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macOS 14 Sonoma on Unsupported Macs Thread

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Sven G said:
OCLP and macOS 14 Sonoma:

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macOS Sonoma and OpenCore Legacy Patcher Support · Issue #1076 · dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher

With the unveiling of macOS 14, Sonoma, Apple has continued their march towards removal of older Intel Macs. And with this, many more critical drivers used by our older systems have been changed or...
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Wow the fact that this much has been looked into already is amazing all credit to OCLP team .
I’m all for there being no OCLP support for the average user and it a private resource and to testers if they need it for a computer they don’t have until actual release. The proof of concept pictures are nice to see though Ventura runs great and if they get anywhere near that no doubt it will be a insane amount of up hill struggle that they take on with the ever growing list of unsupported models so in no small terms thank you for taking on that task when you don’t have to.
 
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TOM1211 said:
Wow the fact that this much has been looked into already is amazing all credit to OCLP team .
I’m all for there being no OCLP support for the average user and it a private resource and to testers if they need it for a computer they don’t have until actual release. The proof of concept pictures are nice to see though Ventura runs great and if they get anywhere near that no doubt it will be a insane amount of up hill struggle that they take on with the ever growing list of unsupported models so in no small terms thank you for taking on that task when you don’t have to.
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Seems the recently deprecated models are almost there already
 
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Early days but happy to report 14.0b1 also running rather well on my cMP 5,1, including AMD post-patching. Needed to use the latest nightly OCLP to get past the NVMe installer progress stalls. Only issues are no BT/Wifi, as others have mentioned, and some software vendors needing to update their apps to run on Sonoma. You can get around the scrambled green desktop wallpaper by using a plain colour background in the meantime. I noticed that images within PDFs opened with Preview are also scrambled in green. However, overall optimism that we'll get one more OS update on our trusty old Macs. Thanks to the OCLP team!
 
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C2D Penryn success!
Got my MacBook Pro 7,1 up and booting Sonoma from external USB flash drive, used OCLP version 0.6.7 for this test.
Currently, USB1.1 (trackpad/kbd) and sound/audio works, BT & Wifi does not (yet).

edit: MacBook Pro 8,1 (i5) also capable of booting into Sonoma. Same outcome as with the 7,1, except that even frame buffer for the Intel graphics is missing (3MB). On the 7,1 Nvidia shows up with the 256MB of buffer size.

edit2: MacBook 7,1 (non-pro, white polycarb unibody) also working same as above, frame buffer for 320M fully shown.

edit3: MacBook Pro 5,1 boots also, even screen backlight is dimmable via function keys. Had to spoof machine type to supported iMac Pro, though. Wifi/BT not working, sound/audio does work.
 

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avro707 said:
Any thoughts of trying something like the RX6600XT, it can be flashed to work properly and recognised by 5,1. It's a fairly fast card as well - uses same power connection as RX580. Makes less heat as well.
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No idea, but would guess there may be others with more experience and knowledge who may be able to offer some guidance. I think there is a better forum with lots of helpful discussion for your video card question. Try searching there. This forum is focused on Sonoma working on unsupported.
 
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Wifi out, applying post-install root patches, is difficult.
 

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TehFalcon said:
just install like normal from a USB as if its supported? or did you need to use OCLP or something?
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I didn't use any root patches all I did was spoof the OpenCore boot USB to think it was a 15,2 instead of 14,2 and it worked. Again, only touchID and WiFi don't work. I made an install disk with createinstallmedia and then used OCLP to patch the USB.
 
C2D again, this time the MacBook Pro 4,1 (in my case with 6GB RAM, 17" glossy LED backlit screen), boots Sonoma just fine. Sound works, backlight control works (!), mouse&keyboard work (so USB1.1 seems fine). Wifi & BT do not work (despite having a previously air-drop and handoff capable replacement module in the miniPCIe slot).
Oh wow, and just while typing this I noticed that the old iSight camera also works with FaceTime. Frame buffer shows all of the 512MB of the 8600MGT. No GPU accel, though - as to be expected at this time.

So, @roysterdoyster, here we might have an extra life with our machines!
 
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C2D again, this time the MacBook Pro 4,1 (in my case with 6GB RAM, 17" glossy LED backlit screen), boots Sonoma just fine. Sound works, backlight control works (!), mouse&keyboard work (so USB1.1 seems fine). Wifi & BT do not work (despite having a previously air-drop and handoff capable replacement module in the miniPCIe slot).
Oh wow, and just while typing this I noticed that the old iSight camera also works with FaceTime. Frame buffer shows all of the 512MB of the 8600MGT. No GPU accel, though - as to be expected at this time.

So, @roysterdoyster, here we might have an extra life with our machines!
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The real challenge here is getting non-Metal acceleration and 3802 based Metal GPUs.
Oh, and also a proper WiFi fix since this one I've found is not a good approach.

But does look promising anyways!
 
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Booted with latest nightly and root patches! Won't test further because of the rendering issue (can test experimental patches if you want as this Mac is only used for testing), but everything seems to be working! Awesome!
 

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