you are right. But I faced similar error and removed catalina and did a fresh install and thats how I got all working smoothly. cheers
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might be different in how one has installed Catalina, either with good old dosdude1 Patcher or via OCLP.
What I thought and proceeded is that one can upgrade OCLP installations but not dosdude installations.
Absolutely. In my case it was a Catalina installation with the dosdude1 patcher.
Since a clean installation of Monterey (in combination with Migration Assistant) failed at that time, I also did this upgrade via Software Update in combination with OCLP. I removed all the customizations of the dosdude1 patcher for Catalina afterwards.
Whether this is always a good idea, I do not know. I report here only from my personal experience ...
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Firewire working great here.. I can even boot from it
After so much failures and trial and errors… I gave up on using USB thumb drives. I have two extras unused SSD that I used to create the OCLP installer using an old MacBook Pro 2012 with Ventura installed on it. I inserted the SSD in on the bay 2 inside the MacPro. Well it finally worked and booted up to Ventura after 5 reboots. This has been so far the hardest OS to install on the MacPro.
Hey, this is a great tip and a cool idea! I have a small 256 GB Samsung EVO here that I could use for this purpose in future cases.
Actually that's the same SSD I have. I have two Samsung EVO 256GB. They are faster than the crappy USB thumb drive because the USB on these MacPro's are slow as hell.
I have upgraded my early 2008 MBP (A1260) to Ventura and it works pretty well.
One caveat I've noticed however, is that it doesn't see my old 1TB internal PATA drive.
Neither showing in Finder or Disk Utility.
Any options to get it to show via 3rd party software?
One caveat I've noticed however, is that it doesn't see my old 1TB internal PATA drive.
Neither showing in Finder or Disk Utility.
Any options to get it to show via 3rd party software?
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Ok, update, removed the KDK (Kernal debug Kit - who knew) the. Reapplied the post fixes. All seemed to go in fine, no errors this time, thought woohoo,
Rebooted, now iMac is stuck on loading screen with little white bar not moving from a little dot… so worse than before haha
I will not recommend installing Ventura using a thumb drive on the Mac Pro 2009. It didn't work for me. I had to use a real SSD Samsung Evo drive to install successfully Ventura.
Not speculating, just generalizing as my MBP 2011 doesn't have new enough hardware to run even Monterey well. At least I feel it is too slow for that OS, so it is now huffing and puffing along on the Big Sur train. Your MBP is even older so I thought it probably didn't have a metal capable GPU - as I am not an expert on old Macs I didn't know that 2009 model had a modern GPU. Sorry if that annoyed you.
Does anyone know know why the WIFI settings is empty? It's that normal on unsupported Macs? The wifi works without issue is that the settings on system preferences for wifi is empty nothing there.
Updated MacBookPros 11,3 and 11,4 from Monteray to Ventura 13.2 using OCLP v0.6.2 nightly. No issues except on the 11,4 have seen Control Center crash reports but Control Center does seem to function. Used a USB external installer.
BTW, I created each USB installer using the Mac to be updated. The 11,3 requires post-install root patches. I have no idea if the installer created by OCLP takes note of anything model-specific.
I have an iMac, not MBP. It has an upgraded 2GB Metal-capable GPU, and 20GB of RAM. It is very fast with Monterey.
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You don't even need a drive. I just installed OCLP to disk, blessed and booted Monterey. Launched the MacOS installer and installed Ventura on an empty partition. Then rebooted and applied root patches. MacPro 3,1 w RX580.
Is your Ventura OS on an external SSD via USB port? If this is the case, I am having the same issue: All external USB devices become inactive after installing the root patches (followed by a reboot) for my iMac10,1.
I am not planning to install Ventura to the internal SSD/HDD (500GB + 500GB fusion drive running dosdude1 Catalina). I've ordered an OWC FireWire port external SSD/HDD case in the hope to get Ventura working via the FireWire port because I suspect the USB 1.1 root patch temporarily (best case scenario) disables all external USB ports at the beginning of the boot up process. The question is that if the FireWire port can be used to boot up Ventura?
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Thats Not correct. On my MBA 7,2 all wifi settings are visible with 13,2. Only on my MBP 5,1 wifi settings are black.
I've noticed this too but not always. In my case all settings panes can take some time to load too.
But it's a machine from 2009 and the first version of OCLP with support for these non-metal machines.
same problem here when u switch off WiFi then u can see everything, when switch on everything disappears. u have the Wifi icoon on the desktop ? I see it when I log in but then is disappears as well