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macOS High Sierra (10.13) Unsupported Macs Thread
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First time poster, but long time reader here. I have a MacPro 3,1 with four HDD in the bays and an Apricorn PCI card for my boot Samsung 850. It runs Sierra very well, but is recognized as an external drive. Will I be able to go to HS in APFS, or will I need to use HFS instead? I don’t want to have to put the SSD in one of the bays. Thanks. Oh, and I still have the original graphics card in there so that won’t pose an issue with HS.
Okay, I searched the thread but couldn’t find a reference to this error. Is it a current problem with Apple’s servers, or did I somehow make the install drive incorrectly?
You need to BOOT off the install drive, not run the installer app from there.
Mac Pro 3,1 installed successfully.
But... AMD Radeon HD 7950 -> fan 100% all the time and there is graphical glitch etc..
Boot is slow
I already try to run patcher (post install patch) again and check "Force Cache Rebuild".
Still same issue
This card:
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sapphire/100352MAC2/
I'm in the exact same situation and trying to find a solution. It seems dosdude1 added fixes for some unsupported card like the 7950 last week. It might still need some work.
What filesystem did you use to install? (HFS+, APFS Case-Insensitive, APFS Case-Sensitive, ...?)
Just wanted to say thank you to @dosdude1 and everyone else. Just did the upgrade to the release version of High Sierra.
(the graphic corruption on the 9400m is still there for the large video on the iPhone X page https://images.apple.com/media/us/i...0c34a926a7/overview/primary/hero/large_2x.mp4 )
Now all I need is Nvidia to release a driver that supports High Sierra for the GTX 970 in my Hackintosh.
(the graphic corruption on the 9400m is still there for the large video on the iPhone X page https://images.apple.com/media/us/i...0c34a926a7/overview/primary/hero/large_2x.mp4 )
Now all I need is Nvidia to release a driver that supports High Sierra for the GTX 970 in my Hackintosh.
Ok so after a little digging, I realized that dosdude1's GPU patch only applies to AMDRadeonX3000.kext where as the 7950 (or at least mine, dev id 0x679a) is handled by AMDRadeonX4000.kext.
We might only need to figure out what is being patched on X3000 and apply the same on X4000? Coming from a complete n00b on the matter though
Confirmed.
And I still have not seen anyone post the results from MacBook6,1 for comparison.
I guess the good news though is everything else works perfectly, and even better than some officially supported machines. For example, some people with Retina MacBooks are getting a weird discolouration of drop-down menus, which goes away only after forcing the OS to use the discrete GPU instead of the embedded Intel one.
Just to let you know: After updating from High Sierra beta to High Sierra Final on MBP 5,3 I had to re-apply the NightShift Patch via the Patch Updater App to get NightShift working again.
Try downloading this, cd into the directory after extracting, and run "./install.sh". Reboot, and see if that fixes your video card issue.Ok so after a little digging, I realized that dosdude1's GPU patch only applies to AMDRadeonX3000.kext where as the 7950 (or at least mine, dev id 0x679a) is handled by AMDRadeonX4000.kext.
We might only need to figure out what is being patched on X3000 and apply the same on X4000? Coming from a complete n00b on the matter though
You, my good sir, aren't merely a dude, but you are the man!
Everything is splendid now! Got my video acceleration going, and my system booted in a breeze.
Thanks so much for you help! Just sent you a donation, you deserve it so much. I hope others do the same...
hello,
i've just installed high sierra on my macbook 5,1. everything is fine except app store. when i tried to install some applications it just stuck on downloading (dl did not even start) and when i click to updates tab whole app store freezes. any ideas what might be wrong?
i've just installed high sierra on my macbook 5,1. everything is fine except app store. when i tried to install some applications it just stuck on downloading (dl did not even start) and when i click to updates tab whole app store freezes. any ideas what might be wrong?
A 2009 Mac Pro? That's a Mac Pro 4,1. These Mac Pros can be flashed to 5,1 which are officially supported and can run Sierra and High Sierra. Do that and you won't need to mess around witch patched installers and post-install patches, it'll work out of the box, including natively booting from APFS volumes (you'll get a firmware update from Apple, like all other officially supported machines).
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Thanks dosdude1 for making the tools to mod installer! Been in the hackintosh community for a while and this is much simpler than most of those builds guides and install methods! One caveat is the grey load screen on macbook 5.1 turn to black (im assuming because all grey boot screen macs are no longer supported) at about 3/4 of the way through loading. I am using a hdd not ssd and would still recomend apfs as it does seem to be much faster. I also would like to point out to remember to run kextcache --system-prelinked-kernel when you reach your desktop the first time, as I didn't and second boot hung. If you forget, hold down command+s as it boots to get into single user mode then mount drive as writeable and do it from there. Thanks again!!
I wonder if the Safari garbled colour glitches with nVidia GeForce 9400M are a Metal 2 problem. Ars states that there have been a fair number of windowserver glitches related to this, in videos, webpages, and 3D graphics.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/macos-10-13-high-sierra-the-ars-technica-review/7/#h1
For example, this:
Furthermore, he mentions that some older nVidia machines had been getting kernel panics from Metal 2 in the betas, just from basic but specific OS actions.
https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/877664628775538692
Thus, I am optimistic this will get fixed on Apple's side with a point update to High Sierra.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/macos-10-13-high-sierra-the-ars-technica-review/7/#h1
For example, this:
Furthermore, he mentions that some older nVidia machines had been getting kernel panics from Metal 2 in the betas, just from basic but specific OS actions.
https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/877664628775538692
Thus, I am optimistic this will get fixed on Apple's side with a point update to High Sierra.
Hello to everyone. First of all, thank you dosdude1 for your effort.
I have a problem and I don't know what else can I do:
My device is Macbook 5,1 (13 inch, first aluminium unibody). Currently running Sierra and fully updated using last year's dosdude1 patch.
I have downloaded 2.3.1 version of the tool and 10.13 from a torrent, and tried to create a HDD (a 1tb spare one that I use for that kind of things). HDD is formatted in Mac Os Plus (journaled). I can't find Mac Os "Extended", my language is Spanish but I think it's the same. Partition map is Apple Partition Map.
After patcher recognises the installer and start patching/moving to the HDD, it ask for the password and I write it. After more or less 30%, it crashes (freezes or directly closes suddenly). Some files are written in the HDD.
I've downloaded again the tool, just in case. Also, I've tried a 32 gb usb flashdrive. And for sure, I have re-downloaded the installer from the patcher itself (I didn't do it for the first attempt because I thought it was the beta version). And always the same issue.
This is what appears on verbose:
/dev/disk4 GUID_partition_scheme
/dev/disk4s1 EFI
/dev/disk4s2 Apple_HFS /Volumes/InstallESD
rm: /Volumes/Sin/System/Installation/Packages: Permission denied
cp: /Volumes/Sin/System/Installation/Packages: File exists
cp: /Volumes/InstallESD/Packages: unable to copy extended attributes to /Volumes/Sin/System/Installation/Packages: No such file or directory
cp: /Volumes/Sin/System/Installation/Packages/Core.pkg: No such file or directory
cp: /Volumes/Sin/System/Installation/Packages/EmbeddedOSFirmware.pkg: No such file or directory
cp: /Volumes/Sin/System/Installation/Packages/FirmwareUpdate.pkg: No such file or directory
cp: /Volumes/Sin/System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg: No such file or directory
Just after that, it appears more text, but then it crashes and I can't read it.
I have a problem and I don't know what else can I do:
My device is Macbook 5,1 (13 inch, first aluminium unibody). Currently running Sierra and fully updated using last year's dosdude1 patch.
I have downloaded 2.3.1 version of the tool and 10.13 from a torrent, and tried to create a HDD (a 1tb spare one that I use for that kind of things). HDD is formatted in Mac Os Plus (journaled). I can't find Mac Os "Extended", my language is Spanish but I think it's the same. Partition map is Apple Partition Map.
After patcher recognises the installer and start patching/moving to the HDD, it ask for the password and I write it. After more or less 30%, it crashes (freezes or directly closes suddenly). Some files are written in the HDD.
I've downloaded again the tool, just in case. Also, I've tried a 32 gb usb flashdrive. And for sure, I have re-downloaded the installer from the patcher itself (I didn't do it for the first attempt because I thought it was the beta version). And always the same issue.
This is what appears on verbose:
/dev/disk4 GUID_partition_scheme
/dev/disk4s1 EFI
/dev/disk4s2 Apple_HFS /Volumes/InstallESD
rm: /Volumes/Sin/System/Installation/Packages: Permission denied
cp: /Volumes/Sin/System/Installation/Packages: File exists
cp: /Volumes/InstallESD/Packages: unable to copy extended attributes to /Volumes/Sin/System/Installation/Packages: No such file or directory
cp: /Volumes/Sin/System/Installation/Packages/Core.pkg: No such file or directory
cp: /Volumes/Sin/System/Installation/Packages/EmbeddedOSFirmware.pkg: No such file or directory
cp: /Volumes/Sin/System/Installation/Packages/FirmwareUpdate.pkg: No such file or directory
cp: /Volumes/Sin/System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg: No such file or directory
Just after that, it appears more text, but then it crashes and I can't read it.
I want to thank all of you who have worked for months to make this happen for our old Macs.
I was able to install High Sierra today on my Mid 2009 MacBook Pro 5.4. It seems to be working fine.
I had a scare after the installation. The computer was not detecting my USB drive after the install and would not boot to my internal drive. I plugged in another external drive that had a bootable copy of Sierra on it thinking I was going to have to start over from scratch. It recognized that drive. So then I reinserted the USB drive. It then recognized it and I was able to reboot and install the patches without starting over.
I was able to install High Sierra today on my Mid 2009 MacBook Pro 5.4. It seems to be working fine.
I had a scare after the installation. The computer was not detecting my USB drive after the install and would not boot to my internal drive. I plugged in another external drive that had a bootable copy of Sierra on it thinking I was going to have to start over from scratch. It recognized that drive. So then I reinserted the USB drive. It then recognized it and I was able to reboot and install the patches without starting over.
I have the same machine and I believe you want to use guid partition map on the installer drive. It also could be the installer you torrented because the patch works fine.
Thanks to DosDude1 and all the other ones who made this possible! Running my late 08 from ElCap to Sierra and HighSierra, now without any problems. Everything smooth... glad to have my old buddy (late 08 5,1). Everythin works, night shift is enabled... perfect!
Thank you for answering so fast.
Just tried GUID, same problem. Currently, I'm using the installer directly downloaded from the patcher.
Im trying to install High Sierra on my 2009 Mac Pro, I've upgraded to Firmware 5,1 along with CPU and RAM, but every time I attempt to update the firmware it shuts down and I do as instructed to get the updated Firmware installed however it reboots and nothing. Comes right back to the "shut down" Firmware program. No other error shows up, it remains 10.12.6. '
I have Sonnet Tech Pro which I run my SSD off of, could that be the problem?
I have Sonnet Tech Pro which I run my SSD off of, could that be the problem?
Yes. Put the SSD in an internal bay, and then the firmware update should work.
Time Machine Backup ....
If an existing backup has a HFS+ formatted SSD / HDD and now the HS system has an APFS formatted SSD / HDD, will the restore from time machine revert back to the original format (i.e. HFS+) ? Mahalo.
If an existing backup has a HFS+ formatted SSD / HDD and now the HS system has an APFS formatted SSD / HDD, will the restore from time machine revert back to the original format (i.e. HFS+) ? Mahalo.