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macOS 14 Sonoma on Unsupported Macs Thread
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That could be with yours.
None of my Install-sticks starting from Mojave up to Sonoma needed more than 16GB & it should be formatted in GUID/Mac OS Extended (journaled).
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For USB installers, I use kind of a luxury: a 120GB old Kingston SSD, too small to be useful as a system SSD. Partitioned to a couple of 10 and 20 GB partitions GUID/MacOS Extended (journaled), it holds all macOS installers I still want, from El Capitan to Sonoma. Faster and more reliable than USB sticks, to my experience.
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I was the same until the newer OCLP offering macOS installation, which wipes out the entire USB/SSD. The advantage of OCLP generated Installer is that it applies the root-patch during the installation process, avoiding the need of manual installation of the root-patch which may cause complications.
I am interested to learn a way to install OCLP generated Installer to a partition.
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As I use your Flavour-X-theme for quite a while I need just the appropriate icon "Apple 14.icns" to supplement if possible - Thank you.
BTW, the latest nightly builds from the sonoma-development branch have all the new default Sonoma boot picker disk icons (GoldenGate collection): those who know how to find them, can do it… 
And here’s another interesting article (the newest pull request):
github.com
Last but not least, does anyone know if macOS 14 Sonoma finally adds support for nested virtualisation on M2+ Apple Silicon (for example, for running Docker, WSL2 or WSA inside a Windows 11 ARM VM)…? Not OCLP-related, but as there are many experts here…
And here’s another interesting article (the newest pull request):
Preliminary support for macOS Sonoma by khronokernel · Pull Request #1077 · dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher
This PR is primarily for tracking development of patch sets and changes implemented in code base. Please note that these builds are highly unstable and will require frequent re-installs throughout ...
github.com
Last but not least, does anyone know if macOS 14 Sonoma finally adds support for nested virtualisation on M2+ Apple Silicon (for example, for running Docker, WSL2 or WSA inside a Windows 11 ARM VM)…? Not OCLP-related, but as there are many experts here…
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Of course we want to know.
It was a serious question of describing the technicalities of how you made things work like wifi, etc which others were not able to enable or make it work. The more people try it more people can feedback to the Devs.
I suppose, if you agree to use some product invented by tyrant (if any), developed by tyrant and offered to you for free by tyrant, you ought to be more patient and polite to the tyrant and his feelings.
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Similar situation here on MB4,1 (with the dreaded x3100 GPU).
Installing Ventura 13.4 on top of Monterey first resulted in full frame buffer (144MB, yeah!).
OCLP showed Wifi and USB as available patches but even so removed the x3100 kexts to "relocated kext" folder where they do not work (not included any more at kernel cache rebuild time). So I´m back to the sluggish 6MB frame buffer...
So I´d also like to chose what to patch or leave untouched. Perhaps this can be done without totally doing it by single manual steps instead with OCLP?
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The tyrants continue to amaze. This progress already on Sonoma is impressive.
EDIT: Just saw @Sven G 's post above. Sorry for the duplicate.
EDIT: Just saw @Sven G 's post above. Sorry for the duplicate.
And I did explain how I got WiFi working in #201 and non-Metal graphics in #210 (it wasn't a joke, literally the same patch set). If I'm not explaining EXACTLY what I did is because these patches are very complicated to apply and are in testing by developers and 95% of the people wouldn't know how to manually downgrade many binaries and as I said in #102 that if we can't find anything better, it would be in OCLP (like the Sonoma preliminary support PR).
So I never refused to articulate and never wanted anyone apologizing for asking. Since when showing the development progress of a patcher is tyranny? Since when not wanting to write a huge post describing how I got things working, that people would try to replicate and break their OSes because they can't wait that to be included in the patcher is considered tyranny?
All I wanted was to show our progress with Sonoma with what I thought was a nice community. This is probably my last post in this forum because I don't want to be around toxic people (also the reason I left OCLP's discord server).
@educovas
You can't infer the entire community from one or two persons. Many appreciate you sharing progress and would deeply regret losing insights into the developments. And to @MacNB2 and co. Of course, you can always ask questions about topics that interest you. But it is up to the person you're asking what to tell you. You can't accuse people of not being able to articulate themselves just because you don't like the answer. That is not a way to deal with one another.
You can't infer the entire community from one or two persons. Many appreciate you sharing progress and would deeply regret losing insights into the developments. And to @MacNB2 and co. Of course, you can always ask questions about topics that interest you. But it is up to the person you're asking what to tell you. You can't accuse people of not being able to articulate themselves just because you don't like the answer. That is not a way to deal with one another.
@educovas
Please ignore these weird comments from some users here.
I think that you posting your progress is very exciting for almost everyone on here, and these users that complained about this have bizarre expectations.
They probably don’t know that you are one of the developers actively working with a team that in a short while may offer us all here an updated version of OCLP with support for Sonoma. 95% of us are here to cheer you on, and it is exciting to see your early results! The other 5%—The users that are writing these weird comments here just probably do not know that you are one of the OCLP developers. Thank you for all of your awesome work!
Please ignore these weird comments from some users here.
I think that you posting your progress is very exciting for almost everyone on here, and these users that complained about this have bizarre expectations.
They probably don’t know that you are one of the developers actively working with a team that in a short while may offer us all here an updated version of OCLP with support for Sonoma. 95% of us are here to cheer you on, and it is exciting to see your early results! The other 5%—The users that are writing these weird comments here just probably do not know that you are one of the OCLP developers. Thank you for all of your awesome work!
I totally agree. OCLP become very popular and of course newbies come with their knowledge, explaining what should be done to the guys who do the job.
Thank you for a bit more detail.
In your #201 you said "Had to downgrade almost the whole userspace WiFi stack to match the kext from Ventura" but what would have helped was to add "I'm not explaining EXACTLY what I did is because these patches are very complicated to apply and are in testing by developers and 95% of the people wouldn't know how to manually downgrade many binaries. And if you do not know what you are doing then you can break your system by manually downgrading binaries.".
The comment in #201 on it own without context creates curiosity because people want to know more.
These are very friendly forums and many are here to share their experiences and knowledge to the benefit of others.
When you came along with those comments on #201 & #210, it seemed like you got somethings working but were not willing to share how. We now know why.
I'm sorry if you felt you were being attacked...you were not. That was never the intent ... quite the opposite...I just wanted more.
educovas is one of the developers for OCLP. @MacNB2 , you have to wait for the official release to “get more “…. Official releases are when the developers will “share“ their work.
You have to think of some of the people who post on this board as like professors displaying a bit of research that’s incomplete. When the OCLP developers research and development becomes complete, we will all get more, and they will share it with us by way of a new OCLP release.
However, it’s exciting to see the research in progress—that is what @educovas was doing before in his post.
Its ready Sonoma since yesterday
I update all theme slowly but surly
I also change the way for the Recovery HD and external HD
Oh god, I thought you were just random guy. I’m so sorry, you deserve nothing but praise. Out of shame Im abandoning the account.
iMac 27 2011. The system is loading. Installed the WX7100 video card driver. The desktop became green (dirty). But the accelerator works. The games are working. The site is working. Wifi doesn't work. The sound works. The mouse does not work properly - there is no scrolling sensitivity.
At last the Open Core Legacy Patcher Team accepts donations. Please be generous, they have saved a lot of money to so many people.
opencollective.com
OpenCore Legacy Patcher - Open Collective
Open source project dedicated to getting older Macs running newer versions of macOS.
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