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macOS High Sierra (10.13) Unsupported Macs Thread
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FYI, I have confirmed that the current macOS High Sierra Patcher 2.6.2 release produces a fully usable patched High Sierra 10.13.5 full installer which produces the expected patchable 10.13.5 recovery partition.
[doublepost=1527885738][/doublepost]What is the status of support for the recovery partition on apfs volumes under the new patched firmware? Does the macOS High Sierra patcher need to be enhanced to apply an apfs patch on the recovery partition for that to work?
I just updated a MacPro 3,1 with the patched boot rom firmware from a patched 10.13.4 to 10.13.5. It was an unconventional update to be sure. After about 20 minutes, the black update screen stopped with a 2-minutes remaining message, an active cursor, and the fans half roaring. I left it like this for 20 minutes and nothing changed. I powered it down and up and it booted to the normal gray screen with Apple and progress bar which got about 2/3rds across and then it rebooted automatically again and came to the normal Finder. It seems to be working OK. Messages in the Cloud is showing and it says it is downloading/uploading messages.
When I have more time and Apple releases the full 10.13.5 installer, I'll try a new full install from fresh on a new SSD (need more disk space) with the new patcher to see how the recovery partition work.
When I have more time and Apple releases the full 10.13.5 installer, I'll try a new full install from fresh on a new SSD (need more disk space) with the new patcher to see how the recovery partition work.
thank you, I guess tomorrow I'll make a new full installer and try to apply only the recovery partition patch, without reinstalling everything
Not sure I want to try the update with my vintage gear (two Mac 3,1s, one Macbook 5,1) until you guys sort out how to do this without incident.
Same result on MBP 5,3 with the app store update. My process looked to be working correctly before hanging on ~3 min remaining for 15 min before throwing the error and prompting a reboot. Not sure what else was included in the MacOS update or how to verify beyond receipts, but Messages in the Cloud seems to have taken and About This Mac indicates a successfull update. From what I can gather in the Console the errors are all about failures to update the recovery partition and are ignorable (still have not switched to APFS here, for what it's worth).
Every couple of App Store updates have failed on this computer once it went EOL, but I redo an installer flash drive with the tool and update over top of my existing installation and it seems to put everything back in place.
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Yea, I'll hold off a little more until there are more successfull 3,1 upgrades performed, and their procedures...
I just tried building a patched (dosdude1 High Sierra Patcher version 2.6.2 patch tool) 10.13.5 installer on a USB stick using the full version posted by Apple today. No go. The patcher builds the installer as normal but booting a boot-rom patched MP3,1 with Option key pressed does not find the USB installer, so no progress beyond that point.
Tried building a USB installer a second time and same issue. The boot-rom patched MP3,1 does not see the installer USB when started with Option key pressed.
I'm downloading macOSUpdCombo10.13.5.dmg, going to try it on MacBook5,1 running 10.13.4 with patched ROM, already have 10.13.4 USB created with dosdude1 patch tool, in case it need re-patching after installation. Anyone used this method for 10.13.5 update? Please share the steps.
This update install almost fine. The App Store patch is preventing to update recovery partition (to keep it patched state alive), so if Apple's update package contains something for the recovery, the update always hung before the end (2-5 minutes remaining) and the update is missing from the installed updates list, but all of the files are successfully updated.
I just ran the update to 10.3.5 on Mac Pro 3,1.
All seemed to go okay until it hung like the last update with a white clock spinner frozen. Rebooted to the @dosdude1 Patcher/startup drive and reapplied it. All seemed to finish installing okay except for the same message that @ATC got - saying updates were not completed/installed due to script error (probably the recovery drive issue mentioned earlier because App Store also says there is still an update not finished and has not registered the update to 10.3.5 even though 'about this Mac' reads 10.3.5).
Unfortunately now I have somewhat of a disaster with windows and video. Every window that opens, including menus and dialogs flash black areas or flash a few time and and reload once or thrice. Sometimes (like Stickies app) the window opening just keep reloading over and over (drawing like like a web page) until it gets force-quit. VLC plays video (or rather doesn't) in psycho epileptic mode - flashing rapidly back and forth between black and the playlist window while playing audio perfectly.
Tried the rebuild cache option and then kextcache command in terminal but got this (attached text file) screenfull of errors. Seems a lot of issues with Radeon/AMD is probably the cause of it all, but its pretty much Greek to me - maybe it makes sense to someone here? Gonna go back to my cloned drive in the meantime because this is all a bit crazy and I have work to do
Maybe the patcher/startup drive needs to update or be rebuilt with new apple installer before re-applying the @dosdude1 patches?
Or something else?
Thnx
(Early 2008/2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon/ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB/20 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM)
All seemed to go okay until it hung like the last update with a white clock spinner frozen. Rebooted to the @dosdude1 Patcher/startup drive and reapplied it. All seemed to finish installing okay except for the same message that @ATC got - saying updates were not completed/installed due to script error (probably the recovery drive issue mentioned earlier because App Store also says there is still an update not finished and has not registered the update to 10.3.5 even though 'about this Mac' reads 10.3.5).
Unfortunately now I have somewhat of a disaster with windows and video. Every window that opens, including menus and dialogs flash black areas or flash a few time and and reload once or thrice. Sometimes (like Stickies app) the window opening just keep reloading over and over (drawing like like a web page) until it gets force-quit. VLC plays video (or rather doesn't) in psycho epileptic mode - flashing rapidly back and forth between black and the playlist window while playing audio perfectly.
Tried the rebuild cache option and then kextcache command in terminal but got this (attached text file) screenfull of errors. Seems a lot of issues with Radeon/AMD is probably the cause of it all, but its pretty much Greek to me - maybe it makes sense to someone here? Gonna go back to my cloned drive in the meantime because this is all a bit crazy and I have work to do
Maybe the patcher/startup drive needs to update or be rebuilt with new apple installer before re-applying the @dosdude1 patches?
Or something else?
Thnx
(Early 2008/2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon/ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB/20 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM)
IMO, the best 10.13.5 upgrade route to take for the MP3,1 that guarantees a successful OS/Recovery update is to recreate a 10.13.5 USB installer using the HS patcher tool and install over the current OS without wiping. On restart, boot again from the USB installer and modify PlatformSupport.plist in the Preboot (if you don't wish to use the APFS boot patch) and Recovery volumes to include the board id and mac model then unmount the volumes after which you will run the macOS Post install patches then restart.
Once logged in, run Onyx and restart again and let the mds workers do their thing. You will have to setup your networking and computer name settings again.. everything else remains untouched.
Profit!
Edit: The above process took 30 minutes while it took 36 minutes to update my supported MBA 2012 as a firmware update was carried out.
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What happens if you try to flash the Ubuntu 18.04 live iso using Etcher onto a usb memory stick? Does that show up as an efi boot device?
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You shouldn't need to run Onyx on the Mac Pro 3,1 if you used the patched 10.13.5 full installer and reapply the patches after installation.
I needed to use Onyx as I was experiencing a lot of freezes and hangs ... not sure whether this was related to APFS or the re-installation.. the end result was that it addressed freezes/hangs.
What is Onyx and it's purpose in upgrading to 10.13.5? Is it absolutely necessary or just makes things easier/cleaner?
You can read about Onyx https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html and its use is recommended for resolving certain hangs/freezes/errors that occur after updates/upgrades or as general maintenance.
I just check all maintenance options and let it run. Just make sure you save any work before running it as it closes open apps.
I just check all maintenance options and let it run. Just make sure you save any work before running it as it closes open apps.
Just re-install the AMD Video Card Patch using the Patch Updater tool, and that should get rid of video issues.I just ran the update to 10.3.5 on Mac Pro 3,1.
All seemed to go okay until it hung like the last update with a white clock spinner frozen. Rebooted to the @dosdude1 Patcher/startup drive and reapplied it. All seemed to finish installing okay except for the same message that @ATC got - saying updates were not completed/installed due to script error (probably the recovery drive issue mentioned earlier because App Store also says there is still an update not finished and has not registered the update to 10.3.5 even though 'about this Mac' reads 10.3.5).
Unfortunately now I have somewhat of a disaster with windows and video. Every window that opens, including menus and dialogs flash black areas or flash a few time and and reload once or thrice. Sometimes (like Stickies app) the window opening just keep reloading over and over (drawing like like a web page) until it gets force-quit. VLC plays video (or rather doesn't) in psycho epileptic mode - flashing rapidly back and forth between black and the playlist window while playing audio perfectly.
Tried the rebuild cache option and then kextcache command in terminal but got this (attached text file) screenfull of errors. Seems a lot of issues with Radeon/AMD is probably the cause of it all, but its pretty much Greek to me - maybe it makes sense to someone here? Gonna go back to my cloned drive in the meantime because this is all a bit crazy and I have work to do
Maybe the patcher/startup drive needs to update or be rebuilt with new apple installer before re-applying the @dosdude1 patches?
Or something else?
Thnx
(Early 2008/2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon/ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB/20 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM)
Are you aware of a method to cleanly install the update to 10.13.5 yet that doesn’t require essentially doing a complete reinstall method as if we were installing on a new system?
Also without the error others are reporting regarding the restore partition.
I understand that files and such remain if we do an in place installation. But it would be nice to be able to just do a combo update or App Store style update (either/or).
I did read in the other thread that 10.13.5 does apparently also try to do another update of the firmware (newer than the 10.13.4 firmware update).
I have the iMac in my signature that I’m planning to update after I do a backup. It’s a 9,1 iMac if my memory serves. Sleep deprived at the moment. Longer night than usual, and I’m not in front of the machine.
Does anyone know how I can get my audio working again on an iMac 7,1 I updated to 10.13.5 and reinstalled the Post Install Patch but accidentally installed the volume patch for iMac 8,1 and now I cannot get any audio on my Mac. Would be glad if anyone has any idea how I can restore my audio back, made a stupid error during reapplying the post install and created an unnecessary problem.
Moreover I am not even seeing internal speakers under the System Preferences sound menu, just something about Apowersoft. This sucks big time.
(Got the issue resolved by reapplying the post install patch, selecting the correct patch options I wanted, selecting rebuild cache, then reboot)
Moreover I am not even seeing internal speakers under the System Preferences sound menu, just something about Apowersoft. This sucks big time.
(Got the issue resolved by reapplying the post install patch, selecting the correct patch options I wanted, selecting rebuild cache, then reboot)
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(Sorry, my answer was incorrect. I have to take it back. Somewhere in this forum Dosdude1 has described the right procedure for uninstalling a patch.)
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