thanks. just read the post and it's where i'm at right now. my issue is that my wifi ssid is hidden and i cannot connect to it unless it is not hidden.
post 6344 suggests something but im not sure how to go about using his bigfixes.
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post 6344 suggests something but im not sure how to go about using his bigfixes.
Microsoft Remote Desktop doesn't work in that configuration. The Nvidia driver throws a run-time error. It's my understanding that the Nvidia card is always running in that situation as well. I will keep testing.
Wifi works, I have a USB stick Wifi ac compatible as well but I got system wifi card working for Airdrop
Hi guys I was wondering if it was possible for me to upgrade from Big Sur Beta 6 to the final version on my early 2013 MacBook Pro, I also don't have a usb stick but I have an external harddrive and I was also wondering if that can be used as a bootable installer, thank you
so i upgraded my supported mac. now id like to update my mid 2012mbp. is it as easy as making a bootable usb as normal and the hitting that with the micro patcher? do i need opencore? my wireless card in the mbp has already been upgraded (apple watch etc all waork to unlock apple pay etc.)
Yes to both of your questions.
Longer answer.
Big Sur comes as a full installer, you can install over any version.
Any external media will work as long as you format the media the right way.
Yes, that easy, no, you don't need opencore, just use Micropatcher.
Hi , I have question , I have run the big sur patcher , when it opens it says it is downloading , but there is no progress bar or way to see how much is downloading , and after about 10 minutes it turns red and shows "error 1x56" , is there somthing I am doing wrong ? it does this on 2 mac mini late 2012 , one is fresh install of catalina , how do I get passed this error please , Thanks
IIRC you don't need to patch the Wifi kext since you already upgraded your Wifi card.
Is this option still valid on 11.0.1 - https://medium.com/@andv/making-wif...d-macs-with-failed-with-66-error-36c98e3f7965 ? I need to modify IO (BT and WiFi for 94360) kexts in /System/Library/Extensions. It ends with restart to recovery on boot :/. How I should create and apply prelinked kernels or is there another option?
I really hate to ask this but I have searched all over and can't find an answer. So my 2011 IMac 27" does not have the up to date 87.0.0.0.0 firmware and thus the Big Sur installer will not work until I do this update. So i know that I need to install High Sierra to get that updated. I created an install USB with createinstallmedia but when I boot to the disk that was created it get's to about 2/3 of the progress bar at boot and then shows the circle with line and stops. How do I get past this?
Also thank to the team that worked hard to get Big Sur to install on unsupported machines!
Currently have the latest Catalina installed and Current firmware is 004E.B00.1802022050
Also thank to the team that worked hard to get Big Sur to install on unsupported machines!
Currently have the latest Catalina installed and Current firmware is 004E.B00.1802022050
Big thanks to all involved to make this happen! Now I'm curious if I may have the desktop in higher resolution as well?
So is no efi change necessary when using the micro patcher?
Got Big Sur installed on my 2013 iMac but is this normal under Internal Drive?
Curious if you download Big Sur on a supported Mac and make a bootable USB to fresh install Big Sur can you load it onto an unsupported Mac?
Curious if you download Big Sur on a supported Mac and make a bootable USB to fresh install Big Sur can you load it onto an unsupported Mac?
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Happy to report my install has been successful and very smooth on a 15" Mid 2012 Unibody MBP. I didn't have to do anything else outside of the initial patching process as my subtle design @troop231 WiFi/BT upgrade proved to be supported right out of the box.
If someone is attempting to start from scratch with this particular configuration you will have to go wired through the ethernet port to start and go through internet recovery. Once Catalina is installed, then installing a patched Big Sur usb media installer is a breeze.
Windows 10 Pro installed via Bootcamp also went extremely smoothly when setting up through Big Sur.
If there is anything people with this particular MBP would like me to test out let me know.
If someone is attempting to start from scratch with this particular configuration you will have to go wired through the ethernet port to start and go through internet recovery. Once Catalina is installed, then installing a patched Big Sur usb media installer is a breeze.
Windows 10 Pro installed via Bootcamp also went extremely smoothly when setting up through Big Sur.
If there is anything people with this particular MBP would like me to test out let me know.
I am having trouble downloading via the patch , patch opens but then it gives error , have not seen a pics of what it should look like , don't know where to look for problem , can you help ?
Well that was painless...... Thank you all for keeping me alive a little bit longer
First, thank you DosDude1 for you work on past patches, I appreciate your work. I have an upgraded Mac mini server (Macmini5,3) with 16GB RAM and two 1TB SSDs 2.0GHz Quad Core. The newer SSD has your latest patch of Catalina 10.15.7 on it, and it runs great. Second, Thank you BarryKN and everyone Barry mentions on his GitHub page who has helped on the newer patch. This community greatly appreciates your work. I took the older SSD and loaded Big Sur on it with barrykn's patch. Long story short, the lag is like taking a 10 year step backwards, I took a stab at trying to load the kext's to get the ethernet and wifi working, but saw enough that it wasn't going to be worth my time, and rebooted back to Catalina. I have been weening myself off of iCloud, and have moved most of my data to pCloud. Shifted from Apple Mail to Spark, from Safari to Firefox. And have started using Libreoffice instead of iWorks. I ditched Microsoft when I turned my Dell into corporate at the end of last year. I have used a couple of Linux flavors, Ubuntu, ElementaryOS, and recently Fedora. I decided to not upgrade my 2017 MacBook Air, After reading about Big Sur, Kext vs. Dext, SIP etc. and figured the peripherals I use will not work with Big Sur. So, I guess I have until about November 2022 to decide which flavor of Linux I am going to switch to. A Linux phone may also be in my future.
i have a 27 inches i think you have a 21 inches - idk
i also tried the app : https://github.com/avibrazil/RDM
does not work, same graphics issues in iMac late 2013 27
does not work, same graphics issues in iMac late 2013 27
I've been away from the Mac OS on unsupported Mac Scene for a while (2 months). What I can tell you is Big Sur uses Volume sealing now so you cannot mount the /System partition to make modifications anymore. I'm sure someone here has a more recent fix to this issue. As for me, a computer is now something to just complete tasks on now, no time to play around anymore.
