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macOS 10.15 Catalina on Unsupported Macs

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jhowarth said:
You might reinstall the patches making sure the BCM4321 legacy support patch is applied and you force the cache rebuild.
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I have loaded the patcher from the desktop and repatched. How do I force the rebuild? I am booting the patcher and trying again to force it.

UPDATE: No luck forcing cache rebuild.
 
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Got a funny feeling beta 5 will roll out today at 130pm..Hope so so you guys can tweek it some more!..Nice work guys!
[doublepost=1564416130][/doublepost]I meant beta 4 !...Opps!
 
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joelw135 said:
I have loaded the patcher from the desktop and repatched. How do I force the rebuild? I am booting the patcher and trying again to force it.

UPDATE: No luck forcing cache rebuild.
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Try booting from the patched usb installer that you created with Catalina Patcher 1.0.2 and select the macOS Post Install Patcher option. Make sure that the BCM4321 legacy support patch is selected and when you click Patch watch for a check box to briefly appear that allows you to force the cache to be rebuilt.
 
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jhowarth said:
Try booting from the patched usb installer that you created with Catalina Patcher 1.0.2 and select the macOS Post Install Patcher option. Make sure that the BCM4321 legacy support patch is selected and when you click Patch watch for a check box to briefly appear that allows you to force the cache to be rebuilt.
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Yes did that same result the Mini says WiFi is on, but the icon is grayed out and no network can be selected. I am hoping when Beta 5 comes out and I update, maybe the bug will be corrected.
 
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Do we waiting for new beta, hope next beta can soft the problem


avl-code-r said:
I agree.

I think the main driving force is Apple streamlining the codebase so apps and OSs can run on different hardware and OSs easily. So the focus is the future pipeline of hardware and the codebase that can utilize that hardware, and the agility to switch it all out seamlessly. Going back and looking at previous hardware and codebase transitions, I think they have learned from their mistakes and are planning ahead. I expect the next transitions to be seamless and Apple to have more options than ever.

That leaves the old hardware in need of an updated codebase. Sometimes it's doable, other times it's just not going to be performant enough. The main reason is usually something that exists in the newer chips, like a codec for encoding / decoding video, that makes certain tasks/features undoable on old hardware.


Over all, I'll still take the latest OS I can run on hardware, just to keep all the feature set and nerfed features in sync, even if have to run the photos app on a different machine (though if it's my only machine, I may not do the upgrade).

The maps launched and ran on my machine. I switched it to lite mode so I could see things better, zoomed in some, noticed most of the 'labels' were missing, but the roads were there. Then it crashed. I haven't tried Photos yet.

Now, If anyone could tell me why features keep getting nerfed over time... I mean why remove features? And then there's the 'only works with iCloud' features that shouldn't need iCloud... I'd be happier keeping more computers on different OSs if all of that didn't change as much.
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Christs3lect said:
Are you encountering apps opening off scale? & then having to resize them? Looking for a fix as I'm running the same machine myself.
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Dannyy said:
Installed today Catalina on MacBook Pro 8,2 (15 inch, Late 2011) with dead Radeon GPU. Works perfectly. Brightness control, Sleep Mode, WiFi and other stuff seems stable.
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I suppose you mean Brightness control with an app...
 
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I am not sure, the problem coming from patching or original of Catalina.
I have three USB driver, but the finder, music and photos application cannot be shown the backup music.

Please help
 

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******* said:
We have beta 4 about two weeks ago.
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Ya Tks.I was right the first time!..lol..Beta 5 today i bet at 130pm this afternoon...Its being two weeks now since beta 4..Im hoping if it comes out today...Dos will no doubt update the current version on his super cool new easy patcher...
[doublepost=1564502403][/doublepost]Dos said he will have the final 100% os catalina on an unsupported release in about two weeks..July 24th he quoted that..Amagine how good 10.15.3 or 10.15.4 will run in 6 months from now!...Excellent work you 3 guys!...Team work at its best!
 
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Thomas tech enthusiast said:
@dosdude1 I still can’t download macOS Catalina with your patcher please help!!
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i would start fresh and do a clean install of el captian...Then install os mojave on a unsupported mac..10.14.6 came out a week ago and format it in AFPS...Once you get that far..Partion your hardrive and do a clean install of 10.15 in AFPS format on the #2 partition..And if it still does work you can reboot into 10.14.6 until the final release of 10.15 in ready..hope that helped..that should work...
 
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eurasian said:
How to watch an apfs hard drive on a mac plus disk (with El Capitan)?
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The earliest macOS that supported APFS formatting is Sierra. In theory, you should be able to just boot the patched Mojave installer and use its Disk Utility application but I believe people have reported problems with that working. If so, using diskutil from the command line might work.
 
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