macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

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Mbp mid 2009 15" 5.4 and early 2011 13" 8.1

Also got t2 update and installed it.
I think boot is a bit slower now..
But nothing else seems to make probs.

 

[gosvamih]

Now made for 10.14.5 version of SpiraMira-HybridMode-Patcher
https://github.com/Andrej-Antipov/SpiraMira-HybridMode-Patcher/releases/tag/1.43
The patch is used this https://github.com/SpiraMira/HybridMode-Public/releases/tag/v1.5
The script gets it over the network. Another script in the set - "uninstall" - returns original files from 10.14.5 (18F132)
I checked the work of scripts on 10.14.5 on my hardware

 

[webg3]

A pre-release being tested by some of us here. So far so good.

No official support for .6b1 yet, but @TimothyR734 just tested these patches on .6b1 with no adverse effects.
I'll need some time to install .6b1 and review the relevant framework differences (if there are any that matter)
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By the way, did you ever get a chance to dig into why your OpenCL finding revives News/News+ ? I may have missed it.

Thanks for bringing Flat Mode back, I'd rather use it, it's much more consistent like that.
I like It.
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[antibolo]

So has anyone here had success running an encrypted APFS boot volume on an unsupported Mac?

 

[Rastafabi]

I just enabled FileVault and then after the next reboot I can't get into my system at all, my login is refused, and even the recovery key doesn't work.

Unlocking the volume from the Disk Utility on my USB install drive works though, so I know the volume itself is fine, it's just the login screen that is broken.

What the hell? Can I really not use FileVault with APFS at all, even with a patched ROM??!

Keep in mind that while entering the FileVault EFI password the keyboard layout is ALWAYS the US one, no matter wether you have an AZERTY, QWERTZ or whatever keyboard layout. This might help. Thus if you set your password with a Z you might need to enter an Y for unlocking the EFI (QWERTZ). This gets even more funny with special keys. Consult your search engine regarding the mapping.

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EDIT:
Well, just filed an issue with apple. I suggest you do so, too. – Issue #6095763

Also filed an issue for having the keyboard backlight while entering the password. – Issue #6095766

 

[visberry]

This is very confusing, anyone care to give any insight as to why this Supplemental Update for T2 chips is available for MacBook Pro models all the way down, and does the patcher support this new update?

 

[pkouame]

This is very confusing, anyone care to give any insight as to why this Supplemental Update for T2 chips is available for MacBook Pro models all the way down, and does the patcher support this new update?

I provided some a little while ago: the software update process is "patched" to bypass some system checks. That is why we can still rely on it to download system updates via preferences in Mojave. A side effect is that we have access to updates like this supplemental which obviously is not meant for non-T2 based machines. You can opt NOT TO UPDATE your system.

 

[TimothyR734]

This is very confusing, anyone care to give any insight as to why this Supplemental Update for T2 chips is available for MacBook Pro models all the way down, and does the patcher support this new update?

I agree some are having issues with the supplemental update some are not I was just lucky enough to install 10.14.6 beta 1 before the supplemental came out

 

[DuncanGarp]

you could try using this switch to the public beta then back to dev beta program see that helps

That didn't work either. Thanks for the suggestion.
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That didn't work either. Thanks for the suggestion.

Getting late. So I'll try another alternative tomorrow. Good night!

 

[pkouame]

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Thanks for bringing Flat Mode back, I'd rather use it, it's much more consistent like that.
I like It.
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Yes, it can grow on you, while keeping vibrancy in all the right places. Especially if you switch modes often.

 

[hvds]

NOTE for all: as @jhowarth pointed before, latest official Mojave version for pre-2018 Mac is 18F132 , this May 22th recent 10.14.5 18F203 supplemental update is NOT prompted to any Mojave supported Mac pre-2018, I tested right now from a 2012 MBP I only got a prompt for 10.14.6 beta 1, so it's clear that apple (rightly) doesn't care to offer this T2 CHIP update to unsupported machines, then it's not advisable to download and install it, even if that update won't damage your unsupported Mac, if you accept it and download you'll follow the "Product ID" OTA updates for those T2 Chip products, not a good path especially for non-T2 machines and unsupported Mojave Mac.

Back to 10.14.5 by installing it over the supplemental with dosdude's patcher 1.3.2. MBP5,2 17".
No undesired remnants (firmware) of this little supplemental exercise left in the machine afaict. Didn't learn much from my mistake either.
I guess once the 10.14.6 PB2 is out, in system updates the supplemental update will be superseded by PB2 for beta users.
Carrying on with 10.14.6 on a different disk which has PB1 now.
EDIT: just noticed that the .5 supplemental is not offered when running .6b1.

Many thanks to dosdude and all contributors for the great work.

 

[Dannyy]

Hey boys. I need help, seems i’m in trouble. I have MacbookPro 5,5, and i’m stuck in boot loop. First time i saw message "Your computer restarted because of a problem", after trying to reset SMC, PRAM/NVRAM, i see only Apple logo, then reboot. This happened after Mojave update. Safe mode don’t work, when i try to enable recovery mode using “Option” key, i saw there only “EFI boot” partition. CMD+R don’t work also, just white screen with circle and line through it. I’m right now in business trip, and i don’t have second Mac system or USB-drive to flash new system. I need to make work, so can someone help me?

Macbook Pro mid 2009 (5,5), Mojave installed via dosdude’s patcher.

 

[Rastafabi]

Hey boys. I need help, seems i’m in trouble. I have MacbookPro 5,5, and i’m stuck in boot loop. First time i saw message "Your computer restarted because of a problem", after trying to reset SMC, PRAM/NVRAM, i see only Apple logo, then reboot. This happened after Mojave update. Safe mode don’t work, when i try to enable recovery mode using “Option” key, i saw there only “EFI boot” partition. CMD+R don’t work also, just white screen with circle and line through it. I’m right now in business trip, and i don’t have second Mac system or USB-drive to flash new system. I need to make work, so can someone help me?

Macbook Pro mid 2009 (5,5), Mojave installed via dosdude’s patcher.

Your only "quick and easy" option appears to use this utility from a windows machine to create a bootable macOS recovery stick.

 

[jackluke]

Hey boys. I need help, seems i’m in trouble. I have MacbookPro 5,5, and i’m stuck in boot loop. First time i saw message "Your computer restarted because of a problem", after trying to reset SMC, PRAM/NVRAM, i see only Apple logo, then reboot. This happened after Mojave update. Safe mode don’t work, when i try to enable recovery mode using “Option” key, i saw there only “EFI boot” partition. CMD+R don’t work also, just white screen with circle and line through it. I’m right now in business trip, and i don’t have second Mac system or USB-drive to flash new system. I need to make work, so can someone help me?

Macbook Pro mid 2009 (5,5), Mojave installed via dosdude’s patcher.

You need the 3 non-metal frameworks: OpenGL, GPUSupport and CoreDisplay from 10.14.3 , without them I see hard to reach the GUI mode, but not only them you need also the Core2Duo fix and probably the legacy IOUSB* .

May try this, boot holding CMD+S (single user mode), then (assuming your machine works with stock IOUSB Mojave kext) in Shell type:

mount -uw /

nvram boot-args="-no_compat_check"

rm -R /System/Library/UserEventPlugins/com.apple.telemetry.plugin

exit

 

[avz]

You're right, I got prompt the 10.14.6 beta 1 update (but I didn't installed) from May 15th until 22th , but now only prompted for 10.14.5 supplemental, so I guess it is not so simple to avoid this OTA update, but if you find and download (from the beta sucatalog.gz) the "macOSUpd10.14.6.pkg", then surely you can install it manually through editing the Distribution file as explained here by many posts.

This seems to be not as easy as I thought it would be. I downloaded the"macOSUpd10.14.6.pkg", but it fails with the "additional components required" message. The good thing is that there is no need to edit distribution file(it is simply not present) and the installation starts but fails within seconds.
I also tried installing it from the Recovery Terminal using command:

cd "To where update is"

installer -pkg "macOSUpd10.14.6.pkg" -target /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD

It fails regardless. Any ideas?

 

[jackluke]

Your only "quick and easy" option appears to use this utility from a windows machine to create a bootable macOS recovery stick.

Clover is very dangerous to use on real Mac, so better using "transmac" to create an a OSX Recovery stick from Windows.
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This seems to be not as easy as I thought it would be. I downloaded the"macOSUpd10.14.6.pkg", but it fails with the "additional components required" message. The good thing is that there is no need to edit distribution file(it is simply not present) and the installation starts but fails within seconds.
I also tried installing it from the Recovery Terminal using command:

cd "To where update is"

installer -pkg "macOSUpd10.14.6.pkg" -target /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD

It fails regardless. Any ideas?

Not sure, but you may download this file: https://swscan.apple.com/content/ca...ion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz

Then search inside for "macOSUpdCombo10.14.6.pkg" URL and download and try with this one.

No wait, you have to don't use the "installer" but perform a root copy "cp -R" from your "Temp Update Payloads" folder to your "/Volumes/" Mojave drive, and you should do that from a Recovery Environment rather than from booted system.

 

[avz]

Clover is very dangerous to use on real Mac, so better using "transmac" to create an a OSX Recovery stick from Windows.
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Not sure, but you may download this file: https://swscan.apple.com/content/ca...ion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz

Then search inside for "macOSUpdCombo10.14.6.pkg" URL and download and try with this one.

No wait, you have to don't use the "installer" but perform a root copy "cp -R" from your "Temp Update Payloads" folder to your "/Volumes/" Mojave drive, and you should do that from a Recovery Environment rather than from booted system.

Yes, I got the"macOSUpdCombo10.14.6.pkg".
Sorry for the silly question but where is the "Temp Update Payloads" folder? Would you be able to give an example of the full "cp -R" command line?

 

[Athanti]

Is it possible to enable sleep mode and brightness control after disabling dedicated gpu on MBP 8.2. I used Dosdude patcher and I run Mojave 10.14.5

 

[jackluke]

Yes, I got the"macOSUpdCombo10.14.6.pkg".
Sorry for the silly question but where is the "Temp Update Payloads" folder? Would you be able to give an example of the full "cp -R" command line?

Right now I can't download and check any 10.14.6*Update.pkg content

but the steps should be these, from Mojave Terminal in one-line:

pkgutil --expand-full /Volumes/YourMojaveVolume/your-Downloads-path/macOSUpd10.14.6.pkg/Payload/ /Volumes/PossiblyAnotherVolume/your-Temp-Payload-path/

this will take some minutes

after check that check inside the your-Temp-Payload-path folder that there are all the known root OSX folders as System, Library, bin, sbin, usr and so on.


then booting from a Recovery or USB Installer Terminal you should overwrite those folders/files over your Mojave drive at root level:

cp -R /Volumes/PossiblyAnotherVolume/your-Temp-Payload-path/ /Volumes/YourMojaveLabel/

This will take more minutes, at the next reboot you should get 10.14.6 beta manually updated.

 

[Blackriton]

On my Mac Pro 3,1 on 10.14.5 patched with dosdude 1's patch, I got also the T2 Supplemental Update notice.

I refused to upgrade because I don't understand why its showing on a non related computer !!!!!!!!! Very strange ??????

 

[avz]

Right now I can't download and check any 10.14.6*Update.pkg content

but the steps should be these, from Mojave Terminal in one-line:

pkgutil --expand-full /Volumes/YourMojaveVolume/your-Downloads-path/macOSUpd10.14.6.pkg/Payload/ /Volumes/PossiblyAnotherVolume/your-Temp-Payload-path/

this will take some minutes

after check that check inside the your-Temp-Payload-path folder that there are all the known root OSX folders as System, Library, bin, sbin, usr and so on.


then booting from a Recovery or USB Installer Terminal you should overwrite those folders/files over your Mojave drive at root level:

cp -R /Volumes/PossiblyAnotherVolume/your-Temp-Payload-path/ /Volumes/YourMojaveLabel/

This will take more minutes, at the next reboot you should get 10.14.6 beta manually updated.

Thanks a million! It worked!
In retrospect I should have used --expand-full instead of just --expand.

 

[pippox0]

10.14.6 is better than 10.14.5 ??

 

[avz]

Right now I can't download and check any 10.14.6*Update.pkg content

but the steps should be these, from Mojave Terminal in one-line:

pkgutil --expand-full /Volumes/YourMojaveVolume/your-Downloads-path/macOSUpd10.14.6.pkg/Payload/ /Volumes/PossiblyAnotherVolume/your-Temp-Payload-path/

this will take some minutes

after check that check inside the your-Temp-Payload-path folder that there are all the known root OSX folders as System, Library, bin, sbin, usr and so on.


then booting from a Recovery or USB Installer Terminal you should overwrite those folders/files over your Mojave drive at root level:

cp -R /Volumes/PossiblyAnotherVolume/your-Temp-Payload-path/ /Volumes/YourMojaveLabel/

This will take more minutes, at the next reboot you should get 10.14.6 beta manually updated.

Looks like I made too much of a bold jump here (from 10.14.3 to 10.14.6 Beta).
For whatever reason it seems that this "combo" update did not actually do the Safari update, so now I am getting bombarded with this.

 

[K two]

10.14.6 is better than 10.14.5 ??

Seems to be very similar to .5, see post #15291, #15438 and #15415. The News OpenCL Patch fixes News and +. No KPs or weirdness of any kind on iMac11,2.

 

[Dannyy]

You need the 3 non-metal frameworks: OpenGL, GPUSupport and CoreDisplay from 10.14.3 , without them I see hard to reach the GUI mode, but not only them you need also the Core2Duo fix and probably the legacy IOUSB* .

May try this, boot holding CMD+S (single user mode), then (assuming your machine works with stock IOUSB Mojave kext) in Shell type:

mount -uw /

nvram boot-args="-no_compat_check"

rm -R /System/Library/UserEventPlugins/com.apple.telemetry.plugin

exit

Huge thanks for helping me. This worked, i’m booted into Mojave, but system is unusable, gui looks like in safe mode. System very slow. What should i do next? Or i need to reinstall system anyway?