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macOS 12 Monterey on Unsupported Macs Thread

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K two said:
macOS 12.3b4 on non-Metal early Macs cannot save JPEG or PNG files. Files can be opened, manipulated but Save function not available (greyed-out) in numerous graphics apps. Cannot upload these files in Firefox or Safari and Chrome, as well.👎
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Same to me Monterey 12.3 b4 with OCLP 0.43n on Macmini 5,2 and iMac 11,3. On iMac14,1 no save problems because no need for post patches.
 
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alphascorp said:
Hi @K two
I don't understand, do you mean that there is no longer the possibility to create a USB installer using the Terminal command with "createinstallmedia"

Here it works as always, 12.2.1 downloaded with MDS.app and successfully created a USB installer using "createinstallmedia" contained in "Install macOS Monterey.app"

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sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Monterey.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume Repeatedly got "Command not found" in Terminal 🤷‍♂️ Used gibMacOS-master Item #1 for install. That same installer running from /Applications made a perfect clean install onto a blank partition. Migration Assistant did the rest. ;)
 
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At last, I've got my 426.0.0.0.0 firmware update, thanks God. By the way, I installed Catalina on a system disk volume, not partition, because I had no choice - my SSD didn't allow to create one. Eventually, all is fine what ends fine :) Thanks to all who helped.
 
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hwojtek said:
That's a perfectly right assumption, since a lot of users with similar/same configurations happily run their computers.
It is also a basic of any troubleshooting: assuming I did something wrong and checking each action I took to double-check it was not wrong.
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This is why I've taken offence, I'll hold my hand up i've done something incorrect, I'm not afraid to admit I'm in the wrong. I followed Mr Macintosh's install instructions so i think i've done everything correctly. The only variable on my model and spec is i have a 1TB Samsung NVMe PCIe SSD installed with Sintech NGFF M.2 nVME SSD adapter. So i'm leaning towards this causing the issue. I cant get my head round what else it can be
 
thatguywill said:
This is why I've taken offence, I'll hold my hand up i've done something incorrect, I'm not afraid to admit I'm in the wrong. I followed Mr Macintosh's install instructions so i think i've done everything correctly. The only variable on my model and spec is i have a 1TB Samsung NVMe PCIe SSD installed with Sintech NGFF M.2 nVME SSD adapter. So i'm leaning towards this causing the issue. I cant get my head round what else it can be
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Did you check your OCLP under misc settings to see if the 2 NVMe settings are enabled and work
 

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TimothyR734 said:
my suggestion is try it I don't have one in my Mac I saw the settings so maybe it might work on yours since you mentioned NVMe in your post
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Yeah its worth a try I guess. I did wonder if this should be enabled. But wondered why it wasn't auto enabled as it had enabled power management itself. Which is ironic as when I had full system crashes, my Mac would be insanely hot and fans going full blast
 
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Yeah its worth a try I guess. I did wonder if this should be enabled. But wondered why it wasn't auto enabled as it had enabled power management itself. Which is ironic as when I had full system crashes, my Mac would be insanely hot and fans going full blast
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it was enabled on my iMac as well so I disabled it
 
I used OCLP on 2 x CMP5,1’s & 1 CMP 3,1 w/ BS & Monterey Great, but 1 of my 4,1s has 1 NVMe & 1 SSD w/ older versions of BS so since my Monterey MP works great - I tried Several times to install Monterey on different SSD’s = different types of failures. I gave up after several tries & tried installing the latest ver of Big Sur as this MP has a Mac nVidia instead of a Radeon GPU thinking that might be an issue. Latest ver or any version won’t install although I have 2 SSD’ w/ OS installed that works fine. Why can I no longer install MacOS ? Is their an issue w/ OCLP 0.4.2 ?
 
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thatguywill said:
This is why I've taken offence, I'll hold my hand up i've done something incorrect, I'm not afraid to admit I'm in the wrong. I followed Mr Macintosh's install instructions so i think i've done everything correctly. The only variable on my model and spec is i have a 1TB Samsung NVMe PCIe SSD installed with Sintech NGFF M.2 nVME SSD adapter. So i'm leaning towards this causing the issue. I cant get my head round what else it can be
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I had a problem like yours with two of my family's five MacBook Pro 7,1 (mid 2010) when installing Catalina with the Dosdude1 patch. Based on this, I assumed that the problem was in hardware.
In fact, an MBP had faulty RAM and I only discovered it ONLY thanks to a free Utility that can be started from scratch, using a USB Key and which carries out a very thorough test.
It may be useful to know that the Timing of the new RAM (original Crucial) gives me 2-2-2-2 in System Information.
Since the RAM of the other identical MBP was instead good, I replaced the SSD disk (I had mount a Samsung) and after mounting an SSD Crucial the problem no longer arose.
So! Regarding the Memory Test utility, here I don't have the link and the instructions to create the USB Key; but if I find them in my work’s iMac I will send them to you. I think it create a (Linux?) Boot to start Macs without Operating System and in this way to be able to check all memory cells.
Important: if I had not installed Catalina with the Dosdude1 patch I would not have noticed either the faulty RAM of a Mac or the unsuitable SSD, in the other Mac... With the original Operating System (High Sierra), in fact, the two Macs they seemed to work fine. It could also happen in your case that Monterey fails, while Big Sur seems to be working well.
 
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K two said:
Posted this on Discord. ASB🟢 is now looking into the problem. 🤞
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Just have put ASB's latest binaries for SkyLight, CoreDisplay, QuartzCore into my 12.3b4 installation, using Bigsurmountsrw - file save and upload work! Writing from this system. I guess will soon be part of OCLP 0.4.3.
 

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I don't know if this issue has been described here or not, but when I installed Monterey on my iMac 11 then my internet connection has become very unstable. I am connected to my wifi and suddenly webpages don't load anymore. Then I have to enable and disable my computer's wifi to get the connection back.
 
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Upgraded from 12.3 beta 3 to 12.3 beta 4.
No major problems with the update but it was very slow. Probably attributable to external HDD connected via USB.
Reminders did not find most of the currently open items. Closed the app on the iMac and modified the reminders on an iPhone. All the reminders were then visible on the iMac when the app was reopened. Just adding a space or single character to each reminder was all that was necessary.
Sidecar and Universal Control now seem to be working reasonably well. Connected to a supported iPad via WiFi/Bluetooth at the first attempt. (Previous beta versions would only connect via a USB cable and the connection was not stable.) With an Apple pencil it was possible to open Contacts, Numbers, Keynote, Maps and Photos on the iPad. Pages and Calendar opened on the iMac for no apparent reason.
 
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Hey, I hope somebody can help me.

I just upgraded my old iMac 27" (Mac13,2) from late 2012 to Monterey and did the post install patch via OCLP. Everything works fine. The Problem is that i got the original Macintosh HD drive and want to upgrade to a SSD Drive. But I dont want to do it Internal because I dont want to rip everything off. So i decided to plug in the SSD Drive External via USB.
How do I clone the Macintosh HD to the new external SSD Drive so I can use the new Drive and boot from it. Do i have to use OCLP again? How do I clone it?

Would be nice if somebody can give me Instructions of the easiest way to do all this.
 
I went to try the fix for the card reader in the latest OCLP nightly but it won't build for me, anyone else have the same issue or could try.

thanks

Code: 
Building Configuration on model: MacBookPro8,1
Created build folder

- Adding OpenCore v0.7.8 RELEASE
- Adding config.plist for OpenCore
- Adding Lilu.kext 1.6.0
- Adding AppleALC.kext 1.6.3
- Enabling VMM exemption patch
- Enabling HW_BID reroute
- Adding FeatureUnlock.kext 1.0.7
- Adding additional FeatureUnlock args:  -disable_sidecar_mac
- Fixing ACPI SMC Power Management support
- Adding ASPP-Override.kext 1.0.0
- Adding CatalinaBCM5701Ethernet.kext 1.0.2
- Adding SurPlus Patch for Race Condition
- No 3rd Party NVMe drives found
- Found Wireless Device 14E4:4331
- Adding AirportBrcmFixup.kext 2.1.3
- Found ARPT device at PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1c,0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x0)
- Applying fake ID for WiFi, setting Country Code: US
- Enabling Windows 10 UEFI Audio support
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "OpenCore-Patcher.command", line 6, in <module>
  File "main.py", line 23, in init
  File "main.py", line 98, in main_menu
  File "utilities.py", line 542, in start
  File "build.py", line 1230, in build_opencore
  File "build.py", line 415, in build_efi
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'vendor_id'
[42092] Failed to execute script 'OpenCore-Patcher' due to unhandled exception!

Saving session...
...copying shared history...
...saving history...truncating history files...
...completed.
 
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