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macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread
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Hello dosdude I’m thoroughly confused about these steps, not a big terminal guy. I installed 10.4.4, restarted in safe mode, Command-S, entered the terminal commands and couldn’t boot any longer into Mac OS, my boot directory actually disappeared, had to do a Time Machine restore. Maybe I am entering the wrong command into terminal or something. 10.4.4 is the first time I have had problems updating, usually its quite easy and straightforward. I’m on an iMac 7’1.
So one more time the steps are as follows
1. Install macOS 10.4.4
2. Restart in Safe Mode (Command+S)
3. Enter these terminal commands
/sbin/mount -uw /
rm -R /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelHD3000.kext
rm -R /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelHDGraphics.kext
rm -R /System/Library/Extensions/GeForceTesla.kext
exit
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Finally I decided to try SpiraMira's Hybrid patches. Seems to work great!
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I would just erase the hard drive and do a TimeMachine system restore.
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Do you actually managed to do a Mojave Time Machine system restore on an unsupported Mac? Or you did a TM restore of a supported OS on your Mac?
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I would just erase the hard drive and do a TimeMachine system restore.
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Do you actually managed to do a Mojave Time Machine system restore on an unsupported Mac? Or you did a TM restore of a supported OS on your Mac?
From the installer you have to run the command patch and go through the steps. This is listed on the tutorial.
Hi Julian I have a MacBook pro 8,1 running macos Mojave 10.14.3 and it is working fine.
So I am trying to update to the new version 10.14.4 using the same procedure as I did when I installed the version 10.14.3 but it is no working, after the installation when the Mac is initializing I saw just the gray screen with apple logo for a long time freezing. I don't know what I am doing wrong. Could you help me please? Thanks again.
My iMac is 7’1, so it’s unsupported. I restarted, entered the USB installer created from dosdude when originally creating the Post Install Patch, then select the Time Machine menu option and selected a restore point already on my startup drive. It’s whats saving me with not getting 10.4.4 to install properly. I am able to easily revert to 10.4.3 this way.
When running 10.14.4, my Macbook5,1 sees the laptop screen as a 21" monitor and the keyboard as some sort of external keyboard. I tried completely wiping the hard drive and re-installing a freshly patched 10.14.4 from scratch, but the end result is exactly the same - no keyboard backlight and no ability to sleep, and Preferences shows the laptop screen as a 21" monitor and the keyboard as a non-backlit keyboard (with no "adjust keyboard brightness"... checkbox).
Again, any help with this problem would be appreciated.
How do you create a restore point on your startup drive? Is it APFS local snapshot?
MacBook5,1 is quite a unique machine that seems to require the least amount of patches than any other unsupported MacBook/Pro. I would be very careful with what patches I am installing.
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But your machine does not natively support APFS? Did you use any patches or fixes? I am unable to create an APFS local snapshot on my MacBook5,1.
I use APFS since ages ago as well.
Do you use "localsnapshot" command in terminal?
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Probably @CNiles38006 did a full timemachine backup instead of a local snapshot or maybe dosdude1 has fixed the "TimeMachine app" inside his Mojave Patcher to support restoring a TM APFS backup over a APFS-firmware-patched machine.
Do you have used the APFS-ROM-patcher or APFS software efi script patch for your machine ?
Yeah, I know it’s definitely not the full time machine backup to say an external disk. I have that as well but it dates back to November, so it may be the second option you mentioned, because I can select the Time Machine restore option from the external USB stick that has the Post Install Patch for Mojave.
I apologise for asking this question again... Perhaps Colin or someone else could help me.
Mojave 10.14.3 on MBP early'11 15", installed via Colin's patcher.
Everything is fine except for: brightness can't be adjusted by keys (F1/F2) and whet the laptop goes to sleep and awakes, the brightness is zero (there IS picture on the screen, but NO backlight) and can't be increased
Very annoying...
Mojave 10.14.3 on MBP early'11 15", installed via Colin's patcher.
Everything is fine except for: brightness can't be adjusted by keys (F1/F2) and whet the laptop goes to sleep and awakes, the brightness is zero (there IS picture on the screen, but NO backlight) and can't be increased
Very annoying...
Is it just me or does the hybrid transparency patch make both dark mode and light mode transparencies way more transparent and makes the text harder to read? Without the patch, the finder/imessage sidebar for example looks more like translucent fogged glass that's way more subtle
I asked for help in post 3153, but no answer. Here is the question again.l I installed the latest Mojave on my MacMini 3,1 but the fonts and graphics have the jagged edges. Any fixes for this?
Well then it would be correct since the APFS software efi patch doesn't touch the EFI firmware chip leaving integrity and machine in its "original" state.
As for 10.4.4 I’m stuck at the grey screen even after following dosdude’s terminal commands for Single User Mode. When I exit the Single User Mode it’s not booting to desktop to let me install the graphics acceleration patch I downloaded.
