I have Catalina on a Macmini5,1 and interestingly Screen Time is not working. It tracks and e.g. website limits can be imposed but not limits on applications. The windows do not get disabled and show the info screen. Any tips?
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macOS 10.15 Catalina on Unsupported Macs
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Hi,
I successfully installed catalina using dosdude's way on my MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) SSD (I'm using caddy another disk using Harddisk and has el capitan).
its okay for 2 weeks then suddenly this morning, the ssd that used to install the OS cannot be read.
i already check on diskutil also no luck or is it hardware issue ?
I successfully installed catalina using dosdude's way on my MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) SSD (I'm using caddy another disk using Harddisk and has el capitan).
its okay for 2 weeks then suddenly this morning, the ssd that used to install the OS cannot be read.
i already check on diskutil also no luck or is it hardware issue ?
I just found that a new "supplemental" version of Catalina has been released (19A603). This is not a beta but an intermediate update, like the one that was released last week.
Works almost perfectly on an older Mac mini 2010 (Macmini4,1) ...Only caps lock light on external PC USB Keyboard does not work for me.
Correct, infact Catalina without any Video Patches (hence without video acceleration), with an AirPlay capable GPU (example IntelHD3000) does allow the AirPlay on a TV (but not Sidecar).
I mean the "AirPlay Display" function doesn't require a OpenGL (or Metal) graphic acceleration to work, but it requires the stock Catalina frameworks and video kext loaded.
I just used Catalina Patcher 1.1.9 to download this new installer and it is version 15.0.34. Going to try an "Install to this machine" and see what happens.
👍 Many thanks for that.
Now, handoff and airdrop is working, I can see my iPad in the airdrop window of my mac mini.
But, my original goal, to use my iPad Air 3 as a second display to mac mini won't
If I connect it with the usb cable, now I can choose iPad as a sidecar device (also I can see the iPad icon in the menu bar), but the iPad screen goes black, and on the mini, the lines in the sidecar setup window flickerng.
The sidecar should work in wireless mode, but if I connect the two devices with bluetooth only, I can't select iPad as a device in the sidecar window
Sidecar cannot work on machines with non-Metal video cards. Sidecar doesn't even officially support some machines that natively support Catalina. Officially, Sidecar works only on 2016 and later machines.👍 Many thanks for that.
Now, handoff and airdrop is working, I can see my iPad in the airdrop window of my mac mini.
But, my original goal, to use my iPad Air 3 as a second display to mac mini won't
If I connect it with the usb cable, now I can choose iPad as a sidecar device (also I can see the iPad icon in the menu bar), but the iPad screen goes black, and on the mini, the lines in the sidecar setup window flickerng.
The sidecar should work in wireless mode, but if I connect the two devices with bluetooth only, I can't select iPad as a device in the sidecar window
Hi Jackluke,
I'am on a MacBookPro7,1 with Catalina final release. My BT infos are:
<"Mac-F222BEC8">
"IOName" = "pci14e4,432b"
Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x8D)
Is there any chance to activate AirDrop or even Continuity?
Thanks a lot.
Regards
Miguel
Hope soon we get to see the video card hack or something without use of metal specially for Intel3000 graphic card. Since metal got implemented from Intel 4000 onwards.
Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble getting the Catalina installer to run on my MacBook Pro 17" Early-2008 (MacBookPro4,1). It has a 2.5 GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, a Crucial MX300 275GB SSD, and 4GB of PC2-5300 RAM.
I've created the installer on a 16GB USB drive using v1.2.0 of dosdude1's Catalina Patcher and v10.15 (supplemental update) of Install macOS Catalina.app. I know this USB drive works, as I've previously used it to install Catalina on my MacBook6,1 (and before that, Mojave on a MacBookPro8,1).
I'm able to format the SSD I've installed in the machine as APFS just fine. However, once I begin the macOS installation procedure, the status bar progresses to the point it should reboot into the second stage of the installer. Instead, however, it returns to the "macOS Utilities" menu. Eventually, the menu will disappear, replaced by an entirely grey screen with only the cursor visible. I had left it at this screen for ~10 minutes, but the machine never rebooted.
Instead, I forced the machine to power off, and manually turned it back on -- unfortunately, it booted to the USB installer, and the APFS volume was not recognized by the machine when rebooting with the USB installer removed. I tried to manually install the post-install patches (including the APFS patch) via the USB installer, but that failed with error code (1).
I do recall, when I accidentally booted in verbose mode, that when the machine was supposed to reboot, it would print something like "disk2s2 could not be unmounted" or "disk2s2 can not be found" repeatedly until I forced the machine to shut down.
Note that this machine has run Catalina before, as I had transferred the SSD from my MacBook6,1, afterwards reapplying the correct patches with the USB installer. However, I was experiencing some issues with the backlight (it could only be adjusted to dim, very dim, or off), and figured it was better to restart with a fresh installation.
Thanks.
EDIT: I suppose I could swap the SSD into a Mac that can run the installer with no problems, but I really don't want to open this machine again. Unfortunately, I don't have any FireWire 400 6-pin -> 800 or 800 -> 800 cables, either.
I've created the installer on a 16GB USB drive using v1.2.0 of dosdude1's Catalina Patcher and v10.15 (supplemental update) of Install macOS Catalina.app. I know this USB drive works, as I've previously used it to install Catalina on my MacBook6,1 (and before that, Mojave on a MacBookPro8,1).
I'm able to format the SSD I've installed in the machine as APFS just fine. However, once I begin the macOS installation procedure, the status bar progresses to the point it should reboot into the second stage of the installer. Instead, however, it returns to the "macOS Utilities" menu. Eventually, the menu will disappear, replaced by an entirely grey screen with only the cursor visible. I had left it at this screen for ~10 minutes, but the machine never rebooted.
Instead, I forced the machine to power off, and manually turned it back on -- unfortunately, it booted to the USB installer, and the APFS volume was not recognized by the machine when rebooting with the USB installer removed. I tried to manually install the post-install patches (including the APFS patch) via the USB installer, but that failed with error code (1).
I do recall, when I accidentally booted in verbose mode, that when the machine was supposed to reboot, it would print something like "disk2s2 could not be unmounted" or "disk2s2 can not be found" repeatedly until I forced the machine to shut down.
Note that this machine has run Catalina before, as I had transferred the SSD from my MacBook6,1, afterwards reapplying the correct patches with the USB installer. However, I was experiencing some issues with the backlight (it could only be adjusted to dim, very dim, or off), and figured it was better to restart with a fresh installation.
Thanks.
EDIT: I suppose I could swap the SSD into a Mac that can run the installer with no problems, but I really don't want to open this machine again. Unfortunately, I don't have any FireWire 400 6-pin -> 800 or 800 -> 800 cables, either.
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I guess no, for Broadcom cards lower than 0x14E4, 0x9* is not possible to enable AirDrop on Catalina due to a chipset or BCM43xx firmware limitation.
No luck with either the "Install to this machine" or creating a USB installer. The "iinstall to this machine" option just reboots back to the original Catalina install shortly after going through the initial step where it installs things to the target drive and then restarts to continue the install. The install never continues, just back to the unchanged original OS. The USB installer acts a little different as it terminates with a "This installer is damaged" message. I have used the downloaded installer to install to a virtual machine and to a supported machine, so I know that the OS installer is actually okay. This tells me that we need an undate to the Catalina Patcher to install this new version.
Just did a successful install using CP 1.1.9 15.0.34 on MacBook 6,1. Booted into my High Sierra partition, used CP 1.1.9, downloaded 15.0.34 and created USB installer, reinstalled over current 15.0.33. Reinstalled the HiToolbox and SkyLight Original using method from previous page. Posting this post install 19A603.
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I've read somewhere that it would be possible to use an Yosemite "IO80211Family.kext" to spoof the "pci14e4,432b" AirPortBrcm4331 driver as AirPortBrcm4360 (that is the one which enables AirDrop on Catalina), but can't test it for now.
Also I could attempt a patched Wifi kext as the others, but honestly for the broadcom card 0x14E4,0x8* the risk you get a kernel panic with a patched IO80211Family.kext is too high .
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Successfully installed 10.15.0 19A603 using the install to this machine method BlyeSky 1.4.4 also working
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did you use the macOS Catalina Patcher version 1.2.0
Can confirm the tendency to kernel panic with that Broadcom card and patching that kext! Have not tried doing anything with Yosemite drivers on my 5,1 (yet) though.
Hello...
About bluesky:
I m using bluesky in Catalina patched by replacing files... I can not run the script... It always said that i don’t have root permissions.
Can someone explain to me how to run the script??
Thanks and keep up your great work 😉
About bluesky:
I m using bluesky in Catalina patched by replacing files... I can not run the script... It always said that i don’t have root permissions.
Can someone explain to me how to run the script??
Thanks and keep up your great work 😉
Open Terminal and type:
sudo suEnter your password and drag the script to terminal window, press Enter key and follow the instructions on the screen.
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Successfully created a Catalin patcher 1.2.0 for macOS Catalina 19A603 15.0.34
ok thanks again. I think this is too dangerous and unstable. Maybe I'll try a BT USB dongle... Any proposals anyone?
Successfully created a Catalin patcher 1.2.0 for macOS Catalina 19A603 15.0.34
I already used it to reinstall Catalina for the 19A603 build. Worked as expected...
Any idea how to enable Handoff/continuity for MBA 4,1? Mac-C08A6BB70A942AC2 is the ID. Tried with your methods and handoff doesn't seem to be working.
thanks!