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Hey!!! Boots to a black screen but mouse pointer is there, even get bigger when moved.
This sounds obvious, but have you tried waiting for a while? Mine took a solid 5 minutes to load the country select thingy.

Also, does pressing Command+Alt+ESC bring up the force-quit dialog? This might give a hint of how far it's gotten.
 

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@ASentientBot If I follow your installation tutorial using the package and then replace the UserEventPlugins KEXTS it will boot or do I need to do something else?
 

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This sounds obvious, but have you tried waiting for a while? Mine took a solid 5 minutes to load the country select thingy.

Also, does pressing Command+Alt+ESC bring up the force-quit dialog? This might give a hint of how far it's gotten.
Put my Mojave SSD back on my mini and activated auto login, returned it to my MP3,1. Still the same mouse pointer on the screen. Connected another monitor on the HDMI output and I can move the pointer from one to the other - but no CMD-Option-ESC.

Remote Desktop can't find my MP3,1, will test nmap/ssh.
 
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@ASentientBot If I follow your installation tutorial using the package and then replace the UserEventPlugins KEXTS it will boot or do I need to do something else?
I believe that's all, as I already replied on page 68 :)


Put my Mojave SSD back on my mini and activated auto login, returned it to my MP3,1. Still the same cursor on the screen. Connected another monitor on the HDMI output and I can move the pointer from one to the other - but no CMD-Option-ESC.

Remote Desktop can't find my MP3,1 either.
Weird, honestly no clue and I can't do any troubleshooting since I don't have that computer at hand. Perhaps using a simple script to track the output of dmesg will find something. I'll attach mine.

Going to call it a night, it's almost 4 AM. Good luck all!
 

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I believe that's all, as I already replied on page 68 :)



Weird, honestly no clue and I can't do any troubleshooting since I don't have that computer at hand. Perhaps using a simple script to track the output of dmesg will find something. I'll attach mine.

Going to call it a night, it's almost 4 AM. Good luck all!

Good night.
 
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No. I entered sudo nvram boot-args=« no_compat_check »
You will need to edit PlatformSupport.plist, or copy ElCapitan one, to boot on safe mode.

Edit: PlatformSupport.plist and Safemode/SingleUserMode
 
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Thanks @ASentientBot, @parrotgeek1, @dosdude1

Mojave DP3 on a Mac Pro 2008!!!! SafeMode works.


What I did:

Cloned my Mojave DP3 install onto a HFS+ SSD with CCC (haven't added APFS to the BootROM), copied /System/Library/UserEventPlugins folder from 10.13.5, copied /System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist from El Capitan (easier than add my board-id), added boot-args="-v -no_compat_check" to the nvram.

The first normal boot didn't work but rebooting on SafeMode works.

Rebooted again and this time worked even without SafeMode. eVGA GTX680 for Mac works with native Nvidia drivers with both my monitors (DVI-1 and HDMI). USB and Bluetooth works but no Wi-Fi [Atheros 9380 AirPort Extreme (0x168C, 0x3112)] and no audio.

Edit: SafeMode/SingleUserMode, board-id, USB.
 
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How exactly did you get this working?

What I did:

Cloned my Mojave DP3 install onto a HFS+ SSD with CCC (haven't added APFS to the BootROM), copied /System/Library/UserEventPlugins folder from 10.13.5, copied /System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist from El Capitan (easier than add my board-id), added boot-args="-v -no_compat_check" to the nvram.

The first normal boot didn't work but rebooting on SafeMode works.

Rebooted again and this time worked even without SafeMode. eVGA GTX680 for Mac works with native Nvidia drivers with both my monitors (DVI-1 and HDMI). USB and Bluetooth works but no Wi-Fi [Atheros 9380 AirPort Extreme (0x168C, 0x3112)] and no audio.

Edit: SafeMode/SingleUserMode, board-id, USB.
 
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Cloned my Mac mini 2012 Mojave DP3 on a HFS+ SSD with CCC, copied /Sysytem/Library/UserEventPlugins folder from 10.13.5, copied PlatformSupport.plist from ElCapitan (easier than add my id), added boot-args="-v -no_compat_check". Booted on SingleUserMode.

What do you mean by booted on SingleUserMode?
 

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Side note: I did get Snow Leopard to work with 4k native res with my AMD Radeon 7xxx series video card without any true drivers. I used the DVI to Display port converter as it would only use DVI without a driver on my 4k display. Just using the generic ATISupport.kext that SL loads and whatever VGA driver it uses. I know drivers did not come out for it til Mtn Lion and I was unable to get any of those drivers to load on SL.
Can you please elaborate on whether outputting the video signal through DVI gets you hardware acceleration in SL on a Radeon 7xxx? If so, can you specify the brand and model of the DVI to Display Port converter you used?
 

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Keep shift pressed after you select your disk on the boot screen.

That’s called safe mode and it is not recommend for normal use as only system-required applications can be used. Could you try booting regularly and let me know how that goes?
 

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That’s called safe mode and it is not recommend for normal use as only system-required applications can be used. Could you try booting regularly and let me know how that goes?
Yeah, my bad. SingleUserMode is Command-S.
 

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That’s called safe mode and it is not recommend for normal use as only system-required applications can be used. Could you try booting regularly and let me know how that goes?

Rebooted and now works even without SafeMode. Acceleration works beautifully. USB and Bluetooth works but no Wi-Fi/no audio.
 
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Rebooted and now works even without SafeMode. Acceleration works beautifully. No Wi-Fi/no audio.

Great that it boots. The WiFi/audio not working is because the patches haven’t been applied. Once dosdude1 can update the patcher with the kernel panic fix then then he will also be able to add support for patching these older systems to fix other issues. This will all be added relatively soon I hope.
 
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