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macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread
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L Caputo
macrumors 6502
Guess the dark artefacts don't show on a dark background try again on a light background, they are still there.
ASentientBot
macrumors 6502a
Just curious, how do you permanently disable SIP? Are you modifying the operating system rather than the variable in NVRAM? It would be cool to change SIP settings on a volume by volume basis.
It's a kext within the OS (/Library/Extensions/SIPManager.kext). If the kext is removed and kextache is rebuilt, SIP will work like normal. It is NOT recommended to remove this on a patched system, as things will not work correctly with SIP enabled.
pkouame
macrumors 65816
I know totally disabling SIP is the tested configuration, but SIP has a few other knobs. Of the following flags which ones are critical for patcher in your opinion:
- csrutil enable --no-internal
- csrutil enable --without kext
- csrutil enable --without fs
- csrutil enable --without debug
- csrutil enable --without dtrace
- csrutil enable --without nvram
ASentientBot
macrumors 6502a
That's awesome. Did you write it? Is there source code available somewhere?
Actually @parrotgeek1 wrote most of it. I'm not sure if he wants to share the source code or not, but I'll ask him.
TimothyR734
macrumors 68030
I successfully installed macOS Mojave PB3 on my MacBook mid 2009 only issues not getting the update for PB4 with the beta access utility
TeckFire
macrumors newbie
I had this problem on my 2010 MacBook, my solution was to remake the installer with PB4 and then install from the patched USB installer. After that, I was able to get the updates from the Apple servers (had an update for Xcode Command Line tools that wasn't there before.)
pkouame
macrumors 65816
Yes small updates like that come through fine. The OS updates (from beta to beta) are problematic though.
TeckFire
macrumors newbie
Indeed, I haven't had the chance to update through the built in software update service, but I imagine you could boot to the USB installer in between update reboots and patch it every time so it can finish the update, but I'll have to wait until beta 6 comes out to try this.
Has anyone else done an OTA update this way?
TimothyR734
macrumors 68030
pkouame
macrumors 65816
Yes that’s pretty much standard procedure for system updates. Worked for me once from db3 to db4.
TimothyR734
macrumors 68030
dosdude1 has a new updated patcher 1.1.1 instead of doing a clean install doing a in place update on my MacBook 5,2 to beta 5
Confirming that this worked for me to get volume control working. Grabbed the files from the High Sierra patcher and manually installed them. @dosdude1 maybe put this back in for iMac 7,1 and 8,1? Thanks!
Oh, great. I'll add that back, then.
Larsvonhier
macrumors 68000
Right, but way better... almost not noticable any more. But we´re in beta... ;-)
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thestenz
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I hope this isn't a repeat answer, but I had this happen on the same machine. Reinstall the Legacy Sound from patch updater, and reboot.
L Caputo
macrumors 6502
Yes but in your original post about this you suggested they were gone, I was merely pointing out they were still there, and I know we are in Beta. The thing to find out is if those with supported machines have the same issue.
Larsvonhier
macrumors 68000
An update to the macOS Mojave Patcher has been released. These are the changes.
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1.1.1 - 8/2/2018
- Fixed some minor glitches with the installer
- Added some extra features to the installer
jackluke
macrumors 68040
I noticed @parrotgeek1 also wrote for Legacy Nvidia Tesla the very useful "NDRVShim.kext" instead replacing "IOGraphicsFamily.kext", as known less you replace more stability you get.
ASentientBot
macrumors 6502a
However, it seems like NDRVShim.kext just provides a stub function that doesn't actually do anything. This causes problems. So, replacing the IONDRVSupport.kext and IOGraphicsFamily.kext might actually be a better solution.
Or perhaps somebody can write an equivalent to NDRVShim that provides the function that IONDRVSupport needs in IOGraphicsFamily, so that only IONDRVSupport needs to be replaced, rather than both.
See my post here.
Anyways, my main point of these last few posts. @parrotgeek1 and @dosdude1, are you willing to release source code for the various things you've contributed here? Namely the patcher app, SIP kext and NDRVShim? For projects like these, it's always best if anyone can understand and make contributions to each part! And there's no reason I can see to keep things closed-source. Thank you in advance.
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jackluke
macrumors 68040
I knew your post, infact in manual patching I mainly followed your tips, tried few days ago the NDRVShim and looks working fine, maybe just an impression but it seems that NVDAStartup.kext work even keeping the untouched Mojave one.
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I meant without using NVDAStartup.kext
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My mistake, legacy IONDRVSupport.kext and IOGraphicsFamily.kext are both mandatory without the NDRVShim.kext
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Many components of the patcher app can be freely viewed in the app’s contents but not all components.