macOS High Sierra (10.13) Unsupported Macs Thread

[TimothyR734]

Question. After taking the macOS 10.13.5 on my mid-2009 MacBook, my iSight camera has disappeared. Any ideas? Reinstalling patches and rebooting haven't worked so far.

maybe this will work ????

 

[sgtaylor5]

Hi sgtaylor5. Ive examined the MacbookPro5,2_backup.bin and it is only 4.2MB in size and wondering if it was created completely and correctly when I ran the APFS Rom installer. Is there a way of confirming if the backup file is complete before restoring it to my laptop. Just hesitating as I dont want to brick it again. What do you recommend?

This is the exact size of the file that worked on my MacBook Pro 5,2 17". Hope this helps.

 

[Gunner12]

View attachment 767760

This is the exact size of the file that worked on my MacBook Pro 5,2 17". Hope this helps.

Great. This is the same size as my backup file. Thanks for your help & will restore my MacBook Pro back to its original firmware.

 

[Erikstoffer]

What's the news on macOS 10.14?
Is it going to be supported here?

 

[TimothyR734]

there is a MacOS Mojave unsupported Mac thread

 

[Erikstoffer]

there is a MacOS Mojave unsupported Mac thread

thanks

 

[Gunner12]

View attachment 767760

This is the exact size of the file that worked on my MacBook Pro 5,2 17". Hope this helps.

Hi sgtaylor5. I followed through and ran RomTool and the backup file. Got screen message that it was successful. My next step was to reboot laptop to see if it worked ok. This is where I got back to the previous 'bricked' situation. The screen in black and cannot boot/no chime. Noticed when I reset SMC it worked, so keyboard work but no backlight on. Put a CD in and it makes cd read noise but CD won't eject. So cannot boot laptop. Any ideas to get laptop to boot?

 

[TimothyR734]

Hi sgtaylor5. I followed through and ran RomTool and the backup file. Got screen message that it was successful. My next step was to reboot laptop to see if it worked ok. This is where I got back to the previous 'bricked' situation. The screen in black and cannot boot/no chime. Noticed when I reset SMC it worked, so keyboard work but no backlight on. Put a CD in and it makes cd read noise but CD won't eject. So cannot boot laptop. Any ideas to get laptop to boot?

you could try holding the command and E key while booting up or hold your left mouse button down

 

[Gunner12]

you could try holding the command and E key while booting up or hold your left mouse button down

Hi TimothyR734. Thanks for help, tried your suggestion but laptop won't start. No chime & black screen but the CD I inserted spins for awhile then stops. Not sure if the keyboard is working after restore of original ROM. Not sure next thing to try?

 

[TimothyR734]

Hi TimothyR734. Thanks for help, tried your suggestion but laptop won't start. No chime & black screen but the CD I inserted spins for awhile then stops. Not sure if the keyboard is working after restore of original ROM. Not sure next thing to try?

did you try holding down the command option P and R keys while booting up

 

[Surgeon One]

How does one test for the reason for a kernel panic.
I have only been able to update my Mid 2009 MacBook Pro up to 10.13.1....if I try to upgrade to any of the other versions (even up to 10.13.5) using the patcher, I get a kernel panic and it keeps rebooting. If I wait long enough, it will boot up to BootRunner (the most current version is installed v3.0.2) but I will have no recognized input from the Bluetooth mouse, keyboard, or tracking pad.....?! Even with BootRunner disabled, I get the same exact thing...

If I try to revert to 10.13.1 using a patched USB....it takes for ever to try to boot from the usb key without success...shows the temperature bar complete, but still appears to be booting....I am only saved by my time capsule restore (back to 10.13.1).....

Any suggestions?

I'm really confused by not being able to boot from the patched 10.13.1 key, but able to boot from the 10.13.5 key? And, yes, I have done PRAM reset, SMC reset, etc., etc....they just make it worse. Then it does PRAM reset chimes every time it boots in the endless boot....

Thanks in advance for your collective efforts!

~Eric

 

[TimothyR734]

did you try dosdude's High Sierra patcher tool on the first page of this thread and if so did you install the post install patches

 

[Gunner12]

did you try holding down the command option P and R keys while booting up

Yep. Reset of PRAM & SMC did not work.

 

[TimothyR734]

maybe try a paper clip around the edges of the DVD player until you hit the eject mechanism then power on your Mac it sounds like its try to boot from the dvd

 

[Surgeon One]

Yeppers....Apologies in advance...I thought I made that clear.

I have used the patcher to create the USB key AND I have applied the post install patcher (v2.6.2). AND reapplied the patch Ad nauseam all to no avail. I have even tried reinstalling from the USB key at least thrice in a row without much success...the only version that installed withOUT an issue was 10.13.1...no-go after that version. Even is I allow the software updater to install the upgrade...I still get the kernel panic...

 

[TimothyR734]

Yeppers....Apologies in advance...I thought I made that clear.

I have used the patcher to create the USB key AND I have applied the post install patcher (v2.6.2). AND reapplied the patch Ad nauseam all to no avail. I have even tried reinstalling from the USB key at least thrice in a row without much success...the only version that installed withOUT an issue was 10.13.1...no-go after that version. Even is I allow the software updater to install the upgrade...I still get the kernel panic...

I am trying to help the best I can as I am a newbie the only other thing I can think is hold the alt/option keys while booting or command R

 

[Surgeon One]

Understood...I gave those a shot as well. While I can boot into the recovery partition without an issue (command-R) I don't have the same joy for the main partition...

 

[TimothyR734]

did you make sure your SIP is disabled and when you applied the post install patches did you check the rebuild caches

 

[Surgeon One]

Yes to both.
I also checked the box to apply the SIP disable check (last option listed in the patch menu).

 

[sgtaylor5]

Just to make it clear, TimothyR734 I'm on Sierra, not High Sierra; that's the only reason why I reflashed my EFI back to normal. My post was simply to let people what happened on my particular MBP.

 

[JulianGray]

Hey all! I'm new to messaging the forum, but have been referencing it since High Sierra first came out. Thanks for all of your hard work! it's been extremely insightful. I'm trying to update my 3,1 mac pro from 10.13.4 to 10.13.5. I understand there are some new elements that make 13.5 a bigger hurdle than the other incremental updates. can someone walk me through the process of upgrading to 10.13.5? SIP disabled and running a 3rd party gpu with no native support until the OS boots. Thank you!

Spec:
Mac Pro 3,1 (Early 2008)
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
250GB ssd (boot drive) HFS as far as I can tell.
32 GB 667MHz DDR2 Memory
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1023 MB

 

[sirNemanjapro]

Is there a way to get the Broadcom WiFi to work?

#5227

 

[macdos]

Hey all! I'm new to messaging the forum, but have been referencing it since High Sierra first came out. Thanks for all of your hard work! it's been extremely insightful. I'm trying to update my 3,1 mac pro from 10.13.4 to 10.13.5. I understand there are some new elements that make 13.5 a bigger hurdle than the other incremental updates. can someone walk me through the process of upgrading to 10.13.5? SIP disabled and running a 3rd party gpu with no native support until the OS boots. Thank you!

Spec:
Mac Pro 3,1 (Early 2008)
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
250GB ssd (boot drive) HFS as far as I can tell.
32 GB 667MHz DDR2 Memory
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti 1023 MB

10.13.5 installs fine on cMP 3,1, although it seems to stop for a while at the end of the installation.

However, if you have HD 7950 gfx card, you cannot get 4k resolution after 10.13.3 for some reason. Dunno if this is true with other cards.

All hope is now with the masters to get Mojave to work with cMP 3,1 with an SSE4.2 emulator. That would also fix the need to use Sierra drivers.

 

[TimothyR734]

for those interested I came across an article in mackungfu.org Apple included a preview of dark mode in MacOS High Sierra called NSWindowDarkChocolate make sure you have have dark mode on the dock and menu bar in settings -general then open a terminal defaults write -g NSWindowDarkChocolate -bool TRUE you might have to go to mackungfu and copy and paste it to the terminal to get it to work but the only issue I have is somethings are unreadable

 

[JulianGray]

10.13.5 installs fine on cMP 3,1, although it seems to stop for a while at the end of the installation.

However, if you have HD 7950 gfx card, you cannot get 4k resolution after 10.13.3 for some reason. Dunno if this is true with other cards.

All hope is now with the masters to get Mojave to work with cMP 3,1 with an SSE4.2 emulator. That would also fix the need to use Sierra drivers.

Is that a clean install or a native upgrade within mac os?