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macOS 11 Big Sur on Unsupported Macs Thread

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LavaTech said:
Hey,
I used “Patched sur” (you can find it on page 1 of this forum. If your looking to upgrade to Mac OS 11, try that. It was a simple install for me, no need to drag and drop things into terminal, that confuses me as well 😅, all you need is a usb and some time. But with this one, you need to get to Catalina then to Big Sur. From Catalina and lower will not work. It took a few hours for me on a ssd, it needs to install a 12 gig file (installer) then make the usb bootable, and the patched, then boot from the efi usb one (should power off, that’s good.) then hold option again and then choose the normal one, should have a install Big Sur or something, I can’t remember. Then continue as you would with a supported Mac. And you should be good to go afterward. If your WiFi and others doesn’t work, go to applications and then find the patched sur file, then there should be an option for the extra patches for WiFi and all that stuff. Install that and you are now running Big Sur, enjoy 😉

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but does that still work for 11.2? I thought there is an issue with no longer having a full installer available or something.
 
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I don’t know honestly. Maybe the patch updated might have .2 but I don’t think you can use software updater on it. You can try though.
 
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[USER = 1242553] @contacos [/ USER]

Da es für 11.2 Beta2 kein vollständiges Installationsprogramm gibt, müssen Sie einige Schritte ausführen, indem Sie 11.2 Beta2 auf einem installieren
Hackintosh (es gibt keine Probleme mit Open Core 0.6.5 oder der neuesten Version 0.6.6).

Dann erstellt diese Partition APFS mit R-Drive unter Win10 ein Image und dies auf einem iMac (wie z. B. meine, siehe Signatur). Dort sollte dann ein Win10 mit Bootcamp und dann mit dem R-Drive-Programm auf einer Partition installiert werden, auf der entweder 11.1 bereits installiert ist, oder auf einer freien Partition, die dieselbe Größe haben muss wie die Partition auf dem Hackintosh, auf der 11.2 Beta2 installiert ist. dann mit R-Drive wiederherstellen. Und dann ist die 11.2 Beta2 auch auf dem nicht unterstützten iMac.

Dann kommt der Micropatcher (derzeit der letzte) ins Spiel und führt ihn genau wie bei aus
die 11.1 Installation, damit WLAN etc. funktioniert

Ich selbst kümmere mich nicht um die folgenden Betas, ich werde es tun, wenn das 11.2-Finale da ist, wie beschrieben.

R-Driv für Windows ist ein gutes Tool, lesen und schreiben Sie APFS und alle Formate und kopieren Sie Sektor für Sektor

AKTUALISIEREN:

Ich habe vor ein paar Minuten darüber gesprochen, jetzt ist das neueste Update erschienen. Big Sur 11.2 ist der 20D53, da viele Leute das Finale von 11.2 Big Sur vermuten.
 
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Hey guys, so i noticed open core is for windows and Mac. I would’ve liked to run Mac on my laptop but never succeeded, can anyone start a convo with me and help me through it?
 
LavaTech said:
Ok I believe my 5670 doesn’t have metal support but that’s fine, I have it in another machine anyways. The gt 120 doesn’t support metal and I’m running patched sur perfectly fine- I did find the quadro 4000 for 85$ on amazon. It’s renewed tho. The 670 is over 100$
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1) You're right, AMD Radeon 5000 and 6000 series graphics processors (your 5670 included) don't support Metal.
2) Don't get a Quadro 4000. I have one of those in my Windows desktop, and it gives me many issues. Overheating, screen glitching, driver crashes, and just bad performance. K4000 is quite a different card and significantly better, but avoid NVidia Quadro cards in general if you can - I have worked with several different Quadro models and quite often had a bad experience.

3) I would suggest an EVGA NVidia GTX 680. I've rebuilt 2008 Mac Pro 3,1 computers twice, and both times I got a nicely working GTX 680 on eBay for $90 once and $65 the 2nd time (because I bought one that was listed as "Untested" and it happened to work just fine). The GTX 680s are both Metal supported (so natively supported in Mojave, Catalina and Big Sur) and are very easy to flash with EFI firmware to get Mac boot screen support. Second runner up GPU recommendation would be an AMD / ATI Radeon HD 7950 - another fully Metal supported GPU that is fairly easy to flash with EFI firmware and sells for under $100 used. The GTX 680 is a bit faster and is probably the fastest sub $100 card you can get (aside from maybe an RX470 if you can score one for less than $100)

4) A 670 for over $100 is a ripoff.
 
LavaTech said:
Hey guys, so i noticed open core is for windows and Mac. I would’ve liked to run Mac on my laptop but never succeeded, can anyone start a convo with me and help me through it?
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You tryna run Mac OS on a Windows PC laptop or is it an old "unsupported" Apple laptop?
 
So I originally would’ve liked to install it on my somewhat old Lenovo z50-75, with a AMD fx cpu (unsure what kind) with 8 gigs of ram and a 1tb ssd. I only ever tried vmbox or something like that to do it but never worked.
 
LavaTech said:
So I originally would’ve liked to install it on my somewhat old Lenovo z50-75, with a AMD fx cpu (unsure what kind) with 8 gigs of ram and a 1tb ssd. I only ever tried vmbox or something like that to do it but never worked.
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That's a bit off-topic but I highly suggest to take a look over Dortania Guide and see if your CPU is supported. AMD CPU's do not have on par support with Intel especially if they are old.


I suggest to buy a supported Mac or find a cheap second-hand PC on which you can install macOS.
 
With 11.2 almost out...

I have a 2012 imac with upgraded wifi. I would need to use opencore as it’s the only solution that would support updates?
can I do a clean install on the iMac? I have a Catalina Mac that I could use for whatever prep is required. Thank you.
 
Danwilderspin said:
Hi All

Thanks for the hard work. I have a 2011 iMacwith a k610m gpu - runs beats with OpenCore etc...

Two points that don't seem to work wonder if you can help?

1) Night **** - no option and can't find anywhere ow to enable?
2) Airplay - I can't airplay sound or video - no devices available...


Any ideas?


Cheers
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helloworldcodes.com

2011 iMac 27" K1100M Graphics Card Swap And Install Catalina - Hello, World! Codes

A step-by-step guide on how I successfully swap the graphics card to K1100M on my 2011 27″ iMac and install Catalina in this unsupported system. I decided to take on this project due to the infamous Apple AMD GPU failure…
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andrey_russian said:
helloworldcodes.com

2011 iMac 27" K1100M Graphics Card Swap And Install Catalina - Hello, World! Codes

A step-by-step guide on how I successfully swap the graphics card to K1100M on my 2011 27″ iMac and install Catalina in this unsupported system. I decided to take on this project due to the infamous Apple AMD GPU failure…
helloworldcodes.com
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This post is about Catalina, not Big Sur. Additionally it is out of date from day one+1 on.

To find a patcher offering Night Shift on such Mid 2011 iMacs please check out the first post and the list of patcher options.

There are some limitations for 2011+NVIDIA systems possibly not to solve: No iGPU, No HW DRM (stripped from Big Sur) and currently not Airplay and video glitches (at least a dozen users posted about this). Since I do not own currently such system some details may be incomplete. More information you find on the thread and post at the first link of my signature.
 
Larsvonhier said:
Yes, you can ;-) (install it on MBP 4,1)
But without SSD I´d not recommend it other that for curiosity, even booting from HDD is really taking ages, also starting apps etc. Once running, it´s ok then. 4GB is also ok (with SSD!), but you can equip your machine with 4GB+2GB memory sticks (types 5300 and 6400 both work when mixed - but only 2x 6400 types does not).
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I have this machine, a MPB4,1 17-inch Early 2008, would you be so kind to tell, how to install Big Sur? I am running Catalina 10.15.7 (19H15). Your help would be fabulous.
 
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Bonjour,

Updated to 11.2 RC, no problems.

Just since a while I got this warning:
Diskutil said:
snapshot fsroot/file key rolling tree corruptions are not repaired; they'll go away once the snapshot is deleted
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I did it again and again and again but the error persists.

Have a nice day.
 
Ausdauersportler said:
This post is about Catalina, not Big Sur. Additionally it is out of date from day one+1 on.

To find a patcher offering Night Shift on such Mid 2011 iMacs please check out the first post and the list of patcher options.

There are some limitations for 2011+NVIDIA systems possibly not to solve: No iGPU, No HW DRM (stripped from Big Sur) and currently not Airplay and video glitches (at least a dozen users posted about this). Since I do not own currently such system some details may be incomplete. More information you find on the thread and post at the first link of my signature.
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Thanks - I knew about the DRM thing what's the iGPU issue? And if there is no Airplay then so be it...

I had a look at the patchers on the first post but none of them mention Night Shift? IS this definitely available...?
 
StephN999 said:
Bonjour,

Updated to 11.2 RC, no problems.

Just since a while I got this warning:


I did it again and again and again but the error persists.

Have a nice day.
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How to delete this APFS snapshot?

I updated MacBook Air (base model, M1) to 11.0.1 today and did a reset. Now I have this 17 GB volume, which disk utility reports as "APFS system snapshot". This is just after a fresh install, and I don't have time machine activated on this MacBook. How do I delete this and get the space back...
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Danwilderspin said:
Thanks - I knew about the DRM thing what's the iGPU issue? And if there is no Airplay then so be it...

I had a look at the patchers on the first post but none of them mention Night Shift? IS this definitely available...?
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You may just search this thread for an answer...or take option #6. There have been several posts about that and I will not start to cite myself here.
 
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roysterdoyster said:
I have this machine, a MPB4,1 17-inch Early 2008, would you be so kind to tell, how to install Big Sur? I am running Catalina 10.15.7 (19H15). Your help would be fabulous.
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I used barry´s micropatcher, back when 11.0 betas were the hot ****. ;-)
But there are several obstacles you will encounter:
- legacy USB support might not work - that means installing from or to a USB drive
(if you have a working USB 3.0 card, you can hot swap the installer drive during boot!)

- there is no stable OpenGL patch for the NVIDIA in the MBP4,1

Best way seems at the moment to use current patchers on a more modern machine and then clone/transplant the drive to the MBP4,1
 
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d.richter said:
Which one is better? I want to patch imac 13,2

github.com

GitHub - barrykn/big-sur-micropatcher: A primitive USB patcher for installing macOS Big Sur on unsupported Macs

A primitive USB patcher for installing macOS Big Sur on unsupported Macs - barrykn/big-sur-micropatcher
github.com github.com

OR

github.com

GitHub - BenSova/Patched-Sur: A simple but powerful patcher for macOS Big Sur.

A simple but powerful patcher for macOS Big Sur. Contribute to BenSova/Patched-Sur development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com github.com
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The patcher core is the same (@Barry K. Nathan), only the usage terminal vs. GUI is different. If you are used to enter some terminal commands take the micro patcher ( or a fork of it :) ), otherwise the Ben Sova GUI is really cool and streamlined (supported only on Catalina+).
 
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contacos said:
yes but the last update is from November. I already installed 11.1 successfully with it. My question was if this method still works with 11.2 since there has been no update since
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Nobody except Apple employees can answer this since 11.2 is not released yet. If Apple releases a stand alone installer as they did with 11.1 it will probably work, and if it doesn't someone here will possibly update the micropatcher. If Apple only releases a delta you will need to stay on 11.1 or switch to Open Core.
 
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Ausdauersportler said:
Hi!

I am a little bit blind on that particular eye, are there any ongoing developments? Right now I have the impression without a metal GPU nothing is really working...

Thanks in advance
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I´m not sure, but progress in that field seems to have come to a halt. I heard of some attempts to get Skylight etc. working for OpenGL, but they were reportedly unstable (had no chance to try myself).
The only machine on which "framebuffer only" means no degradation any more is the good old MacBook 4,1 (with x3100 GPU). Only for that ´book, the hunt is terminally over...
(Of course, the eGPU way with GTC beast solutions continues to work for Metal on old Macs).
 
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