macOS 13 Ventura on Unsupported Macs Thread

[Ultracyclist]

After F-ing things up with trying the at this moment unneeded Kryptonite I got things rolling again after going true hell installing a Monterey partition while on 2 bars of 4G cellular connection.

Dev's as always you are the best!

 

[MacinMan]

Hey all, Just coming here to get some clarification. I'm going to be testing Ventura on a Late 2015, 27" iMac via an external drive before I replace Monterey. This is my first need for OCLP as my iMac has always been supported until now. Anyway the steps I'm going to perform are as follows:

1. I am creating a USB installer right now in version 0.5.0 of the OpenCore GUI app.
2. Then I'll boot the iMac from the created USB drive and install to the external drive for testing.
3. What I'm unclear on is, how do I patch the external drive initially so it will boot? After that I can do the post install patch from within that running instance of Ventura.

When I spoke to a friend of mine about trying Ventura they suggested doing it this way and keeping the latest supported OS on the internal drive until it's out of support in order to continue to receive boot rom updates as OCLP doesn't support this. Which I wasn't aware of.

 

[Ausdauersportler]

Hey all, Just coming here to get some clarification. I'm going to be testing Ventura on a Late 2015, 27" iMac via an external drive before I replace Monterey. This is my first need for OCLP as my iMac has always been supported until now. Anyway the steps I'm going to perform are as follows:

1. I am creating a USB installer right now in version 0.5.0 of the OpenCore GUI app.
2. Then I'll boot the iMac from the created USB drive and install to the external drive for testing.
3. What I'm unclear on is, how do I patch the external drive initially so it will boot? After that I can do the post install patch from within that running instance of Ventura.

When I spoke to a friend of mine about trying Ventura they suggested doing it this way and keeping the latest supported OS on the internal drive until it's out of support in order to continue to receive boot rom updates as OCLP doesn't support this. Which I wasn't aware of.

First post of this thread already contains a spoiler about the firmware update problem. Check the OCLP GitHub page and the documentation before hitting the download button and before trying an installation. Using an external SSD to separate Ventura from your system is a great idea. You should even install OCLP to this external drive until you finally migrate ….

 

[startergo]

It's a big news out there!

Upgrade from 12.6.1 worked for me. Although the screen resolution was awkward. After root patching it was fixed.

 

[ronton3]

I have Cat and Ventura on seperate partitions on a 2012/13.2 27 Imac, last night I tied to install the latest .05 nightly, I am not certain what I did to screw it up, but then again I am accustomed to that. After trying many different approaches, I finally put in the Ventura USB installer made with OCLP instruction last week, and ended up in recovery mode, with install Ventura as the second option. The first option was Time Machine, I decided to give that one more try when I plugged in the SSD I got the message that it could only be used with migration(I think), then I went back to the first time machine window, that had listed both partitions--I had skipped those because I did think I would do anything, this time I clicked on the Ventura partion and it asked if I wanted to roll back to 10/24 or something to that effect. I clicked on that restarted and Voilà here I am back on the Ventura disk as if nothing had ever gone wrong.

I am going to install to disk again, I am sending this message about time machine because this rescue was not from a time machine backup, just from the time machine window.

Now to figure out how to get out of bold typing mode.

 

[rathbone]

Hi folks I have two mid-2012 MBPs. Last night I updated to Ventura on one of them with absolutely no issues at all. Today I used the same USB installer on the second machine and it will not install Ventura. The only differences are the first machine has a Samsung SSD installed by Apple. The second machine has a third-party SSD that I installed last summer. I am wondering if Ventura does not like the SSD in the second machine. I am looking for any help you guys can provide to me and if the issue is the SSD in the second machine.

 

[Larsvonhier]

Hi folks I have two mid-2012 MBPs. Last night I updated to Ventura on one of them with absolutely no issues at all. Today I used the same USB installer on the second machine and it will not install Ventura. The only differences are the first machine has a Samsung SSD installed by Apple. The second machine has a third-party SSD that I installed last summer. I am wondering if Ventura does not like the SSD in the second machine. I am looking for any help you guys can provide to me and if the issue is the SSD in the second machine.

Sorry, but "will not install Ventura" is a bit thin for any suggestions. How does it fail, can you provide screen capture of verbose booting etc. ?

 

[OKonnel]

I was highly surprised at how quickly macOS Ventura installed itself!

I started the installation directly from System Preferences, after which the Mac prepared the update in a very short time, restarted, was "satisfied" with two quick restarts with the black background and then, when the Apple logo with the progress bar appeared... appeared written that there were only (hear hear !!!) 4 minutes. Oh yeeee!
Until now, however, since macOS introduced this update mode, the progress bar was always associated with the announcement that it would take at least 25 minutes...

I add that I use an iMac 14,2 27" late 2013 which would not be Apple supported (i7 CPU, 24GB RAM, nVidia GTX 780M 4GB VRAM), but which works great thanks to OCLP 0.5.0 official release.

All works (ALL!!!!!!!) well more than Catalina and Monterey and the result of Geekbench 5 tests are superlative!

Note: Safari sometimes takes time to open a page; but this depends on not well optimized sites because on other sites, even very complex ones, Safari flies. I was even able to pay my taxes quickly 😉

Thanks to the developers of OCLP and @khronokernel let's immediately make him Holy, in this life. 🙂

 

[abaxworld]

Do you even get that as a message? Interesting. What a mighty tool the oclp is. 👍

When I tried to create an USB installer for Ventura, downloading macOS 13 through OCLP 0.5.0, it prevents me about the current incompatibility with the MacPro 5,1. It allows to download the OS but also provides a link to the current issues with these computers. So, yes, it shows the message even with the ( now previous ) OCLP 0.4.11.

 

[rathbone]

Ventura installed for about 29 minutes, rebooted several times in quick succession and would not stop rebooting. On my fourth time trying to install Ventura I saw a screen saying "an error was encountered while updating macos" and now the MBP will not boot from the USB installer. I guess before I continuing trying to install Ventura I would like to know if it somehow checks for OEM Apple hardware befofe it finishes the install process. Thank you for any information.

 

[thegdn]

and here we go...

 

[suvorov]

Seems like the issue I had. Booting with verbose showed me either a kernel panic or a hangup. If it’s the same, the solution is to reinstall using an USB stick (that worked for me).

Boot the Mac from the “Install macOS Ventura” USB and just install like normal. It should work.

Thanks for your advice. Everything works.

 

[usvi4me]

Can we start a thread of what does not work on Ventura and unsupported macs?

On MacBook Pro 15” mid 2014, continuity camera does not work. It finds the iPhone fine but when selected, the video screen freezes in FaceTime and zoom.

I tried everything as suggested in many articles.

Oclp 0.5.0 ROCKS. Thank you developers.

 

[perez987]

iMac16,2 (iMac 21,5 late 2015) + OCLP 0.5.0 final release.
Successfully installed Ventura and root patch.
So far, all seem to be working fine (Weather app, Photos...).
Thank you OCLP developers!!!

Spoiler: About this Mac

 

[plugsnpixels]

Simply not supported to update this way. Guess why this method has no support.

Thank you for the heads-up about this.

I got daring yesterday updating an expendable 2013 iMac from its existing 12.6 (installed earlier via OCLP) > 12.6.1 straight to 13 OTA. After reading the comment you quoted I restarted to see what would happen and all seems good.

Of course on any other machine going forward I will use the USB approach ;-)

 

[pantherfalcon2332]

Just got it working on my macbook pro 2016. still cant believe that apple did not officially support it but alas. HUGE kudos to the opencore developers.

 

[thegdn]

13.1 22C5033e...
Done.
via OCLP 0.5.0 and software update
Smooth

 

[zfrogman]

Updated from Monterey 12.6.1 without a hitch to Ventura 13.0 (22A380) using OCLP 0.5.0 (Infinite, infinite thanks and Credit to Dortania Crew!) via MacOS software update on MBP 9,1. All major apps working fine (Acrobat, PS, InDesign, Office 2021, Parallels Desktop 18) updated Xprotect with Silent Knight 1.21. Safari working fine.

 

[drew24]

Thank you OCLP developers!!! AWESOME work got some more yrs on my mbp😘
😎😎

 

[Nato85]

Updated without a hitch to Ventura 13.0 (22A380) using OCLP 0.5.0 (Infinite, infinite thanks and Credit to Dortania Crew!) via MacOS software update on MBP 9,1. All major apps working fine (Acrobat, PS, InDesign, Office 2021, Parallels Desktop 18) updated Xprotect with Silent Knight 1.21. Safari working fine.

Could you please explain in detail how you did it? thank you

 

[PhyrePhox]

hello guys, please, how to fix the problem of playing videos from Youtube in Safari 16.1? I was able to install Ventura normally as a new installation, but I'm having trouble playing videos on Youtube, I've already enabled Developer mode, and deactivated 'WebGL via Metal', still the error persists

FIX:

Install Adblock Pro, nice!

Same here on MBP 11,1.

I got it working by downloading the release version of OCLP 0.5.0 and reapplying the Post Install Root Patch.

 

[dandeco]

Trying to install Ventura on my 2015 Retina 15" MacBookPro11,4; I created the USB installer using OCLP 0.5.0, created the OpenCore EFI partition on the installer, and tried booting from it, but it just stays stuck in this position...

Or should I just let it sit a while?

 

[nekton1]

Well done for a great job.
The two previously described issues (blank panes in Dropbox pulldowns and failure to really sleep--screen went gray but backlight still on and cursor displayed) are FIXED by running root patch using the GUI version of the latest 0.5.0 final.

 

[usvi4me]

Trying to install Ventura on my 2015 Retina 15" MacBookPro11,4; I created the USB installer using OCLP 0.5.0, created the OpenCore EFI partition on the installer, and tried booting from it, but it just stays stuck in this position...
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Or should I just let it sit a while?

Are you holding the option key to select EFI boot up disk? And next select Ventura disk.

 

[5tracks]

Updated my Mini 6,1 to Ventura, and everything works fine. No lag, stutters, or anything. Only two minor issues:

- The weather app crashes immediately upon launch
- The animated Memoji on the lock screen disappears leaving only the eyes! At first I thought it was some kind of gag for Halloween! 🤣