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macOS 10.15 Catalina on Unsupported Macs
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Got DosDude Catalina working in addition to High Sierra sharing a container on a MacBook Air mid 2011.
I want to migrate apps to the Catalina partition, but Migration Assistant crashes. Has anybody else have this happen?
I want to migrate apps to the Catalina partition, but Migration Assistant crashes. Has anybody else have this happen?
Well, this used to work splendidly. But Catalina is now failing apps on Code Singing Check that are perfectly fine. Not all of them, but enough to be an issue. This used to work.
I suspect the Migration Assistant might have been running into this on restart.
I suspect the Migration Assistant might have been running into this on restart.
Hey all, a bit late to the party.
Running Catalina 10.15.7 with Dosdude1 on a MBP 15 inch mid 2010 with SSD and 8GB.
Works very well. Only problem is that Netflix is giving the Silverlight error when trying to watch a video (Safari 15.6.1). Weird as both Catalina and this version of Safari are supported by Netflix. (Even supports Safari as old as 11)
I installed Silverlight using a Silverlight.dmg but the error persists.
Chrome runs Netflix fine.
Any advice on how to get Netflix to run on this Mac+ Safari? I don't want to use Chrome just for this
Running Catalina 10.15.7 with Dosdude1 on a MBP 15 inch mid 2010 with SSD and 8GB.
Works very well. Only problem is that Netflix is giving the Silverlight error when trying to watch a video (Safari 15.6.1). Weird as both Catalina and this version of Safari are supported by Netflix. (Even supports Safari as old as 11)
I installed Silverlight using a Silverlight.dmg but the error persists.
Chrome runs Netflix fine.
Any advice on how to get Netflix to run on this Mac+ Safari? I don't want to use Chrome just for this
I have a base model iMac 11,2. I currently am running on Catalina Patcher but people are suggesting that OCLP is better.
Where do I find a copy of the Catalina installer to use with OCLP as it only has the latter half of Big Sur and newer on the list of Servers on the download list???
Ps. my GPU is a non metal TeraScale 1 variant and cannot use most newer copies of MacOS. distortions.
Where do I find a copy of the Catalina installer to use with OCLP as it only has the latter half of Big Sur and newer on the list of Servers on the download list???
Ps. my GPU is a non metal TeraScale 1 variant and cannot use most newer copies of MacOS. distortions.
Open terminal and type: codesign --remove-signature /Applications/appname.app (replace appname.app with an actual app) and relaunch the app. Do that for every app that fails with an invalid code signature. Problem solved.
Hi there, very late reply but just found your post. Unfortunately this won't work as your 2010 Macbook is too old to play HTML5 DRM content (regardless of OS / Safari version). See: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742
Quote: "Safari is supported on all 2012 or later Mac computers and some 2011 Mac computers"
Actually not even this as the 2012 Mac Pro can't play Netflix in Safari out of the box.
Using Chrome or Firefox will work just fine though.
I NEED HELP: After I installed Catalina with dosdude1's patcher on MacBookPro5,5 (Mid 2009 MacBook Pro), I decided to remove Catalina, I deleted all the Catalina patcher related partitions and I'm left with only my El Capitan partition.
However, I now want to install windows on the computer with boot camp and it succeeded everything but when I restarted the computer and held option key, I don't see the USB drive being detected and instead, I see El Capitan, EFI Boot, and Recovery. I tried clicking on EFI Boot and what it does the Catalina patcher verbose thing but it boots straight to El Capitan instead of Catalina because I removed it. The USB works fine, and I've used it before with no issues. I also tried using other USB drives that i had lying around but that didn't fix it either. Please tell me if I'm in the wrong thread or not. Thanks.
However, I now want to install windows on the computer with boot camp and it succeeded everything but when I restarted the computer and held option key, I don't see the USB drive being detected and instead, I see El Capitan, EFI Boot, and Recovery. I tried clicking on EFI Boot and what it does the Catalina patcher verbose thing but it boots straight to El Capitan instead of Catalina because I removed it. The USB works fine, and I've used it before with no issues. I also tried using other USB drives that i had lying around but that didn't fix it either. Please tell me if I'm in the wrong thread or not. Thanks.
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Remove the Catalina Patcher launcher from the EFI partition of your hard drive. Then go to a different thread for your Windows install problem.
Go into the Startup Manager (hold option at boot) without the USB connected. Then connect the USB. If it's detected and bootable then the Startup Manager should show one or more icons and names being added to the list of boot options.
how do i delete the launcher from the efi partition? it just boots into el capitan and it says El Capitan and BOOTCAMP in disk utility
or do i press esc while it does the verbose thing and type a command? if so then what should i type?
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You need to mount the EFI partition then remove the files in the EFI partition that belong to the Catalina Patcher.
Mounted it, i see 2 folders APPLE and BOOT and i found a file called apfs.efi, im assuming to delete apfs.efi?
Yes, there should be other files as well: bootx64.efi and startup.nsh
Before you delete BootX64.efi, verify that it matches the one at https://github.com/dosdude1/macos-c...talina Patcher/macOS Post Install/BOOTX64.efi
Or, if you mount the macOS Catalina Patcher.dmg, it should match the one at:
/Volumes/macOS\ Catalina\ Patcher/macOS\ Catalina\ Patcher.app/Contents/Resources/BOOTX64.efiThey have md5 =
082080109f0d31e7f53c1774a52feec2I installed Catalina on a MacBook Pro mid 2009 and I'm not being able to sign in on Music and Apple TV app. It just closes the login dialog box when I input the password. Any guesses?
I managed to got it fixed. Just created another user. Not even Catalina Patcher related I guess.
Thanks, I have removed the efi boot from showing in the boot menu but the usb that boot camp put the windows installer in still doesnt get detected in the boot menu. i went to another thread for this.
Anyone know how to fix black screen waking up from sleep? need to hard reboot it everytime it sleeps.
Hello, I have a MacBook Pro (13 inch, early 2011, 2,3 GHz Intel Core i5 de doble núcleo and 16GB RAM) I running on it Mac Os Catalina 10.15.7, and I have a problem with the webcam, is working on facetime but it doesn't work in Skype, how can I fix it, if not, wich is the most recen OS that I can run in this MacBook with the less issues? Thanks in advance.