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macOS 10.15 Catalina on Unsupported Macs
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Does it mean that we will be able to Click on the "Update" button just like official system updates?
Or something different?
No, this is to fix the inability of Catalina Patcher to produce a usable usb installer. The same problem that Catalina Patcher 1.7.0 had with the last 10.15.0 supplemental update release.
"If like us, you want to use an eGPU with an older MacBook, with a Thunderbolt 2 or even version 1 interface, the first thing you will require is a USB-C to Thunderbolt adaptor."
In https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac/egpu-mac-3690094/
Don't know if it works though
I have come here looking for help in the chance somebody may know.
I have a MacBook (Mid-2009) 5.2 with a succesful installation of MacOS Catalina. I'm very happy and shows that it's a line of code (at the least). But I usually at work use a secondry monitor via DP to VGA adaptor. Since Installing Catalina I cannot log the system in or use the system with secondary monitor setup.
It will refuse to login or boot me out and then go into a login loop
Screen > Type Password > Beechball > Blackscreen > Repeat
I have to restart the Mac without secondary monitor to login and use it. Any ideas what could be happening all patches have been updated and MacOS updated
Regards
Nathan
I have a MacBook (Mid-2009) 5.2 with a succesful installation of MacOS Catalina. I'm very happy and shows that it's a line of code (at the least). But I usually at work use a secondry monitor via DP to VGA adaptor. Since Installing Catalina I cannot log the system in or use the system with secondary monitor setup.
It will refuse to login or boot me out and then go into a login loop
Screen > Type Password > Beechball > Blackscreen > Repeat
I have to restart the Mac without secondary monitor to login and use it. Any ideas what could be happening all patches have been updated and MacOS updated
Regards
Nathan
This is probably connected to the legacy video patches, although DP to VGA connection works fine on my MacBook7,1 so I'm not sure exactly what's different.
Please look in Console for
loginwindow or WindowServer crashes, as that's likely the cause of your problem. Upload the report and I'll take a look.
Catalina Patcher version 1.2.1 has now been released, which adds full support for Catalina version 10.15.1.
I'll wait a while..
Took met a few days and several fresh installs to get Catalina 10.15 running. I'll watch this thread
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Using the new patcher I downloaded a fresh copy of Catalina. I proceeded to attempt an install over the currently installed Catalina.
I got no errors, and it quickly took me the reboot screen.
It fully rebooted into the already installed 10.15.0 version. It would not update it...
SIP is fully disabled, the /tmp directory was cleared before starting.
I made 2 attempts with the same results... Still sitting at 10.15...
Any advice?
I got no errors, and it quickly took me the reboot screen.
It fully rebooted into the already installed 10.15.0 version. It would not update it...
SIP is fully disabled, the /tmp directory was cleared before starting.
I made 2 attempts with the same results... Still sitting at 10.15...
Any advice?
I hate to do it, but I guess I'll boot into Mojave and run sudo gpt destroy diskX on my Catalina drive.
Then I'll clone my Mojave install over there and see if it will upgrade it. Not really sure what else to try right now.
Then I'll clone my Mojave install over there and see if it will upgrade it. Not really sure what else to try right now.
I'm a big fan or dosdude and his Catalina Patcher. I am having problems using the new Catalina Patcher today. I'm afraid that the Catalina Patcher did not work to upgrade 10.15 to 10.15.1.
I tried doing both an installer drive and direct on the drive (/tmp). I get a dialog box from the "Install macOS Catalina" app that says "An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again."
I tried running it again and have re-downloaded the Catalina Patcher (no version but 202,854,337 bytes) and the Install macOS Catalina (v 15.1.03).
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you.
Stan
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I tried doing both an installer drive and direct on the drive (/tmp). I get a dialog box from the "Install macOS Catalina" app that says "An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again."
I tried running it again and have re-downloaded the Catalina Patcher (no version but 202,854,337 bytes) and the Install macOS Catalina (v 15.1.03).
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you.
Stan
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I have the same issue. See my message below.
Yes I did read "Installation" and noted what was there. But compare Credits under Catalina with that of Mojave. There is a striking difference, for similar situations.
I'm also have a problem updating to Catalina 10.15.1
Software Update shows me up to date (on Catalina 10.15.0) and the Catalina Updater tool in System Preferences has all the checkboxes checked but it still will not show me the update to 10.15.1 so I ca click on it and install it.
Am I missing something? I read all the documentation I could find here and on his site but I'm stumped. How do I get from 10.15.0 to 10.15.1 please? Thanks!
Software Update shows me up to date (on Catalina 10.15.0) and the Catalina Updater tool in System Preferences has all the checkboxes checked but it still will not show me the update to 10.15.1 so I ca click on it and install it.
Am I missing something? I read all the documentation I could find here and on his site but I'm stumped. How do I get from 10.15.0 to 10.15.1 please? Thanks!
10.15.1 final confirmed working on non-Metal systems as well
Are you guys missing the photo-related screensavers too? Has Apple removed them? Or is this a side effect of a patch?
Are you guys missing the photo-related screensavers too? Has Apple removed them? Or is this a side effect of a patch?
Third time was a charm. I didn't have to start from scratch. It was user error on my part.
I THOUGHT SIP was disabled because in Catalina Terminal, I ran csrutil status and the output said everything was disabled. Well, the new terminal shell reports differently under Catalina, than Mojave and I misunderstood the output.
I booted into Mojave Recovery and checked from there. I found that SIP was indeed enabled, so I disabled it and tried again.
Worked perfectly...
I THOUGHT SIP was disabled because in Catalina Terminal, I ran csrutil status and the output said everything was disabled. Well, the new terminal shell reports differently under Catalina, than Mojave and I misunderstood the output.
I booted into Mojave Recovery and checked from there. I found that SIP was indeed enabled, so I disabled it and tried again.
Worked perfectly...
Hi all,
Catalina 10.15.1 (19B88) successfully installed on MP5.1 without any post-installation patches. Update from 10.15 after creating a USB key using Patcher 1.2.1.
Wifi is working again !!!
Catalina 10.15.1 (19B88) successfully installed on MP5.1 without any post-installation patches. Update from 10.15 after creating a USB key using Patcher 1.2.1.
Wifi is working again !!!
Hey guys, there are so many pages on this and they aren't easy to search through, so I figured I would ask my question here. I have a Early 2011 17" MacBook Pro with a still surviving DGPU. I had a successful install of Catalina on another partition. Is there an easy way to disable the DGPU on just the Catalina partition and leave my 2 other partitions with Lion and High Sierra alone? Thanks!
I'm trying to update from 10.15 to 10.15.1 on an Xserve 2,1 and also on a 3,1 with dosdude's 1.2.1, but so-far no luck. Tried both ways, with USB patcher and update from /tmp folder. Both times just reboots into 10.15. Updating from Mojave with 1.2.1 however works just fine.
Interesting question.
I think that once you run the GPU disabler patch in macOS, it'll set a routine that will always disable SIP and patch the nvram when booting, putting the dGPU to sleep.
It might be that once you boot into Lion or High Sierra, systems you didn't patch and still have the dGPU drivers on them, they could fire up again the dGPU. Risc is that it could crash the system.
Just curious... if your dGPU is still alive, why is it that you want to disable it? One thing I saw about your machine is that it's pretty important to change thermal paste and keep things cool, but other than that is OK
I've followed that method with my supported 2012 Macbook Pro configured APFS RAID 0 with latest Macosx Catalina 10.15.1 release today and its working fine, just need to rename bootcaches near the end to complete installation.Hello,
Can anyone confirm if this patch will support RAID 0 configured under APFS?
This member mentioned that it is supported but my RAID drive is greyed out when trying to install it.
macOS 10.15 Catalina on Unsupported Macs
install in RAID0 works from the Installer USB Mojave and Installer Catalina USB patched Dosdude1, and the only thing you need to do after installation is to rename the bootcaches.plist to bootcaches.bak and it will become bootable and may even receive OTA updates normally. I've done it step by...forums.macrumors.com
Any help will be appreciated
