macOS 14 Sonoma on Unsupported Macs Thread

[OKonnel]

A tip from MacWorld on macOS 14.4 Sonoma. Apparently, if we're not in a hurry to upgrade, it might be better for some to wait for the 14.4.1 or later update.
https://www.macworld.com/article/2264986/macos-sonoma-14-4-usb-devices-not-working-fix.html

 

[K two]

A very important tip from MacWorld on macOS 14.4 Sonoma. Read.
Apparently, if you're not in a hurry to upgrade, you'd better wait for upgrade 14.4.1 or later…
https://www.macworld.com/article/2264986/macos-sonoma-14-4-usb-devices-not-working-fix.html

Please, let's keep things in perspective - Apple’s latest macOS update – Sonoma 14.4 – has unresolved bugs affecting some USB hubs and displays, according to reports. 🤷‍♂️

 

[OKonnel]

Please, let's keep things in perspective - Apple’s latest macOS update – Sonoma 14.4 – has unresolved bugs affecting some USB hubs and displays, according to reports. 🤷‍♂️

Thanks @K two! I preferred to report the article to help someone who has the indicated problems with peripherals and attributes them to OCLP while, instead, depending on macOS 14.4.
Anyway, I thank you and lightened my post.

 

[OKonnel]

I just installed macOS Sonoma 14.4 with OCLP 1.5.0 Nightly. Barring future negative discoveries, the good news is that everything works fine and even the icons on the right side of the menu bar FINALLY no longer disappear after waking the Mac from sleep mode.

 

[INK1]

I'm still struggling with my iMac 11,3 (2010 with metal GPU). Installed Sonoma 14.4 with OCLP 1.4.2. Can boot into safe mode and things seem to work as earlier (14.3.1). Get stuck on reboot with post install patches. Reverted patches in safe mode and can now reboot into normal mode. After repatching stuck again. Have tried the troubleshooting from OCLP "Stuck on boot after root patching". So far no success. Can anybody help? Or should I just wait for next OCLP or return to Sonoma 14.3.1?

 

[rehkram]

What makes you think that the 'AX' in BCM94360CSAX is anything to do with a router that supports 'AX' ?

The fact that it's a wifi card with "AX" on the end of its name probably. 🙄

 

[deeveedee]

The fact that it's a wifi card with "AX" on the end of its name probably. 🙄

Cable News has "news" in the name.

 

[timothy24]

I just installed macOS Sonoma 14.4 with OCLP 1.5.0 Nightly. Barring future negative discoveries, the good news is that everything works fine and even the icons on the right side of the menu bar FINALLY no longer disappear after waking the Mac from sleep mode.

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can u send me link for OCLP 1.5.0 Nightly please

 

[pepepro]

i'm very sorry to bother you again and again with my annoying questions, but to come back to my windows 11 installation mess i first want to check what's probably wrong with my primary setup regarding partitions and efi.

here's a screenshot of my partiitions - the selected 2gb fat32 partition is the one i created as recommended here:

https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/WINDOWS.html#installation-process

i hope that's fine

next comes a screenshot of an overview of the content of the efi folder in this dedicated opencore partition:

and finally a screenhot of the mac's own efi partition content - this must have been created when installing windows

before starting to try to install windows again, i want to clean this up -

i think there shouldn't be any content in the mac's own efi partition, right?
respectively the "windows" stuff here maybe should be deleted since it's just some leftover of the latest unsuccesful installation attempt, and doesn't refer to anything that makes sense, right?

what should i do?

THANK YOU!!!

 

[K two]

can u send me link for OCLP 1.5.0 Nightly please

https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/blob/main/SOURCE.md Please read carefully. 🧐

 

[dandeco]

I'm waiting for OCLP to eventually add support for Live Text when running Sonoma on a MacBookPro11,4 with its' Haswell-based Intel Iris Pro 5200 graphics, maybe also fix paravirtualization graphics. The latest Apple Configurator 2 now requires Sonoma for the latest version, and I can't keep bringing my M1 MacBook Air into work for that because the firmware and iOS downloads for iPhones and iPads I wipe quickly eats up SSD space. (Unless there's a way to configure so they download to an external drive...)

 

[MacNB2]

The fact that it's a wifi card with "AX" on the end of its name probably. 🙄

Good luck getting AX connectivity.

 

[K two]

For all those endeavouring to upgrade macOS and/or OCLP please read and understand the three(3) CHANGELOGs on this link! 🧐 https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/releases/tag/1.4.2

 

[webg3]

i'm very sorry to bother you again and again with my annoying questions, but to come back to my windows 11 installation mess i first want to check what's probably wrong with my primary setup regarding partitions and efi.

here's a screenshot of my partiitions - the selected 2gb fat32 partition is the one i created as recommended here:

https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/WINDOWS.html#installation-process

i hope that's fine

View attachment 2358971


next comes a screenshot of an overview of the content of the efi folder in this dedicated opencore partition:



View attachment 2358973



and finally a screenhot of the mac's own efi partition content - this must have been created when installing windows



View attachment 2358974


before starting to try to install windows again, i want to clean this up -

i think there shouldn't be any content in the mac's own efi partition, right?
respectively the "windows" stuff here maybe should be deleted since it's just some leftover of the latest unsuccesful installation attempt, and doesn't refer to anything that makes sense, right?

what should i do?

THANK YOU!!!

Before trying to dualboot, first check if your device is compatible with Bootcamp and versions of Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 and lastly, check if it is compatible with UEFI or Legacy mode (hybrid MBR/GPT) , also inform which model of Apple equipment you are trying to install this on as without this information it is impossible to deduce what you are doing wrong.

 

[webg3]

How did you bypass the Windows 11 checking?

Try >
How to Bypass Windows 11's TPM, CPU and RAM Requirements

 

[trifero]

Try >
How to Bypass Windows 11's TPM, CPU and RAM Requirements

I followed another method. Just edited the file "appraiserres.dll" and left it blank. That´s all it´s needed.

 

[muhal44]

I followed another method. Just edited the file "appraiserres.dll" and left it blank. That´s all it´s needed.

To make this issue quite easy, you can prepare an installation USB with Rufus.

 

[OKonnel]

I have a late 2009 iMac running 14.3, it has a 500gb hd and 8gb of ram, it runs sonoma fine, a little slow opening apps likely because of the rotational hd, but is very tolerable and usable. As far as my mid 2010 7,1 MacBook pro, it has a 500gb ssd and 8gb of ram and it runs sonoma excellent. I had it running monterey which ran nicely on it and so far sonoma seems to be about the same. I am happy I have it installed. If you decide to do it you will need a 2.0 usb dock and a wired keyboard and mouse to finish the install with the post install patches to get keyboard and mouse function back as well as the keyboard backlighting. Once the post install patches are installed it works normally.

Thank you @chevyboy60013 ! But do the modern apps work with Sonoma and the MBP 13” 7,1 (mid 2010)?... For example, I am especially interested to know if AppleTV and Photos work.
Maybe if you can also tell me about Continuity Camera, LiveText, Remove Background.
I guess you have to use the "non-Metal" versions of iMovie, MSOffice, etc. anyway.
Thanks also to other friends who can answer for sure and experienced by themselves.

 

[pepepro]

Before trying to dualboot, first check if your device is compatible with Bootcamp and versions of Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 and lastly, check if it is compatible with UEFI or Legacy mode (hybrid MBR/GPT) , also inform which model of Apple equipment you are trying to install this on as without this information it is impossible to deduce what you are doing wrong.

thank you webg3 for your reply!

a few days ago i placed my first post here on this topic. it was more or less the following:

thanks to (fantastic) oclp i've now a working sonoma system on a 2013 macbook pro. additionally - like on my former system - i now was trying to configure bootcamp and install windows 11 on a second partition. but i just succeeded in installing windows 8.1 - even upgrading this nice working os to windows 10 or 11 didn't work (i have a patched, with rufus generated installer that overcomes the latest windows 11 hardware requirements and so on). there were always - at one of the last installation steps (after some necessary reboots during installation) - blue-screens that - after rebooting again and trying to finalize the installation - prevented a successful end. in my first attempts i tried to install windows 11 and then 10 right from the beginning, but also then i had these annoying blue-screens short before a succesful complete installation. as mentioned before, i had a nicely working bootcamp system on a different ssd - just with big sur as primary and windows 11 as secondary os. the only difference in hardware to now is just the new ssd (crucial t500) and a new nvme adapter that supports this new ssd. and in software the new os (sonoma vs big sur)

so i have i macbook pro 11,1 (late 2013), 8gb ram, a new crucial t500 ssd, and a new RIITOP NVMe SSD Upgrade Adapter for Mac.

any ideas?

THANK YOU!!

 

[trifero]

Once again, thanks, developers and everybody implicated, for this OCLP version. Rock solid.

 

[houser]

Once again, thanks, developers and everydody implicated, for this OCLP version. Rock solid.

I was not going to jinx it but since you started Yes, this combo of OCLP 1.4.2 and Sonoma 14.4 is so far probably the best combo I have used since the OCLP era began. AFAIK, it has solved all the niggling issues I had. The one thing that I notice still does not work is screen mirroring to an Apple TV 4K and that might well have nothing to do with OCLP.

 

[gatd4]

im having major troubles mounting my internal 2x raid drives with oclp on 14.4 5.1 mp it will either mount to the desktop one or the other but not both on restart

thanks

 

[Ready-for-Apple]

"Allow connection of accessories" (or how it's called in English) is missing ⁉️
🤔 Is this a issue to OCLP or to our Intel Macs?




By the way, I also have this phenomenon that an entry is missing on my Intel MacBook patched with OCLP in another place. I just can't remember what it was at the moment... I'll add it when I remember.

 

[chevyboy60013]

Thank you @chevyboy60013 ! But do the modern apps work with Sonoma and the MBP 13” 7,1 (mid 2010)?... For example, I am especially interested to know if AppleTV and Photos work.
Maybe if you can also tell me about Continuity Camera, LiveText, Remove Background.
I guess you have to use the "non-Metal" versions of iMovie, MSOffice, etc. anyway.
Thanks also to other friends who can answer for sure and experienced by themselves.

I use the apple version of ms office and that works fine. I use the photos app, since I have an iPhone and iPad and photos seem to work ok.

 

[iMac-Oldschool]

"Allow connection of accessories" (or how it's called in English) is missing ⁉️
🤔 Is this a issue to OCLP or to our Intel Macs?

View attachment 2359273 View attachment 2359272


By the way, I also have this phenomenon that an entry is missing on my Intel MacBook patched with OCLP in another place. I just can't remember what it was at the moment... I'll add it when I remember.

The macOS user guide states that this is an Apple Silicon feature. iMac 2012 running Catalina natively without OCLP does not appear to have this feature, so it's probably not related to the patcher.