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It is a MacBook Pro 13-inch, Late 2011 (MacBookPro8,1), 8GB RAM, optical drive exchanged to a second hard drive, attached to an Apple Thunderbolt Display (another reason not to get a new hardware), and with wireless Bluetooth Apple keyboard and touchpad.

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Apple’s new macOS Mojave doesn’t support the old Macs prior to 2012. It was a shocking news for me too.

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I have an old, not for me actually, MacBook Pro which I purchased at the end of 2010. I was expecting Apple won’t drop the support of Mojave for MacBook Pro 2010 model, at least not for this time. But I was wrong. The latest Majove doesn’t support it too.

There is no need to worry. Even the oldest Windows 95 can be installed on Mac computer. There is a solution to every problem.

I don’t want to upgrade my MacBook Pro right now, especially when a new model is rumored to be released in next month.

Another choice for me was to buy a graphics card which supports Metal. In fact, it was the most feasible solution for to get installed Majove on my unsupported Mac right now.

Metal is natively supported by all Macs introduced since 2012. It means the following Nvidia, AMD and Intel family cards are compatible.

-Intel HD Graphics 400, Iris 5000 & 6000 family

-Nvidia GT 600M, 700M family

-AMD R9 M family

To check which GPU (graphics processing unit) is installed on your Mac computer, click on the Apple icon in the top left corner and then click on “About This Mac”.

There are a number of third-party vendors which sell graphics cards with integrated Metal support specifically designed for Mac computers. While searching for a compatible graphics card, I found that I could install Mojave on my MacBook Pro Mid 2010 model by using a software known as macOS Mojave Patcher Tool. Kudos to DosDude1 who developed tested, and released it as a free app.

By using this software, we could install the latest macOS version on early 2008 Macs.

Here is the step by step method to run Mojave on unsupported Macs.

The whole process can be divided into four parts.

  • Part 1. Getting all the required things
  • Part 2. Downloading the macOS Mojave Installer App
  • Part 3. Making a bootable Mojave USB drive
  • Part 4. Installing and Patching Mojave OS on the unsupported computer

We will discuss each part in details in the following paragraphs.

Part 1: Requirements to Run Mojave on Old Macs

Four things are required to get macOS Mojave installed on your forgotten-by-Apple Mac.

  1. Your Mac computer

It could be an early-2008 or newer Mac Pro, iMac, or MacBook Pro. The following models include under this category.

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– MacPro3,1
– MacPro4,1
– iMac8,1
– iMac9,1
– iMac10,x
– iMac11,x
– iMac12,x
– MacBookPro4,1
– MacBookPro5,x
– MacBookPro6,x
– MacBookPro7,1
– MacBookPro8,x

It could be late-2008 or newer MacBook Air or Aluminum Unibody MacBook. The following models include under this category:

– MacBookAir2,1
– MacBookAir3,x
– MacBookAir4,x
– MacBook5,1

It could be early-2009 or newer Mac Mini or white MacBook including the following models:

– Macmini3,1
– Macmini4,1
– Macmini5,x
– MacBook5,2
– MacBook6,1
– MacBook7,1

And it could be Xserve2, 1 and Xserver3, 1.

  1. A USB drive in 16GB size or above
  2. macOS Mojave patcher tool. Download it here.
  3. A copy of the Mojave software.

Part 2: Download macOS Mojave Installer Software

MacOS Mojave software can be downloaded as an Installer App from Mac App Store using the computer which supports Mojave.

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If you don’t have Mojave supported Mac, you can download the Mojave Installer App using patcher tool. Open the macOS Mojave patcher tool. If it doesn’t open and says it is from an unidentified developer, right click on the tool’s icon and click on “Open” from sub-menu and then enter your Mac’s Admin name and password. After the verification, you can open it with the left double-click.

If you don’t remember your macOS password, here are the solutions to reset it.

Go to Tools in the Menu bar and then hit “Download macOS Mojave”.

I recommend using the built-in downloader tool because it will download the latest and the compatible Installer app.

Mojave Installer app is about 5-6GB in size and it may take some time depending on the speed of your internet.

If the internet connection interrupts while downloading the file, don’t worry. The downloading process will resume where it left. Simply download the Mojave software again but point it to the same location where you were already downloading and saving the installer app.

Part 3: Create a Bootable Mojave USB Drive

In order to create a bootable Mojave USB Installer drive, follow these steps.

Step 1: Insert 16GB or above USB drive into your USB port of your Mac.

Step 2: Open Disk Utility and erase the USB drive in OS X Extended (Journaled) format. Give a proper name before erasing. I gave the name “macOS Mojave” to my USB drive.

If you are new to Mac, get the basic information about how to make a Partition, erase the current partition and how to make a bootable USB drive.

Step 3: After the drive is erased, open “macOS Mojave Patcher” tool.

Step 4: Point the Patcher tool to the downloaded Mojave Installer app which is downloaded in Part 2.

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Step 5: Now select the target USB drive you just formatted.

Step 6: Hit the “Start Operation” button on the patcher tool and let it make the USB bootable with Mojave.

Step 7: It will show “Complete” when the process is done.

Part 4: Installing and Patching macOS Mojave

In this fourth and final part, we will install and patch the macOS Mojave on our old Mac computer. Follow the steps below to complete the remaining procedure.

Step 1. Restart your computer and hold down the “Option” key as soon as the Mac starts up.

Step 2: Select the USB drive, which was named as “macOS Mojave” as the startup disk.

Step 3: If you want to upgrade your current macOS to macOS Mojave, simply use the continue button to proceed and follow step 5. But if you want to install it on another partition or want to erase the current partition first, then follow the Step 4.

Step 4: Open Disk Utility from the bottom left panel.

Select the volume you want to erase. Use Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format. Or if you have got late-2009 and later machines with SSD drives, you can also use APFS format.

If you don’t want to install Mojave on current volume, you can also create a new partition and install it there. Mojave takes approximately 18GB space on hard drive. So at least make a 25GB partition to test the new macOS.

If you want to use it for all routine work, set the partition size according to your needs.

Step 5: Select the volume and press “Continue” to begin the installation process.

Step 6: The installation process takes about 20 minutes to complete. When it is done, reboot your Mac back into installer drive while holding down the “Option” key again.

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Step 7: This time select “macOS Post Install” app from the bottom left panel.

Step 8: Select the model of your computer and the volume on which you installed Mojave and then click the “Patch” button. The tool will automatically select the required patches according to the model of your computer.

Step 9: Press the “Reboot” button when the patch is complete.

Step 10: The computer will reboot with macOS Mojave installed on it.

Step 11. If it doesn’t work properly on the restart, boot your Mac back into the installer USB drive, select macOS Post Install again, and this time also select “Force Cache Rebuild” option. Once the patch is complete and the cache is rebuilt, reboot.

Step 12: Upon restart, complete the setup process and start using your Mac with a Mojave operating system.

Happy Mojaving!!

For additional information and to know more about the known issues, please visit DosDune1’s website. He is an awesome guy.

Note: You will see a new “Patch Updater” app in the Applications under “Other” folder. It will alert you when new patches are available for your computer.

Your Mac will get the future Mojave updates as other supported computer do. If you don’t see the updates, or your computer doesn’t work properly after applying the update, use the step 11 of Part 4 to enable all patches.

Since 2008 or 2009 I work on Apple hardware and OS: back then I grew tired of Linux desktop (which is going to be MASSIVE NEXT YEAR, at least since 2001), and switched to something that Just Works. Six years later, it less and less Just Works, started turning into spyware and nagware, and doesn't need much less maintenance than Linux desktop — at least for my work, which is system administration and software development, probably it is better for the mythical End User person. Work needed to get software I need running is not less obscure than work I'd need to do on Linux or othe Unix-like system. I am finding myself turning away from GUI programs that I used to appreciate, and most of the time I use OSX to just run a terminal, Firefox, and Emacs. GUI that used to be nice and unintrusive, got annoying. Either I came full circle in the last 15 years of my computer usage, or the OSX experience degraded in last 5 years. Again, this is from a sysadmin/developer kind of power user perspective; power user, whose definition of 'fun' includes spending 6 hours in the middle of the night figuring how to get dual boot working with UEFI.

Next reason is that I am working a lot on FreeBSD software, Jetpack being the most visible. I want to try out custom kernel options (VIMAGE and RACCT), and using a custom kernel seems tricky in a VMWare/VirtualBox VM. Skipping VM overhead would be nice too. And the final push was when I saw the Terminology demo, ran it on an old laptop that's already got FreeBSD installed, and found it working as advertised. XXIst CENTURY IS HERE, GRAPHICAL TERMINALS REALIZED THEY CAN DISPLAY PICTURES. I want this, and I want this integrated with Mutt, Irssi, Ekg2, Elinks…

I'm not switching (yet), it is an ongoing experiment to see how much I can get running. It is a challenge to take hardware developed for OSX in particular, without much thought given to other operating systems, and designed NOT to make interoperability easy — and to get an open OS running. To see how much of a tradeoff will it be. I want to try running an open operating system where I can safely expect that software won't insist on phoning home, syncing my data with a cloud, and won't nag me to enable features that require that if I choose to skip it. There's also a practical side: this is hardware that I have. I don't plan to get a new workstation soon.

I will surely miss some things. After first start of Xorg I already cringe at font rendering (maybe it's configurable somewhere, though). LibreOffice should be a good replacement for most of MS Office/iWork by now, but probably it doesn't match Keynote. Not sure about document viewers nowadays: Apple's Preview is nice and invisible. 1Password. OmniGraffle. F.Lux. Time Machine. Integrated address book. iBooks. Dash (the handy documentation browser). Papers. A couple of games. I'll probably have a hard time figuring out how to use some closed software I need for work or fan: Flash player, Skype, Google Hangouts… Still, this list doesn't seem that big after all — and as long as I have Apple hardware, I'll keep the dual boot. Won't hurt to try, worst case is I will learn something new and go back to OSX.

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I've been asked on what hardware exactly do I do all of that. It is a MacBook Pro 13-inch, Late 2011 (MacBookPro8,1), 8GB RAM, optical drive exchanged to a second hard drive, attached to an Apple Thunderbolt Display (another reason not to get a new hardware), and with wireless Bluetooth Apple keyboard and touchpad. I hope to get all of that working at least on a basic level.

I have been installing FreeBSD 11-CURRENT snapshot 20150111 (there is a newer one already, but I've got mine already installed, and even managed to update it with a buildworld/installworld).

Act I. Preparing for Dual Boot

First, we need some disk space. This was already trickier than expected (not only because I had to delete some stuff to make space, but that was also time-consuming). The plan was to use ~80GB of my 250GB main hard disk for FreeBSD, and leave rest to OSX. After deleting and moving enough junk, I bumped into the first obstacle: resizing the system volume. OSX isn't smart enough to resize a running partition. Not something entirely unexpected, but it's also not smart enough to provide a meaningful error message. It just pushes a progress bar for an hour or two to fail with 'couldn't unmount disk' message. Same thing when booted to a rescue mode (which is loaded from a hidden partition on the same disk, which is located right after main OSX system partition – so if Macintosh HD shrinks, recovery partition is relocated). Luckily, somebody already figured that one out. I made an installer SD card from the installer I still had on my disk since OSX upgrade (which is described at http://www.amsys.co.uk/2013/blog/creating-mavericks-bootable-install-disk/), started Disk Utility from the installer, and was able to successfully shrink the partition.

Now, we need a boot manager. It seems rEFInd is the way to go. I first booted it from an SD card to see if it starts, then installed it to disk. Finding out how to get to the configuration (which will be needed later) was not obvious, though: you need to start the Disk Utility, select EFI partition from your system disk, Mount it, and the boot manager is mounted at /Volumes/EFI/.

Act II. Installation

I have downloaded the FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-amd64-20150111-r276981-memstick installer image (when you read it, there will probably already be a more recent one), dd-ed it to an SD card, and booted from rEFInd. Booting card's MBR ('legacy' boot) didn't work, but when I rescanned by pressing Esc in the boot menu and selected 'Rescue partition' of the card (which apparently meant card's EFI partition), installer managed to boot.

The installer itself boots fine. Important Thing: because boot1.efi loader (we'll get to it in a moment) can't read ZFS yet, /boot needs to be on an UFS partition. From what I found, it seems that work on ZFS-enabled boot1.efi is underway, and it should get into 11.0-RELEASE. I tried to achieve that the old Linux way (have /boot on a separate partition, mounted below ZFS root), but couldn't get it to work: kernel booted, but wasn't able to mount root directory. In the end, I used the following scheme:

  • ~7GB UFS partition at the end of the disk, for system root (big enough to hold the base system and couple kernels, plus some margin)
  • Large ZFS partition before the root dir, mounted at /tank — I wanted ZFS partition to be located before the UFS root to be able to shrink OSX partition and move/grow ZFS later on
  • A bunch of symlinks

I didn't let the installer touch the ZFS partition or create any 'boot partitions' it tried to add.

At the end of installation, I selected the 'open shell in the new system' button (don't remember the exact label now), created zpool, mounted it at /tank, created usr/ and var/ filesystems as described in the wiki (plus usr/doc), copied whole existing /home, /var and subdirectories of /usr there, and replaced the main filesystem's /home, /var, and /usr/{doc,ports,src,obj,local} with symlinks to tank/ filesystems. This way, the system partition won't grow much, and I get most of the ZFS benefits while being able to boot the system from EFI. I've also added zfs_enable='YES' to new system's /etc/rc.conf, and after booting into the new system had to manually zfs import the zpool. After that, everything has worked just fine.

Before finishing the installation, copy the installer's (or the new system's) /boot/boot1.efi file someplace safe, you're going to need it.

After finishing the installation, you won't see BSD in rEFInd's boot menu. No problem: boot into OSX, mount /Volumes/EFI from the Disk Utility, create a /Volumes/EFI/EFI/freebsd directory, and put the boot1.efi file in there. This should do the trick: if you unmount the EFI volume and reboot, you should see FreeBSD in the boot menu, and it should boot fine. You'll probably need to run zfs import tank on first boot, but besides that, everything should work fine.

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The base system is up. Installing packages with pkg works. X Windows kind of work, but it's still quite far from a comfortable and optimal setup; this is what I'm working on right now. And I also need to have a disk volume for data I want to share between OSX and FreeBSD. Trying to decide between exFAT and ZFS (with OpenZFS On OSX on the Mac side). Will post once I find out which one works fine.

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To Be Continued…