macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

[JoSch]

Hello all,

I bought 2 weeks ago a Mac Pro 3.1 from ebay.
The Mac Pro has the stock ATI graphics card and naively can be upgraded to El Capitan. This is basically my first time using Mac product...
In my effort to make the Mac Pro more usable I want to upgraded it to Mojave version.

I followed dosdude1 guide step by step but I am unable to boot the OS.
After applying the macOS Post Install tool and Mac restarts, the loading screen is getting stuck at around 70%. I used MacOs extended journaled and AFSP hard disk format but with no luck.

I know this issue occurs to other users too but I cannot find a solution.

Right now I will download again the latest version of the patcher and the latest OS. Lets see if I will have any luck...

Thank you again for your help !

Have you applied the patches after installation? Can you show us your steps.
I have a 3,1 with an 5770 (and an at the moment non-functional RX480) and it runs Mojave just fine.

 

[Sylverton76]

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong and how to fix it would be greatly appreciated. For the record, this is my first time using the macOS Patcher -- however, I'm a little familiar with the process, as I'm running this on an iMac 9,1 running Mojave using dosdude's tool and have been for quite some time now (and this is my 2nd machine -- I want to run a 3rd, my Black MacBook 4,1 that has been idle for a couple years now, hence my interest in the macOS Patcher.)

I downloaded the Mojave app from the App Store on a supported Mac with SIP disabled. To disable SIP, boot in to recovery mode and run 'csrutil disable' from terminal. With SIP disabled, you should be able to create the installer by following the instruction on Julian Fairfax's website.

From memory, the patched installer is a little over 8GB so you'll need a 16GB USB flash drive. I found that I could not log in to iCloud either during Setup or after installing Mojave though. NB I didn't have this issue when using dosdude's Patcher.

Apart from not managing to login to iCloud, I did manage to install Mojave on my partner's Black MB4,1 using v2.3 of Julian Fairfax's patcher. I don't believe the iSight camera worked and the MB would kernel panic when attempting a shutdown. I found I could play 720p YouTube music videos in Safari despite the lack of graphics acceleration though.

 

[jackluke]

For fun I tried on a Mojave 10.14.5 to use the CoreDisplay + OpenGL + GPUSupport frameworks from HighSierra 10.13.6 and non-metal-opengl acceleration is still working fine, exactly as it does when using the 10.14.3 non-metal frameworks.

edit:

I just encountered very few crashes on "Safari" and "System Preferences" but I quick fixed them in this way: replacing also the OpenCL.framework from HighSierra 10.13.6

So again I confirm that on Mojave 10.14.5 using CoreDisplay + OpenGL + OpenCL + GPUSupport frameworks from HighSierra is totally working without any issues.

I made this test to underline the importance of HighSierra as repository for our Mojave/Catalina alternative patches.

 

[aaroman]

I downloaded the Mojave app from the App Store on a supported Mac with SIP disabled. To disable SIP, boot in to recovery mode and run 'csrutil disable' from terminal. With SIP disabled, you should be able to create the installer by following the instruction on Julian Fairfax's website.

From memory, the patched installer is a little over 8GB so you'll need a 16GB USB flash drive. I found that I could not log in to iCloud either during Setup or after installing Mojave though. NB I didn't have this issue when using dosdude's Patcher.

Apart from not managing to login to iCloud, I did manage to install Mojave on my partner's Black MB4,1 using v2.3 of Julian Fairfax's patcher. I don't believe the iSight camera worked and the MB would kernel panic when attempting a shutdown. I found I could play 720p YouTube music videos in Safari despite the lack of graphics acceleration though.

I'm trying to build the installer flash drive on my iMac 9,1 running Mojave which, since it's unsupported by Apple, obviously has SIP disabled. The system I'm targeting is my black MB 4,1. I downloaded the Mojave Installer kit the first time straight from the Mac App Store, and a subsequent attempt by using dosdude's Patcher.

I'm using a 16GB flash drive -- it was previously divided into 2 8GB partitions, one with an installer created with dosdude's Patcher that I used to build this iMac. Tried the 2nd partition, tried the first, tried wiping both and creating a single 16GB partition -- all failed.

All the cp and rm errors indicate something has failed in mounting the image or there's a path problem someplace. It's just not obvious to me.

 

[TimothyR734]

I'm trying to build the installer flash drive on my iMac 9,1 running Mojave which, since it's unsupported by Apple, obviously has SIP disabled. The system I'm targeting is my black MB 4,1. I downloaded the Mojave Installer kit the first time straight from the Mac App Store, and a subsequent attempt by using dosdude's Patcher.

I'm using a 16GB flash drive -- it was previously divided into 2 8GB partitions, one with an installer created with dosdude's Patcher that I used to build this iMac. Tried the 2nd partition, tried the first, tried wiping both and creating a single 16GB partition -- all failed.

All the cp and rm errors indicate something has failed in mounting the image or there's a path problem someplace. It's just not obvious to me.

Are you formatting your usb Extended Journaled before creating a Mojave Patcher and its best to format it as one partition as it will take most of 8 gb for the patcher

 

[Sylverton76]

All the cp and rm errors indicate something has failed in mounting the image or there's a path problem someplace. It's just not obvious to me.

The first time I tried creating the installer, I forgot to disable SIP. That gave me cp/rm errors resulting in a non-working installer. I disabled SIP, repeated the process and it completed without error. As TimothyR734 mentions above, I used a single partition formatted to 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' checking that the Partition Map was 'GUID'.

NB I used the latest version of Mojave from the App Store (v14.15.02). The completed installer is 8.27 GB in size. Have you tried a new flash drive or maybe a new copy of the app?

 

[TimothyR734]

The first time I tried creating the installer, I forgot to disable SIP. That gave me cp/rm errors resulting in a non-working installer. I disabled SIP, repeated the process and it completed without error. As TimothyR734 mentions above, I used a single partition formatted to 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' checking that the Partition Map was 'GUID'.

NB I used the latest version of Mojave from the App Store (v14.15.02). The completed installer is 8.27 GB in size. Have you tried a new flash drive or maybe a new copy of the app?

You can use the macOS Patcher to download 10.14.5

 

[anablaque]

I just bought a pre-owned early 2011 15 inch mac book pro for school- and I installed Mojave - I haven't attempted to disable the AMD graphics care yet - I will later. The only issue I notice is some tearing/overlapping at the edges of applications like Safari for example.

When I do a vram reset and look at my "About This Mac" section - I see the AMD card is gone(temporarily) and the tearing/overlapping issue goes away. The card does come back and so does the edge tearing, after awhile. So I will try to follow the dosdude guide to disable it, permanently.

One question I have is - is the new legacy video card patch on the updater for people with AMD cards? or just NVIDIA- I've been avoiding the update because it previously said "for NVIDIA cards" now it doesn't in the updater description area.

I also I am still running 10.14.4, I don't really wanna do a whole new install.

 

[dosdude1]

I just bought a pre-owned early 2011 15 inch mac book pro for school- and I installed Mojave - I haven't attempted to disable the AMD graphics care yet - I will later. The only issue I notice is some tearing/overlapping at the edges of applications like Safari for example.

When I do a vram reset and look at my "About This Mac" section - I see the AMD card is gone(temporarily) and the tearing/overlapping issue goes away. The card does come back and so does the edge tearing, after awhile. So I will try to follow the dosdude guide to disable it, permanently.

One question I have is - is the new legacy video card patch on the updater for people with AMD cards? or just NVIDIA- I've been avoiding the update because it previously said "for NVIDIA cards" now it doesn't in the updater description area.
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I also I am still running 10.14.4, I don't really wanna do a whole new install.

That update is for all non-Metal cards, so you can go ahead and install it.

 

[anablaque]

That update is for all non-Metal cards, so you can go ahead and install it.

thank you.

 

[sgouver]

Have you applied the patches after installation? Can you show us your steps.
I have a 3,1 with an 5770 (and an at the moment non-functional RX480) and it runs Mojave just fine.

Hello JoSch,

Thank you for replying !

1. I have a ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT installed (The base card for the model).
2. I download dosdude1 version: 1.3.3
3. Download the Mojave OS image from the patcher option
4. Format USB stick
5. Use dosdude1 patcher to reformat the USB with the Mojave OS
6. Reboot and load the USB
7. I am formatting a HDD partition because I don't have a second physical driver at the moment (Tried both MacOS Extended and APFS.
8. Install Mojave following the steps into the partition
9. Reboot and load USB again
10. Open the post-install tool and select the options for Mac Pro 3.1. (Predefined list)
11. When rebooting I am stuck at around 70%. I was waiting more than an hour but there is no progress so I can only assume something is wrong...
12. I also have tried to clear to "Force Cache Rebuild" but without success.

I want to show you an image but the editor does not allow me to display it for some reason...
Either way, it is just Apple logo one display white background and a stuck 70% bar with .

I am thinking some solutions at this point.

1. Using an older dosdude1 patcher for high sierra or
2. Do it all over again, although I highly doubt that there will be any difference.
3. Maybe I need a separate hard drive ?

Thank a lot for your support !!

 

[TimothyR734]

Hello JoSch,

Thank you for replying !

1. I have a ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT installed (The base card for the model).
2. I download dosdude1 version: 1.3.3
3. Download the Mojave OS image from the patcher option
4. Format USB stick
5. Use dosdude1 patcher to reformat the USB with the Mojave OS
6. Reboot and load the USB
7. I am formatting a HDD partition because I don't have a second physical driver at the moment (Tried both MacOS Extended and APFS.
8. Install Mojave following the steps into the partition
9. Reboot and load USB again
10. Open the post-install tool and select the options for Mac Pro 3.1. (Predefined list)
11. When rebooting I am stuck at around 70%. I was waiting more than an hour but there is no progress so I can only assume something is wrong...
12. I also have tried to clear to "Force Cache Rebuild" but without success.

Here is the image of my stuck screen.
I am thinking of two solutions at this point.

1. Using an older dosdude1 patcher for high sierra or
2. Do it all over again, although I highly doubt that there will be any difference.
3. Maybe I need a separate hard drive ?

Thank a lot for your support !!

Is your SIP disabled

 

[sgouver]

Is your SIP disabled

No, I am just looking at it. I have no idea what this is. Is it anywhere in Dosdude instructions ?
Either way, I will do it right now.

Thanks a lot man !

 

[TimothyR734]

boot off you Mojave Patcher find the terminal enter in the terminal csrutil disable

 

[sgouver]

boot off you Mojave Patcher find the terminal enter in the terminal csrutil disable

Perfect. I will do that first thing, I will post the results here.

Thank you again for your time !

 

[Gill88]

Anyone running mojave in MacBook Pro mid2009 5,3? If so, whats the most stable version?

 

[TimothyR734]

Anyone running mojave in MacBook Pro mid2009 5,3? If so, whats the most stable version?

I am running macOS 10.14.6 dev beta 3 on my mid 2009 MacBook 5,2 10.14.3 or 10.14.5 are the most stable version of macOS Mojave

 

[Gill88]

I am running macOS 10.14.6 dev beta 3 on my mid 2009 MacBook 5,2 10.14.3 or 10.14.5 are the most stable version of macOS Mojave

Thank you TimothyR734. Worth upgrading to or should I stick with High Sierra?

 

[TimothyR734]

Thank you TimothyR734. Worth upgrading to or should I stick with High Sierra?

I love Mojave but I am running macOS Catalina Dev beta 3 on my mid 2009 iMac I like it to except the Photos app is not working no dashboard so I will keep macOS Mojave on my MacBook the performance it is good what is your GPU in yours

 

[Gill88]

Nvidia 9400M and 9600M GT

 

[aaroman]

Are you formatting your usb Extended Journaled before creating a Mojave Patcher and its best to format it as one partition as it will take most of 8 gb for the patcher

Correction to my previous post: my flash drive is a 32GB drive.

I've tried running with 2 Extended Journaled partitions of 15+GB each, and when that failed, a single 32GB partition.

The first time I tried creating the installer, I forgot to disable SIP. That gave me cp/rm errors resulting in a non-working installer. I disabled SIP, repeated the process and it completed without error. As TimothyR734 mentions above, I used a single partition formatted to 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' checking that the Partition Map was 'GUID'.

NB I used the latest version of Mojave from the App Store (v14.15.02). The completed installer is 8.27 GB in size. Have you tried a new flash drive or maybe a new copy of the app?

My iMac (9,1) that I'm building the installer flash drive on has SIP disabled, else it would not be able to run Mojave:

$ csrutil status
System Integrity Protection status: disabled.

I'm not even close to booting my MacBook 4,1, so I've not disabled SIP on that yet. Haven't even turned it on, it's not part of the equation.

Any other ideas?

 

[TimothyR734]

Nvidia 9400M and 9600M GT

If your follow the instruction on the first page Mojave should run well on your

 

[aaroman]

Note, the first error (always a good place to start) that I get when I try to create the installer is:

> Renaming installer volume.
No mount point for /Volumes/Installer/System/Library/CoreServices

Why? What's it trying to do? Is the Installer flash drive I've formatted disappearing prematurely or asynchronously to the rest of the script?

 

[TimothyR734]

Correction to my previous post: my flash drive is a 32GB drive.

I've tried running with 2 Extended Journaled partitions of 15+GB each, and when that failed, a single 32GB partition.



My iMac (9,1) that I'm building the installer flash drive on has SIP disabled, else it would not be able to run Mojave:

$ csrutil status
System Integrity Protection status: disabled.

I'm not even close to booting my MacBook 4,1, so I've not disabled SIP on that yet. Haven't even turned it on, it's not part of the equation.

Any other ideas?

Are you using the latest Mojave Patcher which is 1.3.3 and you can Download macOS Mojave 10.14.5 with the patcher if you click on tools on your menubar after opening the patcher
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Note, the first error (always a good place to start) that I get when I try to create the installer is:

> Renaming installer volume.
No mount point for /Volumes/Installer/System/Library/CoreServices

Why? What's it trying to do? Is the Installer flash drive I've formatted disappearing prematurely or asynchronously to the rest of the script?

does your usb show that its guid

 

[TimothyR734]

Are you using the latest Mojave Patcher which is 1.3.3 and you can Download macOS Mojave 10.14.5 with the patcher if you click on tools on your menubar after opening the patcher
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does your usb show that its guid

Using disk utility is much easier than using terminal commands