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macOS 10.12 Sierra Unsupported Macs Thread

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dosdude1 said:
What exactly happens when using the 10.12.1 installer with my tool? I'm testing it as I'm writing this, and so far it's successfully completed half of the installation process on my iMac 8,1.
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Briefly: the patcher runs, creates bootable USB media, and seems to complete. Booting from USB is fine but the OS installation hangs after the progress bar moves to maybe 5%. Then after awhile it stops and says installation cannot continue. This was on a MacBookPro5,2. I also tried on another MacbookPro5,2 and result was identical. Repeated the entire process starting with a new USB and a fresh download of OS 10.12.1. Results were the same. Thanks for your response. I should have kept the log.
 
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dosdude1 said:
Change the line that reads "if( cpuFeatures == "VMM" )" to "if(1==1)" (making that if statement always true). That will in turn return true on the system check, and allow the package to be installed.
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Thanks a lot! It worked flawlessly and I installed it without any problem.

I used "Flat Package Editor" to do the job btw (extract and inject). It is included with PackageMaker (you can find it in the February 2012 Auxilary Tools for Xcode Pack)
 
Hi, I have sierra installed on my 2008 macbok aluminium 5.1, which was working perfectly until yesterday. Yesterday, I tried installing CAT(Continuity Activation Tool) since I bought an external usb dongle 4.0 LE that supports CAT. After the install finished, the prompt asked if I wanted to check CAT installation on every boot. I chose Yes. After that macbook restarted, and froze at apple logo screen having the status bar get to about 90%. Could not do anything to fix it. Since I had early installation of sierra, I did not have recovery partition. My macbook could not even boot into safe mode. Basically I could not do anything with my mac. Right now, I am burning the macox el capitan image to a flash drive from my windows pc to restore from time machine backup after that. What have I done wrong during my installation of CAT? If I install sierra patch tools latest version, will my safeboot and recovery work in case this thing happens again?
 
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I installed macOS 10.12.1 using dosdude1's tool on my Mac Pro 4,1 with the 5,1 firmware update. Everything went smoothly, however when rebooting to do the post install patches, I was not able to see the Utilities in the bar. Only Languages was in the bar. As such was not able to run the post install patches. Do I need to do something else? Everything seems to be working fine.
 
limpiacristales said:
does the integrated webcam works in your MBP 15"?
mine's gone (when upgraded from snow leopard)
if so, i will do a clean install, as you did.
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Yes, everything is working fine.
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Sedulous said:
Did you try to use Sierra Patcher on OS 10.12 or 10.12.1? I don't think it works on 10.12.1 (even the current patcher v 4.1.9).
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Hello I can confirm that I successfully created a usb bootable from 10.12.1 with dosdude1 tool, performed a cleaned installation and everything works on MBP 15" mid 2009 with ram and ssd upgrade
 
Messages is not working after installation of 10.12.1 with dosdude1 patch tool. Any suggestions
 
wholmes said:
I installed macOS 10.12.1 using dosdude1's tool on my Mac Pro 4,1 with the 5,1 firmware update. Everything went smoothly, however when rebooting to do the post install patches, I was not able to see the Utilities in the bar. Only Languages was in the bar. As such was not able to run the post install patches. Do I need to do something else? Everything seems to be working fine.
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I had same issue, just rebooted and relogged to the usb drive again, and utilities menu became available.
 
axd1152 said:
I had same issue, just rebooted and relogged to the usb drive again, and utilities menu became available.
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I asked dosdude1 about this very same issue. Apparently it is a bug with the installer and not a patcher issue. It certainly is an annoying bug.
 
axd1152 said:
Hi, I have sierra installed on my 2008 macbok aluminium 5.1, which was working perfectly until yesterday. Yesterday, I tried installing CAT(Continuity Activation Tool) since I bought an external usb dongle 4.0 LE that supports CAT. After the install finished, the prompt asked if I wanted to check CAT installation on every boot. I chose Yes. After that macbook restarted, and froze at apple logo screen having the status bar get to about 90%. Could not do anything to fix it. Since I had early installation of sierra, I did not have recovery partition. My macbook could not even boot into safe mode. Basically I could not do anything with my mac. Right now, I am burning the macox el capitan image to a flash drive from my windows pc to restore from time machine backup after that. What have I done wrong during my installation of CAT? If I install sierra patch tools latest version, will my safeboot and recovery work in case this thing happens again?
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Ok, I've reinstalled the sierra using the latest build of the patch tool. The good news is that recovery is now working. But, the bad news is that safe mode is not working. When I hold shift key at startup, I get forbidden sign. Can anyone else confirm that their safe mode is not working?
 
axd1152 said:
I had same issue, just rebooted and relogged to the usb drive again, and utilities menu became available.
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[doublepost=1478691907][/doublepost]I have tried that but still no Utilities, only Languages. Is there any way to get just the Patches program?
[doublepost=1478692464][/doublepost]Is there a way to get Sierra 12.0 installer file? Can only download 12.1 from App Store
 
wholmes said:
[doublepost=1478691907][/doublepost]I have tried that but still no Utilities, only Languages. Is there any way to get just the Patches program?
[doublepost=1478692464][/doublepost]Is there a way to get Sierra 12.0 installer file? Can only download 12.1 from App Store
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You could probably download from torrent trackers.
 
Apple has NO commitment to any OS. They are committed to selling hardware. Dropping OS support for older hardware is proof that they will pull the rug out from under their owners in order to force sales. Instead of their own OS and the organizational overhead of supporting an OS they should only have an in house team dedicated to enabling support for external OS's on their hardware. Hardware sales based on captive software is an out-of-date premise that Apple clings to. The "it isn't economical to support outdated hardware" is BS. Ubuntu supports just about every computer ever made, for FREE. We are way past the point where Apple should have made the right decision. I only ever bought the Mac's when they went to OS x. Now I see no reason to stay with Apple. I can get cheaper hardware with as good as or better software. And I don't have to upgrade just to keep Apple's profit margins up. This support policy is the driver behind Linux OS taking over the world eventually. The installed base just gets bigger and bigger and Apple's OS share percentage shrinks inevitably as time goes on. Apple should have spun off OS x and worked with them as an independent vendor. OS upgrades as a hardware sales strategy is just nasty.
 
@dosdude1 @others :)
Hi, I've got an early 2008 MBP (the black pro model with plastic) and impossible to start the installation of Sierra because when it boots from the USB key, the forbidden sign is always present... So no GUI, no post-install, just the macbook stuck with this sign...

I've red hundred of pages :confused: here and many said that it could be an USB stick problem so I've combined 3 USB sticks models with the last two versions of the patch (4.1.9 / 4.1.8) with 2 differents versions of Sierra Installation (the official build from App Store and the one dosdude1 provides on his webpage) but same result...

Others said that it is possible to 'force' installation with adding the mac model in a .PLIST file (don(t remember the filename) but the model of my MBP is already present (MPB4,1)...

Other ideas please?
 
I do not see why early 2008 MBP should work at all. It is not in table of the first page of this thread.
 
virk said:
I do not see why early 2008 MBP should work at all. It is not in table of the first page of this thread.
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Did I misunderstand something because the model is present in the table as in the dosdude1 webpage : "MacBook Pro(Early 2008/Mid 2008) MacBookPro4,1" ?? you're killing my hopes mate!
 
dosdude1 said:
It's available on my webpage: http://dosdude1.com/sierrapatch.html. The link is in the "Things you need" section.
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Hello dosdude. Many thanks to you, foxlet and everyone else for their work here.

I have a late 2008 MBP 5.1 and am attempting to install Sierra. Using your tools (dosdude MacOS Sierra patch, the post install patch and the foxlet patch to allow updates), for the most part this has worked but I do have some questions and concerns about the security of Mac:

1) In the App Store, the software update macOS Update 10.12.1:
The words "Source: swdist.furcode.co" appear in the update information.

i) Are the updates downloaded from swdist.furcode.co?
ii) The domain furcode.co is registered in Panama and the owner name is hidden. Who does this site belong to and should I trust it?
iii) Elsewhere in this thread "furcode.com" has been mentioned (which sells tags and sw for locating pets). Why does the foxlet app point to furcode.co and not furcode.com?
iv) How do I know these updates are genuine unaltered Apple updates and not modified code that will allow hackers to access my mac?
v) The downloaded macOS Update from Apple is 1.36GB. The one downloaded after the foxlet patch is applied is around 512MB. Why the bug difference in size? It also contains a firmware update. Why is there a firmware update?
vi) When using the previous version of disk utility (manage disk), Little Snitch shows the process systemmigrationd attempting to connect to furcode.co. The corresponding IP addresses are 104.28.8.16, 104.28.9.16 which belong to CloudFlare. What is happening here please?

2) On my MBP 5.1, the camera is no longer working after installing these updates.

Can you, or someone on the forum, please help me with these questions/concerns?
 
oh sh** !!!!! I just realized you may be right. I've always thought the black edition was the pro version but apparently it's not :(
so no other option for me than buying an older macbook... wow... i'm really sad...
 
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