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macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

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Mojave Beta 3 is running surprisingly well on my Mid-2009 MacBook 5,2, from an external USB spinner at that!

Thanks guys.
 
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TimothyR734 said:
what filesystem are you trying to use HFS or APFS
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I've tried both but 2 out of the 3 times I used HFS.

Right now I am installing on to an external HDD to make sure it's not a problem with my SSD or something. Will let you know how that goes. :)
 
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On a 13" machine, yes. On a 15" or 17" machine, only if you have the AMD GPU disabled.
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I now have 10.14 installed on my 17" MacBook Pro Late 2011. Seems to work great with the intel GPU, but had to check the Legacy Video Card Patch to get full acceleration. My only outstanding issues are the same ones I have with 10.13 and the dGPU disabler, I can't wake from sleep, and I can't adjust brightness. Do you know if anyone else is having this issue, or if it's my system's defective AMD chip? I'm trying to determine if it's something in the way your disabling the AMD GPU, or if it's specific to my system.

Thanks!
 
Hello, i just successfully installed macOS Mojave with the latest Patcher on a MacBook5,2. After the install i got the the Patcher Prompt i get an Error that the Patches can´t be installed. SIP is off. The Error Code is: -60031. Is there a fix for that?

Thanks for the great Job
 
videotape74 said:
I've tried both but 2 out of the 3 times I used HFS.

Right now I am installing on to an external HDD to make sure it's not a problem with my SSD or something. Will let you know how that goes. :)
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Installed on a 5400rpm external USB 2.0 drive and is expectedly slow. I am now going to have to figure out the SSD issue...wish me luck!
 
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Installed on a 5400rpm external USB 2.0 drive and is expectedly slow. I am now going to have to figure out the SSD issue...wish me luck!
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Why don't you try create a dmg of your 5400 rpm Mojave working and clone it to your SSD.

I mean, since you installed in HFSplus, from your main High Sierra (or recovery partition) disk utility, you can create an image of your hdd and then restore to your SSD.

If your SSD is smaller than your 5400rpm hdd, you'd reduce the main system partition, for example if 5400rpm is 250 gb with lets say 20 gb occupied by Mojave, you can easily shrink the partition from 250 gb to 30 gb, then cloning only this obtained partition to your SSD.

After you need only to extend/resize your SSD main partition from 30 gb to the whole disk.
 
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Hi good afternoon why when the legacy video card is applied restart my machine?
Macbook pro late 2011 patch 1b7 [macbook 8,2]
 
videotape74 said:
Installed on a 5400rpm external USB 2.0 drive and is expectedly slow. I am now going to have to figure out the SSD issue...wish me luck!
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I had zero luck installing to 7200 RPM via Firewire 800, (APFS) I would get kernel panics, I could get out of Verbose but would panic shortly thereafter, next would be SSD external via Firewire, if that's a no go iMac has internal SSD will be my next step. Not a big deal with internal SSS, but curious to see if I could get it running via Firewire, good luck videotape74
 
Luckygreek said:
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Thanks guys, having zero success with it, (tried twice) as I posted earlier, KP's with external 800 FW, I guess I'm going to have to suck it up & install to internal SSD. It is a test bed, 2010 iMac.
I feel you on Thunderbolt devices, expensive, to say the least, current iMac has Thunderbolt, but using Firewire 800.
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Installation from the USB installer to external USB (2.0) worked fine here as well as booting from it, but somehow since patcher 0.1b2 or b3 I do not have success in completing the USB install boot any more - only 100% progress bar and that´s it. Tried all versions up to b6. Right now downloading the latest (140MB, let´s see which version it is now).
 
Luckygreek said:
I had zero luck installing to 7200 RPM via Firewire 800, (APFS) I would get kernel panics, I could get out of Verbose but would panic shortly thereafter, next would be SSD external via Firewire, if that's a no go iMac has internal SSD will be my next step. Not a big deal with internal SSS, but curious to see if I could get it running via Firewire, good luck videotape74
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It will not install for some reason when the SSD is internal, but I've now removed the SSD and installed Mojave via USB to the SSD and it was successful. Then I put the SSD back into my MBP and it is up and running. :)
 
redheeler said:
The update period is usually three years for Safari + general security updates and four years for iTunes (minus one year as High Sierra was released last fall). Third-party browsers such as Chrome are generally supported for twice as long as Safari.

So there's still some time to go before High Sierra is no longer viable, but missing out on features like dark mode on older Macs is seriously disappointing nonetheless. Dark mode should have been added years ago in my opinion.
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There is usually a new version of Safari at least once per year. Current version 11.1 is out now and version 12 is in a separate Developer Preview.

12 will most likely be out on High Sierra and Mojave, and maybe Sierra by this fall. I am not sure if Safari 12 will be on El Cap.

Chrome and Firefox are updated more often and they go back to at least 10.10.. a lot of their binaries say 10.9 min.

There used to be WebKit public updates that would be the next version of Safari and it was updated more often, but they stopped releasing compiled versions.
 
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videotape74 said:
It will not install for some reason when the SSD is internal, but I've now removed the SSD and installed Mojave via USB to the SSD and it was successful. Then I put the SSD back into my MBP and it is up and running. :)
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Hmmm, that's interesting.. I wonder why that is. Glad you're finally up, noticed from earlier posts you were having "issues" I had some of the same, complete progress bar, but that was it. New patch resolved that but panics after.
 
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Replace it with a copy from High Sierra.

@dosdude1, planing to include this in the patch?
[doublepost=1531357942][/doublepost]Also, not a major issue but just slightly odd. A folder called com.apple.AdLib appeared at the root of my hard drive in Mojave. Anybody else notice this? Wondering if it's a side effect of running on this computer (unlikely) or just a beta bug?
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Don´t have this folder here (not even flagged as invisible).
But there is more (or did I just not notice before?): During boot, there is always some log output claiming "/AppleInternal/Library/Extensions not existing".
I´m almost tempted to try and create that folder and put some kext in there...
Anyone infos on that - is that Mojave specific or some known folder as a developer related scratchpad for testing?
 
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