Run Mojave On Unsupported Mac

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Run Mojave On Unsupported Mac

Slydude

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Install Mojave and run the post install patch from the installer screen on your second boot. If there is another dosdude patch update and you run it from the bootable OS install and you loose any functions then reboot back into the original installer. Run the Post Install again. Choose your computer model (mine was 2,1) Check each box of all. Personally, my older unsupported Macs are still running Snow Leopard, Mavericks, El Capitan, and Sierra, and only the latest machines will run Mojave for my particular setup, but to each their own, and it’s undoubtedly cool that Dosdude has consistently come up with utilities like this to get various versions of Mac OS system software running on hardware that it wasn’t specifically intended for. Unsupported Macs that apparently can use the Mojave patcher to install macOS Mojave include the. Step 1 How to install macOS Mojave on Unsupported Macs. Once the patch tool has finished downloading, open it the. Now, we will format the USB drive so it can be used by the patch tool.

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I need to investigate that a bit more. It's possible that this is a result of the hack but I had a different suspicion. The drive originally had El Capitan on it (HFS+) and I did an upgrade install rather than clean install. I think that's the reason the formatting was left untouched. I suspect that if I had done a clean insntallation the drive could have been converted to APFS.
I've got an extra day off from work coming up this weekend. I may try a clean install just for the heck of it and see what happens.