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macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread
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No, you're wrong MacBook (Early 2008 and Late 2008) - Technical Specifications.
Huh, interesting... I've owned about 50 of these 4,1 systems, every one being Early-2008.
Same model number, different device. Annoying.
http://lowendmac.com/2008/macbook-white-late-2008/
They modified the configuration, order number, and price point, and gave it a new name. They did the same for the 17" MacBook Pro in 2008 and most recently the MacBook Air 2017 in the top end configurations.
EDIT: I see I was slow to reply
It's not the same, Late-2008 was cheaper, came with Superdrive only and just with 2.1GHz CPU.
Thanks for the input jackluke.
I'm familiar with all you have outlined above, SMC & PRAM. USB is a Sandisk 32GB, less than a year old and have had zero problems with it, although read/writes are about half of what you outlined above. Late 2010 iMac & 16GB RAM Graphics card is an ATI Radeon 5750 w/ 1024 RAM The only reason for Firewire was speed, as iMac has USB 2.
I ran fsck -fy on USB from SUM & /sbin/fsck -fy and no issues with it. If you went back to some of my posts, I can boot to Verbose & SUM with no obvious errors or kernel panics, SafeBoot is a no go as well. I have an internal SSD which is what I was going to install Mojave on. In Verbose GUI at some point, which I can not, which is not that unusual. Boot normally I get to progress bar is complete, just "hangs" there. This is what is on USB.
Did you use the latest version of Mojave Patcher to create your USB installer? This was an issue in Beta 3, which has been fixed in later releases.
I used the 1 prior to @ASentientBot patch.
Let me double check patch version
0.1b2
alright see new version is 0.1b6, will give that a go.
Thanks dosdude1
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No problem. I'm not writing this again though
Patch the installer
1. Get a copy of the install app and open Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg
2. Copy the folder Packages somewhere you can edit
3. cd to the folder and pkgutil --expand OSInstall.mpkg Expanded
4. Open the folder Expanded and open Distribution in a text editor
5. Find the function installationCheck() and put return true; at the very beginning
6. Remove the text installsOS=true from the same file
7. pkgutil --flatten Expanded Patched.mpkg
You will now have an install file "Patched.mpkg" that you can double-click and install to a HFS+ partition.
Patch the installed system to boot
1. On the partition, copy boot.efi from /usr/standalone/i386/ to /System/Library/CoreServices
2. Open /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist in a text editor
3. Make Kernel Flags as <string>-v -no_compat_check keepsyms=1</string>
This will make the disk bootable, bypass the prohibitory symbol (\) and show symbols in kernel panic logs (If it panics, let it reboot and pick your High Sierra partition; it should automatically show the log in "your computer was restarted because of a problem" dialog once it boots.)
Fix the kernel panic on Penryn systems
Replace from High Sierra:
/System/Library/UserEventPlugins/com.apple.telemetry.plugin
Patch USB
Replace from High Sierra:
/System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBHostFamily.kext
Patch audio
Replace from High Sierra:
/System/Library/Extensions/AppleHDA.kext
Recognize the Tesla GPU
Copy from High Sierra:
NVDANV50HalTesla.kext
NVDAResmanTesla.kext
IONDRVSupport.kext
IOGraphicsFamily.kext
This allows changing the brightness and shows the correct display in About This Mac
Enable the framebuffer
Copy from High Sierra:
GeForceTesla.kext
GeForceGA.kext
Partial acceleration.
Enable full acceleration
Copy from High Sierra
GeForceTeslaGLDriver.bundle
GeForceTeslaVADriver.bundle
Right now, this causes a kernel panic on login. Edit: Hack-ish but functional workaround here.
Fix kext permissions
sudo chmod -R 755 /Volumes/Mojave/System/Library/Extensions
sudo chown -R root /Volumes/Mojave/System/Library/Extensions
Replacing "Mojave" with the name of your partition. This'll allow the system to automatically rebuild the prelinkedkernel when you boot from the Mojave volume (it'll reboot after doing so).
That took longer to write than I expected, haha. Hope that helps. It's good to have a consolidated list of patches so far anyways, I've been meaning to make a post like this for a bit.
Edit: Does someone want to link this on the wikipost or something? Maybe decrease the amount of redundant questions so we can focus on moving forward
Edit 2: This is only for MacBook6,1 and MacBook7,1 systems.
GeForceGA.kext is actually GeForceGA.bundle.
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Wait there's a beta 6?
You should.
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Huh, what’s new in beta 6?
Beta 6 fixes the issue where APFS Preboot volume wasn't patched correctly on APFS volumes, and also installs the Legacy Video Card Patch by default on machines that need it.
That was the prior Patch I had from a couple of days ago, dosdude1 suggested in an earlier post that I get the latest patch. Unless I missed 1 along the way, which is entirely possible.
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Yes, and it works!! boots fine to Post Install, I shut down as iMac getting a little warm (had just booted into Verbose to see if any KP's, none), as soon as cools down will proceed with the install. Thanks again dosdude1
Mojave runs as well as High Sierra. Much thanks you guys, who was programming this patcher and spending your precious time.
2009 MacBook Pro 15" (5,4) installed then applied the post install patches (including legacy video) using the b5 patcher and have been stuck on this screen for about 15 minutes now...
Got something pretty cool to show. Here's my ultra rare MacBook5,2-based CPU upgraded Axiotron ModBook running Mojave! It runs amazingly well, with full graphics acceleration thanks to @ASentientBot's findings. Makes this thing quite possibly the ultimate MacBook LOL. If you'd like to see more details about the upgrade of this system, I have a video about it, which you can watch here.
