macOS 11 Big Sur on Unsupported Macs Thread

[Arvind Chitram]

Lets say I try the patch in my unsupported mac, can I time machine back to catalina. Im thinking a yes?

forsure its good to wait until we have solid information that everything is working including wifi.

 

[aussieacorn]

Sorry the spam but... if you desire a Ferrari.... you should learn about car construction and contribute to the car building industry?

Well the point is if he pays the contributors. These guys here are contributing for free without getting paid. If you wish to get a Ferrari, you can simply earn money and get it as that is just a car sold for money - and if he and contributors are some sort of customer/client and seller kind of relationship - that comment is understandable. But if situation like this (unpaid and willing-based-contributions) I think he should be willing to try or contribute in here or at least - just wait for it to be ready and say "thank you" for the contributors. Asking for proper patcher just because he doesn't want to bother using Terminal was clearly a selfish and inappropriate comment he can possibly write down in here.

 

[Jose C. Salazar]

What a ridiculous argument. If you like Ferarri's, and can afford one, then you're contributing your money to the Ferrari market. The person in question isn't even willing to use spoon-fed instructions.

and how do you know he is not willing to donate? people like myself who know basics of programing (for fun) may not have the time to invest, on the other hand we have a enormous respect for other people works...

 

[aussieacorn]

Lets say I try the patch in my unsupported mac, can I time machine back to catalina. Im thinking a yes?

forsure its good to wait until we have solid information that everything is working including wifi.

If you are using Mac that has been manufactured around 2012 or later, you still can use Wi-Fi anyway. I am not sure about other models though...

It is always better to just wait for it to be all figured out and get ready so you can achieve it successfully with less risk. It would also be a lot easier experience for you.

By the way, if you have made Time Machine Backup, you sure can go back to Catalina at any moment. That's what I do pretty much always, or use SuperDuper! to copy whole data into the external SSD and make it bootable so if anything goes wrong I can just boot from external hard drive and transfer it to the Mac.

 

[ASentientBot]

Yeah…I don’t disagree with you. I just think it’s not worth ‘fixing‘ people. I always got frustrated with people, especially those with potential who chose to waste it. But that person’s attitude also reflects a lot of people - how are you going to change so many people’s perspective? It’s a lot of effort for no reward, so I tend to just ignore it…

That being said, maybe you can change people. But I feel hardwired to “ignore”. Unlike every other problem, ‘underthinking’ people turns out to be much more rewarding.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with not wanting to spend the time learning/experimenting -- it's a hobby for us but a chore for many who just want a working system. Their interests/skills are elsewhere; that's fine. It only becomes annoying when folks are clamoring for a patcher release ASAP.

My opinion anyways.

 

[fonso7]

Hey guys! Here an iMac 2008! I will be testing all I can from next week. Hopefully it will work as good as Catalina does. Thanks a lot for the hard work!!!

 

[Alex-Microsmeta]

Just wait for it.
I was waiting around 1 hour @ 13” MBP 2012.

Ok, thank you to all: finished installation after an extra hour (and was the second time, thinking that the process was KO)

Now I must understand how to remove telemetry from Big Sur installation (i have a Core 2 Duo 2.4 P8600 Penryn) . If I try to enter recovery with Command + R on Update volume boot, it starts the Internet Recovery ??? (the one with the globe) I'm searching here for a detailed guide

 

[jackluke]

No graphics acceleration, WiFi, speakers & microphone…but it booted!

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To enable BigSur Wifi use this: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...unsupported-macs-thread.2242172/post-28595200

To enable BigSur speakers and mic use the file attached (stock from my HighSierra installation).

To install both properly follow these steps:

(possibly booting using usbopencoreapfsloader3 and the prelinkedkernel)

open a BigSur terminal and type:

sudo mount -uw / ; killall Finder

open /System/Library/Extensions/

replace from Finder in that path the IO80211Family.kext and AppleHDA.kext

return to terminal continue typing

sudo -s

chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/

chown -R 0:0 /System/Library/Extensions/

kextcache -i /

(this is required to update the prelinkedkernel)

kmutil install --update-all

(this is required to update the BootKernelExtensions.kc)

kcditto

(this is required to copy both the "kextcache" to the APFS Preboot)

at next reboot both should work on unsupported BigSur Mac.

 

[joanbcn91]

Oh Great @jackluke, awesome !!! So now we have many ways to boot macOS 11, yours is legacy one so helpful
Thank You

@Barry K. Nathan go ahead man with your patcher we are here to test them all!
All the best our Devs ❤ 👍

What is the diferencie with opencore or legacy kernel? @jackluke

 

[jackluke]

What is the diferencie with opencore or legacy kernel? @jackluke

OpenCore is an UEFI bootloader that can patch system configuration (example csrutil, board-id, amfi) and files without modifying a stock nvram or a macOS installation (and many other features), but its main role is the capability to spoof a supported mac.

legacy prelinkedkernel is a booting kextcache that apple used since OSX Lion to embedded the kernel file and some base kext, that is more easy to handle on BigSur IMHO than BootKernelExtensions.kc .

 

[joanbcn91]

OpenCore is an UEFI bootloader that can patch system configuration (example csrutil, board-id, amfi) and files without modifying a stock nvram or a macOS installation (and many other features), but its main role is the capability to spoof a supported mac.

legacy prelinkedkernel is a booting kextcache that apple used since OSX Lion, that is more easy to handle on BigSur IMHO.

Thanks for your reply jackluke. Can you help me in my case?

macOS 11 Big Sur on Unsupported Macs Thread

Hi! Someone can help me to work the Wi-Fi please? With their snapshots commands, and steps. I do not know how to do it on my system....I'm affected for the error 66. I attach my disk partitions with the info. the "disk2" (disk0s2) is the macOS Catalina. THANKS

forums.macrumors.com

 

[jackluke]

Thanks for your reply jackluke. Can you help me in my case?

macOS 11 Big Sur on Unsupported Macs Thread

Hi! Someone can help me to work the Wi-Fi please? With their snapshots commands, and steps. I do not know how to do it on my system....I'm affected for the error 66. I attach my disk partitions with the info. the "disk2" (disk0s2) is the macOS Catalina. THANKS

forums.macrumors.com

Currently I can use "sudo mount -uw /" on BigSur, and I have no snapshots "system volume encryption" issues so I can add patches from normal booting (or using usbopencore).

You need first to disable SIP from CMD+R recovery enviroment terminal: csrutil disable
then: nvram boot-args="-no_compat_check amfi_get_out_of_my_way=1"

and before replacing the Wifi kext you need to make with createinstallmedia an USB BigSur Installer and copying on its root the IO80211Family.kext and booting from USB BigSur Installer, from there you can replace the Wifi kext.

In your case I could advise to use this working method: https://medium.com/@andv/making-wif...d-macs-with-failed-with-66-error-36c98e3f7965

 

[joanbcn91]

Thanks mate! let me try!

 

[jackluke]

@parrotgeek1 can you edit, align or modify your USBLegacyInjector.kext to adding it correctly to the BigSur BootKernelExtensions.kc ?

Because currently it seems to don't prelink correctly to a "BigSur kextcache or kmutil UUID", it's marked as "unknown", I added it instead using my method of "BigSur prelinkedkernel" (with sudo kextcache -i /) and it does work correctly when targeting the BigSur with single user mode (then typing exit to continue booting).

But if you boot directly or verbose mode HID: Legacy Shim 2 are delayed and resulting with USB unpowered resulting in non-booting, I noticed that "delaying" the USBLegacyInjector.kext loading using BigSur "single user mode" makes your kext to work on non-APFS BigSur machine.

 

[joanbcn91]

I got this error..... 😌

 

[jackluke]

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I got this error..... 😌

diskutil list
(locate your BigSur System diskXsY not the "BigSur Data")

diskutil mount diskXsY

mount -uw /Volumes/YourBigSurSystemLabel/

anyway that step to create a snapshot backup is not mandatory, you could skip.

 

[avz]

OpenCore is an UEFI bootloader that can patch system configuration (example csrutil, board-id, amfi) and files without modifying a stock nvram or a macOS installation (and many other features), but its main role is the capability to spoof a supported mac.

Do you think it would be possible to flash MacBook5,1=>MacBook6,1 using OpenCore? Technically they have an identical hardware so it should be safe or am I missing something?

 

[jackluke]

Do you think it would be possible to flash MacBook5,1=>MacBook6,1 using OpenCore? Technically they have an identical hardware so it should be safe or am I missing something?

I guess it's possible only limit are the IOUSB Legacy kext (so it's not very useful to spoof), if you instead clone a BigSur installation or use an external USB BigSur installation, and the "prelinkedkernel fix" with usbopencore , you surely can boot BigSur from a MacBook5,1 with responsive usb mouse, trackpad, keyboard, Wifi and Sound.

 

[joanbcn91]

diskutil list
(locate your BigSur System diskXsY not the "BigSur Data")

diskutil mount diskXsY

mount -uw /Volumes/YourBigSurSystemLabel/

anyway that step to create a snapshot backup is not mandatory, you could skip.

Nothing......

 

[jackluke]

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Nothing......

Try this (give me some minutes to type):

edit: some reported that this method doesn't worked so don't use it.

mount -uw /Volumes/BigSur/

cd /Volumes/BigSur/System/Library/Extensions/

mv IO80211Family.kext IO80211Family.kext2

cp -R /Volumes/Image\ Volume/IO80211Family.kext .

kmutil install --update-all --volume-root /Volumes/BigSur/

diskutil mount Preboot

cd /Volumes/Preboot/

ls

cd /Volumes/Preboot/UUID-BigSur/boot/System/Library/KernelCollections/

cp /Volumes/BigSur/System/Library/KernelCollections/BootKernelExtensions.kc .

reboot and check if Wifi is working.

Notice that during copying from recovery terminal you need to add the dot for the current folder:
cp -R /Volumes/Image\ Volume/IO80211Family.kext .

"Image Volume" is exactly the label for any BigSur USB Installer drive root folder so it's common to any mac.

 

[ryanx30x]

I have the same machine and config. When you reinstalled Catalina, did you basically wipe-out your HD, install Catalina, and then update to Big Sur? Thanks

Yes ... that's exactly what I did.

 

[brandonsierra]

Heres how I would install Big Sur on a Mac mini Late 2012 (Catalina Required!)

1. Download InstallAssistant.pkg from http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...kxzj3zjshu1srsh4n74a41n4/InstallAssistant.pkg

2. Download hax.dylib and copy to home folder https://forums.macrumors.com/attachments/really-simple-installer-hack-zip.926156/

3. Boot in recovery and disable sip with the " csrutil disable " command

4. Boot back into Catalina and open terminal then run " sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.libraryvalidation.plist DisableLibraryValidation -bool true "

5. Then Run " launchctl setenv DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES $PWD/Hax.dylib " in same terminal window

6. Then Run " sudo nvram boot-args="-no_compat_check" "

7. Open macOS Big Sur Installer

8. Patch WiFi using https://medium.com/@andv/making-wif...d-macs-with-failed-with-66-error-36c98e3f7965

9. You're done!
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Aiming for success on 2012 Mac mini!

 

[Alex-Microsmeta]

Breaking news: I discovered a way to boot BigSur without Opencore using the legacy prelinkedkernel instead of the new BootKernelExtensions.kc , here are the steps:

diskutil apfs list to identify your UUID-BigSur unique Preboot Volume string.

diskutil mount Preboot

or mount your BigSur Preboot Volume (it works also from HighSierra, Mojave, Catalina or directly from BigSur)

open /Volumes/Preboot/

check that in your UUID-BigSur folder is present this: /System/Library/PrelinkedKernels/prelinkedkernel

current BigSur beta 1 prelinkedkernel size: 25,7 MB

locate this path : /Volumes/Preboot/UUID-BigSur/System/Library/CoreServices/com.apple.Boot.plist

if you don't have the file then consider to replace it also in this path:

/Volumes/Preboot/UUID-BigSur/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

edit the file exactly this way:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Kernel Cache</key>
    <string>System\Library\PrelinkedKernels\prelinkedkernel</string>
    <key>Kernel Flags</key>
    <string>-no_compat_check amfi_get_out_of_my_way=1</string>
</dict>
</plist>

At next reboot your BigSur installation will use the prelinkedkernel

@ASentientBot and @dosdude1 might find this useful for their BigSur patches.

edit:
The same method could be applied also to USB BigSur Installer, because it is still present also there on

/Volumes/USBInstallerBigSur/System/Library/PrelinkedKernels/prelinkedkernel

so redirecting the /Volumes/USBInstallerBigSur/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

adding to it <key>Kernel Cache</key> with <string>System\Library\PrelinkedKernels\prelinkedkernel</string> should override the default BaseSystem.dmg (ramdisk) BootKernelExtensions.kc but this require more testing, probably the /System/Library/Extensions/ folder should be added also to the USB BigSur Installer for kext matching or BaseSystem.dmg (740 MB) restored to a volume and from there attempt to make a BigSur Patcher.

Hi

I have finally managed to install BS without errors. Now, pressing ALT, togheter with Catalina SSD and Windows 10 Efi Boot, I have also a bootable MacOS 11 volume (external 160 GB USB drive APFS partitioned before using Install MacOS beta.app with all patches suggested) Catalina mounts it as "Update" volume, warning that is non fully compatible with the partition. Since I have a Mac mini 2010 (Macmini4,1) with Core 2 Duo Penryn P8600 2.4 ghz I must remove telemetry. BS starts, but when switches to the white screen, after a while of mouse coloured circle spinning, crashes and restarts. How can I access to macOS BS Recovery? If I press command + R it goes to Internet Recovery (the one with spinning Globe) so I cannot access to Terminal to try to remove telemetry.

Thank you for all your very appreciated help! (...I don't know, maybe you could write an automatic script for your elegant solution?)

Regards, Alex

 

[brandonsierra]

It’s been stuck like this, do I force reboot?

 

[jackluke]

@Syncretic here is a new test using your kext, in particular AAAMouSSE.kext prelinks correctly with the BigSur kernel, both the kext don't caused any issues to BigSur on Penryn Core2Duo .

So your developed kext MacOS exec SDK and IOkit are compatible with BigSur beta 1 .