We need to know what's happening when this happens (goes through the machinations, but then simply reboots with 10.15.1 installed) and how we might fix this. I get an error when clicking on install new OS when using the USB stick option. Stalemate for me.
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We need to know what's happening when this happens (goes through the machinations, but then simply reboots with 10.15.1 installed) and how we might fix this. I get an error when clicking on install new OS when using the USB stick option. Stalemate for me.
My screen is connected through DisplayPort. No problems and with the rx 580 in my 5.1 colors look richer even though the screen is an 8-bit one.
Similar situ here - "Install to machine" failed to clean install into an APFS container. After failing at the install step, after everything was built . . . . it looks like, here is what remained on both the source and target partitions. Patcher 1.3.0 and installer 10.15.2.02. The two screenshots are titled.
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Not surprised as that is an ATI card instead of a Nvidia one. The Kepler drivers have had broken DisplayPort on the GTX 680 since the beginning under Catalina.
Can I achieve OTA updates whilst on Dosdudes Catalina 10.15.1? Cheers
the only thing that won’t work is night shift - every time I try to install it it breaks the Siri preference pane and keyboard preference pane.
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night shift under Catalina breaks preference panes Siri and keyboard.
Not anymore it shouldn't. That's been fixed awhile ago.
Dosdude - any chance I can enable logging on the cat patcher? Trying to figure out why I get the "An error occurred while attempting to save the BaseSystem image. Ensure that there is at least 10GB of free space on your Startup Disk, then try again." error. 2 systems, both Cat .1 different usb drives and even get the error on an inlace upgrade.
ok, where do I find the new night shift for Catalina ?
In Patch Updater. Re-install from list or install the version that is prompted.
So it seems redownloading cat patcher (again) solved the issue. Weird.
Well, I've tried everything and can't get 10.15.2 to install with the Patcher. Just not happening this time.
Let me tell some about my MBA4.2 update road from 10.15.1 to 10.15.2 ....
First time tried to "install to this machine" method. Before always did by recovery USB stick method
So... ALL OK! Siri, continuity, night shift and all other patches works well.
Have 2 propositions to @dosdude1
1. Will be good to see in future auto Airdrop installation in update sequence. I think if we can do so, will be no need to relogin to iCloud account after every update to have a full working continuity.
2. This guy @fabioroberto did a great thing to correct interface in some places in this post. It still works but need to install it manually. Maybe you can add it to the patcher?
And BIG BIG thanks for updating us! ))
First time tried to "install to this machine" method. Before always did by recovery USB stick method
So... ALL OK! Siri, continuity, night shift and all other patches works well.
Have 2 propositions to @dosdude1
1. Will be good to see in future auto Airdrop installation in update sequence. I think if we can do so, will be no need to relogin to iCloud account after every update to have a full working continuity.
2. This guy @fabioroberto did a great thing to correct interface in some places in this post. It still works but need to install it manually. Maybe you can add it to the patcher?
And BIG BIG thanks for updating us! ))
hello guys,
newbie here ... so as a newbie I'm going to ask a newbie question. make sense
I have installed Catalina on a MacBookPro mid 2010 (MBP 7.1). Installation was simple and smooth.
However, my system is staying at 10.15 it's not updating to 10.15.X , and when i try to look for updates none are found.
it's my understanding that if I download the latest dosdude patcher, it will also download the latest package available from Apple servers.
So my question is ... do I need to do a full reinstall each time a new version 10.15.X comes out or is there a less time consuming and less extreme way to do updates?
on a side note, tumbs up to Dosdude for fighting obsolescene. I use the mac only for surfing / email I'm not exactly sure why a 8GB machine with a 64 bits dual core Intel and an Intel SSD should go to the trashcan
newbie here ... so as a newbie I'm going to ask a newbie question. make sense
I have installed Catalina on a MacBookPro mid 2010 (MBP 7.1). Installation was simple and smooth.
However, my system is staying at 10.15 it's not updating to 10.15.X , and when i try to look for updates none are found.
it's my understanding that if I download the latest dosdude patcher, it will also download the latest package available from Apple servers.
So my question is ... do I need to do a full reinstall each time a new version 10.15.X comes out or is there a less time consuming and less extreme way to do updates?
on a side note, tumbs up to Dosdude for fighting obsolescene. I use the mac only for surfing / email I'm not exactly sure why a 8GB machine with a 64 bits dual core Intel and an Intel SSD should go to the trashcan
hello guys,
newbie here ... so as a newbie I'm going to ask a newbie question. make sense
I have installed Catalina on a MacBookPro mid 2010 (MBP 7.1). Installation was simple and smooth.
However, my system is staying at 10.15 it's not updading, and when i try to look for updates none are found.
it's my understanding that if I download the latest dosdude patcher, it will also download the latest package available from Apple servers.
So my question is ... do I need to do a full reinstall each time a new version 10.15.X comes out or is there a less time consuming and less extreme way to do updates?
Since Catalina is being installed on unsupported macs direct downloading updates from apple will not work. So Dosdude1 has implemented software update patch in 1.3.0.
Yes when ever there is a major update you have to follow whole exercise again but you can select option "install on this machine" instead of making a bootable usb and the update will override over the old version of OS as less time consuming method. However, you can update directly the security updates, safari updates from software update in preference.
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You must be having patch update in utilities. Run that and select reinstall all patches. On the list you can select nightshift patch and install it again.
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I don't know what the issue is but download latest dosdude1 patch version 1.3.0. Run it and let it download latest OS 10.15.2. Select install on this disk instead of making a bootable usb and thats it it will install over your existing 10.15.1. All patches will auto install according to your machine.
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You are right I have MBA4,2 too. However all post patches of Siri,Airdrop, Continuity , handoff has to be re installed after updating to 10.15.2. @dosdude1 is aware and probably will introduce the same in his patch as every machine has a different requirement and some work and some don't so its a tedious process but my guess he is working on it. Cheers
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I'm running 10.15.1 on my iMac8,1. Using the dosdude1 patcher version 1.3.0 to download a copy of 10.15.2 and "Install to This Machine" doesn't seem to work. The download completes, the installer gets patched, and the installer runs, but when the installer reboots after its progress bar completes, the iMac just boots back into 10.15.1. I had this exact same problem trying to install 10.15.1 over 10.15 and ended up creating a USB drive to do the installation instead. I'm guessing the same thing will work this time too, but it's inconvenient. Any ideas? I've seen a lot of people in this thread report success with using the "Install to This Machine" option. Is there something special about the iMac8,1 that makes it incompatible with this approach?
My suggestion do the install using the usb bootable patched OS method. Its safer and may take a bit of time but it works.
Another change in 10.15.2 GM; it installed directly onto m.2 NVMe SSD in a Highpoint 7101-A PCIe card today and booted fine, returning the same functionality as found in Mojave.
Look at my post #7323 above. I got the patcher to work.
Mac Mini5,1 up and running 10.15.2 without any pain from 10.15.1 via Dosdude's patcher 1.3.0 "Install on this machine".
Awesome!
Awesome!
I do have an mbps 5,5 myself!! Be more clear!! What is your current version?
I'm afraid you have to make a new installer
With the latest patcher! Unsupported macs
Can't update through sysprefs!!
Thanks. My question already got answered a few posts above.