macOS 10.15 Catalina on Unsupported Macs

[DeLacy]

You should just be able to use dosdude1 latest patcher and download the latest version. Right click on download and Get Info and check the Version number



Just use dosdude1 latest catalina patcher and it will download latest version. Make your usb installer and install

macOS Catalina Patcher

That is exactly what I did. But, I still only have 10.15.5. I don't have the letters in the parentheses, which is the Supplemental Update (I think).

 

[caravella]

Just to say that the replacement of MonitotPanels and MonitorPanel.framework with the ones from 10.15.3 (indiawallah's post #9415) still works for 10.15.6 beta2 - i.e. brightness slider and automatic brightness control checkbox are there. And NightShift which I had already installed with Patch Updater.
I didn't try to re-apply all patches with the updater as a remedy as dougg3 did in post #11186 - next time.

(MBP5,2 17" mid 2009, 2.8GHz Penryn T9600, Nvidia 9600M GT, 8GB, APFS ROM patch applied, Samsung SSD 840/860 EVO with APFS. Catalina 10.15.6beta/10.15.5)

I also did this fix (indiawallah) and brightness slider is there but not the checkbox.

 

[K two]

That is exactly what I did. But, I still only have 10.15.5. I don't have the letters in the parentheses, which is the Supplemental Update (I think).

(19F101) is the Supplemental.

 

[jackluke]

Hey @jackluke which patches are you installing from Dosdude Patcher while using OC?

Only these: "LegacyUSBInjector.kext" (parrotgeek1), no other patches are included, but with telemetrap.kext (Syncretic) is suffice to boot a non-patched Catalina also on core2duo mac with metal drivers "not video patched".

for SIP disabling I use stock boot.efi with opencore csr-active-config, -no_compat_check for board-id whitelisting, for disabling library validation "amfi_get_out_my_way=1" (this implies to use tccplus to add permissions for third party apps)

these are not stored on nvram, used only during an opencore session, they are just deleted after a simple reboot, also nvram reset is not necessary.

edit:
I misread your question, from dosdude1 1.4.4 catalina patcher you have to apply all the post-install patches for your machine, expect the Video Patch if you have a Metal GPU.

 

[Tony Vee 73]

That is exactly what I did. But, I still only have 10.15.5. I don't have the letters in the parentheses, which is the Supplemental Update (I think).

The same thing happened to me but when I went to About This Mac > System Report > Software, it shows the build.

 

[DeLacy]

That is exactly what I did. But, I still only have 10.15.5. I don't have the letters in the parentheses, which is the Supplemental Update (I think).

I just downloaded the newest patcher 4.4 and a fresh copy of Catalina and installed it on my hard drive. I didn't get the Supplemental Update. See the attachment.
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(19F101) is the Supplemental.

Thank you. I did it all again, but didn't get the Supplemental.
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I just downloaded the newest patcher 4.4 and a fresh copy of Catalina and installed it on my hard drive. I didn't get the Supplemental Update. See the attachment.
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Thank you. I did it all again, but didn't get the Supplemental.

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The same thing happened to me but when I went to About This Mac > System Report > Software, it shows the build.

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OMG!!!!!~!~! You are right!
I can sleep again!!

 

[quaccOS]

I just remembered we have to use sudo because it wants to "install" the installer to /Applications

I have a 10.15.1 installer now. sorry for not mentioning it earlier...

sudo softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.15or10.15.1or10.15.2
Installing 83%… Install failed with error: Update not found
Apple says

No

 

[K two]

I just downloaded the newest patcher 4.4 and a fresh copy of Catalina and installed it on my hard drive. I didn't get the Supplemental Update. See the attachment.
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Thank you. I did it all again, but didn't get the Supplemental.
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OMG!!!!!~!~! You are right!
I can sleep again!!

Tap the version number with your mouse in the About This Mac and see what happens?
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View attachment 924054 sudo softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.15or10.15.1or10.15.2
Installing 83%… Install failed with error: Update not found
Apple says

One can D/L the full Supplemental installer using the v.1.4.4 patcher. The command you tried to use is depreciated, apparently.

 

[DeLacy]

Tap the version number with your mouse in the About This Mac and see what happens?
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One can D/L the full Supplemental installer using the v.1.4.4 patcher. The command you tried to use is depreciated, apparently.

OMG Again! I tapped and it appeared! Yippy! Thank you!

 

[hwojtek]

The same thing happened to me but when I went to About This Mac > System Report > Software, it shows the build.

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Just click on "Version 10.15.5" in "About This Mac" window.

 

[quaccOS]

One can D/L the full Supplemental installer using the v.1.4.4 patcher. The command you tried to use is depreciated, apparently.

I'm on 10.15.4 w/ Supplemental Update (19E287). I stopped updating halfway through April for fear of any new bugs and because it takes a long time to make a bootable external HDD partition, download the whole Installer, use the patcher tool and reinstall the entire OS over the current one, and then apply post-install patches, then check everything…that's nearly 3 hours (or more if everything goes to sh*t)

Edit: I'm going to upgrade from 10.15.4 (19E287) [P 1.4.2] to 10.15.5 (19F101) [P 1.4.4] to download an older Installer app.
Erase disc and install 10.15.1 [P 1.2.1] – start fresh and install my Safari extensions, tick the precious boxes to enable them – then upgrade back to 10.15.5. And never touch the Safari Extensions pane until I perish or buy a 2020 16" bazooka

 

[gosvamih]

MacBook6,1 and Catalina 10.15.3
The "halfdim" light of screen not working (when the power adapter is unplugged). Is that normal for unsupported, or have I missed any patch?

 

[VillasManzanill]

Can confirm, DP3 on a cMP 4,1/5,1, up and running

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ohh and WiFi is working again.. great, many thanks

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assume you've included the Mojave AirPortBrcm4331.kext into the post install part in b6.

Hello everyone, thanks for being so awesome and genius and giving life to our old macs!

i been using OPENCORE 0.5.9 and also windows 10, works fantastic.

the only issue is that my mac pro 2010 the wifi doesn't work, but i see that you guys can make it work with a patch? how can i apply that patch to make mine work?

thanks so much! this will help the other opencore thread in mac pro 5,1 a bunch, there is many people that would like to make it work (the original wifi card that came with mac pro 5,1)

thanks again

 

[ShroomKing]

View attachment 924054 sudo softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.15or10.15.1or10.15.2
Installing 83%… Install failed with error: Update not found
Apple says

idk what to say. downloading 10.15 or 10.15.2 tells me "Update not found".
But 10.15.1 worked for me(twice now) ?‍♂️

 

[K two]

idk what to say. downloading 10.15 or 10.15.2 tells me "Update not found".
But 10.15.1 worked for me(twice now) ?‍♂️
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sudo softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.15.1
What I get - Downloading and installing 10.15.1 installer
SUPreferenceManager: Failed to set object of class: __NSCFConstantString for key: LastRecommendedMajorOSBundleIdentifier with error: Error Domain=SUPreferenceManagerErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
SUPreferenceManager: Failed to set object of class: __NSCFConstantString for key: LastRecommendedMajorOSBundleIdentifier with error: Error Domain=SUPreferenceManagerErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
Install failed with error: Update not found

Hmmm?

 

[krishnajha]

Hi, i was having some recent errors with 10.15.4 (latest build with patcher) address book, FaceTime, messages, would not respond randomly and would not fix until reboot (I notice because clean my Mac warned me about the not responding apps), now I have (today) updated to 10.15.5 (19F101), and have not yet experienced those error, but now Finder suddenly stopped working, it appear double, and tell me that finder is no longer open, I will going to restart with nvram reset, but it appears so much as the previous error, so I thought I might just post it here, maybe someone knows about it.
MacBook Pro 13'' Early 2011 8,1.
(updated with usb stick, latest patch)
* error appeared last week for the first time.

Update 16.6.20: Finder has not crashed since the reboot with nvram reset, also the other apps didn't crash.

 

[quaccOS]

idk what to say. downloading 10.15 or 10.15.2 tells me "Update not found".
But 10.15.1 worked for me(twice now) ?‍♂️
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I upgraded to 10.15.1 (19F101), Patcher 1.4.4.
Same install failure occurs, except this message now pops up repeatedly:
SUPreferenceManager: Failed to set object of class: __NSCFConstantString for key: LastRecommendedMajorOSBundleIdentifier with error: Error Domain=SUPreferenceManagerErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
The new battery health management feature exclusive to 10.15.5+ is also unavailable to me (https://support.apple.com/en-ie/HT211094)

 

[howardc64]

iMac 10,1 27" 8GB 2TB HDD, multiple boot partitions including 10.12, 10.13.6, and 10.15.5 using this patch.

Need Target Display Mode (TDM) so booted into High Sierra but doesn't work any more (used to) after Catalina install+patching. I recall bootrom? was updated updating to Catalina on unsupported Macs? Anyway to rewind and recover TDM? Okay if I lose Catalina.

Thanks

 

[ShroomKing]

sudo softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.15.1
What I get - Downloading and installing 10.15.1 installer
SUPreferenceManager: Failed to set object of class: __NSCFConstantString for key: LastRecommendedMajorOSBundleIdentifier with error: Error Domain=SUPreferenceManagerErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
SUPreferenceManager: Failed to set object of class: __NSCFConstantString for key: LastRecommendedMajorOSBundleIdentifier with error: Error Domain=SUPreferenceManagerErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
Install failed with error: Update not found

Hmmm?

WTF, now I'm confused.

Same install failure occurs, except this message now pops up repeatedly:
SUPreferenceManager: Failed to set object of class: __NSCFConstantString for key: LastRecommendedMajorOSBundleIdentifier with error: Error Domain=SUPreferenceManagerErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"

Yeah i noticed those messages too, they were added in a recent macOS update. They look like debug messages so i just ignore them. I'm still not sure why it doesn't work for you though.
BTW the battery feature doesn't show up for me either so it probably needs a supported battery/mac or some patch.
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Oh i just realized something: i used the CatalinaOTAswufix.app jackluke posted in this thread to get beta updates.
Without this fix the Software Update Pane doesn't show any updates in the System Preferences.
I'm thinking maybe the fix also fixed the softwareupdate command and that's why it works for me but not for you two.

 

[hvds]

Oh i just realized something: i used the CatalinaOTAswufix.app jackluke posted in this thread to get beta updates.
Without this fix the Software Update Pane doesn't show any updates in the System Preferences.
I'm thinking maybe the fix also fixed the softwareupdate command and that's why it works for me but not for you two.

I'm using jackluke's CatalinaOTAswufix.app regularly to get the betas. Still the softwareupdate command fails.
Like K two I think it is deprecated.
dosdude's patchers always work for downloading (their respective latest) full installers.

Edit: tried these patchers to download these full installers:
- 1.1.6 and 1.2.1 both download 10.15.4.00
- 1.3.4 downloads 10.15.3.00 (as dosdude already said in post #11359)
and I didn't get to an earlier installer version this way.

 

[ShroomKing]

I'm using jackluke's CatalinaOTAswufix.app regularly to get the betas. Still the softwareupdate command fails.
Like K two I think it is deprecated.
dosdude's patchers always work for downloading (their respective latest) full installers.

Yeah i guess.
quaccOS was trying to get a version of the installer that doesn't have the safari extensions bug and i thought i'd help out but oh well i guess it doesn't work anymore.(even though i can still download 10.15.1 which is very confusing)

Also the --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version arguments were added in catalina and i think it doesn't really make sense to add features to a command and then deprecate it so soon after.
But it's apple and they do a lot of weird stuff so ?‍♂️

 

[brmarinho]

I see the problem with an older PowerPoint presentation on my MBP5,2 with 10.15.5. It makes much use of transitions.
Opening the same .pptx presentation in Keynote and running it there, is just fine.

This situation is kind ridiculous. The thing is by now I could not get any direction to find a fix. for this issue. Overall, I could make Catalina working better on my MBP than Mojave. The least thing is that PPTX slide transition! Damn.

Hope we can figure it out soon.

Cheers and thx

 

[K two]

Hi, i was having some recent errors with 10.15.4 (latest build with patcher) address book, FaceTime, messages, would not respond randomly and would not fix until reboot (I notice because clean my Mac warned me about the not responding apps), now I have (today) updated to 10.15.5 (19F101), and have not yet experienced those error, but now Finder suddenly stopped working, it appear double, and tell me that finder is no longer open, I will going to restart with nvram reset, but it appears so much as the previous error, so I thought I might just post it here, maybe someone knows about it.
MacBook Pro 13'' Early 2011 8,1.
(updated with usb stick, latest patch)
* error appeared last week for the first time.
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Try running this - https://www.titanium-software.fr/download/1015/Maintenance.dmg

 

[TimothyR734]

I'm on 10.15.4 w/ Supplemental Update (19E287). I stopped updating halfway through April for fear of any new bugs and because it takes a long time to make a bootable external HDD partition, download the whole Installer, use the patcher tool and reinstall the entire OS over the current one, and then apply post-install patches, then check everything…that's nearly 3 hours (or more if everything goes to sh*t)

Edit: I'm going to upgrade from 10.15.4 (19E287) [P 1.4.2] to 10.15.5 (19F101) [P 1.4.4] to download an older Installer app.
Erase disc and install 10.15.1 [P 1.2.1] – start fresh and install my Safari extensions, tick the precious boxes to enable them – then upgrade back to 10.15.5. And never touch the Safari Extensions pane until I perish or buy a 2020 16" bazooka

Your not the only that has issues I have a supported Mac and extensions don't work
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MacBook6,1 and Catalina 10.15.3
The "halfdim" light of screen not working (when the power adapter is unplugged). Is that normal for unsupported, or have I missed any patch?

Yes that is normal if you unplug the power cord for the screen to go dim as it a part of the energy saver

 

[K two]

iMac 10,1 27" 8GB 2TB HDD, multiple boot partitions including 10.12, 10.13.6, and 10.15.5 using this patch.

Need Target Display Mode (TDM) so booted into High Sierra but doesn't work any more (used to) after Catalina install+patching. I recall bootrom? was updated updating to Catalina on unsupported Macs? Anyway to rewind and recover TDM? Okay if I lose Catalina.

Thanks

Indeed, Firewire is another depreciation in 10.15.5. Target Disk and booting are MIA. Since it's a hardware parameter the control is likely in NVRAM or a IOFamily extension. Previous versions other than Catalina should remain uneffected, however.