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macOS 12 Monterey on Unsupported Macs Thread
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Pretty sure Software Update doesn't work because SharedSupport.dmg is not copied to the Update disk, that's the reason it fails, as with clicking on the Full installer, it creates the Installer without the SharedSupport.dmg inside the App.
I now created the Installer, see below.
Edit: Installer boots but.... It does not work.
I now created the Installer, see below.
Edit: Installer boots but.... It does not work.
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The final test is to see if the (Shared Support folder moved to installer app) modified installer app will make a bootable USB, and that installer will actually boot and install successfully... And - it's alive... I mean, it works!
@justperry Thanks for your clear help. I hope Apple gets their act together to have a working installer when Monterey is released to the great un-washed (I mean, the user...)
@justperry Thanks for your clear help. I hope Apple gets their act together to have a working installer when Monterey is released to the great un-washed (I mean, the user...)
It boots, I just tried, but I forgot to delete a bit of stuff, need more stuff.
No worries,
Edit: It does not work. (Booting does but getting a verification Error.)
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my Pacafist.app wont open "InstallAssistant.pkg" so i can get SharedSupport.dmg... Any ideas?????
Thanks
Thanks
my Pacafist.app wont open "InstallAssistant.pkg" so i can get SharedSupport.dmg... Any ideas?????
Thanks
use The Unarchiver its free and its work extracte PKG
Tried to install B7 after fixing the Installer by adding SharedSupport.dmg but when I choose what drive to install on it says the Installer is damaged, Anyone else having this issue with the full installer?
Thanks
Thanks
Same issue I try to create A USB installer but nothings work Its Crapy Update and crapy installer from Apple
thats it
Thank you for the post. After several tries of the OTA and full installer I downloaded the nightly OCLP, patched again and the OTA worked perfectly. Wonder if maybe the issue is with B6 undoing some part of the patching but that is beyond my knowledge level.
At any rate thank you for the fix!
Here how to create USB installer for Monterey Beta 7.
1. Download package and installed.
2. Copy "Install macOS Monterey beta" from Application to desktop.
3. Use The Unarchiver to unzip the SharedSupport.dmg from "InstallAssistant.pkg"
4. Create folder "SharedSupport" add "InstallAssistant.pkg" in "Install macOS Monterey beta".
Now you able to create the USB Installer, see the pictures attached.
Hope this help.
1. Download package and installed.
2. Copy "Install macOS Monterey beta" from Application to desktop.
3. Use The Unarchiver to unzip the SharedSupport.dmg from "InstallAssistant.pkg"
4. Create folder "SharedSupport" add "InstallAssistant.pkg" in "Install macOS Monterey beta".
Now you able to create the USB Installer, see the pictures attached.
Hope this help.
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I was a little confused so I decided to make an easy tutorial to how I installed Beta 7 on my Macbook Pro 9,1 with OCLP (the nightly version 0.2.5):
1. Download Beta 7 from gibMacOS (21A5522h)
2. Run InstallAssistant
3. With The Unarchiver, unzip InstallAssistant
4. Right click the Install MacOS Monterey app from the Applications folder and Open Package Contents
5. Create a SharedSupport folder inside the Contents folder
6. Copy the contents INSIDE of SharedSupport.dmg (extracted from the InstallAssistant) to the SharedSupport folder inside the app
7. Run the installer as usual
1. Download Beta 7 from gibMacOS (21A5522h)
2. Run InstallAssistant
3. With The Unarchiver, unzip InstallAssistant
4. Right click the Install MacOS Monterey app from the Applications folder and Open Package Contents
5. Create a SharedSupport folder inside the Contents folder
6. Copy the contents INSIDE of SharedSupport.dmg (extracted from the InstallAssistant) to the SharedSupport folder inside the app
7. Run the installer as usual
Did you copy the contents of the dmg to the folder instead of the dmg itself? That’s what solved it for me
It was 24:00 Midnight last night, too late to install, actually, I booted into the installer yesterday but I then needed more space on my disk, I decided it was bedtime.
So, now, after much-needed sleep, I booted again into the installer, I deleted both the Installer package and the App to have sufficient space on my SSD, I then booted back into the Installer, it booted, but as with others, it said the Installer is damaged.
Might be that the SharedSupport.dmg is in the wrong position, sadly I didn't check the old installer before I installed the new one, big sure was on it, if I knew I would have looked at the File/Folder structure.
So, now, after much-needed sleep, I booted again into the installer, I deleted both the Installer package and the App to have sufficient space on my SSD, I then booted back into the Installer, it booted, but as with others, it said the Installer is damaged.
Might be that the SharedSupport.dmg is in the wrong position, sadly I didn't check the old installer before I installed the new one, big sure was on it, if I knew I would have looked at the File/Folder structure.
Excuse me, Pacifist is easy to use, just open the package, go to the Resources tab, you'll find the SharedSupport there.
Click on the SharedSupport.dmg, then extract to button, Top left.
This is the place where it is currently located.
Contents/Sharedsupport is a symlink to the one you see on the right.
Edit: Boots but It does not work, verification Error.
Contents/Sharedsupport is a symlink to the one you see on the right.
Edit: Boots but It does not work, verification Error.
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macbookpro11,3 here.
tried the OTA update for beta 7 without success. creating a full installer doesn’t seem to help either. both ways it gets stuck at the apple logo at about 40% after the third reboot and stays there forever. i have no idea what the issue is with this beta.
tried the OTA update for beta 7 without success. creating a full installer doesn’t seem to help either. both ways it gets stuck at the apple logo at about 40% after the third reboot and stays there forever. i have no idea what the issue is with this beta.
I just now did, also with the SharedSupport.dmg, it fails, next without it but with the contents, seems to work no......
NOT, After a restart it showed a pop-up with a warning that the disk can't be verified or something like that, now I have another window, asks me to start up from which disk.
So, it failed...again.
This was with the Contents of SharedSupport.dmg extracted to the SharedSupport Folder, see screenshot below.
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@justperry and anyone who encountered this createinstallmedia issue, probably there is a bug on that apple package even if they enforced some firmware or packages verification, but since beta 1 I used another method, that is through any previous already made "Install macOS Monterey beta" replace only the SharedSupport.dmg , it even worked with beta 7 and recently ASentientBot found a method to copy very quickly the SharedSupport.dmg that consists of renaming the InstallAssistant.pkg to SharedSupport.dmg, they exactly match without unpacking and without occupying extra disk space, you can simply check the validity double clicking the renamed InstallAssistant to dmg.
If you have an USB Monterey installer, just keeping the stock label for the installer and on Downloads folder the current InstallAssistant.pkg , I made a simple script for that: MontereySharedSupportfix
If you have an USB Monterey installer, just keeping the stock label for the installer and on Downloads folder the current InstallAssistant.pkg , I made a simple script for that: MontereySharedSupportfix
I ran into this too on the 11,3.
What the problem seems to be:
The NVIDIA dGPU is somehow preventing rendering to the display if the drivers are missing (as they are in b7)
What I did to work around this:
I did notice that the keyboard appeared responsive when the machine appeared stuck halfway through loading (caps lock would turn on, keyboard backlighting lit up when keys pressed) so on a hunch I assumed that macOS actually booted and logged in, so I grabbed my phone and connected to the machine with a VNC client, and sure enough, there was my desktop. From there I just ran the latest OCLP nightly to run the post-install patch for NVIDIA Kepler graphics and rebooted, and everything came up properly after reboot. Of course you would need screen sharing enabled to do this.
Obviously not everyone is going to conveniently have screen sharing enabled prior and a second device on hand. I can’t speak to whether OCLP can be run from recovery mode in the same manner to patch the root volume, but maybe that’s a possibility as well.