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you need to format your drive as apfs (yes you will lose all of your files) install as normal go to post install pick your machine type ie for example 3,1 ect all the patches will show pick the named volume for install then click install then when its done click reboot
#solution >>> Install "Post Intall Drivers" running the installer again and use the basic common USB pendrive!!! Format the disk, no only the partition, on disk utility is the first left icon to select the disk.
J Alexandre how does installing the post-install work of the initial install never finished? Dosdude’s tutorial says to do post-install AFTER the initial install, but the install never finished.
Jay Koerner how does that make sense? Dosdude’s tutorial says to run post-install AFTER the installation is complete, but my installation never finished.
Just an update (11/3/19): After installing Catalina via dosdude1's patcher, you'll have a patcher update app. One cool update that just came out fixed the dark grey graphics on menus issue -- now my Catlina install on a mid-2009 Macbook Pro 17" has proper menu colors :D
Literally had the exact same thing happen to me today with a 2009 iMac, glad I wasn't the only one having problems! But I finally got it to work, and here are a few thoughts: 1. What version of the patcher tool are you running? If you look at the changelog, just a couple days ago a new version was released that lists *Fixed an issue with the APFS booter implementation* so that might be a possible hangup. I was initially running an older version but got it to work when I went up to v1.1.19. 2. When the initial bootscreen comes up after pressing option key and external HDD isn't detected or listed, I found that I had to unplug and reinsert the USB cable into iMac to get it to detect the drive and run the installer. Weird thing but whatever, it worked, and got me past my roadblock. Best of luck!
AFPS includes a ton of updated disk expectations, one of them being 4K support advanced format. Older disks sometimes will just not work, especially a 10 year old 160gb hard drive. Put in a $30 ssd!
The problem could be that the Mac Mini doesn't have enough RAM, I tried this on an old 2009 Polycarbobate MacBook with 2 gigs of ram and it did not work
5:20 meanwhile I hate when monitor and TV ports stick straight out the back; they just make the monitor effectively deeper than necessary. Even if you are blessed with a tons of desk space where you don't mind the monitor being bulkier, they still end up making cable management more hideous than necessary.
This is why I always disliked Apple’s lack of hard drive lights / indicators. Plus, if you’re on a solid state drive and it’s stuck, well then you’re screwed and never know if it’s doing anything.
Love this. It's how things always seem to go when I'm doing this kinda thing. Best tutorial is like this and see half the things go wrong that could for someone else, then I don't have to spend quite so many hours doing all the same stuff later! :)
I would say since it was on Snow Leopard before the jump to Catalina, install the latest supported OS which was El Capitan. Then try installing Catalina. That would be my suggestion to you since I also owned a 2009 Mac Mini and done this with Mojave.
Maybe there’s some other hidden updates with the El Capitan installer that it does, I’m not 100% aware but that’s what made it work for me was updating the newest officially supported OS, and then going to the unsupported ones. Never would have any issues with it afterward.
Steps that should work 1. Install macOS Catalina 2.then boot back In the installer 3. Patch it using macOS Post Install 4.boot back in to the the main HDD. It should work now.
But I can’t install the post stuff when the installation failed. Post needs to be run after the first install is complete, yes? My install never finishes; it hangs.
i had this exact same issue as you on a late 2009 imac, turned out that after resetting the smc and pram fixed the issue, after doing that it booted up fine, i was also going from snow leopard to catalina so could be something to do with that
Could be, bet you the pram/nvram stores completely different values, probably confuses the hell out of Catalina to see Snow leopard crap, I also didn't see him run the post install so that's another issue, if he did he didn't show it
Jay Koerner the post install auto runs on the dosdude1 Catalina patcher, if it hadn’t run the post install then it wouldn’t of even attempted to boot apfs
Okay so I have my idea. I used this tool alot for my hackintosh sometimes. But i think you need to go back into the installer after you have installed the file on the system. Make sure you disk is GUID, APFS, then whatever name you want. Install Catalina half way. Then boot back off the patcher, this is the important part. Now in the patcher to go to mac os post install... then change the back at the bottom to the mac mini 3,1. Then it will select all the patches you need. (Make sure Volume is targeted to Catalina) after this click done then apply patches. This will install platform compatible and select the bottom IDE controller as well. Then make sure you rebuild cache. After this boot back into normal catalina and see what it does.
Hi Mate, my daughter's laptop was hanging in the same spot until I when into the terminal and disable the SIP "csrutil disable", rebooted and reinstalled the Catalina Patcher and it worked.
I had all the same dramas (especially with efi and the flashing question mark folder) until is discovered rEFInd. Solved all my problems. Took me the good part of a day to work it all out however.
I am 68. Don’t forget about us old guys for used computers before we had screens and had to use punchcards, paper tape, teletypes and fight for space on the time shared computer in the computer lab. From around 1968 to 1977 or so before personal computers.
Wow, I'm actually watching this on a Catalina-running mid 2009 MacBook Pro (13") that I used dosdude1's patcher to upgrade past 10.11. My experience was much smoother ;-;
When Ken tries to teach me what an optical drive is, all I had to do is look to my left where my desktop has an optical drive. Glad I could learn what that was :P
From using the Mojave patcher on my 2010 MacBook Pro, every minute it reports in the patcher (over USB 2.0) is actually about 7 minutes. However, I'm back on High Sierra because it's a lot snappier for this guy.
Sometimes a device can hate a drive. I just keep getting prohibited logo when using my Samsung 870 EVO on 2010 plastic MacBook, trying to patch to Catalina. But tried the same with a 2009 plastic macBook and it worked! The USB drive having a such oddity can also f*ck everything!
Maybe format an external (usb) ssd to APFS bootdisk from your Macbook and use that to install Catalina on it. I've installed macOS like that on a samsung t5 ssd to use as a bootdisk for my 2010 Macbook as a temporary solution when the internal drive failed. It runs smoothly. When your external Catalina bootdisk runs ok you can copy that to the internal disk with a Time machine backup
I would strongly recommend that you put an ssd on the Mac mini and also try to install form your MacBook to it's drive, boot up the Catalina installer and run post install on the Mac mini. I bet that it'll work
@@flyskyb737 the macOS install is done in two stages, if he does the first one on target disk mode and on the second one he patches the OS to work on that mac mini it would work, macs dont care how you installed the os since the ACPI drivers work more like OpenBSD. he just need to restart the mac into normal mode AFTER he installs the OS with the above method
I just did this about a week ago on a late 2009 iMac. I left the house for two hours and came back and it was still installing. Upside, it runs beautifully! Apple, stop prematurely obsoleting our computers!
On my Early 2008 iMac 20 inch with a 2TB Seagate Sata 3 Hard Drive and with 4GB of DDR3 Ram and a 1.4 Ghz AMD Radeon 2800 Pro with a 2.66 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
@@ComputerClan (: your welcome! Keep up the amazing work it's hard being a youtuber. I've been trying to rebuild my Jesseplayz channel (has over 1k). It got taken down by someone I trusted February 13th 2019. Got it back at the end of August. So alot of the people who where there watching my videos are now gone. So rebuilding is hard. I did start a new channel when my main got taken from me. I got that up to 200+. So idk what to do now. I'm stuck in a place where I'm like should I upload or not. Would love some advice (:
Watching this on my modded Mac Mini 2011 running Catalina on a 500gb ssd & 8 gb of ram. Unbelievable how much life is brought into the dead mini! Thanks internet community for getting me by this pandemic
I got Catalina on my MacBook Pro 2010. It works fine (on dark mode). I now have all my iPhone restrictions from my iPhone due to screen time. Apple needs to make a way to disable Screentime on Mac, without disabling on the iPhone. Having 2 user accounts is really super annoying.
Installing MacOs in unsupported macs with Dosdude1 resources is ridiculously easy. I have used it in four different Macs, included my Mac Mini early 2009. :P Dosdude1: respect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First time caller, but been watching for a while and love the channel. Can you please do a fix auto commercial, it would be funny. keep up the great videos.
I almost bought a Mac Mini a couple of years ago, cause the price wasn't crazy and it didn't take up so much space. But there were two deal-breakers. One, I love video games, and Apple is not the best with gaming (Yeah it has many Final Fantasy titles). Two, it doesn't work with Corel Paintshop Pro or Corel Video Studio. Which I sware by. Don't at me...
You should use a flash drive as the installation media, it's more reliable than a mechanical hard drive. I never had an issue installing OS X versions on flash drives.
What was the issue. For everyone out there , if you create the USB installer on a machine running el Capitan or newer you need to disable the sip System protection . otherwise the patched files needed for the installer might not be properly copied over and the process will fail because of system protection.
At 23:52 you need to force shut down the computer, then boot back into the usb and install the post-install patches and then boot back into the drive that Catalina is on. I know I’m late and you probably won’t see this, but that’s how you fix it. On some macs it has the ghostbusters symbol there, but same thing as what you had. Thanks for the funny and entertaining videos! 😊
The post-install is not needed. The process failed to install, so a "post" install won't work. And I know for sure it won't work because I tried it in the follow-up (I think it was 'part 2') and it failed.
Made boot USB with latest Catalina patcher, fixed new SSD drive to late 2011 MacBook Pro, everything went fine, during installation after assigning the preferred language and location Remote Management screen comes and from Union City Board Education starts to install programs for education and student. After successful installation comes user name and password screen,which I don't have. kindly advise, why this OS wants to install from Union City Board Education for their students- I am new for Mac OS
I updated my unsupported Mac to Catalina but now I want to downgrade to Mojave. I can't seem to get it to boot from a USB disc. I press Option (Alt) key after pressing the power button, but the patch runs and Catalina restarts. How do I get my computer to boot from a Bootable USB disc after having this patch installed?
i has the same project on my old mac, and when i tried installing the OS using an external ssd for some reason when i held option it wasn’t showing that the disk was connected, what i did was let it turn on with the ssd not connected and once it let me choose what to boot in i connected the ssd and it showed it was connected. maybe that’s the problem?
I have done this twice now, with 2 different machines incl a 2009 imac. Worked like a champ both times, although patience is *necessary* - I did not reformat either hard drive to APFS, just an FYI. YMMMV
you need to format your drive as apfs (yes you will lose all of your files) install as normal go to post install pick your machine type ie for example 3,1 ect all the patches will show pick the named volume for install then click install then when its done click reboot
I have a problem I have a TH-cam Chanel (check it out) and I edit my videos in my 2009 MacBook mid in iMovie but after installing this I have had some problems with the app not opening will it opens but a soon as I try to edit or to create a movie It crashes and won’t let me edit HELP ME !!
I need to update my late 2009 iMac from high Sierra to Mojave using dosdude1’s patcher but I want to keep my programs, apps, plugins, and files. What is the best way to do that?
You need the MacOS version of a special surgeon from the Mayo Clinic who only does heart transplants on already dead people or something. The surgeon other surgeons bow to. Best of luck!!!
UPDATE: Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions! Stay tuned for part 2…
Enjoy the new episode, and special thanks to dosdude1 for being in the video and for writing the patcher! Also, don't forget to subscribe and click the *Bell* so we can send new videos right to your device.
you need to format your drive as apfs (yes you will lose all of your files) install as normal go to post install pick your machine type ie for example 3,1 ect all the patches will show pick the named volume for install then click install then when its done click reboot
i forgot to add the post installer will also auto chose the patch type for you machine but you can manually select it
oh, and the discord server is public (for people asking when did it come out). > thecomputerclan.com/discord
try resetting the smc and the pram
@@jairsharp9993 he never showed installing the post install
Alternative Title: Catalina Installation causes Local tech guy to lose sanity
kkkk... Yeah! Too funny, but i learn a lot with this video, awesome!
LOL
Also known as an installation frustration, as Ken calls it
Ken actually loses it, 2019 (colorized)
lol
😂
“What’s the name of your partition?”
“24!”
I found that funnier than I probably should’ve.
Spongebob reference
Brenda Collenette I know. I’ve watched Spongebob.
me to
Yes mee too
but do you know what's funnier?
25
Love that Cinema Display! Sad you couldn't use it.
You know, the progress bar on take 1 on the install (after Ken partition the internal HDD to AFPS) actually moved slightly while he was talking.
#solution >>> Install "Post Intall Drivers" running the installer again and use the basic common USB pendrive!!! Format the disk, no only the partition, on disk utility is the first left icon to select the disk.
Yeah when he go to the 15 mins and just rebooted I went doh
yes!!!! i was really really annoyed by this ken skipped this part
J Alexandre how does installing the post-install work of the initial install never finished? Dosdude’s tutorial says to do post-install AFTER the initial install, but the install never finished.
박수민 I don’t get it. Dosdude’s tutorial says to run post-install AFTER the installation is complete, but my installation never finished.
Jay Koerner how does that make sense? Dosdude’s tutorial says to run post-install AFTER the installation is complete, but my installation never finished.
Installed catalina on my unsupported early 2011 mbp with an ssd. Works perfectly
Sharukh Bhoelan i already have patched mojave. Can I directly update?
Does AirPlay works for you? I have the same mac and its not working.
Halil Çelik Aykent if you’re already on an APFS format
Well your Mac is quite similar to a 2012 Mac, so of course it would work.
Awesome! Could you provide the link?
Ken: **explains storage media**
I see smoke coming out of my ears
lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololo
@@lukejenkines449 r u ok?
Just an update (11/3/19): After installing Catalina via dosdude1's patcher, you'll have a patcher update app. One cool update that just came out fixed the dark grey graphics on menus issue -- now my Catlina install on a mid-2009 Macbook Pro 17" has proper menu colors :D
ken explaining an optical drive to me:
me: i would know I have a whole case of them
It's not tech misadventures without problems. -Krazy Ken 2019
Literally had the exact same thing happen to me today with a 2009 iMac, glad I wasn't the only one having problems! But I finally got it to work, and here are a few thoughts:
1. What version of the patcher tool are you running? If you look at the changelog, just a couple days ago a new version was released that lists *Fixed an issue with the APFS booter implementation* so that might be a possible hangup. I was initially running an older version but got it to work when I went up to v1.1.19.
2. When the initial bootscreen comes up after pressing option key and external HDD isn't detected or listed, I found that I had to unplug and reinsert the USB cable into iMac to get it to detect the drive and run the installer. Weird thing but whatever, it worked, and got me past my roadblock. Best of luck!
I’ll try the new version in part 2!
@@ComputerClan have you released that and I just can’t find it?
@@ComputerClan can the patcher run on a 2011 imac
AFPS includes a ton of updated disk expectations, one of them being 4K support advanced format. Older disks sometimes will just not work, especially a 10 year old 160gb hard drive. Put in a $30 ssd!
The problem could be that the Mac Mini doesn't have enough RAM, I tried this on an old 2009 Polycarbobate MacBook with 2 gigs of ram and it did not work
5:20 meanwhile I hate when monitor and TV ports stick straight out the back; they just make the monitor effectively deeper than necessary. Even if you are blessed with a tons of desk space where you don't mind the monitor being bulkier, they still end up making cable management more hideous than necessary.
11:50 I agree. that wall paper is amazing
WHAT IS THE NAME OF YOUR PARTITION
...42
LMAOOOO
This is why I always disliked Apple’s lack of hard drive lights / indicators. Plus, if you’re on a solid state drive and it’s stuck, well then you’re screwed and never know if it’s doing anything.
I updated my Dell Latitude to macOS Catalina yesterday and it runs just fine.
Hackintoshes are illegal
@@xXdawgXx bruh moment
@@xXdawgXx $10 Penalty lmao
Hackintoshes are legal it is pirating macOS on the internet that is illegal
@@jonasanderson1987 A. its not really pirating. we can use our own discs.
my god its like watching a voice actor install catalina patcher on a mac mini!
IKR?!
Love this. It's how things always seem to go when I'm doing this kinda thing. Best tutorial is like this and see half the things go wrong that could for someone else, then I don't have to spend quite so many hours doing all the same stuff later! :)
oh guess what I'm watching this on macOS Catalina... but on a supported Mac
well I'm watching this on macOS Catalina... but on an unsupported Mac
I'm watching this on Catalina, on a Dell hackintosh, that's speced the same roughly as a dual procesor Mac 5,1 a unsupported Mac
@@jaykoerner how was your installation?
I am watching this on El Crapitan. :)
Oh guess what I'm watching this on macOS Catalina... on my pc with AMD ryzen. Lets ignore that its ryzen 1200. In config.plist its iMac Pro 2017
Did ya all see that the progress bar moved when he said it doesn't? 19:09
Yep
Yep I have the same Mac
Yep...bug the hell out of me when he said it wasn't moving, but it clearly moved.
Y e s
I would say since it was on Snow Leopard before the jump to Catalina, install the latest supported OS which was El Capitan. Then try installing Catalina. That would be my suggestion to you since I also owned a 2009 Mac Mini and done this with Mojave.
Maybe there’s some other hidden updates with the El Capitan installer that it does, I’m not 100% aware but that’s what made it work for me was updating the newest officially supported OS, and then going to the unsupported ones. Never would have any issues with it afterward.
you saying "derp" out loud sent me directly to 2012
Finally .. this episode came out
Steps that should work
1. Install macOS Catalina 2.then boot back In the installer
3. Patch it using macOS Post Install
4.boot back in to the the main HDD.
It should work now.
But I can’t install the post stuff when the installation failed. Post needs to be run after the first install is complete, yes? My install never finishes; it hangs.
@drew better than I could explain.
installed Catalina on my MacBook Pro 17" (Mid 2010) works perfectly.. upped memory to 8Gb swapped HDD & DVD drives with SSDs.. love it!
"Ladies and gentlemen - I am a patient man" - or a man made into a patient by this process :)
LMAO
i had this exact same issue as you on a late 2009 imac, turned out that after resetting the smc and pram fixed the issue, after doing that it booted up fine, i was also going from snow leopard to catalina so could be something to do with that
Could be, bet you the pram/nvram stores completely different values, probably confuses the hell out of Catalina to see Snow leopard crap, I also didn't see him run the post install so that's another issue, if he did he didn't show it
Jay Koerner the post install auto runs on the dosdude1 Catalina patcher, if it hadn’t run the post install then it wouldn’t of even attempted to boot apfs
You definitely highlight the reality of OS upgrades. Love it.
I melted my table finish with my first gen MacBook Pro.
oop-
I almost had a heart attack when you opened the laptop that way! 😂
What laptop
Okay so I have my idea. I used this tool alot for my hackintosh sometimes. But i think you need to go back into the installer after you have installed the file on the system. Make sure you disk is GUID, APFS, then whatever name you want. Install Catalina half way. Then boot back off the patcher, this is the important part. Now in the patcher to go to mac os post install... then change the back at the bottom to the mac mini 3,1. Then it will select all the patches you need. (Make sure Volume is targeted to Catalina) after this click done then apply patches. This will install platform compatible and select the bottom IDE controller as well. Then make sure you rebuild cache. After this boot back into normal catalina and see what it does.
Hi Mate, my daughter's laptop was hanging in the same spot until I when into the terminal and disable the SIP
"csrutil disable", rebooted and reinstalled the Catalina Patcher and it worked.
Do you delete the patcher after installation?
@@ranjitnahal575 I ran the patcher from a 64GB USB stick
God, this is exactly what it was like when I tried dual booting linux and OSX
I had all the same dramas (especially with efi and the flashing question mark folder) until is discovered rEFInd. Solved all my problems. Took me the good part of a day to work it all out however.
Duuuuude! I just freaking love your sense of humour :D You've got yourself a new subscriber!
Thank you : )
I am 68. Don’t forget about us old guys for used computers before we had screens and had to use punchcards, paper tape, teletypes and fight for space on the time shared computer in the computer lab.
From around 1968 to 1977 or so before personal computers.
Every time Ken says conversion technology, he needs to stand up and wear the t-shirt
I should start doing that.
Yeah you should lol
Me: Oooh, I wonder how Ken is doing?
Walks in and finds Ken bashing his skull into the wall.
Me: Um, maybe I should come back later...
I'm 15 years old and I have grown with cd's and dvd'd but have never seen a blue-ray
Wow, I'm actually watching this on a Catalina-running mid 2009 MacBook Pro (13") that I used dosdude1's patcher to upgrade past 10.11. My experience was much smoother ;-;
When are you going to make part 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When Ken tries to teach me what an optical drive is, all I had to do is look to my left where my desktop has an optical drive. Glad I could learn what that was :P
Who needs a optical drive, my PC comes with a drink tray :p
"sit on the floor" had me lol
From using the Mojave patcher on my 2010 MacBook Pro, every minute it reports in the patcher (over USB 2.0) is actually about 7 minutes. However, I'm back on High Sierra because it's a lot snappier for this guy.
just get a faster SSD and then go wild with installing Catalina
+1
and 8GB of DDR3 memory
Sometimes a device can hate a drive. I just keep getting prohibited logo when using my Samsung 870 EVO on 2010 plastic MacBook, trying to patch to Catalina. But tried the same with a 2009 plastic macBook and it worked!
The USB drive having a such oddity can also f*ck everything!
what about part two I cant find it???
I enjoy this channel so much
Maybe format an external (usb) ssd to APFS bootdisk from your Macbook and use that to install Catalina on it. I've installed macOS like that on a samsung t5 ssd to use as a bootdisk for my 2010 Macbook as a temporary solution when the internal drive failed. It runs smoothly. When your external Catalina bootdisk runs ok you can copy that to the internal disk with a Time machine backup
I would strongly recommend that you put an ssd on the Mac mini and also try to install form your MacBook to it's drive, boot up the Catalina installer and run post install on the Mac mini. I bet that it'll work
you cannot install macOS on a mac that is on target disk mode he needs to take out the drive
@@flyskyb737 the macOS install is done in two stages, if he does the first one on target disk mode and on the second one he patches the OS to work on that mac mini it would work, macs dont care how you installed the os since the ACPI drivers work more like OpenBSD. he just need to restart the mac into normal mode AFTER he installs the OS with the above method
I just did this about a week ago on a late 2009 iMac. I left the house for two hours and came back and it was still installing. Upside, it runs beautifully!
Apple, stop prematurely obsoleting our computers!
Hey Ken, I'm pretty sure there was a part 2 uploaded at some point, but I can't seem to find it on your channel anymore.
I installed Mac OS Catalina on my early 2008 iMac 20 inch and it worked extremely good
Did ur files get deleted?
@@emrealiyayan4315 heck no I'm using it right now
On my Early 2008 iMac 20 inch with a 2TB Seagate Sata 3 Hard Drive and with 4GB of DDR3 Ram and a 1.4 Ghz AMD Radeon 2800 Pro with a 2.66 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
@@thomasaaron3094 i have also installed it. It seems good but I feel that my mac is much worser than before. How is ur mac?
I like your channel plus your personality. New here so subscribing!
Thanks for watching! I hope you enjoy the other episodes. There’s over 100, so it’s perfect for binging!
@@ComputerClan (: your welcome! Keep up the amazing work it's hard being a youtuber. I've been trying to rebuild my Jesseplayz channel (has over 1k). It got taken down by someone I trusted February 13th 2019. Got it back at the end of August. So alot of the people who where there watching my videos are now gone. So rebuilding is hard. I did start a new channel when my main got taken from me. I got that up to 200+. So idk what to do now. I'm stuck in a place where I'm like should I upload or not. Would love some advice (:
Ps This is the new Channel I'm replying on
this video should be included in dortania guides to give a example what happens when you don't use a ssd
Watching this on my modded Mac Mini 2011 running Catalina on a 500gb ssd & 8 gb of ram. Unbelievable how much life is brought into the dead mini! Thanks internet community for getting me by this pandemic
I got Catalina on my MacBook Pro 2010. It works fine (on dark mode). I now have all my iPhone restrictions from my iPhone due to screen time. Apple needs to make a way to disable Screentime on Mac, without disabling on the iPhone. Having 2 user accounts is really super annoying.
Watching this at 12:30am... I died at the "guess it needs some meta bread" part
They should bring back the 3-D dock like you have there in Snow Leopard!
Installing MacOs in unsupported macs with Dosdude1 resources is ridiculously easy. I have used it in four different Macs, included my Mac Mini early 2009. :P Dosdude1: respect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mac OS: Whats the name of your partition?
Ken: 24!
And whats funnier? 25
Being schooled about the wonders of optical media by Professor Ken was probably one of the best parts of this video 🤣
i honestly truied this some time ago and it Muckered up my Mac Mini.
Perfect video and definitely entertaining. Keep up the great work!
Installed macOS Catalina using dosdude1 Patcher on an iMac 27" 2009 (SSD mod). Works great!
Same here, worked perfectly
Man, screw my 2008 Macbook 4,1 for not being incompatible. For having the wrong kind of integrated graphics. It's stuck with the "big cats" :(
Tried witch mojave patched, in a macbook 2,1 but when it comes click on usb it starts older OS again. What can I do ?
First time caller, but been watching for a while and love the channel. Can you please do a fix auto commercial, it would be funny. keep up the great videos.
The HFS error is because macOS when installing always formats the partition as HFS, even if it is a hard-drive
I almost bought a Mac Mini a couple of years ago, cause the price wasn't crazy and it didn't take up so much space. But there were two deal-breakers. One, I love video games, and Apple is not the best with gaming (Yeah it has many Final Fantasy titles). Two, it doesn't work with Corel Paintshop Pro or Corel Video Studio. Which I sware by. Don't at me...
You should use a flash drive as the installation media, it's more reliable than a mechanical hard drive.
I never had an issue installing OS X versions on flash drives.
What was the issue. For everyone out there , if you create the USB installer
on a machine running el Capitan or newer you need to disable the sip
System protection . otherwise the patched files needed for the installer
might not be properly copied over and the process will fail because
of system protection.
No lie, I got a Linode ad before this video
I saw the bar move a *TINY* bit when the drive was formatted with HFS+. I was really confused when I found out that it shouldn’t work.
When are you going to release the Discord Group I’m crazy for it
The Discord has been open for over a week : p
Bruh
ok
bruh moment
At 23:52 you need to force shut down the computer, then boot back into the usb and install the post-install patches and then boot back into the drive that Catalina is on. I know I’m late and you probably won’t see this, but that’s how you fix it.
On some macs it has the ghostbusters symbol there, but same thing as what you had.
Thanks for the funny and entertaining videos! 😊
The post-install is not needed. The process failed to install, so a "post" install won't work.
And I know for sure it won't work because I tried it in the follow-up (I think it was 'part 2') and it failed.
@@ComputerClan 24:20 what is this screensaver
@@NikoCubeRoot that’s Target Disk Mode (Command-T on boot)
Made boot USB with latest Catalina patcher, fixed new SSD drive to late 2011 MacBook Pro, everything went fine, during installation after assigning the preferred language and location Remote Management screen comes and from Union City Board Education starts to install programs for education and student. After successful installation comes user name and password screen,which I don't have. kindly advise, why this OS wants to install from Union City Board Education for their students- I am new for Mac OS
You know it's going to be a good video when you're on the 5th minute of the video and he already used 3 different displays.
Yeah, I had some troubles. Oops. I was underprepared for this one.
I updated my unsupported Mac to Catalina but now I want to downgrade to Mojave. I can't seem to get it to boot from a USB disc. I press Option (Alt) key after pressing the power button, but the patch runs and Catalina restarts. How do I get my computer to boot from a Bootable USB disc after having this patch installed?
i has the same project on my old mac, and when i tried installing the OS using an external ssd for some reason when i held option it wasn’t showing that the disk was connected, what i did was let it turn on with the ssd not connected and once it let me choose what to boot in i connected the ssd and it showed it was connected. maybe that’s the problem?
The italian impersonation was well done 😁.
I have done this twice now, with 2 different machines incl a 2009 imac. Worked like a champ both times, although patience is *necessary* - I did not reformat either hard drive to APFS, just an FYI. YMMMV
I just realized I watched entire episode on mobile data...
A tech video log is a tutorial but it discusses all the possibilities of a problem ;)
Almost like a reverse tutorial.
you need to format your drive as apfs (yes you will lose all of your files) install as normal go to post install pick your machine type ie for example 3,1 ect all the patches will show pick the named volume for install then click install then when its done click reboot
I am grateful they point down, or I'd have even more broken cables
When my bedroom door is closed I get knocks. I think it’s my Mac saying “JESUS CHRIST NOAH USE ME SOME FRICKIN DAY” XD
Install Windows 7 on it. No, not Windows 10, Windows 7.
if you upgrade to mavericks then you can do the patcher again because you have to have mavericks or later in order to to get Catalina at all
Catalina works like a dream on macbook late 2009
I have a problem I have a TH-cam Chanel (check it out) and I edit my videos in my 2009 MacBook mid in iMovie but after installing this I have had some problems with the app not opening will it opens but a soon as I try to edit or to create a movie It crashes and won’t let me edit HELP ME !!
-guys it might work
-a third of the way through the video
I need to update my late 2009 iMac from high Sierra to Mojave using dosdude1’s patcher but I want to keep my programs, apps, plugins, and files. What is the best way to do that?
can i use this patcher on a windows pc?
Look at ken, teaching the kids the basics of obsolete hardware
ken why did you not just go to the website on the mac mini then install the pacher on the mac mini
You need the MacOS version of a special surgeon from the Mayo Clinic who only does heart transplants on already dead people or something. The surgeon other surgeons bow to. Best of luck!!!
You need at least 4 gigabytes of ram to do catalina patcher do you have 2 or 3?
just watch it on the dosdude1 website, and the patcher works the same on a supported mac as well