I was able to patch El Capitan on my MacBook Pro 2,2 using skyfly555’s method, though you will need another device capable of running El Capitan (either a real Mac or a hackintosh).
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I could try, but unfortunately I don’t know how to ;-;
Could you guide me on how to do it?
in disk utilty (at least in 10.8), on the upper list you have disk image icon with white pluse. under it it says "new image" it will create a .dmg file copy of partition you choosed on the list, on the left. when done, you upload it on the cloud disk of your choice. there are youtube videos on that if i missed something.
Alright, got it, though since you said you don’t have another El Capitan capable machine to rebuild kextcache I guess I have to give you the already patched version, though from my experience this usually means stuff like the camera doesn’t work properly.
I’ve made the image, however I don’t have any cloud storage that can fit it at the moment, do you have somewhere I can upload it to? The file size is 32GB.
i ended up using hurtkay mods el capitan.dmg file with custom boot.efi file that disable SIP by deafult. also i added kext from first post. its working but i cant install latest working security update because it disables usb kexts for some other reason, gma kexts works. and after trying to do anything with those kexts it give me kernel panic.
Just a quick message :
I just saw that Julian Fairfax has updated his patcher few days ago, so now that I have another MacBook2,1 to repair, I saw if this new version changed something and the answer is yes, now, the used EFI file seems to work perfectly. However, I can't boot my El Capitan Installer on my MacBook2,1 directly, I need to swap the SSD to my MacBook5,2 for the install.
I just saw that Julian Fairfax has updated his patcher few days ago, so now that I have another MacBook2,1 to repair, I saw if this new version changed something and the answer is yes, now, the used EFI file seems to work perfectly. However, I can't boot my El Capitan Installer on my MacBook2,1 directly, I need to swap the SSD to my MacBook5,2 for the install.
Appreciated that! I will try again installing el Capitan
I tried with El Capitan and Yosemite and I can't boot from the USB.(frozen on grey Apple logo). But I installed Mavericks and it works!
Ah great for Mavericks (I've never tried Mavericks, for this on my SSD I installed Mountain Lion wiht the previous version fine) 
, but yeah for El Capitan, it's was also a problem for me ... maybe if you want to retry again, and also for the other people that may read me, maybe try others installers (like the original 10.11, or the official installer from Apple).
, but yeah for El Capitan, it's was also a problem for me ... maybe if you want to retry again, and also for the other people that may read me, maybe try others installers (like the original 10.11, or the official installer from Apple).