I decided that Catalina Beta was a bug too far for me right now and went back to Mojave. It's been fun gentlemen.
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macOS 10.15 Catalina on Unsupported Macs
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After updating to the latest Officialdrivers, I suppose that the Macmini mid 2010 (Macmini4,1) chipset is Nvidia, not Intel, so I cannot apply the APFS ROM patch to it. Is there an NVIDIA version?
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Any Mac produced from 2010 (and probably "late 2009" too) don't need the APFS ROM patch, since they are natively supported till 10.13.x and so embed the APFS bootloader firmware.
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Ok, but you have that AMD 7950 GPU on a 2010 machine, since many reported that MP3,1 2008 cpu lacks the SSE4.2 then a MTLDriver patch is required I guess.
When I have macbook upgraded with newer wireless card will new catalina patcher that install patches automatically recognize different HW than base model has and install needed patches?
I have both MBP 4,1 and MBA 3,2 upgraded with never generation cards.
Thanks
I have both MBP 4,1 and MBA 3,2 upgraded with never generation cards.
Thanks
After updating to the latest Officialdrivers, I suppose that the Macmini mid 2010 (Macmini4,1) chipset is Nvidia, not Intel, so I cannot apply the APFS ROM patch to it. Is there an NVIDIA version?
You should install High Sierra instead which will get you the official Apple APFS support via their firmware updates.
It´s a B-E-T-A
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That´s right. And even better from an USB.
I would imagine that is why jasoncarle put “for now”.
I’m holding off updating for several different reasons, but it’s interesting to keep up with the achievements being made to get Catalina usable for all us “unsupported” and I can understand why so many want to try it out, even if they do ultimately revert back to Mojave.
Catalina on mbp 5,5...runs on new ssd but from usb..so little slow.
second boot today runs smooth and lil faster
constant 70-75 c !!
everything works fine except
photos,siri pops up and goes.
Auto appearance..no
maps, stocks,face time, messages,safari,app store,icloud work very well.
I will post more later.
DOSDUDE1!!! Greatefull!!!!
second boot today runs smooth and lil faster
constant 70-75 c !!
everything works fine except
photos,siri pops up and goes.
Auto appearance..no
maps, stocks,face time, messages,safari,app store,icloud work very well.
I will post more later.
DOSDUDE1!!! Greatefull!!!!
yes the icons can ow be changed, but i want it recognised by my mac as internal
its an OCD thing, don't know why its classed as external
All my PCIe drives (Mercury Accelsior, SSUBX, SSUAX, Hyper X) in several machines and macOS (10.13 and 10.14) are shown as external drives. They’re SATA and AHCI and not NVME but I think they’re all recognized as external because of the PCIe adaption.
I see what you mean but I think, and I’m just guessing here, originally PCIe extension was supposed to provide connectivity for external peripherals.
When flash drives became more popular and therefore smaller, people just decided to mount them directly onto the cards. It’s still the same architecture. Apple never released a cMP with an internal flash drive outside the drive bays.
Edit: forgot about the raid card option, but I guess that was supposed to be used with spinners.
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Data stores your home folder and installed apps.
The one labelled just Catalina is your system.
It's new.
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My drives when connected to a SATA III PCIe card, always show external. It doesn't bother me.
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I installed macOS Catalina on a separate partition on my MacBook Pro 8,1, and most things seem to work fine for my day to day use, but there is one pretty annoying issue.
For some reason applications don't seem to open up to the correct size, and the vertical resizing of windows doesn't work properly so I can't manually fix the issue aside from entering fullscreen mode.
As a result, the main menu of system preferences is broken, and I have to use the search bar, and error dialogues have cut off text.
The screenshot I included shows what the windows tend to look like as they open. It seems like some display scaling issue, but I'm not too well versed in what might be causing it.
For some reason applications don't seem to open up to the correct size, and the vertical resizing of windows doesn't work properly so I can't manually fix the issue aside from entering fullscreen mode.
As a result, the main menu of system preferences is broken, and I have to use the search bar, and error dialogues have cut off text.
The screenshot I included shows what the windows tend to look like as they open. It seems like some display scaling issue, but I'm not too well versed in what might be causing it.
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I’m still happy with mine. for liOS dev. I consider normal speeds. My 27 iMac is gonna be my macVM box. It is on High Sierra and it can use Catalina in a Vm, It’s gonna l several different OS’ for testing CloneTool. Beefing its RAM from 4 to 32go.
I am going with 64GB RAM on my 3,1. I hope to get it to run QEMU on Mac VMs since Anka Bulld can’t run a VM on it yet.
Any anyone tried putting in a newer CPU inside a Mac Pro 3,1 that is not based on the Core2Duo Processor. Something newer?
Did you previously ran APFS ROM Patch on your model? Reason I asked is that I have the same model, albeit the 15" model (MBP5,3) and I did not attempt to run the APFS ROM Patch due to warnings it might brick my device. I'm waiting for @dosdude1's APFS Patch to include on the next version of his macOS Catalina Patcher app.
So I'm just curious of you did do so. Appreciate a response.
This behaviour has a reason. Mac Pro firmware have to separate what is internal and external based on two things:
- Anything where hot-swap and hot plug is a possibility, like anything connected via PCIe slots,
- SATA drives connected on the ICH10, the south bridge, native SATA ports where hot-plug and hot-swap is not possible.
The motherboard limits you as to the CPU upgrade options.
https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2018/05/07/definitive-mac-pro-upgrade-guide.html#cpuupgrades
I found an interesting Article that allows VT-X to be enabled on Mac Pro 3,1 2008s. It appears to only turn it on in Ubuntu Linux and it needs to be run each time. This enables KVM on Linux for this box.
https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Enable_VT-X_on_Mac_Pro_(Early_2008)
I might have to toy with Ubuntu sometime. I am interested QEMU and haven't had much luck with it on the Mac side with the 3,1. Ubuntu can also run Swift / server side.
Wonder if there is a way to turn VT-X permanently or turn it on via the Mac, which would enable KVM on Mac.
https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Enable_VT-X_on_Mac_Pro_(Early_2008)
I might have to toy with Ubuntu sometime. I am interested QEMU and haven't had much luck with it on the Mac side with the 3,1. Ubuntu can also run Swift / server side.
Wonder if there is a way to turn VT-X permanently or turn it on via the Mac, which would enable KVM on Mac.
VT-x is enabled by default on any Mac with a CPU that supports it.