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macOS 10.15 Catalina on Unsupported Macs
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Running a MacbookPro8,1 and handoff and airdrop aren't working.
I ran these commands in terminal
sudo mount -uw / ; killall Finder
sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set:Mac-94245B3640C91C81:ContinuitySupport true" "/System/Library/Frameworks/IOBluetooth.framework/Versions/A/Resources/SystemParameters.plist"
but nothing works still. Any ideas?
I do have an updated bluetooth module I bought from eBay installed.
I ran these commands in terminal
sudo mount -uw / ; killall Finder
sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set:Mac-94245B3640C91C81:ContinuitySupport true" "/System/Library/Frameworks/IOBluetooth.framework/Versions/A/Resources/SystemParameters.plist"
but nothing works still. Any ideas?
I do have an updated bluetooth module I bought from eBay installed.
Responding to my own post. Logging out of iCloud and logged back in turned Handoff on.
Thanks jackluke on the patches!
Hi Jackluke, thanks for the detailed instructions and info- very best Zfrogman
Successfully did the @dosdude1 patch 1.2.0 and today's (10/21/19) Catalina Installer + Supplemental Patch on my Mac Mini 4,1 (installing over the GA Catalina install). So far, so good.
Just did and with a new USB stick. Same issue. Getting the "this installer is damaged" message. I'm going to reapply the sudo nvram boot-args="-no_compat_check" and see if that's the issue. I did that before doing the install last week and haven't messed with the nvram since, but who knows? I'll report back.View attachment 871507
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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
Running only those commands is not suffice (even with an upgraded BT4.0 module), you need first a pre-patched Wifi Broadcom driver, and you could use this: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-10-15-catalina-on-unsupported-macs.2183772/post-27890943
Moreover the MacBookPro8,1 is particular because can have two different board-ids, but the one linked should work for your machine.
Hi Guys!
I have a problem on my MacBookPro 8,1 with Catalina 10.15 installed with dosdude1 1.2.0
Now he says that i have an i7 dual core!!! when he is a quad core....
can you help me?
Thank you!!
oh...and if is possible....
how to update on 10.15.1? can you describe the procedure??
Thanks a lot!!
I have a problem on my MacBookPro 8,1 with Catalina 10.15 installed with dosdude1 1.2.0
Now he says that i have an i7 dual core!!! when he is a quad core....
can you help me?
Thank you!!
oh...and if is possible....
how to update on 10.15.1? can you describe the procedure??
Thanks a lot!!
run the commands again, but all of them.
on my Mac Pro I did have to go and turn hand off off and back on again
The MacBookPro8,1 has a dual-core hyper-threaded CPU (2 physical cores with 2 virtual cores). Not sure why you thought it was quad-core. Only the 15" and 17" machines (MacBookPro8,2 and 8,3) have quad-core processors. Also, 10.15.1 has not been released to the public yet, and won't be until at least a month from now.
Installed everything fine for the first Catalina on my Mac 15" Mid 2010 but haven't been able to install the updated version that came out today....like a lot of others, it says 13 minutes to finish updates, reboots right back to the same Catalina as before. Using the newest 1.20 patcher and trying to install from machine option.
I tried again to make the installer, this time using El Capitan on the MacBook Pro in question. Using this new installer, I was able to get to the screen with the white-on-black Apple logo and the status bar beneath it (which would eventually be above text indicating how much time the installation is going to take), but the status bar would not progress past the first ~1/40, even after being left alone for ~30 minutes.
I then decided to give up. I'm now going to install macOS Catalina on the SSD using my MacBook6,1, then transfer it back to my MacBook Pro. Wish me luck, I guess.
for macOS Catalina APFS is required your hdd/ssd needs to be formatted in APFS it won't run on HFS
I mentioned in my first post that I formatted my SSD as APFS.
that is something I hope dosdude or Julian can help you with I know many have had issues with just getting Mojave to run as there is no graphic acceleration on those models it will be like running in safe mode
The MacBookPro4,1 that I own - the A1261 - uses a GeForce 8600M GT. This GPU supports graphics acceleration on Catalina, as stated in the OP.
EDIT: I did the initial installation of Catalina with my MacBook6,1 (stage 1 + 2), then swapped hard drives and applied the post-install patches on my MacBookPro4,1. Looks like everything is working now.
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Minor pains on Mac Pro 3,1 with RX 580...
Could you (optionally?) include MouSSE in the patched base system so those of us that have this new setup are able to more easily install catalina?
In order for me to boot the installer beyond a black screen, I have to remove the AMD drivers from the installer.
(booted installer in single user, remounted root as read/write then moved the AMD drivers from SLE to / to get them out of the way)
Also, if we have already downloaded the whole OS using your patcher, why does the installer see the need to download the packages from Apple during the installer 'Retrieving 6 packages (8.277 GB)'?
and actually haven't been able to install it, getting stuck with a failure with 4 minutes left each time (3 attempts to install)
Could you (optionally?) include MouSSE in the patched base system so those of us that have this new setup are able to more easily install catalina?
In order for me to boot the installer beyond a black screen, I have to remove the AMD drivers from the installer.
(booted installer in single user, remounted root as read/write then moved the AMD drivers from SLE to / to get them out of the way)
Also, if we have already downloaded the whole OS using your patcher, why does the installer see the need to download the packages from Apple during the installer 'Retrieving 6 packages (8.277 GB)'?
and actually haven't been able to install it, getting stuck with a failure with 4 minutes left each time (3 attempts to install)
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Another method of installing MouSSE is with Kextutility
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it is also available in the post install patcher in the latest Catalina Patcher 1.2.0
Yeah, I'll have to do that... Didn't realize that would be an issue, since the installer environment doesn't utilize full graphics acceleration.
are you near a router your could try and connect a ethernet cable and see if that works
Oh yes, the Ethernet works, just WiFi don’t appears.
My problem now is the installation of Catalina with 1.2.0 dosdude patch. 😕
Install the files without problem for “macOS data install” but after this return a error.
Thanks, it would seem it does use some level of acceleration, apparently enough that it is needed.
As while all AMD kexts are removed the UI for the installer is laggy.
I managed to get the installer to load mousse (after some time in single user mode and a really long (like 20 minute loading session after) which provides a fluidic UI, multidisplay support (not just mirroring) and according to kextstat it does load AMDSupport, AMDFramebuffer, AMD9500Controller for my RX 580, but obviously no X4000 kexts as they aren't in the installer. My guess would be that there are some SSE4.2 calls happening in one of those 3 kexts in catalina (not sure if you added this to mojave patcher).
Still can't get Catalina to install yet though.
Also, I'm pretty sure you can remove DisableLibraryValidation from /Library/Extensions/ now as we won't be needing that for any of the SSE4.2 stuff anymore.