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Im no longer able to boot into my recovery partition. Holding down alt button shows disk, but when i try and boot the recovery drive it switches to the "Stop Sign" no disk found logo.

Any idea if this may be related to running Sierra on my unsupported imac?
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mew.ka said:
Just read about the issue somewhere: Simply type your admin password and enter should do the trick. Don't know if it works but even if it doesn't, it sounds harmless.

Cheers
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yeah I can get in but sadly it happens every time my computer starts up
 
bmue5 said:
I can't boot from patched USB media anymore. There's also the prohibited sign...
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Are you sure your USB media was created using dosdude1's patcher? When booting, you hold the option key? Sorry if these are simple questions. Sometimes simple things are overlooked.
 
I'm getting the same issue. I created the USB stick using dosdude1's patcher and successfully installed 10.12.0 a few months ago. I've since upgraded to 10.12.2 via the app store. Just tried using the original USB stick again to get to disk utility and get the no entry sign when holding cmd-R on booting/
 
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Reminder guys - Option key gets you startup manager, CMD+R is to boot from your Recovery partition.

(and you hold the key(s) from power on until you see the Apple logo)

Only way the USB drive would be giving you the forbidden symbol is if it isn't patched.

Likewise for the recovery partition (and why there was an option to patch the recovery partition on dosdude1's post-install patcher). If you can't boot into recovery, you didn't patch the partition.
 
Yep - you're right. Booting from the USB stick still works, but the recovery partition does not. How does one go about patching this partition?
 
I don't know if this has been answered yet. It may be an odd question. I just bought a 2010 Mac Pro, which of course runs Sierra. I want to transfer some of my current 2008 Mac Pro's hard drives to the "new" (to me) 2010 Mac Pro, including my patched installation of Sierra. Will this patched version of Sierra still work on this other Mac, or should I just reinstall or start anew with it? I had this installation set up just the way I like it—it would be a shame to lose it all. Thanks for any help you can give me!

(And I am typing this from the aforementioned patched copy of Sierra on the 2008 Mac Pro, with the USB wireless adapter that still works great! :D )
 
fischersd said:
Run the post install again, select to patch the recovery partition.
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Hi,

Before I saw this answer i had the same though.

Just re-created the install disk using the latest version of the patch tool and a new version of 10.12.2 direct from apple (downloaded form app store on a compatible mac).

I then held the Alt key at startup, selected the USB boot disc just created, then ran the post install patch again.

One of the options related tp the recovery disc. Made sure I had ticked that option.

This allows me to boot in safe mode again and the recovery disc is accessible again.

Will see if this has solved my boot issues.
[doublepost=1483707791][/doublepost]Spoke too soon. I now get an error screen when I try to load the recovery partition. Any ideas dosdude1?
 
celadon said:
I don't know if this has been answered yet. It may be an odd question. I just bought a 2010 Mac Pro, which of course runs Sierra. I want to transfer some of my current 2008 Mac Pro's hard drives to the "new" (to me) 2010 Mac Pro, including my patched installation of Sierra. Will this patched version of Sierra still work on this other Mac, or should I just reinstall or start anew with it? I had this installation set up just the way I like it—it would be a shame to lose it all. Thanks for any help you can give me!

(And I am typing this from the aforementioned patched copy of Sierra on the 2008 Mac Pro, with the USB wireless adapter that still works great! :D )
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Yeah, the patched install drive will boot on a machine that is actually supported. In fact, you won't have to jump through any hoops or disable SIP.
 
My Mac Pro 3.1 (2008) was working fine with 10.12.2 but everything freeze so I have to hard reset (bu pushing and holding on to the power button). Since then i cannot boot up the machine. It will boot half way up the Apple logo and then reboot again as a vicious cycle.

Also try to hold the option and choose the USB drive with the OS X Base System that I created in the first place for the PRE and POST Installation, it also goes half way and reboot continuously.

Advice please.

(EDIT) At this point I am creating another USB Flash drive so see if I can get into Disk Utility instead of booting half way and reboot again on the Mac Pro.

Any other suggestions will be welcome.

(EDIT) Even with the new USB Thumb stick, the MacPro just rebooting continuously even with the new USB thumb stick

(EDIT) Have tried to reset PRAM, nothing happened. Tried safe mode, but it will not enter safe mode. Cannot run diagnostic as it will not go in. The only thing it went in was single user mode. Did a check disk and reboot, still same as it booted to 50% progress, and it will automatically reboot.
 
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foxlet said:
For those who want an UI to switch to AUS in order to get further Sierra updates, now exists AUSEnabler

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After selecting a catalog, just open the App Store and update away!
*Note: The app requires a working internet connection to fetch the latest catalog URLs.

http://swdist.furcode.co/bin/AUSEnabler.zip
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How to rollback this change if needed please? thanks
 
Thanks for all the excellent work on unsupported mac!:)

I'm running sierra 10.12.2 on a Mac Pro 3,1; my initial install was 10.12. then updated to 10.12.2. Booting into recovery i used "csrutil enable --without kext". Thus i have some sip protection. My question is do i need to disable sip completely again before another update? Also, when I login a dialogue box comes up about "SIP Enabled" re usb issues. I'm not experiencing an usb issues. How do i get rid of this dialogue box at login?
 
I recently acquired a early 2009 but the mic won't work any ideas. everything works fine but i can't get the I can't get the internal mic to work its detected but not working the little vo.lume indicator keeps going up and down any ideas would be greatly apriciated.
 
jfcates said:
Thanks for all the excellent work on unsupported mac!:)

I'm running sierra 10.12.2 on a Mac Pro 3,1; my initial install was 10.12. then updated to 10.12.2. Booting into recovery i used "csrutil enable --without kext". Thus i have some sip protection. My question is do i need to disable sip completely again before another update? Also, when I login a dialogue box comes up about "SIP Enabled" re usb issues. I'm not experiencing an usb issues. How do i get rid of this dialogue box at login?
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Just run "sudo rm /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.dd1.SIPLD.plist" in Terminal. That'll make it stop appearing.
 
@dosdude1

We have multiple reports that the newer versions of your tool doesn't allow us to partition and format the drives from with the setup. Is this being looked into. At first when it was just me I thought I was doing something wrong. But now I see others having problems maybe it isn't just me. I see the box that pops up in the lower left corner (by design i guess). But once in the discutil the setup doesn't have permission to partition or format. I had an older version of your tool and didn't run across this issue. I want to say it was 4.0.8, but I'm not 100% sure.
 
TyShawn said:
@dosdude1

We have multiple reports that the newer versions of your tool doesn't allow us to partition and format the drives from with the setup. Is this being looked into. At first when it was just me I thought I was doing something wrong. But now I see others having problems maybe it isn't just me. I see the box that pops up in the lower left corner (by design i guess). But once in the discutil the setup doesn't have permission to partition or format. I had an older version of your tool and didn't run across this issue. I want to say it was 4.0.8, but I'm not 100% sure.
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By "not having permission", what do you mean? People have been having a weird issue where Disk Utility somehow gets "stuck" as an inactive window, and won't allow user interaction... Is this the case with you? I think I do know what may be causing this... The issue is that it's inconsistent, and I haven't been able to replicate the issue on any of my machines.
 
hi, first of all thanks to dosdude1 for his patcher. :)
Someone managed to install "CAT tool" on macbook pro late 08 Sierra 10.12.2? I got an Asus USB-BT400 adapter when I reboot after cat installation my MacBook Pro stucks at 90% Apple loading bar progress. thank you
 
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Hello!

I'm finding that GOOGLE CHROME is very slow recently, specially when loading Google Maps. It is happening to me on my unsupported Macbook Pro (Mid 2009), however if I try in any other Mac there are no problems, Chrome works perfectly.

Is anyone having issues with Chrome is OS Sierra (unsupported Mac)?

My current Chrome version is 55.0.2883.95

Thanks!

Roberto
 
arpajo said:
Hello!

I'm finding that GOOGLE CHROME is very slow recently, specially when loading Google Maps. It is happening to me on my unsupported Macbook Pro (Mid 2009), however if I try in any other Mac there are no problems, Chrome works perfectly.

Is anyone having issues with Chrome is OS Sierra (unsupported Mac)?

My current Chrome version is 55.0.2883.95

Thanks!

Roberto
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well I also have an mid 2009 MacBook Pro and I'm not experiencing such issue. Just tried google maps on chrome and it loads fast and smooth
 
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evertjr said:
well I also have an mid 2009 MacBook Pro and I'm not experiencing such issue. Just tried google maps on chrome and it loads fast and smooth
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I fixed it, it was a problem with my graphics card. Thanks for your reply! ;)
 
dosdude1 said:
By "not having permission", what do you mean? People have been having a weird issue where Disk Utility somehow gets "stuck" as an inactive window, and won't allow user interaction... Is this the case with you? I think I do know what may be causing this... The issue is that it's inconsistent, and I haven't been able to replicate the issue on any of my machines.
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Thank you for the response to my question. The issue we are seeing is the selected drive is grey no matter where you click on the existing partition (if there was one) or the drive itself to create one. The drive can't be modified at all. It's been a few week, but I believe the message was you don't have permission or rights to modify this drive was the message you get when trying to delete, modify, add, or format the drive. My only work around was to load up a Apple bootable drive and make my changes that way. Once I made my changes I was able to use your tool to load the OS without any issues.
 
Hello, I have been using the patcher and it has previously been working however I am stuck on 10.12 Beta 1 and no matter what I do, It will not find any updates even know there should be some. I have reset the catalogs and went to both seed and production but no luck
 
ncrispi said:
Hello, I have been using the patcher and it has previously been working however I am stuck on 10.12 Beta 1 and no matter what I do, It will not find any updates even know there should be some. I have reset the catalogs and went to both seed and production but no luck
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You can't update from a beta to a final release, you must re-install using a release version.
 
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