macOS 10.15 Catalina on Unsupported Macs

[jgleigh]

I sure wish you'd let us know what GPUs to upgrade to once we install Catalina on our old Mac Pros. Mine is a mid 2010. Runs good but is a bit jerky. Thanks, Jack

I've run both an Nvidia GTX 680 (Mac Edition) and a AMD 5700 XT on 10.15.x on my MacPro 5,1 without issues.

 

[coasterOneEightThree]

My choice is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680, too. Runs great with Catalina, but with a driver from NVIDIA it would be even faster.

 

[jhowarth]

I sure wish you'd let us know what GPUs to upgrade to once we install Catalina on our old Mac Pros. Mine is a mid 2010. Runs good but is a bit jerky. Thanks, Jack

I purchased an EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB model on eBay and flashed it to the Mac ROMs. Has worked flawlessly on my MacPro 3,1.

 

[crjackson2134]

I sure wish you'd let us know what GPUs to upgrade to once we install Catalina on our old Mac Pros. Mine is a mid 2010. Runs good but is a bit jerky. Thanks, Jack

SAPPHIRE Radeon 11265-05-20G Pulse RX 580 8GB GDDR5 Dual HDMI/ DVI-D/ Dual DP OC with Backplate (UEFI) PCI-E Graphics Card Graphic Cards

Sapphire Radeon Pulse RX 580 8 GB GDDR5 Dual HDMI/DVI-D/Dual DP OC w/backplate (UEFI) PCI-E Graphics Card.

www.amazon.com

 

[tchung5]

You are correct, definitely strange. We have a MB5,1 and when the battery finally went bad all types of power-related strangeness occurred. Sleep, fan and unexpected shutdowns with charger connected. Replaced the battery with what OWC pushes, no issues since. Same charger, still. Original battery went 8 years, btw.

Thanks anyway. Time for a new computer.

 

[jgleigh]

My choice is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680, too. Runs great with Catalina, but with a driver from NVIDIA it would be even faster.

If we had Nvidia drivers, I would still be running my GTX 1080.

 

[GDMSR]

I recently installed 10.15.4 via @dosdude1's patcher 1.4 on my cMP 4,1>5,1 with no issues. After installing the Library Validation Disabler Patch which is proposed for my Mac, the system wouldn't boot and required a re-install of 10.15.4.
The camera and microphone seem to work OK anyway, so I'm not too bothered, just slightly worried. Under Installed Patch Updates, Version 2 of this patch is shown.

 

[jhowarth]

I recently installed 10.15.4 via @dosdude1's patcher 1.4 on my cMP 4,1>5,1 with no issues. After installing the Library Validation Disabler Patch which is proposed for my Mac, the system wouldn't boot and required a re-install of 10.15.4.
The camera and microphone seem to work OK anyway, so I'm not too bothered, just slightly worried. Under Installed Patch Updates, Version 2 of this patch is shown.

How many patches are required on a MacPro 4,1? If you don't have any patched kext installed, you won't need the Library Validation Disabler Patch since all your kext will be properly signed.

 

[laertemeira]

Hi guys! How are you? Hope you are all fine! I have 2 questions: can I install Catalina on a cMP4,1 (updated to 5,1) without efi boot screen card? I think the GT120 may not work anyway... Can I use a standard GTX780ti or other Kepler GPUs (GT710 or GT730) without flashing it for Mac? Thanks!

 

[atomizasser]

Hi.
@Dilli @jackluke I've recorded a video of boot process of my iMac 2010 with restored EFI bootrom (version 99.0.0.0.0) and GTX 765.
Please take a look of somebody can fix this strange issue.
Video

Thanks

 

[atomizasser]

Thats really good. Could you make a guide on youtube and record . I already have beta 3 bios updated. How did you restore efi to original state? It will really help. In my case now my hd catalina is not showing at all in option key press or direct startup.

Well is not an easy task. I don't recommend to flash you EFI bootrom if you never did it before.
You need a CH341 programer to reflash you efi and of course original EFI.

 

[Dilli]

Well is not an easy task. I don't recommend to flash you EFI bootrom if you never did it before.
You need a CH341 programer to reflash you efi and of course original EFI.

Oh That I have done many times . I mis understood your post earlier. I used Ch341 programmer to flash Nick's version 3.
Actually my Catalina got corrupted so I faced start issues . Re installed in new ssd and all is good.

 

[GDMSR]

How many patches are required on a MacPro 4,1? If you don't have any patched kext installed, you won't need the Library Validation Disabler Patch since all your kext will be properly signed.

Thanks for replying! I'm not sure how many patches are actually needed, but I believe there's a way to find out how many were installed, as I remember seeing a list with some ticks against them.

 

[indiecraig]

I may have encountered a small issue with the patcher. I'm unable to see 5.0 GHz WiFi networks at all in patched Catalina. They are visible and connect without issue on Windows 10. I don't have an officially supported macOS version to check on right now (that's how confident I am in patched Catalina!), but can install one if this might help with troubleshooting.

System Details: MacBook Pro 5,5 2.26 GHz
APFS BootROM patch applied: Yes
WiFi card: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0
Patcher used: dosdude's

I'm not sure whether this has been addressed and I'm just not using the search function properly... or maybe it's a weird hardware issue that only presents in macOS. It's not causing any real issues as I'm still getting fairly good speeds on the 2.4 GHz network and it's a backup laptop anyway, just thought I'd mention it to see if there's an easy fix.

Thanks!

Edit to add: I've just installed El Capitan on another partition and it can see 5.0 GHz networks, so this does seem to confirm that it's not a hardware issue.

 

[atomizasser]

Oh That I have done many times . I mis understood your post earlier. I used Ch341 programmer to flash Nick's version 3.
Actually my Catalina got corrupted so I faced start issues . Re installed in new ssd and all is good.

So, now, do you get properly boot screen with Catalina 10.15.4 in new ssd?

 

[skiabox]

After patching with 1.4.1 patcher I get the Chrome Browser crashes when it starts.
Here is the error message:

Process: Google Chrome [532]Path: /Applications - Pastebin.com

Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

pastebin.com

[automerge]1586339728[/automerge]
Even the re-installation of chrome browser does not help!
This is impressive!
[automerge]1586339987[/automerge]
I tried other browsers with the same engine like microsoft edge and I get the same behaviour!

 

[skiabox]

This is an issue with 10.15.4 itself, and nothing to do with running a patched install. I've found running "sudo killall taskgated" in Terminal will fix this issue.

I tried this command but chrome browser crashes again.

 

[ZebraDude]

Guys,

I patched my mid 2010 iMac with the new update pushed to me with the patch updater and my 1Password is not happy please see below for the attached crash output.

Ps. I use "privileges" for easy elevation and without rebooting I elevated myself then ran 1Password and it RAN and stayed open I left it open and lowered myself using the same app and it is still open??




________________________________________________________________
Process: 1Password 7 [595]
Path: /Applications/1Password 7.app/Contents/MacOS/1Password 7
Identifier: com.agilebits.onepassword7
Version: ???
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: 1Password 7 [595]
User ID: 502

Date/Time: 2020-04-08 05:11:31.463 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.15.4 (19E266)
Report Version: 12
Anonymous UUID: 3EC79421-3A1D-E3ED-0630-6AECCA1B3EC2


Time Awake Since Boot: 300 seconds

System Integrity Protection: disabled

Crashed Thread: 0

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (Code Signature Invalid)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Reason: Namespace CODESIGNING, Code 0x1

kernel messages:

VM Regions Near 0 (cr2):
-->
__TEXT 0000000102262000-0000000102989000 [ 7324K] r-x/r-x SM=COW

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 ??? 0x0000000110d88000 _dyld_start + 0

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
rax: 0x0000000000000000 rbx: 0x0000000000000000 rcx: 0x0000000000000000 rdx: 0x0000000000000000
rdi: 0x0000000000000000 rsi: 0x0000000000000000 rbp: 0x0000000000000000 rsp: 0x00007ffeed99dc50
r8: 0x0000000000000000 r9: 0x0000000000000000 r10: 0x0000000000000000 r11: 0x0000000000000000
r12: 0x0000000000000000 r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x0000000000000000
rip: 0x0000000110d88000 rfl: 0x0000000000000200 cr2: 0x0000000000000000

Logical CPU: 0
Error Code: 0x00000000
Trap Number: 0


Binary Images:
0x102262000 - 0x102988fff +??? (0) <17CE8A8A-92C7-33A8-805F-44D995DE8DBF> (null)
0x110d87000 - 0x110e18eff +??? (750.5) <1F893B81-89A5-3502-8510-95B97B9F730D> (null)

External Modification Summary:
Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
task_for_pid: 0
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
Calls made by this process:
task_for_pid: 0
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
Calls made by all processes on this machine:
task_for_pid: 128
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0

VM Region Summary:
ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=8788K resident=0K(0%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=8788K(100%)
Writable regions: Total=8480K written=0K(0%) resident=0K(0%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=8480K(100%)

VIRTUAL REGION
REGION TYPE SIZE COUNT (non-coalesced)
=========== ======= =======
STACK GUARD 56.0M 1
Stack 8192K 1
__DATA 1404K 4
__DATA_CONST 20K 1
__LINKEDIT 880K 2
__TEXT 7908K 2
shared memory 8K 2
=========== ======= =======
TOTAL 74.0M 13

Model: iMac11,2, BootROM 99.0.0.0.0, 2 processors, Dual-Core Intel Core i3, 3.06 GHz, 16 GB, SMC 1.64f5
Graphics: kHW_ATIM96Item, ATI Radeon HD 4670, spdisplays_pcie_device, 256 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x0198, 0x393930353432382D3035312E4130304C4620
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x0198, 0x393930353432382D3035312E4130304C4620
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM1, 4 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x0198, 0x393930353432382D3035312E4130304C4620
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM1, 4 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x0198, 0x393930353432382D3035312E4130304C4620
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x168C, 0x8F), Atheros 9280: 4.0.74.0-P2P
Bluetooth: Version 7.0.4f6, 3 services, 27 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: ST3500418AS, 500.11 GB
Serial ATA Device: OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5680H
USB Device: USB 2.0 Bus
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: IR Receiver
USB Device: Built-in iSight
USB Device: USB 2.0 Bus
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: BUP BK
USB Device: USB to Serial-ATA bridge
USB Device: Internal Memory Card Reader
USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Thunderbolt Bus:

 

[Dilli]

So, now, do you get properly boot screen with Catalina 10.15.4 in new ssd?

Yes i do. It takes me to a white screen with apple logo and progress bar and then to login screen. Only at start i see some plist script scrolling fast at wink of eye it goes away.

 

[atomizasser]

Yes i do. It takes me to a white screen with apple logo and progress bar and then to login screen. Only at start i see some plist script scrolling fast at wink of eye it goes away.

Yes, like me.

 

[deeveedee]

I "successfully" installed 10.15.4 on my HackBookPro6,2 using a USB Installer that I created with DosDude Catalina Patcher 1.4.1.

At the end of the first pass of the install (where the Catalina USB installer creates the Catalina installer on the SSD), I ignored the error "An error occurred while preparing the installation" and rebooted from the newly created Catalina Installer on the SSD (which was created despite the error).

At the end of the second pass of the install (running the Catalina installer on the SSD), I ignored the error "The bless tool was unable to set the current boot disk" and rebooted from the upgraded Catalina container.

After booting the upgraded Catalina, I manually deleted '/System/Volumes/Data/macOS Install Data.'

While my Catalina version is reported as 10.15.4, I am not confident that the upgrade fully completed (because of the install errors). So far, everything seems to be working exactly as in 10.15.3 with no problems.

 

[Jacunivac10]

I've run both an Nvidia GTX 680 (Mac Edition) and a AMD 5700 XT on 10.15.x on my MacPro 5,1 without issues.

Running dosdude1's patch to Catalina?

 

[dosdude1]

Guys,

I patched my mid 2010 iMac with the new update pushed to me with the patch updater and my 1Password is not happy please see below for the attached crash output.

Ps. I use "privileges" for easy elevation and without rebooting I elevated myself then ran 1Password and it RAN and stayed open I left it open and lowered myself using the same app and it is still open??




________________________________________________________________
Process: 1Password 7 [595]
Path: /Applications/1Password 7.app/Contents/MacOS/1Password 7
Identifier: com.agilebits.onepassword7
Version: ???
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: 1Password 7 [595]
User ID: 502

Date/Time: 2020-04-08 05:11:31.463 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.15.4 (19E266)
Report Version: 12
Anonymous UUID: 3EC79421-3A1D-E3ED-0630-6AECCA1B3EC2


Time Awake Since Boot: 300 seconds

System Integrity Protection: disabled

Crashed Thread: 0

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (Code Signature Invalid)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Reason: Namespace CODESIGNING, Code 0x1

kernel messages:

VM Regions Near 0 (cr2):
-->
__TEXT 0000000102262000-0000000102989000 [ 7324K] r-x/r-x SM=COW

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 ??? 0x0000000110d88000 _dyld_start + 0

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
rax: 0x0000000000000000 rbx: 0x0000000000000000 rcx: 0x0000000000000000 rdx: 0x0000000000000000
rdi: 0x0000000000000000 rsi: 0x0000000000000000 rbp: 0x0000000000000000 rsp: 0x00007ffeed99dc50
r8: 0x0000000000000000 r9: 0x0000000000000000 r10: 0x0000000000000000 r11: 0x0000000000000000
r12: 0x0000000000000000 r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x0000000000000000
rip: 0x0000000110d88000 rfl: 0x0000000000000200 cr2: 0x0000000000000000

Logical CPU: 0
Error Code: 0x00000000
Trap Number: 0


Binary Images:
0x102262000 - 0x102988fff +??? (0) <17CE8A8A-92C7-33A8-805F-44D995DE8DBF> (null)
0x110d87000 - 0x110e18eff +??? (750.5) <1F893B81-89A5-3502-8510-95B97B9F730D> (null)

External Modification Summary:
Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
task_for_pid: 0
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
Calls made by this process:
task_for_pid: 0
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
Calls made by all processes on this machine:
task_for_pid: 128
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0

VM Region Summary:
ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=8788K resident=0K(0%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=8788K(100%)
Writable regions: Total=8480K written=0K(0%) resident=0K(0%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=8480K(100%)

VIRTUAL REGION
REGION TYPE SIZE COUNT (non-coalesced)
=========== ======= =======
STACK GUARD 56.0M 1
Stack 8192K 1
__DATA 1404K 4
__DATA_CONST 20K 1
__LINKEDIT 880K 2
__TEXT 7908K 2
shared memory 8K 2
=========== ======= =======
TOTAL 74.0M 13

Model: iMac11,2, BootROM 99.0.0.0.0, 2 processors, Dual-Core Intel Core i3, 3.06 GHz, 16 GB, SMC 1.64f5
Graphics: kHW_ATIM96Item, ATI Radeon HD 4670, spdisplays_pcie_device, 256 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x0198, 0x393930353432382D3035312E4130304C4620
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x0198, 0x393930353432382D3035312E4130304C4620
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM1, 4 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x0198, 0x393930353432382D3035312E4130304C4620
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM1, 4 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x0198, 0x393930353432382D3035312E4130304C4620
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x168C, 0x8F), Atheros 9280: 4.0.74.0-P2P
Bluetooth: Version 7.0.4f6, 3 services, 27 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: ST3500418AS, 500.11 GB
Serial ATA Device: OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5680H
USB Device: USB 2.0 Bus
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: IR Receiver
USB Device: Built-in iSight
USB Device: USB 2.0 Bus
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: BUP BK
USB Device: USB to Serial-ATA bridge
USB Device: Internal Memory Card Reader
USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Thunderbolt Bus:

This is covered in the FAQ on my webpage. Just run "sudo killall taskgated" in Terminal to rectify.

 

[ykokosh]

This is covered in the FAQ on my webpage. Just run "sudo killall taskgated" in Terminal to rectify.

hi
how disable radeon gpu on macbook pro 8.2?

 

[laertemeira]

hi
how disable radeon gpu on macbook pro 8.2?

Hi @ykokosh
Here in this link (http://dosdude1.com/gpudisable/)