macOS 10.15 Catalina on Unsupported Macs

[AnonMac50]

I thought I would try the sidecar prefpane in Mojave

Is it just me or does the transparency work better than it did on Mojave on non-Metal devices?

 

[KeithJohn]

Well I think I have finally given up trying to install Catalina Beta, I think my MP 3.1 hates me for trying, I even pulled all the hd's out and just had an empty ssd in and started to install off the flash drive, seemingly it went well until I tried to boot off the ssd and all that happened was the MP shut down I think I'll wait until my superhero Dosdude works his magic and comes up with the full patcher in a few weeks, Thanks to all who helped me through this so far, I'm just going back to Mojave HD ......

 

[LuisN]

Any workaround to enable TRIM in Catalina?
I'm getting this:


Tried in single user mode and didn't work either.
Thanks

 

[jackluke]

Any workaround to enable TRIM in Catalina?
I'm getting this:

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Tried in single user mode and didn't work either.
Thanks

@ASentientBot has already found it, type before from Catalina Terminal: sudo mount -uw /

just ignore the "/AppleInternal" error, since it is present also from single user mode and from Mojave if I don't get wrong.

 

[MacPeet]

Thank you for your good work.

My MacPro3.1 works well with DP2.
The first boot broken Wi-Fi and of course not sound.
After I played LegacyUSBInjector.kext, IOHIDFamily.kext and Rollback AppleHDA (S/L/E), my WLAN PCIe works natively, sound works. Everything works, even AirDrop.
Many Thanks.

 

[Flacko]

It would be interesting to see what one of those machines report under Mojave in the wifi section. On my machine, I have...

Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x111)
Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (7.77.61.2 AirPortDriverBrcmNIC-1305.8)

Mine says exactly the same as yours. Works oob with Mojave 14.4/14.5. Yet to try with Cat, let you know what happens when I get around to it.

 

[arqueox]

Thank you for your good work.

My MacPro3.1 works well with DP2.
The first boot broken Wi-Fi and of course not sound.
After I played LegacyUSBInjector.kext, IOHIDFamily.kext and Rollback AppleHDA (S/L/E), my WLAN PCIe works natively, sound works. Everything works, even AirDrop.
Many Thanks.

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How.did you get transparency on top menu bar?

 

[MacPeet]

How.did you get transparency on top menu bar?

My MSI GT710 2GB can be natively Metal.
The GT710 is on the Cinema 30 ", the HD5770 is on the other monitor.
The HD5770 does not work, is only for the boot menu.

 

[avz]

Any workaround to enable TRIM in Catalina?
I'm getting this:

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Tried in single user mode and didn't work either.
Thanks

I was able to enable TRIM without any issues on a MB5,1 under 10.15 Beta. Or is it just a Catalina Beta issue?

 

[LuisN]

@ASentientBot has already found it, type before from Catalina Terminal: sudo mount -uw /

just ignore the "/AppleInternal" error, since it is present also from single user mode and from Mojave if I don't get wrong.

nope I tried that. It looks as it succeeded, reboots but does't enable TRIM. I've managed to enable it using Cindori's Disk Sensei. It complains of a kext not working in future versions of macOS but it works.
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I was able to enable TRIM without any issues on a MB5,1 under 10.15 Beta. Or is it just a Catalina Beta issue?

Catalina only

 

[jhowarth]

Well I think I have finally given up trying to install Catalina Beta, I think my MP 3.1 hates me for trying, I even pulled all the hd's out and just had an empty ssd in and started to install off the flash drive, seemingly it went well until I tried to boot off the ssd and all that happened was the MP shut down I think I'll wait until my superhero Dosdude works his magic and comes up with the full patcher in a few weeks, Thanks to all who helped me through this so far, I'm just going back to Mojave HD ......

Assuming that you have a Metal compatible graphics card, preferably a GTX680 and have the APFS ROM patch applied, try this recipe.

1) Boot from a patched DP2 usb installer key created with the current macOS Catalina PartialPatcher 1.0b15 and install on an empty APFS partitioned drive.
2) Watch carefully for the reboot at the end of the installation process (which shows a narrow iOS like progress bar with time remaining updates). At this reboot, option select to boot the patched DPS2 usb installer again and select the Terminal application from its Utilities menu.
3) Insert a second USB key which has the contents of Starplayrs mp31_catwoman01b5 dmg and having the same volume name as that mounted dmg.
4) In the Terminal window, execute '/Volumes/MP31_CatWoman/MacPro31_b5.sh and follow the prompts.

 

[arqueox]

My MSI GT710 2GB can be natively Metal.
The GT710 is on the Cinema 30 ", the HD5770 is on the other monitor.
The HD5770 does not work, is only for the boot menu.

Oh ok ok.

 

[jhowarth]

Mine says exactly the same as yours. Works oob with Mojave 14.4/14.5. Yet to try with Cat, let you know what happens when I get around to it.

I meant what a iMac 14,1 or 14,2 with the Apple factory installed BCM94360CD reports for card type and firmware. People are assuming that they are different from those sold on eBay such as the one I bought.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Broadcom-B...629645?hash=item3d88c5314d:g:26MAAOSw~HJct1kA

However, I seem to recall that these cards had problems running on early Mojave as well. So perhaps Apple just got overzealous in removing code when they disabled the remaining BCM94* n-wireless card support.

 

[jackluke]

I was able to enable TRIM without any issues on a MB5,1 under 10.15 Beta. Or is it just a Catalina Beta issue?

If you are on Catalina beta1 then APFS system was less locked, from beta2 is required to mount it as writable manually when need to modify system files/folders.
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nope I tried that. It looks as it succeeded, reboots but does't enable TRIM. I've managed to enable it using Cindori's Disk Sensei. It complains of a kext not working in future versions of macOS but it works.
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Catalina only

I guess that app uses the classical terminal command, but have you tried:

sudo mount -uw / ; sudo trimforce enable

I cannot test it since I use an SSD for Catalina but it's an external USB so no "trim status" since I guess it's only available over an AHCI or NVMe controller.

 

[eurasian]

In my iMac 2008, there is no way .... last patch and beta2, it is installed and when the post-installation process finishes it restarts and stays with the blank screen.

 

[Athanti]

Photos app quit unexpectedly after installing Catalina on MBP 8.2. Any fix for this?

 

[taube11111]

Maybe nice to know:
The macOS Catalina Patcher b15 works nearly perfect on my iMac 2009 Core2Duo, 16GB RAM w. ATI4670

Graphics,Sound, Sleep runs OOB except WIFI. But i ll inject the patched WIFI Kext from the Mojave Patcher and testing a bit. So far, THIS is some excellent work and everyone of you should be proud to this!

RIP Adobe CS6 Programs...

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In my iMac 2008, there is no way .... last patch and beta2, it is installed and when the post-installation process finishes it restarts and stays with the blank screen.

Startup your iMac with holding Alt-Butten and select your Catalina Drive manually. I don´t know exactly why, but this bug happens sometimes (to me) after a dosdude Patcher installation. After a reboot everything boots automatically.

 

[dosdude1]

In my iMac 2008, there is no way .... last patch and beta2, it is installed and when the post-installation process finishes it restarts and stays with the blank screen.

As the webpage says, "This only works on machines that support APFS booting natively". So, on that machine, you'll need to apply APFS ROM Patcher in order to install Catalina at this time.

 

[nick_br]

I am honestly amazed at your determination and skill. This kind of announcement should never have happened. But here you are and you delivered on something thought impossible by many. Congratulations. Between this thread and the Mojave one, you have contributed the most individually and I must say, your contributions are amazing and extremely valuable. I am very fond of your great achievements and respect for everyone on this thread. In my opinion, you have helped the most in getting the vast majority of our devices working. Thank you a lot for your incredible research. You are a valuable asset to this community and we're lucky to have you.

Thanks to you, I was able to capture a screenshot I once thought was impossible. Nine days after the release of the first developer beta of macOS Catalina, the OS is working with no issues whatsoever on an almost nine year old computer. The humble MacBook7,1. Bravo.

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[doublepost=1560359942][/doublepost]macOS Patcher 3 beta 1 will be released with full support for macOS Catalina and all versions before it dating back to Sierra. This beta will be released as soon as I can get my hands on and implement @dosdude1's installer patch. Big thanks to @ASentientBot for his amazing work on macOS Catalina graphics acceleration.

Note for macOS Patcher 3 and future versions: Starting with macOS Patcher 3, transutil will no longer be included with macOS Patcher. It will be available separately and will support all patchers for Mojave and Catalina. Another utility by the name of apfsutil be made available shortly for switching between APFS volumes for users of the APFS system patch. This utility will support macOS Patcher and support status for other patchers will be announced later. And finally, I will soon start to develop a new utility specifically for macOS Patcher, called, macOS Patcher Subsystem. This utility will also be available separately but for macOS Patcher only. macOS Patcher Subsystem (MPS), will have the ability to detect system updates, system patches that have been overwritten, and will offer updates to patches and to MPS itself. It will also allow the reinstallation of patches (including macOS Patcher Subsystem itself), without the need of the macOS installer drive.

These utilities will not be preinstalled as the aim of macOS Patcher is to give more freedom to the user by expanding their choice of operating systems. And including utilities that a user may not need or want is contradicting that. These utilities will all be open source as is macOS Patcher and will have their own GitHub page and download zips. Install scripts will be available for these utilities and they will be installed with the intent to be easily removable by the user. This can be done either manually or via an uninstall script that will also be there for download.

macOS Patcher 3 will not remove the current utilities by default, instead this will be done via an optional upgrade script that will be released along with macOS Patcher 3. I will also be releasing restore scripts individually for all past versions of macOS Patcher since macOS Patcher 1.0 to allow users to remove patcher files for their specific version of macOS Patcher. These restore scripts will also include the latest improvements in the visual design and code structure of my scripts. Users of the Users of macOS Patcher 1 are encouraged to download the restore script for their version of macOS Patcher, when it is released, and follow the instructions on the RMC website for restoring before they use a newer version of macOS Patcher.

I hope these changes will be beneficial to everyone and I'm excited to provide support for Catalina shortly and make my patcher and its utilities more open and to give more choice to the user about the software they install on their machine.

hi Julian, I have the macbook pro like yours, macbookpro 7.1, and I saw that it has 16gb of ram, is it possible? tks

 

[EdGlassgow]

Using dosdude's fabulous tool I have Beta 2 running perfectly on a Macbook Pro 5,2 and a Mac Pro 5,1. What an amazing group we have here. Thanks to all!

 

[Flacko]

I meant what a iMac 14,1 or 14,2 with the Apple factory installed BCM94360CD reports for card type and firmware. People are assuming that they are different from those sold on eBay such as the one I bought.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Broadcom-B...629645?hash=item3d88c5314d:g:26MAAOSw~HJct1kA

However, I seem to recall that these cards had problems running on early Mojave as well. So perhaps Apple just got overzealous in removing code when they disabled the remaining BCM94* n-wireless card support.

Just installed Cat B2 to see what happens. Used dosdude1's beta patcher and patches. (Thanks dosdude1 all went seamlessly for mp3.1). Bluetooth and Wifi working without any other input. All seems to be working well.

 

[0403979]

hi Julian, I have the macbook pro like yours, macbookpro 7.1, and I saw that it has 16gb of ram, is it possible? tks

It should work fine on your MacBook Pro.

 

[Starplayr]

I meant what a iMac 14,1 or 14,2 with the Apple factory installed BCM94360CD reports for card type and firmware. People are assuming that they are different from those sold on eBay such as the one I bought.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Broadcom-B...629645?hash=item3d88c5314d:g:26MAAOSw~HJct1kA

However, I seem to recall that these cards had problems running on early Mojave as well. So perhaps Apple just got overzealous in removing code when they disabled the remaining BCM94* n-wireless card support.

My card originally did. It with on 5Ghz even though it detected it. Later Mojave drivers seemed to have fixed this issue. Same Mojave WiFi drivers run on Catalina.

 

[kingsman12]

You just need to install the OS with @dosdude1 patch. After that boot and run the script of the same @dosdude1 with all the files needed to get things done.thats about it. Nothing more. Mbp 8,1 still have a pretty compatible hardware, because trackpad works, usb ports works. The only thing you won't get when install for the first time is WiFi and graphics acceleration. But after that if you run @dosdude1 script you will get everything working and pretty smooth I must say.
You can still do the commands -"no compat--" directly from terminal of the usb Catalina installer you created.

Still, your MacBook is natively compatible with apfs, so you need to format the destination SSD or hd in this format before proceed the installation. And the usb stick needs to be in extended journaled format

hi brother proublem and not on the usb or catalina jais finds the proublem and on the tirmnel or subject of my mac 2011 he does not want active sudo nvram boot-args = "- no_compat_check" the moment I format the hard disk and minarine tirminal and sudo nvram boot-args = "- no_compat_check" it rine
here I go on another mac book 2009 he installs and he activates sudo nvram boot-args = "- no_compat_check" and out samarche and bine installs
the proublem and on
sudo nvram boot-args = "- no_compat_check" I think the macbook pro 2011 it if not the hard disk APFS or bios

 

[jackluke]

hi brother proublem and not on the usb or catalina jais finds the proublem and on the tirmnel or subject of my mac 2011 he does not want active sudo nvram boot-args = "- no_compat_check" the moment I format the hard disk and minarine tirminal and sudo nvram boot-args = "- no_compat_check" it rine
here I go on another mac book 2009 he installs and he activates sudo nvram boot-args = "- no_compat_check" and out samarche and bine installs
the proublem and on
sudo nvram boot-args = "- no_compat_check" I think the macbook pro 2011 it if not the hard disk APFS or bios

Without sudo from there only: nvram boot-args="- no_compat_check"
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Photos app quit unexpectedly after installing Catalina on MBP 8.2. Any fix for this?

I've tried to re-use the non-metal Photos.app from Mojave but there are too many frameworks involved, apple has totally changed the Catalina Metal Photos.app.