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macOS High Sierra (10.13) Unsupported Macs Thread

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@pietrogregorini I don't have the exact same MacBook as you, but I do have a mid 2009 5,2 MacBook with an NVidia GeForce 9400M GPU. I have not experienced any issues at all with High Sierra and my 9400M. Hope this helps you!
 
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CregoryNootinger said:
@pietrogregorini I don't have the exact same MacBook as you, but I do have a mid 2009 5,2 MacBook with an NVidia GeForce 9400M GPU. I have not experienced any issues at all with High Sierra and my 9400M. Hope this helps you!
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Thank you so much! Sure it helps, since I’m a graphic designer, that’s my first concern ;)

What about APFS? Does it really bring improvements in real-life terms?

@dosdude1 Any way to make that APFS boot more clean-up?
 
Hello. Can someone help me with boot issue? I have MacBook 5.2, with two partitions, one - Snow Leopard (for playing some old games), and on two I installed High Sierra, thanks to unsupported mac patch. First time I installed HS on HFS file system, all went good, system booting perfectly. After that, I reinstalled HS with APFS (no encryption), and it won't boot now. I patched the partition with High Sierra Patcher, but it doesn't work. All I get, that Snow Leopard boot, but HS partition won't show, then I press the option key at the boot menu. What I need to do, is there some way to get HS booting, or I need to format the hard drive and reinstall it?
 
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Hello. Can someone help me with boot issue? I have MacBook 5.2, with two partitions, one - Snow Leopard (for playing some old games), and on two I installed High Sierra, thanks to unsupported mac patch. First time I installed HS on HFS file system, all went good, system booting perfectly. After that, I reinstalled HS with APFS (no encryption), and it won't boot now. I patched the partition with High Sierra Patcher, but it doesn't work. All I get, that Snow Leopard boot, but HS partition won't show, then I press the option key at the boot menu. What I need to do, is there some way to get HS booting, or I need to format the hard drive and reinstall it?
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Hi, I had the same problem, just reinstall High Sierra again, don't delete or format anything, just reinstall it on the same APFS partition. You might nee to apply APFS patch again after that, but it should help.
 
Running a 5.1 MacBook.

Have completed a clean install, and the audio drivers don't appear to be loading. The volume in the menu bar is greyed out and the system log notes:

Nov 18 13:32:55 Jons-MacBook com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.audio.coreaudiod): Service only ran for 1 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 9 seconds.
Nov 18 13:33:04 Jons-MacBook com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.audio.coreaudiod[1323]): Service exited due to signal: Segmentation fault: 11 sent by exc handler[0]​

Have tried to re-install the patches - but no dice. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
 
Herde said:
Running a 5.1 MacBook.

Have completed a clean install, and the audio drivers don't appear to be loading. The volume in the menu bar is greyed out and the system log notes:

Nov 18 13:32:55 Jons-MacBook com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.audio.coreaudiod): Service only ran for 1 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 9 seconds.
Nov 18 13:33:04 Jons-MacBook com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.audio.coreaudiod[1323]): Service exited due to signal: Segmentation fault: 11 sent by exc handler[0]​

Have tried to re-install the patches - but no dice. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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A trick for young players... Turns out Rogue Amoeba's version of Instant On for ElCap plays very badly with coreaudio in High Sierra - saw a ref to rogue amoeba in the system log, so started rooting out the application. The instant on plug in is located here: /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/

There is also a pref list as well. Given it is now working, I will try and re-install and see how it goes.
 
pietrogregorini said:
Thank you so much! Sure it helps, since I’m a graphic designer, that’s my first concern ;)

What about APFS? Does it really bring improvements in real-life terms?

@dosdude1 Any way to make that APFS boot more clean-up?
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I wish I could help you with the APFS, even though I do use it. I know you really only see improvements on SSDs, and I have the original hard drive that came with my MacBook. I plan on getting an SSD at some point, though. I did, however, look it up and there were a few websites saying that they saw improvements on both more free space and faster boot times. So that would be enough for me to believe that it works. I also went to the @dosdude1 macOS High Sierra Patcher website, and he even says that "If you decide to use APFS, a custom booting method will be installed by the post-install tool, as the firmware of these unsupported machines does not natively support booting from APFS volumes. It is not quite as clean as native booting, but will not cause any issues while running High Sierra." So what I get from this is that there is no way (at least at the moment) to get rid of the black screen with text on boot up.
 
CregoryNootinger said:
I wish I could help you with the APFS, even though I do use it. I know you really only see improvements on SSDs, and I have the original hard drive that came with my MacBook. I plan on getting an SSD at some point, though. I did, however, look it up and there were a few websites saying that they saw improvements on both more free space and faster boot times. So that would be enough for me to believe that it works. I also went to the @dosdude1 macOS High Sierra Patcher website, and he even says that "If you decide to use APFS, a custom booting method will be installed by the post-install tool, as the firmware of these unsupported machines does not natively support booting from APFS volumes. It is not quite as clean as native booting, but will not cause any issues while running High Sierra." So what I get from this is that there is no way (at least at the moment) to get rid of the black screen with text on boot up.
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Actually I pumped up my MBP yet years ago with an SSD and 8GB RAM and it feels like reborn. So, it would make sense to update to APFS, just that I can't help about that verbose booting mode. I know, here is where it lies the difference between a developer and a graphic designer... :D

[doublepost=1511026334][/doublepost]I don't know if something like this could be modified or implemented to make a custom booting mode for APFS with classic Apple logo and status bar, just wondering... http://refit.sourceforge.net

Of course, personally, I can't even understand where I should put my hands.
 
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Hi, hope you’re well, firstly thanks so much for the patch! Worked like a dream on my MacBook Pro 13” Mid-2009 also fixed the Safari sync with all iCloud devices bug that El Capitan messed up...I tried using the same memory stick with the patched macOS High Sierra to install on my other MacBook Pro early 2009 17” it started and then stopped halfway saying: ‘No packages were found to be installed’ now it’s not booting on my ElCapitan Macintosh HD and is only loading the 13.1 Recovery Image although I can clearly see the Macintosh HD Volume in Disk Utility...won’t boot on it at all...and as a complete cluts I forgot to back up before I did this because it worked so well on the other machine...please help I’ve tried mounting from single user mode tried unlocking file vault with the commands also, just won’t work. In advance thanks really need the data on this drive!
 
Luminoscity said:
Hi, hope you’re well, firstly thanks so much for the patch! Worked like a dream on my MacBook Pro 13” Mid-2009 also fixed the Safari sync with all iCloud devices bug that El Capitan messed up...I tried using the same memory stick with the patched macOS High Sierra to install on my other MacBook Pro early 2009 17” it started and then stopped halfway saying: ‘No packages were found to be installed’ now it’s not booting on my ElCapitan Macintosh HD and is only loading the 13.1 Recovery Image although I can clearly see the Macintosh HD Volume in Disk Utility...won’t boot on it at all...and as a complete cluts I forgot to back up before I did this because it worked so well on the other machine...please help I’ve tried mounting from single user mode tried unlocking file vault with the commands also, just won’t work. In advance thanks really need the data on this drive!
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Check the date and time on the machine, and ensure it's set to the current date. Then, do the High Sierra install again.
 
danica_talos said:
I install GM with all patches and it´s works fine. now, i install the latest build of high sierra over gm and nightshift is now broken. how can i re-install nightshift patch? i have a mbp 5.5.
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I'm using MBP 5,4 with High Sierra 10.13.1 and nightshift working fine. Check dosdude1's patch updater in utilities and use control+mouseclick to reinstall or install nightshift patch, not others for sierra.
 
Thank you very much it worked and installed with the terminal date command prompt!!!
dosdude1 said:
Boot the USB installer drive and use the date command in Terminal.
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CregoryNootinger said:
@pietrogregorini I emailed dosdude1 and he told me there is currently no way to remove the boot-up text, but if he finds a way, he will add it as an update or something.
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Thanks!
 
Hi, experiencing problems with patch on 17” MacBook Pro early 2009, screen very very dim barely visible, auto brightness on off not helping, normal brightness keys show increasing or decreasing brightness but not actually functioning not actually increasing or decreasing screen brightness, have to restart computer every time I put it sleep...please help thanks.

dosdude1 said:
The way downloading the OS is handled appears to have changed for 10.13. Instead of downloading the entire ~5GB app from the App Store, now, the app downloaded is only ~7MB, and when launched, downloads the entirety of the OS. I'm assuming (and hoping) that this is done just to verify that you are actually a registered developer in order to install it. If this is the case, then the public beta (and final release) versions should revert to the traditional download method.
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Luminoscity said:
Hi, experiencing problems with patch on 17” MacBook Pro early 2009, screen very very dim barely visible, auto brightness on off not helping, normal brightness keys show increasing or decreasing brightness but not actually functioning not actually increasing or decreasing screen brightness, have to restart computer every time I put it sleep...please help thanks.
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Try applying the backlight control patch in the post-install tool. Make sure to select "Force Cache Rebuild" before rebooting.
 
Schnegg said:
I'm interested in your experience with the GTX 1060. Which one do you have? Does it run well with the web drivers? How about the noise? Thanks in advance!


Having the same (relatively minor) issues with a MacPro 3,1 and 5770. I am grateful for the wonderful patches from dosdude1, they are awesome! I to experience the red pages in Preview, but these do not occur when using PDF Pen Pro; so is this a graphics card issue or something else?

Another strange behavior noticed.... in Text Edit, Contacts .... opening a file or contact which is lengthy and scrolling to the end of the document does not reach the end. It looks like the document has been truncated, but just resizing the window recalculates the scroll bars and now shows there is more document to scroll....allowing you to scroll through the whole document. It was a bit scary thinking that documents have been damaged; but simply resizing the window fixes the problem. Any ideas?

Again THANK YOU to everyone who helps keep the old MacPro alive until a better solution arrives!!
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dosdude1 said:
I've done a preliminary update to macOS Sierra Patcher, just to add compatibility with the High Sierra installer. Keep in mind nothing else has changed, so I'm not sure if some of the post-install patches still work in High Sierra. Also, for those of you who cannot download a copy of High Sierra, I have a copy available for download here (if this is not allowed, let me know and I'll remove this link). Download "macOS High Sierra Patcher" here.
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Link to High Sierra Patcher missing a 'high'... http://dosdude1.com/sierra/macOS%20High%20Sierra%20Patcher.zip.
 
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