macOS 10.15 Catalina on Unsupported Macs

[Pinarek]

With my not supported HackBook laptop, the update to the DP6 Build 19E264b from 10.15.4
went absolutely smoothly. I was amazed at myself.

After stage 2 of the installation, the @dosdude1 patches for video and WLAN etc. are executed by the USB stick and then boots immediately, without any deficiency. I didn't need to install a single framework or kext afterwards, everything stayed the same as in DP3. Just that only "colors" can be seen in the system settings monitor and no option for the graphics resolution "monitors". But it is not important.

That with the BIOS, which jumps back to default, is still the same since the DP2. Even changing the AppleRTC.kext from Catalina 10.15.4 DP1 and Mojave 10.14.6 did not change anything.
I suspect it's nvram problem.
The update on the HackBook was easier than with my other 2 supported Hackintosh (see my signature).

 

[jackluke]

I tried installing 10.15.4 Dev Beta 6 and no luck I knew I should not have applied the Legacy Support Compatiblilty patch in the post install patches the progress bar would not move more than halfway then I rebooted and just applied the Legacy Support Compatibility patch all I go was a white screen so I tried just installing the Legacy Video Patch and the AMD Metal emulator patch from Mojave the progress bar reached then end but no desktop so reinstalled 10.15.3

If you use the catalinswufix5amfi you can also apply all the post install patches after ota installed, because for amfi disable it relies on new ASentientBot library script rather than a preboot boot.plist, after the loading bar a white screen means that probably graphic kext are not fully loaded and you are at loginui screen with a "white overlay" so you should type the password to enter the desktop, or simply force power-off with button and at the next power-on you should see correctly the desktop.

Instead the mojave legacy video patch (that used the stock framework naming while on Catalina ASentientBot added the label *Original and a pointer with stock name) and the AMD Metal emulator (I guess you used the netkas patch) changed your kextcache making it incompatible with 10.15.4, you should use the Legacy Video patches only from the Catalina Patcher. I guess your issue is that you mixed too many post install patches resulting in a mismatched 4b6 prelinkedkernel.

 

[ktimamue]

It depends your internal HDD/SSD needs to be formatted APFS and for me when I install a new macOS version I do a clean install you can check and try the Catalina Patcher after you install Mojave and see if it downloads Catalina 10.15.3

Thank you so much! I was already losing my mind, installing catalina for 3 days straight

It finally worked, clean mojave install, and finally the download option worked in the catalina patcher!

 

[Dalesrandy]

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[Larsvonhier]

MB Pro 4,1 (17") also working fine on 10.14.6 beta 6 (GM) after the usual Nvidia and system patching.
Next step: Correct the screen settings panel with the .6b5 wrappers. Keeping fingers crossed that this also still works.

--edit--

Yes. Wrappers work! ;-)

 

[Michael Filipan]

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did you try running the safe mode script in your terminal in post 8905

I don't know how to do that. Is there a guide?

 

[TimothyR734]

open your terminal then unzip this script and place the unzipped script in your terminal then hit return/enter and follow the instructions

 

[dc003]

I have basically the same setup, 3.1 with 1TB Samsung SSD via OWC Accelsior PCIe but I cannot get the patcher to work properly at all. I'm having similar issues to jUeLz23 where I'm able to install Catalina but then eventually end up in a nonstop loop of apple, install, restart. The times I've been able to fully install Catalina and have the install recognized to run the postInstall have resulted in booting up to only immediately shut down. I'm able to install High Sierra but have yet to get either Mojave or Catalina to function.

jUeLz23 were you able to get it to work?

Anyone else who can give me some help I'd really appreciate it.

Finally got Catalina to work on my 3.1! However it keeps on crashing after some time. Not sure if this is something you guys have already seen?

 

[TimothyR734]

If you use the catalinswufix5amfi you can also apply all the post install patches after ota installed, because for amfi disable it relies on new ASentientBot library script rather than a preboot boot.plist, after the loading bar a white screen means that probably graphic kext are not fully loaded and you are at loginui screen with a "white overlay" so you should type the password to enter the desktop, or simply force power-off with button and at the next power-on you should see correctly the desktop.

Instead the mojave legacy video patch (that used the stock framework naming while on Catalina ASentientBot added the label *Original and a pointer with stock name) and the AMD Metal emulator (I guess you used the netkas patch) changed your kextcache making it incompatible with 10.15.4, you should use the Legacy Video patches only from the Catalina Patcher. I guess your issue is that you mixed too many post install patches resulting in a mismatched 4b6 prelinkedkernel.

The white/grey screen appears right before the Apple Logo and progress bar appears I tried again this morning installing 10.15.4 Dev Beta 6 and only used your Catalina fix 5 script and waited until at least 50% was downloaded just to test something after the install was complete I applied only the Platform Check patch forced cache rebuild and got a circle with a line through it reboot into the patcher applied just the platform check patch and legacy platform compatibility patch forced cache rebuild this time it stayed on the white screen no Apple Logo or progress bar rebooted this time applied all but the platform patches and the and metal emulator forced cache rebuild rebooted this time the progress went to the very end but no desktop rebooted while holding command v and AMFI warnings came up so reinstalled 10.15.3

 

[MasterChief2]

Hello everyone. I have some problem with my MacBook Pro A1297 17" Mid-2009. For about one year I have been used this laptop without problem with it's stock 500GB HDD with macOS Catalina on it. Today I bought SSD and laptop won't recognized it in Disk Utility when I boot up macOS Catalina installer. Also I tried HDD from my MacBook 13" Mid-2010 for which I'm 100% sure is fine and problem is the same. MacBook Pro won't recognized it in Disk Utility and also when I hold ALT button I only get white screen wih mouse cursor. After couple hours of trying I came to a conclusion that :

"Laptop won't recognize any HDD except it's own stock 500GB HDD. So if something is wrong with MacBook Pro it shuldn't recognize any HDD, a I'm 100% sure that all of HDDs I tried are fine and working."

Does anyone have any clues what could be a problem?

 

[TimothyR734]

Hello everyone. I have some problem with my MacBook Pro A1297 17" Mid-2009. For about one year I have been used this laptop without problem with it's stock 500GB HDD with macOS Catalina on it. Today I bought SSD and laptop won't recognized it in Disk Utility when I boot up macOS Catalina installer. Also I tried HDD from my MacBook 13" Mid-2010 for which I'm 100% sure is fine and problem is the same. MacBook Pro won't recognized it in Disk Utility and also when I hold ALT button I only get white screen wih mouse cursor. After couple hours of trying I came to a conclusion that :

"Laptop won't recognize any HDD except it's own stock 500GB HDD. So if something is wrong with MacBook Pro it shuldn't recognize any HDD, a I'm 100% sure that all of HDDs I tried are fine and working."

Does anyone have any clues what could be a problem?

You might try using your HDD as an external hdd drive boot into macOS Catalina go into Disk Utility and Partition your SSD APFS your SSD needs to be formatted so macOS can recognize it

 

[MasterChief2]

You might try using your HDD as an external hdd drive boot into macOS Catalina go into Disk Utility and Partition your SSD APFS your SSD needs to be formatted so macOS can recognize it

Laptop can see SSD and HDDs when I use SATA to USB cable, and I have tried to format SSD in APFS but that didn't help because when I connected SSD instead of it's own HDD laptop doesn't see it at all in Disk Utility when I boot installer. So when I boot installer if it's own HDD is connected it's recognized. But if I connect SSD or any other HDD they don't show in Disk Utility at all.

 

[Vyzantion]

On my Hackintosh, I have updated the Clover bootloader using the new Clover app, instead of the Clover pkg file. Yesterday, with no warning, the screen went black with the spinning circle of death and with the frozen mouse pointer. The circle appeared spinning, then disappeared. I have tried to log off via the keyboard, the circle froze. I had to reset the machine. On boot, on verbose mode, it said something about apfs corruption and the os was not able to boot. I had to reinstall Catalina. I have installed Clover in the new way from the beginning. Things seem fine for now, but a new nasty surprise could be on the way. What do you think happened?

 

[yezza]

Finally got Catalina to work on my 3.1! However it keeps on crashing after some time. Not sure if this is something you guys have already seen?

I haven’t experienced any crashing on my 3,1.

 

[TimothyR734]

On my Hackintosh, I have updated the Clover bootloader using the new Clover app, instead of the Clover pkg file. Yesterday, with no warning, the screen went black with the spinning circle of death and with the frozen mouse pointer. The circle appeared spinning, then disappeared. I have tried to log off via the keyboard, the circle froze. I had to reset the machine. On boot, on verbose mode, it said something about apfs corruption and the os was not able to boot. I had to reinstall Catalina. I have installed Clover in the new way from the beginning. Things seem fine for now, but a new nasty surprise could be on the way. What do you think happened?

Maybe if you use lilu and whatever green in clover or AMFI as well

 

[Vyzantion]

Maybe if you use lilu and whatever green in clover or AMFI as well

No, nothing of that.

 

[Michael Filipan]

open your terminal then unzip this script and place the unzipped script in your terminal then hit return/enter and follow the instructions

Thank you
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Automatic switching from Dark to Light mode doesn't work on my MacBook Pro mid 2009 5,4. Does someone have a solution?

 

[MacTobi]

Is there any way to solve this problem?

 

[ASentientBot]

I remember a few people were having trouble with Zoom on non-Metal showing black for videos... had to use it just now and I found a link to a version that works for me.

https://d11yldzmag5yn.cloudfront.net/prod/4.4.53909.0617/Zoom.pkg

Hope that helps someone!
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Tagging those of you who asked about this before @Paul A Jackson @bradhaggard

 

[TimothyR734]

Thank you
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Automatic switching from Dark to Light mode doesn't work on my MacBook Pro mid 2009 5,4. Does someone have a solution?

I use an app called NightOwl https://mac.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/NightOwl.shtml

 

[Michael Filipan]

I use an app called NightOwl https://mac.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/NightOwl.shtml

Thank you. I’ll try it!

 

[sp33d3rz00m]

Hey all,

Trying to convert over an older HDD to use a SSD in my Mac Mini 2011 5,1. I've run into a few issues and wondered if you guys could help. I've never installed over OSX Mountain Lion on the normal HDD so it's lacking APFS support via boot ROM. I've installed the old HDD back in and used the Boot ROM installer and then put the SSD back in (formatted to APFS) and tried to install OSX Catalina (dosdude01's patcher) with no luck.

The installer runs but with some errors:

Unable to get fs for /Volumes/SSD

Unable to get fs for (null)

Unable to get fs for /Volumes/SSD/macOS Install Data

Once the installer completes it then boots back into the recovery window where I then go to apply the post patches but I get the following warning:

The Volume "SSD" does not appear to contain a valid copy of mac OS Catalina. Are you sure you want to apply patches to this volume?

Clicking "yes" then throws an error and it doesn't apply.

In the recovery window when I try to find my drive as a bootable drive, it's not found in the Start Up disk menu. When I also go to inspect my drive, it's registered as a solid state drive but the bootable option on it says No.

I've tried to re-format the drive multiple times to APFS but I tried one using Mac Os Extended Journal where the installation resolved and the patches were able to be applied but when I came to boot into the drive i'd get a flashing folder icon.

SSD i'm using: Crucial MX500

Any help will be appreciated thank you.

 

[Carbayon]

Hi guys,

I've been working with Catalina thanks to dosdude patch and yesterday I've the great idea to install bootcam with windows 10 as I need one program for my job. All install it correctly but, Windows 10 was installed OK, but when I try to come back to Catalina, when the start up it only shows the Windows 10 partition, I've try the recovery mode but nothing happens it only starts windows 10, there's no logo of apple with cmd + r nothing happens
Is there something I can do to recover Catalina OS?

Thanks in advance!

 

[iMac-Oldschool]

Is there any way to solve this problem?
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This problem exists on my iMac8,1 and there does not appear to be a solution within Photos itself. You can open the photos using another app. Right click with the mouse and select Edit With. Preview usually works, but you may have another program that you prefer.

 

[eminemmm]

Is there any way to solve this problem?
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are you suffering photos doesn't show RAW files correctly. it is just like me, please if you found solution tell me,