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Apparently it does not like booting to Recovery. I have not tested this, as it's not required for the installation. Test booting with option 1, Macintosh HD. The loader temporarily disables SIP, so you can run the necessary nvram command from within your root OS.Please Help what am i doing wrong (MacBook 7,1)
More likely to just be a software update to the first developer seed. The first public beta of Mojave wasn't until June 26th. Actually, if I recall correctly, the WWDC keynote said that the first public beta of Catalina was in July. My bet would be on July 2nd.
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Dosdude1's installs run pretty quickly even over USB 2.0. I think for me, Mojave always installing around 14 minutes. His stuff tends to install faster than Apple's own methods on a support Mac.
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Are you still working on CloneToolX? You seem to be an APFS God right now
Ok. I kinda reached the opposite of your dilemma. My hdiutil disks are the actual size of the data but the partition thinks it is the actual size. So it's a bitch taking one of mine and going back down to its partition size.
So where is what I am testing:
Converting my cloned image disk to read/write (UDRW).
then see if I can apply resize to the partition only on the image.
You could do the opposite. especially if what I am proposing works
you would convert your dd image to read / write
and then resize the image to around your target partition minus a gig or two just to be safe.
I'd still do a restore though using asr and the resize using hdiutil. (you may be able to also skip the resize step and just asr directly to the larger volume).
Now I am running into some caveats trying to replicate your scenerio. UDRW - read write image is making the full disk an actual size image . I tried resizing a sparsebundle but it errors out, there is another read /write image format that I 've tried yet and there's sparse along with several other disk image formats. I may end up just resizing the large image to a small one to get my 'dd' test to run. Now this may be easier just reinstalling a small image with dosdude's work and get there quicker. But I'd like to replicate your issue as asr should workaround going to a larger disk.
Gonna checkout dosdude1's work and get that rolling.
Thx.
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In the future with CloneToolX (hdiutil and asr) you will have the best of both worlds. small disk images on large virtual disks that they are cloned from and they restore to same size or larger. Takes out most of the issues dd has.
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I'll test my Mac Pro 3,1 patch shell script against your install and if I feel it does the job for at MP3,1 users, I'll post the most recent version of it.
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Dosdude1's early patcher worked for me.
used Mojave and Beta 1 to make a patcher usb Stick. Used a 32 GB Stick.
Booted the stick on a 4.1/5.1 with Firmware 144
Formatted a Sata SSD APFS one Volume
Got Catalina installed and booting. No patches needed. Even the GT120 I had in for Bootscreen is working, unaccelerated of course but usable. Writing this in Catalina on 4.1/5.1 with GT120
used Mojave and Beta 1 to make a patcher usb Stick. Used a 32 GB Stick.
Booted the stick on a 4.1/5.1 with Firmware 144
Formatted a Sata SSD APFS one Volume
Got Catalina installed and booting. No patches needed. Even the GT120 I had in for Bootscreen is working, unaccelerated of course but usable. Writing this in Catalina on 4.1/5.1 with GT120
Hey Macschrauber I can't get it work using the same config as you did. Did you formatted the stick as MBR-MacOS journaled? I can't even create the installer...
Thanks!
you have to formate it macOS Extended Journaled before you start it and i believe it’s a GUID
try using an actual hard drive internally prepared as installer or external usb hd
Yep, it's Guid for Mac of course.
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on my other Mac Pro 5.1 I can't create a bootstick.
Error Saving Image
An error occurred while attempting to save a disk image.
Both 144, Mojave 10.14.5
different USB Stick, this time a 16 GB
maybe this helps ?
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Jun 17 00:59:06 Mac-Pro-51 macOS Catalina PartialPatcher[2360]: assertion failed: 18F132: libxpc.dylib + 90677 [9A0FFA79-082F-3293-BF49-63976B073B74]: 0x89
Jun 17 00:59:21 Mac-Pro-51 macOS Catalina PartialPatcher[2360]: objc[2360]: Class FIFinderSyncExtensionHost is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FinderKit.framework/Versions/A/FinderKit (0x7fff8dcd73d8) and /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileProvider.framework/OverrideBundles/FinderSyncCollaborationFileProviderOverride.bundle/Contents/MacOS/FinderSyncCollaborationFileProviderOverride (0x11ab0ef50). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
Jun 17 00:59:50 Mac-Pro-51 macOS Catalina PartialPatcher[2391]: assertion failed: 18F132: libxpc.dylib + 90677 [9A0FFA79-082F-3293-BF49-63976B073B74]: 0x89
Jun 17 01:00:01 Mac-Pro-51 macOS Catalina PartialPatcher[2391]: objc[2391]: Class FIFinderSyncExtensionHost is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FinderKit.framework/Versions/A/FinderKit (0x7fff8dcd73d8) and /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileProvider.framework/OverrideBundles/FinderSyncCollaborationFileProviderOverride.bundle/Contents/MacOS/FinderSyncCollaborationFileProviderOverride (0x149c1ff50). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
Jun 17 01:04:05 Mac-Pro-51 macOS Catalina PartialPatcher[2512]: assertion failed: 18F132: libxpc.dylib + 90677 [9A0FFA79-082F-3293-BF49-63976B073B74]: 0x89
Jun 17 01:04:10 Mac-Pro-51 macOS Catalina PartialPatcher[2512]: objc[2512]: Class FIFinderSyncExtensionHost is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FinderKit.framework/Versions/A/FinderKit (0x7fff8dcd73d8) and /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileProvider.framework/OverrideBundles/FinderSyncCollaborationFileProviderOverride.bundle/Contents/MacOS/FinderSyncCollaborationFileProviderOverride (0x1592f8f50). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
Jun 17 01:06:33 Mac-Pro-51 macOS Catalina PartialPatcher[2589]: assertion failed: 18F132: libxpc.dylib + 90677 [9A0FFA79-082F-3293-BF49-63976B073B74]: 0x89
Jun 17 01:06:37 Mac-Pro-51 macOS Catalina PartialPatcher[2589]: objc[2589]: Class FIFinderSyncExtensionHost is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FinderKit.framework/Versions/A/FinderKit (0x7fff8dcd73d8) and /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileProvider.framework/OverrideBundles/FinderSyncCollaborationFileProviderOverride.bundle/Contents/MacOS/FinderSyncCollaborationFileProviderOverride (0x15a367f50). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
Jun 17 01:19:32 Mac-Pro-51 macOS Catalina PartialPatcher[2696]: assertion failed: 18F132: libxpc.dylib + 90677 [9A0FFA79-082F-3293-BF49-63976B073B74]: 0x89
Jun 17 01:19:44 Mac-Pro-51 macOS Catalina PartialPatcher[2696]: objc[2696]: Class FIFinderSyncExtensionHost is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FinderKit.framework/Versions/A/FinderKit (0x7fff8dcd73d8) and /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileProvider.framework/OverrideBundles/FinderSyncCollaborationFileProviderOverride.bundle/Contents/MacOS/FinderSyncCollaborationFileProviderOverride (0x1542def50). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
Jun 17 01:28:55 Mac-Pro-51 macOS Catalina PartialPatcher[2809]: assertion failed: 18F132: libxpc.dylib + 90677 [9A0FFA79-082F-3293-BF49-63976B073B74]: 0x89
Jun 17 01:29:16 Mac-Pro-51 macOS Catalina PartialPatcher[2809]: objc[2809]: Class FIFinderSyncExtensionHost is implemented in both /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FinderKit.framework/Versions/A/FinderKit (0x7fff8dcd73d8) and /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FileProvider.framework/OverrideBundles/FinderSyncCollaborationFileProviderOverride.bundle/Contents/MacOS/FinderSyncCollaborationFileProviderOverride (0x16929af50). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
Well like I said elsewhere - and this goes to @pkouame and @parrotgeek1 as well - check these docs out and see if you don't get a little excited: https://wiki.darlinghq.org/
I erased my hdd with the partial MacOS Catalina Patcher then selected reinstall macOS then select my drive it says I need a firmware update
I was getting the same error as you do, on my MBP 8.1...
So I took the USB stick, the "Install macOS 10.15 Beta.app" and "macOS Catalina PartialPatcher.app" to my cMP 4.1>5.1 to try there and it worked. It created the installer at the first attempt (It didn't take more than 5-8 mins to do so).
I've run the installer, wrote the command: sudo nvram boot-args="-no_compat_check" and restarted.
The installation have finished and everything went well (Apparently) but it never finish to load the OS, keep saying there was an issue and the system will restart...
Any ideas?
I'll take that SSD and put it inside my MBP 8.1 today to see if there is working...
Thanks guys,
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A thunderous and well deserved standing ovation goes out from me to @dosdude1 , @ASentientBot , @pkouame , @0403979 , and all the other very clever MacOS experts out there!
My MacBook Pro 5,1 is currently running Mojave 10.14.5 using the APFS post-installation patch to boot. I am wondering if it is possible to dual boot my Mojave setup with the Catalina beta? I haven’t done the APFS firmware patch using the ROM patcher tool.
Also, is there any way to enable Airplay on this machine? I’m using it as a media computer.
Thanks in advance.
So I got it installed using dosdude1s patcher on macbook pro 8,1
Need some help getting wifi working properly used the kext utility and it shows wifi but wont detect any networks
Need some help getting wifi working properly used the kext utility and it shows wifi but wont detect any networks
No problems creating a bootable patched 10.15 installer key on a MacPro 3,1. However, can you clarify on the requirement of executing...
sudo nvram boot-args="-no_compat_check"
Is this really required for the installation to complete or is this just required as a workaround for the absence of the postinstall Boot.plist patch for the resulting installed 10.15 volume?
There are 2 reasons for it. One is, as you mentioned, so that the system will boot once installed. The second reason is that the second "phase" of the installer generates its own boot.plist, without the -no_compat_check flag. This I am working on patching, but for now setting it in NVRAM is required.
Hmm... What size USB drive are you using? 16GB or larger is necessary for this. Also you may want to try renaming your external volume to something else, and see if that makes any difference.This is what happened after an hour
is there any hope of getting Catalina to boot off of HFS+ rather than APFS?
No, due to the fact the OS relies on APFS for the second "User Data" partition in Catalina.
Wait, wasn't there a post in which somebody managed to get it running by rsync-ing files from the APFS partitions or something? I can't find it now but I could've sworn it happened.
Paging APFS experts @Starplayr and @jackluke...