I have the OTA downloaded, I run the script (see photo of output), it shuts everything down and goes to a black screen with a white apple logo and a progress bar that never fills all the way up for about 3-4 minutes, reboots. As soon as it reboots I hold down the alt-option key, and I only get an option to boot into the EFI boot (see photo), and that brings me back to 10.15.1
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I have the OTA downloaded, I run the script (see photo of output), it shuts everything down and goes to a black screen with a white apple logo and a progress bar that never fills all the way up for about 3-4 minutes, reboots. As soon as it reboots I hold down the alt-option key, and I only get an option to boot into the EFI boot (see photo), and that brings me back to 10.15.1
You're right, then I guess I was wrong, the "macOS Installer" is an APFS mount point, that's why you can't notice there in the apple startup manager, so you should redirect the APFS "overlay" boot script to the "macOS Installer" volume/label, but not sure exactly how to do this.
So if using an APFS script loader the "macOS Installer" is not detected, then @TimothyR734 , @hvds and @Larsvonhier have applied the "APFS ROM patch" to their unsupported machines to allow OTA updates ?
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Interesting avatar name then, HighSierraCosworth... ;-)
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Correct. I did not shy away from the risk to have to desolder or re-flash the EFI flash ROM.
But there is a solution from @0403979 in the works that does the APFS trick by a two-stage approach and so he can get non-ROM-patched machines to update anyway. (Might be out in the wild already, or just for testers at the moment).
Downgrade to Mojave. Foto App is working again, Maps as well. For my MacBook Pro 5.3 definitely the better OS.
Thanks for the input, I'll spend some time at lunch seeing if it's in the wild, or if I can find a thread to follow for when it's released.
I can confirm my patch works flawlessly on non-APFS supported Macs. I also just released an update with a minor improvement to that patch. If anyone's been having issues with macOS Patcher, the latest release should fix them. https://github.com/rmc-team/macos-patcher/releases/tag/3.1.1
my iMac came after my MacBook Pro, and it was stuck on High Sierra for about 2 weeks before I swapped the GPU. I love the Ford Sierra RS Cosworth, so I named the startup Disk Sierra Cosworth, and put the username as HighSierraCosworth. Confusing, isn’t it?
Definitely
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Catalina is piece of crap on unsupported machines. Let´s face that.
I had to reinstall 10.15.3 as I booted into verbose mode on 10.15.4 Dev beta 2 and for at least 20 mins it would say AMFI sip disabled core dump pid it started at 1 and when I rebooted it was at core dump pid 1750 did a PRAM reset got stuck at full progress bar then rebooted into the Catalina Patcher reapplied the post install patches still got stuck at full progress bar and one thing I do notice when you reinstall Safari stops working
"AMFI sip disabled" repeated verbose string means that AMFI is enabled again that's why you can't boot more Catalina GUI, this happens when you reset PRAM and also when re-applying the post-patches will override the Preboot's com.apple.boot.plist adding only "-no_compat_check", useful, but not suffice to disable AMFI.
In both cases you can easily re-enter from an USB Installer environment opening a recovery terminal typing exactly this:
Code:
mount -uw /
nvram boot-args="-no_compat_check amfi_get_out_of_my_way=1"
reboot
Yes - symptom, explanation and cure are exactly what I also had (post #8398) when installing DP1. DP1 booting and running fine since.
Got 10.15.3 up and running. Wasn't ever able to get the OTA update to work. Used the newest release of the patcher/installer. Still not sure if there's a way to select which APFS you want to boot to the overlay starts, guess we'll see when 10.15.4 goes live. One question, with the installer off DosDude1's website I had an icon to check to see if there where any updated patches, seem to be gone with the command line install method. Anyway to check if any of the patches have been updated?
I guess during the APFS "overlay" if you press "esc" key it should allow the shell terminal session, and there are some minimal unix shell commands to select a different APFS volume but haven't checked them yet, maybe type "help" or "?" during the efi shell, then "exit" to return to apple bootloader.
Alright, I've give that a shot, and take some pics when I do.
General question, doing just fine on a MacPro3,1 and 10.15.3 Catalina. How is the upgrade to 10.15.4 beta? I've always used dosdude's installers and they have been flawless.
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I have a question- how can I remove the APFS patch from the installed version of Catalina? I moved my hard drive from a Mac Pro 3,1 to a 5,1. The 3,1 does not support native APFS booting, but the 5,1 does, so I no longer need all that scrolling black text.
Thanks for any help.
Thanks for any help.
finally my wonderful hack book the Medion laptop is also perfectly finished with the DP2 from 10.15.4.
And you @******* may not like your Hackintosh here
spare writing. Here are still a lot of people who have Hackintosh!
And you @******* may not like your Hackintosh here
spare writing. Here are still a lot of people who have Hackintosh!
I have searched and looked everywhere on this forum. How do you download the OTA on an unsupported system?
LOL, the very same Safari extensions install and run perfectly on my iMac 18,3 / Catalina / Safari 13.
Just installed 10.15.3 on a iMac10,1.
Is there any fix how to enable extensions in Safari? By example I can install Gosthery or 1password extension but unable to enable the extension.
Is there any fix how to enable extensions in Safari? By example I can install Gosthery or 1password extension but unable to enable the extension.
Thanks. I'm not on Catalina, though the OP with this question is.
My 2 cents - I think the Zoom app has changed multiple times in the last 6-7 months, so one may also have to find an earlier version of Zoom to get it working on Catalina (or Mojave) on Unsupported Macs. However, note that Zooms app for some time prior to March 2019 and up to 16 July 2019 contained a serious exploit that could allow a hacker to gain control of ones webcam. Such versions were unpatched for so long that Apple malware removal tool was updated to remove Zoom clients in July: https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/zoom/
Maybe Zoom got more paranoid after that and clamped down on some exploits that are used to allow Catalina and Mojave to run on Unsupported Macs?
My problem is specifically only with Zoom. Google Hangouts, FaceTime and Skype all work fine for me with Mojave on an unsupported Mac, but they are not the zeitgeist nowadays.
I have an old High Sierra partition on an external USB drive, have installed Zoom and it works fine. It's a very clunky work around because booting takes ages via USB2 and the spinner, plus I can't use my up-to-date apps while using HS.
Since this is post install and the auto update from dosdude1's installer should be functioning, is there a way to trigger this patch again without repair mode since it doesn't boot to the repair volume (and since I can't easily boot to a USB since the video card won't show boot-time graphics)?