Install Os X 10.12 On Unsupported Mac

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  1. Install Catalina On Unsupported Mac
  2. Install Os X 10.12 On Unsupported Mac Os
  3. How To Install Sierra On Unsupported Mac
  4. Install Os X 10.12 On Unsupported Macbook Pro

Update 2019-05-02: For those of you who want to install macOS 10.14 on an unsupported Mac,check this post.

I have a MacBook Mid 2007 (more technically named MacBook2,1) that officially can not be upgraded beyond Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). It is however possible to install Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) on it with quite good success and not too much effort.

Install the package file. When promoted, enter your password and proceed with the installation. After installing the package file, the macOS Monterey installer will appear under Applications folder. Note: You can use this installer to upgrade or clean install macOS Monterey on your system. Quit the Terminal. How to install system updates macOS 10.12.x on unsupported Mac. Updating vs AUS - Install macOS on unsupported.

Sierra
  • OS X Mavericks on Unsupported Macs. MacOS Extractor, OS X Patcher, and MacPostFactor are apps that guide you through patching and installing OS X El Capitan (10.11), Yosemite (10.10), Mavericks(10.9), or Mountain Lion (10.8) on your older Mac.
  • I made, and used, a Lion Mac OS X Install ESD on a thumb drive. Instructions to make one can be found all over the Mac centric web sites. Then follow this procedure: Put the unsupported Mac in Target Disk mode and plug it into a Lion supported Mac. Run the Lion installer and make sure to choose your unsupported Mac's hard drive. Let the install.

I want to first write what does not work:

  1. Sleep mode – not working at all – leave on or shut down
  2. The build-in web camera – “works” but not as it did in 10.7, I think
  3. YouTube-video (etc), works occationally (now worse than in 10.7, my experience)

I suggest you read the user comments to this post. A few helpful readers have shared their experiences.

What you need:

  1. A USB Memory, 8GB or larger
  2. Mac OS X Mavericks (i had the install/upgrade Application that I had myself
    downloaded on another Mac, from App Store, when I upgraded it from 10.8 to
    10.9. I always keep these for possible future use.)
  3. SFOTT: I used version 1.4.4 which is currently the latest stable
  4. Audio/Video-drivers from (not here anymore, se comments below).
    Warning, this is one of these horrible download pages where you don’t know
    where to click to get the right thing, and what gives you spyware. You
    should get the file mac-mini-mavericks.7z. Discard anything else without
    opening. The 7z-file can be opened with StuffitExpander, that already
    comes with Maverick

Making a bootable USB-drive
You first need to use SFOTT to create your bootable USB-drive (it is called “key” in SFOTT). You simply double-click on SFOTT on a Mac where you both have your Mavericks Install App and your USB-drive. SFOTT is a self guiding menu-driven application. It will take some time to make all the settings in SFOTT (it took me perhaps 15 minutes), but it was self-explanatory and not very difficult. Use the autorun mode to create the drive.

Recovery Scenario
When you install a Mac OS upgrade there is a risk your Mavericks system will not boot. When upgrading from 10.9.0 to 10.9.5 like I did, it will not boot. My impression (after reading different sources) is that this recovery is needed when upgrading from 10.9.0 (or 10.9.1 / 10.9.2) but not later. Nobody knows about 10.9.6 of course, because it is not out. Minor upgrades to applications or security upgrades should not cause need to recovery.

When Mavericks fails to start you need to “re-Patch” using SFOTT. I installed Mavericks on a separate partition, side-by-side with Lion, so when Mavericks failed to start my computer automatically started Lion instead and I could run SFOTT in Lion to re-Patch my Mavericks system.

If you can not do side-by-side you can start from your SFOTT-key (which you still have) and instead of installing Maverick you start the Terminal application. Find the SFOTT.app on the key, and find SFOTT.sh inside SFOTT.app. Run SFOTT.sh and you can re-Patch your broken Mavericks system. I did the entire procedure on my working Mavericks just to test it, and it seems fine.

There is if course no true guarantee that a future Apple upgrade will not break everything completely.

Installing Mavericks
Installation of Mavericks from the USB-drive is very standard. To start the computer from the USB-drive, hold down the “alt”-key (not Apple-key, not ctrl-key) while starting the computer. Choose SFOTT and proceed normally. After about an hour you should have a clean 10.9.0 Mavericks with network/wifi working. Video will work, but with problems (try Safari, and you will see), and Audio will not work.

Upgrade Mavericks
I used App Store to upgrade Mavericks to 10.9.5. That works just fine, until Mavericks fails to start (I ended up in my old Lion system on a reboot, if you have no other system installed your computer with probably just not start). This is where you need to recover your system using SFOTT.

Fixing Audio and Video
The 7z-file I referred to above contains Audio and Video drivers. You run the application “Kext Utility” and the you drag the contents of the folder Extensions into the Kext Utility, and it will install the drivers. There is a folder with “optional wifi drivers”, I have not installed those because wifi has been fine all the time for me.

The MacBook2,1 has Intel GMA950 Video, and there are no supported 64-bit-drivers for Mavericks. The drivers I suggest you to install are supposed to be drivers from a public beta of 10.6 (Snow Leopard) that Apple once released. They seem to work quite fine for me though. And not installing them is worse.

I suggest you upgrade to 10.9.5 before fixing Audio and Video. I guess a later Apple-upgrade could break Audio and Video and require you to reinstall drivers.

Problems booting the SFOTT key
I first created the SFOTT key using the SFOTT beta (that is also supposed to work with Yosemite), and I used System Preferences/Startup Disk (in Lion) to start the installion. This failed and my computer just started up in Lion.

I then created the SFOTT key using 1.4.4, AND i restarted the computer holding down the alt-key. This worked. This key also later worked when I used System Preferences/Startup Disk (in Mavericks) to choose startup drive.

Driver Problems
There are open source Audio drivers called VoodooHDA. I installed those ones with success, but audio volume was low. I tried to fix with no success. Later I found the drivers I referred to above and that I recommend.

I found another download for what was supposed to be the same Video Drivers. But the Kext-utility did not work, and I installed the drivers by copying them directly into /System/Library/Extensions and this gave me a broken unbootable system. I don’t know what went wrong, but I recommend the drivers I linked to. Sapphirefoxx halloween switch.

Video/YouTube Performance
Some videos seem to play perfectly, others dont. I had problems with 10.7 too.

Background and about SFOTT
There are several Apple computers that can run 10.7, that have a 64-bit processor, but that can not officially run 10.8 or later. There are a few issues:

Install
  1. Video Drivers – and in the case of my MacBook2,1 the unofficial ones mentioned
    above may be good enough
  2. 32 bit EFI. Even though the computer has a 64 bit processor, the EFI, the
    software that runs before the Installer/Operating system, is 32 bit, and not
    capable of starting a 64-bit system.
  3. Mavericks does not believe it can run on this hardware.

Install Catalina On Unsupported Mac

As I understand it SFOTT installs a little program that 32 bit EFI is capable of starting, and that in turn is capable of staring a 64 bit system. Also, SFOTT patches a few files so Mavericks feels comfortable running on the unsupported hardware.

You can do all of this on your own without SFOTT. SFOTT “just” makes this reasonably easy.

There are plenty of forums, tools and information about running Mac OS X on unsupported hardware (also non-Apple-hardware: a Hackintosh). Those forums of course focus a lot on problems people have.

Install Os X 10.12 On Unsupported Mac

Yosemite
It is supposed to be possible to install Yosemite in a similar way. SFOTT has a beta release for Yosemite. For my purposes going to Mavericks gave me virtually all advantages of an upgrade (supported version of OS X, able to install latest Xcode, etc).

Conclusion
In the beginning of 2015, it is not that hard to install Mavericks on a MacBook Mid 2007, with a quite good result. I have pointed out the tools and downloads you need and that will work.

Hello Folks, the following article will guide you through installing Mac OS 10.12 Sierra on any windows PC or Laptop. Read the article carefully so that you don’t miss any part.
Alright ! Did you ever thought that installing Mac OS 10.12 Sierra on windows PC / Laptop ?? YES ! You can install it with the help of VMWare WORKSTATION PLAYER. This will help us to create a “Virtual Machine” to run another Operating System inside the windows Operating System, with this you don’t have to restart your computer to jump between the operating systems. Off course, we can install Sierra along with a side with windows as a Dual Boot on the Same drive, but that topic will be discussed in other articles. Anyone can try & install Mac OS Sierra on a windows Laptop or PC using Vmware Workstation Player.

Step By Step Video Guide:

Install Os X 10.12 On Unsupported Mac

Install Os X 10.12 On Unsupported Mac Os

https://youtu.be/DVZW1NJKxBQ

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  • IN ORDER TO INSTALL Mac OS 10.12 SIERRA INSIDE THE WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM USING VMWARE WORKSTATION, MAKE SURE THAT YOUR COMPUTER PROCESSOR OR CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT HAS TO SUPPORT VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY ( VT ).
Install os x 10.12 on unsupported macbook pro
  • BASICALLY, VT ALLOWS TO RUN MULTIPLE OPERATING SYSTEMS ON THE SAME MACHINE. YOU CAN INSTALL AS MANY OPERATING SYSTEMS AS YOU WISH WITH THE HELP OF VT. CHECK YOUR BIOS SETTING TO ENABLE VT.
  • BY DEFAULT MOST OF THE COMPUTERS HAVE THIS (VT ) OPTION TURNED ON. NO MATTER THAT WHAT TYPE OF CPU THAT YOU HAVE, WETHER ITS INTEL OR AMD CHECK THE BIOS SETTING FOR THE OPTION ( VT ).
  • FOR INTEL USERS THE OPTION To ENABLE VT IN THE BIOS SETTING WILL BE LIKE:

VT-X/EPT

  • FOR AMD USERS THE OPTION To ENABLE VT IN THE BIOS SETTING WILL BE LIKE:

AMD-V/RVI

Once everything is ready , now on your WINDOWS PC open TASK MANAGER (HOLD CTRL + SHIFT + ESC)-> PERFORMANCE -> CPU and

Check virtualization status. Mostly You will see ENABLED by default on most of the computers. Once its enabled now we are ready to start installing Sierra. Popcap games.

Now Download all of the files from the links below and place it on your DESKTOP for easier navigation.

How To Install Sierra On Unsupported Mac

VMWARE ADD-ON TOOLS ZIP FILE: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9SvdLiwSfz5T0FHQTRQY1V5VzQ/view?usp=sharing

MacOS Sierra 10.12 FINAL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9SvdLiwSfz5d0M2MERTTlVlZWM/view?usp=sharing

VMware Workstation player: http://bit.ly/2gZSViX

INSTALLATION GUIDE:

  • Now go a head and install VMware Workstation Player 12 on your PC, and Extract the two Zip files that you downloaded.
  • Now open VMWARE ADDON Tools FOLDER, and Look inside for WIN-INSTALL.CMD Script, right click on it and run it as ADMINISTRATOR.The script will run inside the command prompt, don’t quit until it exits itself. This will patch the VMWare Workstation Player to install Mac OS Sierra 10.12
  • Now open VMWare Workstation Player 12, Choose to create a new virtual machine.
  • Now you will see a dialogue will be opened, choose I will install the operating system later then choose Apple mac OS X and version will be set as 10.12.
  • Now name the Virtual Machine, and copy the address of the location.then click NEXT, and select STORE VIRTUAL DISK AS A SINGLE FILE and then click Finish . Now we have successfully created a virtual machine.

Install Os X 10.12 On Unsupported Macbook Pro

  • Now click on EDIT VIRTUAL MACHINE SETTINGS and Manipulate the hard ware resources. Under the memory section choose at least 4GB or Higher. Under the processor , section, select the maximum cores for performance.
  • Now select the hard disk and click on remove. Then Click on ADD to create a new Hard disk follow the screen shots below:
  • Now here click on BROWSE and Navigate to the extracted folder and look for the file named “Mac os sierra 10.12.vmdk” and open it.
  • Now click Finish and close the VMWARE Workstation Player 12 on your PC. And Then open WINDOWS EXPLORER, paste the address in the address bar which we have copied during the installation process. This will take to the location where all of the VIRTUAL MACHINES FILES stores .now look for the file named MacOS 10.12 sierra.vmx and open it with the notepad. Now in the notepad come to the bottom of all of the lines and add the new statement called smc.version = “0” save it and exit.
  • Now open the VMWARE workstation Player, and click the PLAY VIRTUAL MACHINE. This will run the mac os sierra. If you see apple Logo then everything is going perfect, just in case if you see any errors make sure that your system or PC has virtualization technology support.Note : In order to control the virtual machine with mouse cursor press CTRL + G, therefore the control of the mice will be inside the virtual machine.TO control your host or Windows OS with mouse cursor press CTRL + ALT , therefore the control will be back to host or windows OS.
  • Now create an account and login, now you have success fully installed Mac os Sierra 10.12 On windows PC using Vmware Player

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