macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

[visberry]

Thats not my point - Speed is not the only determining factor.
Apple is not responsible for a 2011 machine running their latest, greatest software when it is in early release Beta form. Wait for the OS code to be a bit more mature, a bit less bleedin' edge before you condemn them.
Have a great weekend!

Very true, I am a software engineer and I cannot tell you how annoying it is to carry older versions/hardware in apps. (on the windows side anyway)

 

[appleDudeMojave]

after the install i use the macOS Post install and choose my system Mac 8,1

but still i have:
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Same for me. I use an iMac mid 2010 21.5 inch Intel Core I3 (iMac 11,2).
Someone found a solution?

 

[ASentientBot]

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Same for me. I use an iMac mid 2010 21.5 inch Intel Core I3 (iMac 11,2).
Someone found a solution?

Disable rootless...

sudo nvram boot-args="-no_compat_check"

 

[Larsvonhier]

You don´t seem to have video acceleration from what you report. On systems with acceleration there is no tearing and i.e. on the HD3000 of my MB Air it is so snappy that I already made this my primary (and even only!) macOS now.

Report: Successful install on 2011 iMac
iMac12,2 2.7 GHz Core i5-2500S, 12 GB RAM, AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB

Install to Firewire 400 disk formatted as APFS worked, but wouldn't boot. I got the no symbol. I didn't try reformatting it as HFS+. So I created a new APFS partition on my internal drive and that worked. (I love how easy this is to do via APFS.)


Initial impression:

System was very, very, very slow during setup and early use. It seemed to progress to just being slow after a while.
Youtube HD videos play correctly in Safari.
The News application is interesting, but content is too dense. It needs more white space.
Chrome seems to work OK.


Problems:

"Automatically adjust brightness" doesn't work.
Lots of video tearing when moving windows, many windows don't redraw until they take damage.
Lastpass application crashes, lastpass Safari extension doesn't work until you restart Safari.
Home application won't launch, says that it's damaged or incomplete (?).


So kudos to dosdude1 for getting this to work at all, but while it's interesting to play with it's really not usable for day to day use.

 

[appleDudeMojave]

Disable rootless...

sudo nvram boot-args="-no_compat_check"

Thanks for helping me. but it doesn't work.

 

[OGNerd]

Hello, I have a 2011 MacBook Pro 15 inch - will Mojave work on this, or is there not a work around ?

Yes it will, using @dosdude1's tool.

 

[nekton1]

Look back in the thread around pages 42 thru 45. I have the exact same iMac (11,2) with the HD5670 GPU. It runs Mojave semi-ok, but with only partial GPU acceleration.

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Same for me. I use an iMac mid 2010 21.5 inch Intel Core I3 (iMac 11,2).
Someone found a solution?

 

[visberry]

Has anyone tried to take Core 2 Duo files from Sierra/High Sierra and patch them on?

 

[Insleep]

Got Mojave working on my old 2011 15" MBP! GPU died a while ago on it anyway, so no AMD acceleration doesn't matter for me. Thanks dosdude1, parrotgeek1, and everyone else involved with this project!

 

[visberry]

Got Mojave working on my old 2011 15" MBP! GPU died a while ago on it anyway, so no AMD acceleration doesn't matter for me. Thanks dosdude1, parrotgeek1, and everyone else involved with this project!

Yeah! Hopefully we can get Core 2 Duo working soon , don't like living in the high country at the moment, want to move to the desert!

 

[ctaylora1231]

Got Mojave running on an external thunderbolt SSD on my 2011 Mac mini. Thank you to dosdude1 and parrotgeek1 and everyone else hard work. I also got the continuity activation tool to install as well to make the Continuity Camera feature functional. I hope as the betas roll on we don’t have any issues. Seems to be running good now. Although as you see in my photo that I have some black boxes in the new Home app, any one else having this issue. I’m hoping it’s a Mojave beta issue.​

 

[visberry]

View attachment 768492 Got Mojave running on an external thunderbolt SSD on my 2011 Mac mini. Thank you to dosdude1 and parrotgeek1 and everyone else hard work. I also got the continuity activation tool to install as well to make the Continuity Camera feature functional. I hope as the betas roll on we don’t have any issues. Seems to be running good now. Although as you see in my photo that I have some black boxes in the new Home app, any one else having this issue. I’m hoping it’s a Mojave beta issue.​

How can you get Continity Activation Tool, work on my 2010 MacBook Pro (High Sierra 10.13.5)

 

[rmendez011]

Well, using the patcher tool provided by @dosdude1, I got MacOS Mojave running again on my 2011 MacBook Pro 15", when I booted everything was laggy, and I had no sound, so I got the IntelHD3000 kexts from 10.12 Beta, plus the AMD Drivers for the dedicated GPU, and also the AppleHDA kext from 10.13.6 beta, and it fixed many issues, sound works, its less laggy, and I have transparency on the dedicated GPU (gfxCardStatus can't switch it to the integrated one sadly) but now I have weird artifacts everywhere, on the menu bar, system prefrences, and websites, here in MacRumors, I can't see many things on the websites the profiles pics look weird.

 

[abcdefg12345]

continuity activation tools works as well, wonder if @dosdude1 can merge it with his Mojave patch, would be nice to get an all in one packages in Mojave patcher tool that includes continuity patch, night shift and dark boot screen.

 

[nathansz]

installed on 2011 27” i5 3.1 using @dosdude1 patch

thanks for all the work everyone!

no problem installing.
had to copy kext from high sierra to get wifi.

in some ways feels more responsive (“snappier”) than on 2012 non-retina mbp

the gui is definitely choppy though i suppose due to the lack of acceleration for the amd 6970

maps app opens but shows no map. just a blue location dot and local temperature on a blank black canvas where the map should be

i also left the machine running twice while doing stuff round the house for awhile and when i came back it seemed to be stuck in sleep maybe?

it acted as if powered off. black screen and no response from keyboard or mouse, but usb hub with a power indicator light was on.

both times had to unplug power in order to turn off and restart


i haven’t had a chance to check any logs yet

i’m not knowledgeable enough to do anything useful on my own,

but since i have it installed if there’s anything anyone thinks of i can do testing why or pulling logs to try and help the effort to get acceleration working for the old amd cards i can take instruction well and i’m happy to help

 

[Larsvonhier]

Well, using the patcher tool provided by @dosdude1, I got MacOS Mojave running again on my 2011 MacBook Pro 15", when I booted everything was laggy, and I had no sound, so I got the IntelHD3000 kexts from 10.12 Beta, plus the AMD Drivers for the dedicated GPU, and also the AppleHDA kext from 10.13.6 beta, and it fixed many issues, sound works, its less laggy, and I have transparency on the dedicated GPU (gfxCardStatus can't switch it to the integrated one sadly) but now I have weird artifacts everywhere, on the menu bar, system prefrences, and websites, here in MacRumors, I can't see many things on the websites the profiles pics look weird.

Seems you have the gfxcard switcher running and set to "d". I wonder if it would be better to completely remove all AMD kexts and switch to "i" for the HD3000. Should solve your choppy artifacts!

 

[visberry]

Core 2 Duos have no progress, anyone has any advancements?

 

[seb.wagner]

Core 2 Duos have no progress, anyone has any advancements?

I'm very much hoping for that as well. Would extend the lifetime of my MacBook Pro 5,5 (Mid 2009) for another year. Really trying to still use it at its 10-year-anniversary …

 

[iApply]

installed on 2011 27” i5 3.1 using @dosdude1 patch

thanks for all the work everyone!

no problem installing.
had to copy kext from high sierra to get wifi.

Can you share where to find the kext and how to copy it to mojave
I got it running on a second partition with the first still being high sierra...

 

[ashtekuk]

I'm very much hoping for that as well. Would extend the lifetime of my MacBook Pro 5,5 (Mid 2009) for another year. Really trying to still use it at its 10-year-anniversary …

Ya, I still trying to use my MacBook Pro 2011 as long as I can. Cant afford a new Mac, specially they so expensive at the moment. I was so annoyed that they stop supporting the 2011 model. It so capable running Mojave, shown by using the patch. When I found this forum, I was thankfully for @dosdude1 for bringing new life to the old models that apple abandoned.

 

[valorn]

Hi

Is there an updated old models compatibility list for Mojave?

Mine is Macbook Pro mid 2009, SSD, 8 Gb RAM, running High Sierra.

Thanks

 

[ctaylora1231]

How can you get Continity Activation Tool, work on my 2010 MacBook Pro (High Sierra 10.13.5)

You will need to install a Bluetooth 4.0 dongle. Download install continuity activation tool from github.

 

[e_ch]

continuity activation tools works as well, wonder if @dosdude1 can merge it with his Mojave patch, would be nice to get an all in one packages in Mojave patcher tool that includes continuity patch, night shift and dark boot screen.

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Sorry for offtop. So there is a tool to change white boot screen to Apple's UEFI black one? Is it dangerous for firmware?

 

[gt2416]

Sorry for offtop. So there is a tool to change white boot screen to Apple's UEFI black one? Is it dangerous for firmware?

https://github.com/w0lfschild/DarkBoot
If that doesnt work there are plenty other tools. A quick google search will give you what you want. No idea if it works on Mojave though. You can be the ginny pig
Update : Ok I had to try it and it works ! The black logo looks AAMMAAZZZING !
[doublepost=1530448966][/doublepost]@dosdude1 Will the tool work for restoring from a time machine backup ? Since installing Mojave requires a few tweaks and stuff its irritating if I need to reinstall. Since a timemachine backup is just an image of the boot drive can I restore my Mojave install from lets say High Sierra installer ?

 

[ashtekuk]

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Same for me. I use an iMac mid 2010 21.5 inch Intel Core I3 (iMac 11,2).
Someone found a solution?

Try following my steps I posted for my MacBook Pro 2011 model. I found out that if I install it on a APFS format drive, it will not boot up and show what showing for you. So I had to format it to another format for it to work. This is because for some reason, the APFS patch is greyed out, so I could not apply the patch for it to work.

Here is my post with the steps I took, https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ted-macs-thread.2121473/page-56#post-26202624

Let me know how it goes. This should allow you to install it.