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I have a MBP 8.1 I made a new install drive with dosdude1 patcher 1b7 installed beta3 but when I applied the patches and reboot I get a circle with a slash thru it won't boot if I just update from beta 2 it boots as long as I don't apply the new patches any idea should I do clean install from beta 2 to 3
Hi everybody
Following my post #2820 I updated beta2 to beta3 19A501i with @dosdude1 patch v1.0b7 and still without any patches everything seems to work fine. I have Sidecar (I have no device under iOS 13 to test ...), Drift Screensaver works and I got the tab NightShift by replacing "CoreBrightness.framework"
Following my post #2820 I updated beta2 to beta3 19A501i with @dosdude1 patch v1.0b7 and still without any patches everything seems to work fine. I have Sidecar (I have no device under iOS 13 to test ...), Drift Screensaver works and I got the tab NightShift by replacing "CoreBrightness.framework"
Installed the latest Catalina beta on an iMac8,1 as mentioned on page 113.
Installed IoS 13 beta on an iPad Pro (9.7 inch).
Installation went without problems and the systems can connect.
The iPad keeps complaining about a bad connection and brings the message "The session will resume automatically when the connection improves."
Whoa, cool. That's sidecar working on a non-Metal GPU then, right? Or do you mean that the bad connection message appears always?
Graphics card is ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro 256 MB, which is definitely non-Metal. Restarted the iMac and iPad, but the bad connection message still appeared. I suspect a local problem, such as a poor quality Lighting cable, but don't really know.
Will test again tomorrow with the same iPad and a supported iMac13,1.
Aw, darn. I thought it was just an occasional thing that popped up.
It's quite likely that "bad connection" is just what the software displays when it really means "can't create a Metal device/talk to the iPad at all", sadly. Sidecar probably relies on new features in CoreDisplay/SkyLight which won't work on non-Metal systems with my sketchy acceleration patch. That's why I was so surprised when I thought you had it mostly working.
We need a better acceleration solution. Both for this, accessibility features, Photos, Siri, graphical glitches and just general stability. My wrappers were never intended to be the final answer.
Yes I did! I was very sceptical at first.
Go to energy saver in sysprefs and put the sliders ( both) to NEVER!! THEN..get a mug of coffee and start! It took 20 min for me!
When you succeed go to sysprefs..start up disk
Choose mojave as start up disk authentication
And voila!!
Ok, Thanks for the response. I will wait for the software based APFS Patch from dosdude1's MacOS Catalina Patcher.
I got my 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4 card and Mini PCIe adapter. I took a photo of the antenna pins and some of my labels on my cables came off. I knew which cable was for the BT and judging by the design and the length of the cables, I just went from longest to shortest on my Mac Pro 3,1. Connecting them up.
On may setup there did not seem to be a good way to screw it in and if I screwed it in from the back side, it would be hard to connect the BT cable.
I looked at someone else's setup and it looks like they did the same thing I did; screw in the Mini PCIe adapter and do the best you can with the WiFi / BT card, just having it sit and fit snug on its own. There is plenty of clearance; nothing else if gonna hit the WiFi card.
Anyways, I fired up my Mac and WiFi and Bluetooth came right up. AirDrop came right up. Looks like my existing Cat Woman patches are a go with the 802.11ac iMac card.
Thanks to those who pointed me in the right direction and where to purchase off eBay.
I'm glad I did not have to do any weird stuff like I saw with some Mac Pro 5,1s with the Bluetooth.
Anyways, I am beefing my Mac Pro 3,1 to 64 GB RAM and I just got my 27" iMac 2011 RAM in today and its maxed out at 32GB. Doing virtualization of many macOS' on the iMac. And some older Virtualization on the Mac Pro. I also have an X-Arcade console for the Mac and will probably put an older OS on for that on the Mac Pro. I had problems in the past with the current MAME builds and the OS sandboxing it.
For CloneToolX, I think I am going to initially support High Sierra, Mojave and Catalina. These are the three OS' that can use APFS. So if they need to do any cloning of an APFS volume these can handle it. I may also have Boot Disks dmg's and .iso images of each operating system with CloneToolX. And one feature is it will be able to make them bootable or burn them with an OTA download.
I also have Catalina Beta 3 running in a Mac VM on my iMac 12,1 with a High Sierra host.
On may setup there did not seem to be a good way to screw it in and if I screwed it in from the back side, it would be hard to connect the BT cable.
I looked at someone else's setup and it looks like they did the same thing I did; screw in the Mini PCIe adapter and do the best you can with the WiFi / BT card, just having it sit and fit snug on its own. There is plenty of clearance; nothing else if gonna hit the WiFi card.
Anyways, I fired up my Mac and WiFi and Bluetooth came right up. AirDrop came right up. Looks like my existing Cat Woman patches are a go with the 802.11ac iMac card.
Thanks to those who pointed me in the right direction and where to purchase off eBay.
I'm glad I did not have to do any weird stuff like I saw with some Mac Pro 5,1s with the Bluetooth.
Anyways, I am beefing my Mac Pro 3,1 to 64 GB RAM and I just got my 27" iMac 2011 RAM in today and its maxed out at 32GB. Doing virtualization of many macOS' on the iMac. And some older Virtualization on the Mac Pro. I also have an X-Arcade console for the Mac and will probably put an older OS on for that on the Mac Pro. I had problems in the past with the current MAME builds and the OS sandboxing it.
For CloneToolX, I think I am going to initially support High Sierra, Mojave and Catalina. These are the three OS' that can use APFS. So if they need to do any cloning of an APFS volume these can handle it. I may also have Boot Disks dmg's and .iso images of each operating system with CloneToolX. And one feature is it will be able to make them bootable or burn them with an OTA download.
I also have Catalina Beta 3 running in a Mac VM on my iMac 12,1 with a High Sierra host.
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I am trying to install on macbook pro 5,5. Once the install finishes, I am not seeing a boot entry while holding down option key. I am able to run post-install and select my cata there, but still nothing on option key to boot. From within mojave, I can see the cata disk as a startup option but doesn't do anything when selecting it. I have a single SSD, Mojave (HFS)was my main partition and I split it, adding APFS to the other half.
I want install catalina on a macmini 3,1 but everytime i want to reboot
it sows me a finder with ?
What make i wrong?
hankys
it sows me a finder with ?
What make i wrong?
hankys
I am very pleased with BT4 and 802.11ac. I didn't think I would notice that much of a difference, but I can have more devices on Bluetooth with lag or hiccups with my dark Magic 2 trackpad. And it switches from USB <---> BT instantly. Before I get it to work well, but it's even better now.
Now I can have my of my input devices and my Samsung BT Speaker bar all on BT.
Going from Wimpy to Hefty.
Now I can have my of my input devices and my Samsung BT Speaker bar all on BT.
Going from Wimpy to Hefty.
I got my 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4 card and Mini PCIe adapter. I took a photo of the antenna pins and some of my labels on my cables came off. I knew which cable was for the BT and judging by the design and the length of the cables, I just went from longest to shortest on my Mac Pro 3,1. Connecting them up.
On may setup there did not seem to be a good way to screw it in and if I screwed it in from the back side, it would be hard to connect the BT cable.
I looked at someone else's setup and it looks like they did the same thing I did; screw in the Mini PCIe adapter and do the best you can with the WiFi / BT card, just having it sit and fit snug on its own. There is plenty of clearance; nothing else if gonna hit the WiFi card.
Anyways, I fired up my Mac and WiFi and Bluetooth came right up. AirDrop came right up. Looks like my existing Cat Woman patches are a go with the 802.11ac iMac card.
Thanks to those who pointed me in the right direction and where to purchase off eBay.
I'm glad I did not have to do any weird stuff like I saw with some Mac Pro 5,1s with the Bluetooth.
Anyways, I am beefing my Mac Pro 3,1 to 64 GB RAM and I just got my 27" iMac 2011 RAM in today and its maxed out at 32GB. Doing virtualization of many macOS' on the iMac. And some older Virtualization on the Mac Pro. I also have an X-Arcade console for the Mac and will probably put an older OS on for that on the Mac Pro. I had problems in the past with the current MAME builds and the OS sandboxing it.
For CloneToolX, I think I am going to initially support High Sierra, Mojave and Catalina. These are the three OS' that can use APFS. So if they need to do any cloning of an APFS volume these can handle it. I may also have Boot Disks dmg's and .iso images of each operating system with CloneToolX. And one feature is it will be able to make them bootable or burn them with an OTA download.
I also have Catalina Beta 3 running in a Mac VM on my iMac 12,1 with a High Sierra host.
If you ordered the Version 3 adapater card for the BCM94360CD, it comes with two tabs at the top with screw holes. One of them is perforated so that it can be broken off to provide the necessary access to the adjacent antenna jack on the wifi card. The Bluetooth antenna goes on the jack which is third from the right (J3). I used the instructions at
http://blog.greggant.com/posts/2015/11/15/installing-80211-nac-bluetooth-40-airport-mac-pro.html
I don't have a V3 adapter card. Mine is flipped the WiFi and the WiFi/BT card sits on top with the cables are underneath sandwiched in between the adapter and the WiFi card. I screwed in my mini PCIe adapter card. Connected my cables from longest to shortest as I only have 1 label on the cables. I did see the J0 J1 J2 J3 on the card. And really wasn't sure where the BT was on it so I just went from longest to shortest and it works.
I made sure the WiFi card was snug. Tested it. Fired right up. No issues. I also did not need that extra USB internal power cable that I saw used on some MP5,1s. And the card's instructions said to run it without the power cable to see if it works without it.
I did check someone else's guide on the 3,1 that had my same adapter and WiFi card and he pretty much did the same thing. I could not follow the wires as my cables lost their labels except for #3. Not all the cables are the same length, so I just went from longest to shortest on my Card and both WiFi and BT4 are working without issues.
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As stated on the webpage, "Currently, native APFS Booting support is required in order to run Catalina". The MBP5,5 wasn't natively supported by High Sierra, and therefore doesn't have native APFS BootROM support. You'll either have to apply APFS ROM Patcher (risky on that machine), or wait until I get my software APFS booter implementation done.
ok thank you I was a bit confused since it was showing my model under required models. I will await your patch or even better a way to get HFS support to avoid the verbose black screen boot loader.
- Early-2008 or newer Mac Pro, iMac, or MacBook Pro:
- MacPro3,1
- MacPro4,1
- MacPro5,1
- iMac8,1
- iMac9,1
- iMac10,x
- iMac11,x (systems with AMD Radeon HD 5xxx and 6xxx series GPUs will be almost unusable when running Catalina.)
- iMac12,x (systems with AMD Radeon HD 5xxx and 6xxx series GPUs will be almost unusable when running Catalina.)
- MacBookPro4,1
- MacBookPro5,x
- MacBookPro6,x
- MacBookPro7,x
- MacBookPro8,x
i do like the feel of Catalina. desktop is clean, videos play decent from youtube. 10.14 was just the opposite.
I installed this on a Late 2010 Macbook Air, runs great except every time I reboot it says that the system files were overwritten and the patcher needs to repatch them. So I patch them, then reboot and they are overwritten again.
I've even disabled System Integrity Protection and it's still happening.
I've even disabled System Integrity Protection and it's still happening.
Just click ignore them the patches from the the Mojave patcher may corrupt Cat then only ones you need are from the Cat patcher
So I updated from Mojave, so you're saying what is running is the Mojave patcher? How do I install the Catalina patcher?
Have you installed Catalina ? If you updated Catalina over the top of macOS Mojave the patch updater still appears in Catalina there is no patch updater for Catalina just the post install patches when you use Dosdude's MacOS Catalina patcher
Yes, I had Dosdude's Mojave installed, then I updated it to Dosdude's Catalina. So if there's no Catalina patcher, I'll just ignore them like you had mentioned.
Thanks!!