overwhelm you with stuff to do. I guess we'll see what @icevolt says about setup and we'll go from there. I asked a question a few pages ago about how you made your prelinked kernels. I use your versions for Sierra and High Sierra. I wanted to know what drivers you replaced. i just replace the USB and SIP ones instead of running the full tool.
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turns out ReadTheDocs is actually generated over GitHub repos. @dosdude1 just open a repository rq and link it to your ReadTheDocs account - I'll do a pull request then.
Quite a good sample we can use as a template is https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
turns out ReadTheDocs is actually generated over GitHub repos. @dosdude1 just open a repository rq and link it to your ReadTheDocs account - I'll do a pull request then.
Quite a good sample we can use as a template is https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Try playing this Full HD video (30Mb) made by iPhone. I only repacked it by a Subler in mp4 and deleted the metadata. If AppleGVA.framework from 10.14, it is played on my MacBook with several jerks. When AppleGVA is set from 10.13.6, it plays smoothly. Maybe this video is suitable for the test.
Playback in the preview by pressing the spacebar-that's enough
Sounds reasonable, but I'll look into a structure etc tomorrow. I'm quite mad right now, cause @dosdude1's macOS Patcher (High Sierra this time) managed to brick yet another USB stick of mine.
I don't know man. Guess one of the topics should definitely be Compatible USB Sticks.
Thumbdrives that worked for me with @dosdude1's Mojave patcher:
Transcend (32 GB Jet Flash [USB3])
SanDisk (8GB U3 Cruzer, 8GB Cruzer Fit, 128GB Cruzer Ultra Fit [USB3])
TrekStor (16GB Click)
You do not need to use MacOS patcher to install High Sierra on MacBook6,1. You need to create a regular USB flash drive with the Mac OS High Sierra installer from the Appstore. After downloading the installer to the program folder, you can use the terminal command to create a flash drive
Code:
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume+ Intenso Micro Line (16GB USB)
+ Intenso High Performance (10GB Partition on SSD)
It is physically impossible for your USB drive to become "bricked", as it is doing nothing more than copying files to it. Some drives, though, for some reason don't boot.
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I came here to let Dosdude1 know about a couple of small issues with the patcher. This actually cleared up one of those. The two issues I've found thus far :
1) Older machines with the 9400M video card work fine on everything EXCEPT DVD playback. The built in Apple DVD player worked fine in High Sierra, but does not in Mojave. The DVD player will open, sometimes you can hear a few seconds of Audio, but then the screen goes black and everything you click on or press says Not Permitted. I just tested gosvamih's patch on a 2008 Aluminum Macbook5,1 and a 2009 Macbookpro5,5. Both 13" A1278 Models. Both failed to work before the patch, and both worked after the patch. I will try it ASAP on a Macbook6,1 and the 2009 iMac 20". Most of the others on the list I don't have access to or see very often if at all.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204349#nvidia
2) When running the Post-Install Patcher from the USB Mojave drive, if you check the box for Recovery Partition Patch and there is no Recovery Partition present, the patch process simply fails silently and returns you to the main screen. I realize this is an uncommon scenario, but nonetheless it took a while to pinpoint.
BTW - Huge thanks Dosdude1, your tool truly makes it easy to get Mojave working on these unsupported Macs. Now with the Wifi patch for the 4321 cards and this DVD patch hopefully integrated into the next version, we can make it even easier.
I came here to let Dosdude1 know about a couple of small issues with the patcher. This actually cleared up one of those. The two issues I've found thus far :
1) Older machines with the 9400M video card work fine on everything EXCEPT DVD playback. The built in Apple DVD player worked fine in High Sierra, but does not in Mojave. The DVD player will open, sometimes you can hear a few seconds of Audio, but then the screen goes black and everything you click on or press says Not Permitted. I just tested gosvamih's patch on a 2008 Aluminum Macbook5,1 and a 2009 Macbookpro5,5. Both 13" A1278 Models. Both failed to work before the patch, and both worked after the patch. I will try it ASAP on a Macbook6,1 and the 2009 iMac 20". Most of the others on the list I don't have access to or see very often if at all.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204349#nvidia
2) When running the Post-Install Patcher from the USB Mojave drive, if you check the box for Recovery Partition Patch and there is no Recovery Partition present, the patch process simply fails silently and returns you to the main screen. I realize this is an uncommon scenario, but nonetheless it took a while to pinpoint.
BTW - Huge thanks Dosdude1, your tool truly makes it easy to get Mojave working on these unsupported Macs. Now with the Wifi patch for the 4321 cards and this DVD patch hopefully integrated into the next version, we can make it even easier.
You don't need a patcher to install High Sierra on a MacBook 6,1 - just install the usual way as it's fully supported by Apple.
Cheers
Hugh
Yeah cheers. But I need to go through the same routine with my MB 5,1 later tonight, so I might as well create a patched drive. Also handy to have them laying around in a more universal format. Thanks for all the help and insight from everyone btw! Really blown away by how active this community is.
Well I just unpacked that Intenso Alu Line today, plugged it into the Mac and the Patcher just sat there at 10% for some minutes. It then spitted out cp not possible, target drive no longer there etc. I tried to reformat it on Mac using diskutil, Disk Utility, on Windows using diskpart, on Linux using fdisk. While the controller still reports the correct size, formatting simply doesn't seem to work anymore.
But it's whatever, was just a 5€ stick, just a little annoyed by how inconsistent results are with the Patcher seem to be from time to time. I wrote you an email earlier today with details outlining possible issues with the macOS Mojave Patcher running on Mojave. Anyways, I'll dm you the Github name rq.
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It took me a while to find a video on YouTube that won't play, but this one will not...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dP4WAXqBtc
Cheers
Hugh
For updating the MacBook's Boot Rom, this may be critical for the installer to be from Appstore without replacing files in it. The firmware occurs immediately after the step of unpacking files from a USB flash drive to a hard drive and in time after the first reboot. So it is better that it was the installer from appstore unchanged, otherwise there is no guarantee that the firmware will be updated.
Sounds like just a bad drive from the start, then. I've had a lot of flash drives just spontaneously unmount themselves or even become completely unreadable. I prefer an external HDD. Or even better, just a partition on the internal drive. This is how I do all my installs.
I have a bad experience with Intenso drives and especially sticks. Got several (branded as giveaways) from a German media company I work with from time and most of them are already in the trash. Never had problems with their blank DVDs or CDs though.
You were right. Firmware update and APFS conversion of the drive only worked with the stock/original High Sierra installer. Another thing to note for the wiki I guess.