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macOS 10.15 Catalina on Unsupported Macs
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Please explain how one connects an M.2 NVMe blade SSD to USB2.0 without buying an expensive I/F case from OWC.
I don’t think that’s what he meant. I think it’s more of... “Heck! It EVEN installs over USB2” Astonishment that it wouldn’t install to the NVMe or PCIe...
That’s how I read it...
Successfully installed macOS Catalina Dev Beta 7 only issue lost my pictures and documents on the iCloud Drive 
Bluesky patches 1.2 are working as well. I got distracted before the second reboot to apply the post install patches but booted into my desktop after signing into iCloud then got prompted to the night shift patch
Bluesky patches 1.2 are working as well. I got distracted before the second reboot to apply the post install patches but booted into my desktop after signing into iCloud then got prompted to the night shift patch Attachments
Successfully installed beta7 with patcher 1.0.9 on my Mac Pro 2008 w/ GTX 680! Thanks @dosdude1 !!
bootroom updated from 228 to 229 after beta 7 installed supported 2012 MBP.
Source please.View attachment 855143
Non-Metal acceleration fixed (again) on Developer Beta 7.
I added two stub functions to the SkyLight wrapper. That's all it took this time.
Notes:
- I've only tested this for about ten minutes, so use with caution.
- The user picture glitch is fixed!
- Sidecar preference pane shows up by default for me; I don't have an iOS 13 device to test but I imagine it's still non-functional without Metal.
- I am shocked that this is still working.
Enjoy!
The patcher works well and the new Beta seems to be faster than the previous; Maps isn't working on my MBP 4.1 but this is only a small issue.
I made a new launcher with 1.09 but for some reason when I try to install all my partions are locked. ? I am downloading a new copy of Beta 7 and will try again.
It would be interesting to find out if this is a Sonnet specific issue or if the OWC Accelsior S sees the same regression.
Just to be clear, you're saying that the installer simply doesn't show the Sonnet card SSD as an available target drive, right? If so, I would suggest you carefully compare all the PCI related kext plugins on the basesystem volume compared to the final installed volume of DP6/DP7. Apple might have pruned out one of those kext plugins to save space on the installer. If so, it very well may disappear from the installation at some point so you should identify it in case Mojave Patcher needs to patch it back in at some point.
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Not sure what is going on but it appears Mac os beta 7 installer will not work on my Mackbook Air 4.2. I used the down loader provided by @dosdude1 to download the installer. I have tried both the patcher 1.09 and within Catalina but in each case my partitions are locked. I have tried anew partition but that was locked too.
Catalina B7 + patch 1.0.9 ok on Macmini4,1 !
Maps almost perfect (only one crash until now)
Photo working
usb web cam audio & video OK
CPU low charge after few minutes
Thank you @dosdude1 @ASentientBot
Maps almost perfect (only one crash until now)
Photo working
usb web cam audio & video OK
CPU low charge after few minutes
Thank you @dosdude1 @ASentientBot
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Just messed my system up so it won’t boot. Have a MacBookPro5,5 running an install of 10.13.x via DosDude’s patcher.
discovered today that I could put Catalina on this system, so downloaded the new patcher, downloaded the Catalina Image and (stupidly) patched the installer and started the install. (I _really_ should have created a USB install stick)
after it boots through the EFI boot loader (from the install for 10.13.x), I get the circle with a line through it.
is there a command I can issue in the EFI shell to get passed this, or do I need to generate a new installer on a different computer?
discovered today that I could put Catalina on this system, so downloaded the new patcher, downloaded the Catalina Image and (stupidly) patched the installer and started the install. (I _really_ should have created a USB install stick)
after it boots through the EFI boot loader (from the install for 10.13.x), I get the circle with a line through it.
is there a command I can issue in the EFI shell to get passed this, or do I need to generate a new installer on a different computer?
now i have a little problem... i have an imac 2011 with an GTX 860 card... catalina working perfectly but i cant`t boot to my recovery....to disable sip ... can @dosdude1 integrate the sip disable patch to his patcher?? or ist it and i can see it? thank you
You shouldn't need to disable SIP as there is a kernel extension installed to do that automatically on each boot. In any case, you could also try the executing...
csrutil disable
from the Terminal application when booted off of the patched usb Catalina installer.
I will install totalfinder and this app need to disable.the sip... How can i.install it ?
is your SIP disabled and is your HDD/SSD formatted APFS and yes you should create a macOS Catalina usb patcher that if you don't have the SIP disabled you can boot into the usb Catalina Patcher enter in the terminal csrutil disable and as far as I know if your HDD/SSD is not APFS you can formatted it APFS and install Catalina without having to use the APFS boot rom patcher which can be risky
Terminal say need recovery partition...i must type the command in recovery hrrrrr
you need to boot into the Catalina usb patcher and use the terminal there
I have it my friend ... I make an pic in 10 min after install dev 7...
...done...
See that SIP disabler patch ..m wauw thank you
...done...
See that SIP disabler patch ..m wauw thank you
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