macOS 10.14 Mojave on Unsupported Macs Thread

[joelw135]

Didn't you burn the Mojave installer to a Flash Drive? The Installer also has Disk Utility.

Yes I did, but what I would like to do is attach my new Crucial SSD via USB then Clone it from my working Mojave drive using the restore button then replace the old drive with the SSD, Can I do that with the version of Disk Utility on my Mojave boot thumb drive?

 

[highvoltage12v]

Yes I did, but what I would like to do is attach my new Crucial SSD via USB then Clone it from my working Mojave drive using the restore button then replace the old drive with the SSD, Can I do that with the version of Disk Utility on my Mojave boot thumb drive?

Yes it work work from the installer.

 

[ASentientBot]

Yes I did, but what I would like to do is attach my new Crucial SSD via USB then Clone it from my working Mojave drive using the restore button then replace the old drive with the SSD, Can I do that with the version of Disk Utility on my Mojave boot thumb drive?

The Disk Utility on the install disk is equivalent to that on the recovery partition; in fact the recovery base system and installer system are almost identical. If you add the installer packages to a System/Installation folder in a recovery image, you will in fact have a working install disk.

Edit: @highvoltage12v beat me to it.

 

[joelw135]

The Disk Utility on the install disk is equivalent to that on the recovery partition; in fact the recovery base system and installer system are almost identical. If you add the installer packages to a System/Installation folder in a recovery image, you will in fact have a working install disk.

Edit: @highvoltage12v beat me to it.

Yes it work work from the installer.

The Disk Utility on the install disk is equivalent to that on the recovery partition; in fact the recovery base system and installer system are almost identical. If you add the installer packages to a System/Installation folder in a recovery image, you will in fact have a working install disk.

Edit: @highvoltage12v beat me to it.

OK great, then boot for my flash drive erase the SSD,

1. On the left side of the Disk Utility window, you’ll see an External section that indicates any external storage drives attached to your Mac. Since your Crucial SSD is plugged in via the SATA-to-USB cable, it should appear here. Underneath the name of your Crucial SSD, you should see the partition you named when you formatted your drive. Click on this partition to highlight it.
2. Now click on the Edit menu in the upper left corner of your screen and select the Restore... option.
3. In the dropdown menu that appears, select the name of your existing drive's partition (if it doesn’t automatically appear as the default choice). You can verify that you selected the right partition by looking under the Internal section on the left navigation because your existing drive is inside your Mac and the existing drive’s partition will appear here.
4. Now click Restore, which will start the process of restoring (“copying”) your data from your existing storage drive to your new SSD.

 

[0403979]

The Disk Utility on the install disk is equivalent to that on the recovery partition; in fact the recovery base system and installer system are almost identical. If you add the installer packages to a System/Installation folder in a recovery image, you will in fact have a working install disk.

Edit: @highvoltage12v beat me to it.

Wrong, I have contacted dosdude1 and he told me that other components are required as well.

 

[joelw135]

Wrong, I have contacted dosdude1 and he told me that other components are required as well.

So you are saying I can't clone my drive the way I mentioned above?

 

[highvoltage12v]

Wrong, I have contacted dosdude1 and he told me that other components are required as well.

I know Recovery and an install drive are not the same, once booted it has to download further components. But for the sake of helping @joelw135 with what he needs to get done, will be done just fine in the installer. Actually it's the only way now that his Mac won't boot to 10.11 recovery.

 

[Starplayr]

Btw, my work laptop which is a Mac Pro Book 2016 modal, got milk spilled on it from accidentally by my wife who panicked when she thought a giant spider was trying to climb inside our kitchen from a sliding glass door (it was actually fleeing to the side). Anyways she knocked over a glass of milk and I was like, man don't blow this machine up. I immediately wiped off the milk, then used some plastic spacer things to make sure milk was not between the keys. Two keys were flickering from the backlight. I turned off the backlight. Popped off two keys cleaned underneath. Popped em back on. One would stick like crazy, kept working my plastic spacer to make sure it is not sticking to the sides. Beyond that cleaned all I could with wimpy monitor wipes.

OK ran into a large problem, I am unable to get into recovery using the CMD+R. I get a circle with a line through it. I need to get into the disc utility and restore menu as I have a new SSD I want to clone. Any ideas or is this a known issue?

CMD+OPT+R doesn't work either.

you can apply the patcher to it. It’s under something like patch recovery volume. Wait. Then select the disk if it asks.

 

[joelw135]

you can apply the patcher to it. It’s under something like patch recovery volume. Wait. Then select the disk if it asks.

Yes but that doesn't clone my operating Mojave drive to my SSD.

 

[dosdude1]

Yes but that doesn't clone my operating Mojave drive to my SSD.

Recovery HD is practically useless, anything it can do can be done from a patched installer USB drive. If you want to clone your install, use Carbon Copy Cloner. Disk Utility will not clone the disk correctly.

 

[joelw135]

Drive came and Erased. When I tried to boot to my install drive using the Option key I clicked on the recovery option and got th circle with the line through it, it then shut down. I am now using Super Duper.

 

[jirin]

Hello guys, I am new here. I was searching among huuuuge number of post, but could not find I was looking for.

I have iMac 2011 27 (iMac12,2) with AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB, journaled HFS+ file system

Custom tweaks:
- added SSD drive and created Fusion drive (it seems not working properly in High Sierra as HDD is rumbling too much and system is slower than in Sierra)
- replaced stock Wi-Fi/BT modul with Apple Broadcom BCM94360CD – 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac with Bluetooth 4.0 in order to get Continuity and Apple Watch unlocking working

Please, is there anyone, who can confirm that after Mojave upgrade everything descibed above should be working and what should I expect not to be working anymore?

Thank you very much!

 

[highvoltage12v]

Hello guys, I am new here. I was searching among huuuuge number of post, but could not find I was looking for.

I have iMac 2011 27 (iMac12,2) with AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB, journaled HFS+ file system

Custom tweaks:
- added SSD drive and created Fusion drive (it seems not working properly in High Sierra as HDD is rumbling too much and system is slower than in Sierra)
- replaced stock Wi-Fi/BT modul with Apple Broadcom BCM94360CD – 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac with Bluetooth 4.0 in order to get Continuity and Apple Watch unlocking working

Please, is there anyone, who can confirm that after Mojave upgrade everything descibed above should be working and what should I expect not to be working anymore?

Thank you very much!

There is no Graphics Acceleration with the 6770m. Eventually (maybe) there will be EFI flashed cards available that you can swap out on the MXM slot of the 2011 iMac. We all have been patiently waiting for MacVidCards to come up with a solution
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/2011-imac-graphics-card-upgrade.1596614/page-40

 

[jirin]

There is no Graphics Acceleration with the 6770m. Eventually (maybe) there will be EFI flashed cards available that you can swap out on the MXM slot of the 2011 iMac. We all have been patiently waiting for MacVidCards to come up with a solution
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/2011-imac-graphics-card-upgrade.1596614/page-40

Hi, thanks for info. Is there any ETA and price?

 

[highvoltage12v]

Hi, thanks for info. Is there any ETA and price?

That's information I want to know myself. I don't know how MacVidCards will handle it. He will either have preflashed cards available for sale. Or you have to buy a Dell GTX 780m and mail it to him to flash it. There is information you should read up on heatsink modifications (you have a 6770m different situation than me)

 

[jirin]

That's information I want to know myself. I don't know how MacVidCards will handle it. He will either have preflashed cards available for sale. Or you have to buy a Dell GTX 780m and mail it to him to flash it. There is information you should read up on heatsink modifications (you have a 6770m different situation than me)

OK thanks. As I have this iMac as second home computer only for web browsing, movies and light InDesign/Photoshop I guess HW acceleration is not mandatory for me, am I right? Except this, everything should be working fine? What about the APFS? Finally, I guess I can swap the GPU anytime later, right?

 

[highvoltage12v]

OK thanks. As I have this iMac as second home computer only for web browsing, movies and light InDesign/Photoshop I guess HW acceleration is not mandatory for me, am I right? Except this, everything should be working fine? What about the APFS? Finally, I guess I can swap the GPU anytime later, right?

Make sure it is updated to 10.13.6 it will do an EFI update that allows it to boot APFS drives. I'm not sure Mojave behaves on a 6770m without acceleration. It could make web browsing useless in chrome because things will only show up as you hover the mouse over them. Could be waking from sleep issues also.

 

[ASentientBot]

Wrong, I have contacted dosdude1 and he told me that other components are required as well.

For a patched installer, yes. But on a supported system, I don't think so. Just the one folder Packages from InstallESD.dmg should be the only difference between the recovery partition and the install disk. I think. I'll test it later but I remember doing this a few macOS versions ago to make a boot disk (before createinstallmedia existed). Maybe things have changed.

 

[joelw135]

I am back to square one, the Mac Mini wouldn't boot from the SSD. I am now running a new install from the patcher. one question at what point do I migrate my apps and things from my Time Machine? Is it before I patch or after?

 

[0403979]

For a patched installer, yes. But on a supported system, I don't think so. Just the one folder Packages from InstallESD.dmg should be the only difference between the recovery partition and the install disk. I think. I'll test it later but I remember doing this a few macOS versions ago to make a boot disk (before createinstallmedia existed). Maybe things have changed.

Actually, on Mojave, you must replace Quartz, SystemMigration, SystemMigrationUtils, and OSInstaller from the patcher. On High Sierra you only need to replace Quartz and OSInstaller. On Sierra and previous versions only Packages is required.

 

[jackluke]

For a patched installer, yes. But on a supported system, I don't think so. Just the one folder Packages from InstallESD.dmg should be the only difference between the recovery partition and the install disk. I think. I'll test it later but I remember doing this a few macOS versions ago to make a boot disk (before createinstallmedia existed). Maybe things have changed.

Not exactly, the Recovery HD is a hidden partition that contains a kind of BaseSystem compressed DMG that during boot is completely expanded into the RAM, to allow any modifications to the internal disk through Disk Utility or Terminal diskutil, while an USB Installer is an already expanded BaseSystem.dmg directly into the USB drive.

 

[TimothyR734]

Running the automator does toggle light to dark mode 🙂 I used control, command and D as my keyboard short cut

 

[jackluke]

Running the automator does toggle light to dark mode 🙂

If @pkouame will discover a way to apply its "hybrid light mode" through an AppleScript telling to "System Events" something for HIToolBox or Appkit, that would be amazing. It's hard, I know.

edit:
@TimothyR734 it is not simple to chose a free keyboard shortcut, for example CMD+D I use very often to add my bookmarks favorites into Safari (or Chrome).

edit2:
Just checked ctrl+CMD+D open the dictionary on a select word, and unluckily F5 or F6 don't are accepted, while for ex. CMD+F5 is accepted but it launches VoiceOver normally, it seems every shortcut keyboard in macOS is already taken. Wait, probably CMD+(FN)+F6 is free, FN+F6 actually is F6 on a Mac keyboard.

 

[TimothyR734]

If @pkouame will discover a way to apply its "hybrid light mode" through an AppleScript telling to "System Events" something for HIToolBox or Appkit, that would be amazing. It's hard, I know.

edit:
@TimothyR734 it is not simple to chose a free keyboard shortcut, for example CMD+D I use very often to add my bookmarks favorites into Safari (or Chrome).

I know I had to change mine to but another way is to right click what ever you named your script mine is dark mode it gives you 2 option show in Finder or open in automator

 

[highvoltage12v]

I am back to square one, the Mac Mini wouldn't boot from the SSD. I am now running a new install from the patcher. one question at what point do I migrate my apps and things from my Time Machine? Is it before I patch or after?

I believe it's the 3rd page in setup. There is an option to choose a time machine backup.