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OS X El Capitan on Unsupported Macs

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TMRJIJ said:
to assist you in installing OS X El Capitan, Yosemite, and Mavericks on your old Mac. Also, by updating the system software of your server, you can enjoy various additional features and enhanced security. Always use to the latest version.
Never download this from any other provider. All links must be from these forums or directly from our server. This is to ensure that nothing was tampered with and that you have the most reliable and tested stuff.

This update includes:
  • Support for OS X 10.11 El Capitan
  • New Structure with Installer
  • Smarter Requirements Checker that can detect the OS X Installer App
  • More Comprehensive Installation Type
  • Smaller Installer Size (up to 20% lighter)
  • Bug Fixes
Developer Focus Area:
  • Installing OS X El Capitan
  • Kexts
  • General Reliability
  • Rootless Disabling
  • Compatibility with Pacifist app
  • EFI32 Based Macs


Download Size: 183 MB

Prerequisites
Tested Macs listed below. Here are the minimum requirements:
- Running 10.7 Lion
- At least 2GB of RAM.
- A copy of Yosemite or Mavericks in Applications Folder (.app file preferred)
- 15 GB of free space from USB or HDD Partition.


-MacBook2,x
-MacBook3,x
-MacBook4,x
-MacBookPro2,x
-MacBookAir1,1
-MacMini1,x (C2D upgraded)
-MacMini2,x
-iMac4,x (C2D can be upgraded)
-iMac5,x


We DON'T assist with Hackintosh. All private messages/emails involving installing OS X on non-Apple hardware will be redirected to another support team.


How to Use It:
1. Download OS X Extractor
2. Install it. Choose a version of OS X to get the correct patches.
3. Open OS X Hackers in your Applications and view to corresponding guide the OS you choose.

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Hi @TMRJIJ Every time i Run AutoPatch, They Fail
 
I do...

Though I just got a few parts super cheap and upgraded my MacBookPro2,2 to a MacBookPro4,1 that has a 64-bit EFI...

I can understand moving on to better computers, but they could still share any knowledge they may have that could help someone?
 
Well, I didn't like messing around with a 32 bit EFI with the MacBookPro2,1, so I did a little bit of UPGRADING!

This laptop went from a MacBook Pro A1211 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo macbookpro2,1 32bit EFI

To a...

MacBook Pro A1260 2.40GHz Core 2 Duo macbookpro4,1 64bit EFI

It cost me $16 for the motherboard and $32 for the newer display/keyboard/trackpad for an A1260 MBP...

It's all back together and running great, it's even running cooler now for some reason?
 
Core 2 Duo said:
Well, I didn't like messing around with a 32 bit EFI with the MacBookPro2,1, so I did a little bit of UPGRADING!

This laptop went from a MacBook Pro A1211 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo macbookpro2,1 32bit EFI

To a...

MacBook Pro A1260 2.40GHz Core 2 Duo macbookpro4,1 64bit EFI

It cost me $16 for the motherboard and $32 for the newer display/keyboard/trackpad for an A1260 MBP...

It's all back together and running great, it's even running cooler now for some reason?
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After the upgrade to A1260 Mac OSX Mavericks installed perfectly with everything working, including full Intel HD sound, Nvidia-accelerated video, and the App Store!!!

Just couldn't get Mav to work on the A1211 with ATI video and whatever the sound was?
 
Core 2 Duo said:
After the upgrade to A1260 Mac OSX Mavericks installed perfectly with everything working, including full Intel HD sound, Nvidia-accelerated video, and the App Store!!!

Just couldn't get Mav to work on the A1211 with ATI video and whatever the sound was?
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And now I just natively installed El Capitan on the upgraded 2007 A1260, and it's perfect with everything working just like Mavericks...

What a difference a $16 motherboard off ebay can make!!!
 
lockfr said:
Hi @TMRJIJ Every time i Run AutoPatch, They Fail
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I left the unsupported Mac community years back when my MacBook 4,1 died. Have no way of testing but I’m pretty sure Cloudflare enforced a newer TLS protocol that breaks the AutoPatch when trying to connect to the server.

I tried recompiling an offline version with my MBP M1, but it just refused to work for some unknown reason

As for MacPostFactor, the main developer on that app also abandoned the project and I don’t have his source code to recreate it.
 
Now that I have accomplished my goal of getting El Cap fully working on my pre-unibody MBP, I've turned my attention to the early MBP unibody A1286. I got a great deal on one in near like-new state running Big Sur, Let's see what I can do with this...
 
Core 2 Duo said:
Now that I have accomplished my goal of getting El Cap fully working on my pre-unibody MBP, I've turned my attention to the early MBP unibody A1286. I got a great deal on one in near like-new state running Big Sur, Let's see what I can do with this...
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Correction, the unibody was running macOS High Sierra, But now I am running Big Sur using OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher 2.4.1 and it went smooth as silk with everything working great!, And I installed Windows 7 for a duel boot, Windows is suppost to be end of life with no updates, but after I installed it I ran windows update and it found 109 updates and all of them installed normaly...
 
Yojx21 said:
Hi,
Back in the business i have tryed to install El Capitan on an iMac6,1. I noticed that this model is not in the list of compatible computers, is that normal ?
Anyway, is used first method to do it. I have replaced the two boot.efi (with both boot32.efi and boot.efi provided by OS X Hackers Patch Files ) and blessed the disk.
The problem is that when i try to boot on my el capitan install partition in verbose mode i end with a "root device uuid is XXX". I have left it like that 30 mins to see if something else happen, but it's stand like that...

Any idea of what to do ?
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Hi Yojx21, after 7 years, I'm doing the same things with you and met the same problem. I'm trying to install OS X El Capitan on my old iMac ( iMac 2006, 24inch, Core 2 Duo, iMac 6,1), It's also frozen at ”root device uuid is XXX". I tried a lot of boot.efi but the problem still here. So may I know did you solve this ptoblem? If yes, can you share something to me? thank you in advance.

Richard.Z
 
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