OpenCore Legacy Patcher not supporting a Late 2014 Mac mini?

[DominikHoffmann]

I have a Late 2014 Mac mini (Macmini7,1). According to the OpenCore Legacy Patcher Supported Models page, Macmini7,1 is not even included in the tables. Is this, because

1. No one has contributed details and testing results for this model, or
2. the Late 2014 Mac mini has certain hardware peculiarities that make supporting it with OpenCore Legacy Patcher particularly difficult?

This model is the newest Mac mini not being able to have Ventura on it out of the box. I always thought the more recent models could be more easily hacked to install an unsupported newer version of macOS.

I was hoping to be able to install Ventura on it, but can’t figure it out. If anyone has suggestions, I would be most grateful.

 

[gilby101]

Macmini7,1 is not even included in the tables.

That is because OCLP only supports Monterey and the Mac mini 7.1 doesn't need OCLP for Monterey.

There are a group working on OCLP for Ventura, but it is only partially working and certainly not supported.