Install Mavericks On Unsupported Mac

Yosemite / Mavericks / Mountain Lion on Unsupported Mac This page is dedicated to Sfott, this “little” piece of code I did to automate the creation of USB key with the boot.efi from Tiamo’s of MacRumors.

This update includes:

Install the latest OS X releases on your unsupported 32-bit Mac. To conclude, SFOTT can help you prepare for installing OS X Mountain Lion, Mavericks, or Yosemite on unsupported Mac computers. The overall procedure is explained in detail. Original answer: Yes, thanks to the guys from MLPostFactor, it’s now possible to install OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion (even 10.8.4) on these older Intel-Macs: Early 2006 (and newer) versions of the iMac and Mac mini. Late 2006 (and newer) versions of the Macbook, MacBook Pro, Mac Pro and Xserve. Early 2008 (and newer) versions or the Macbook Air. When the operation completes, boot your target unsupported Mac off the USB drive you just created. Note: Only perform steps 5 and 6 if you intend to do a clean install. Otherwise, you can simply skip these steps and install to your volume containg a previous version of OS X, and it'll do an in-place upgrade. Can I install Mavericks on unsupported 2 x 2,66 GHz Dual-Core 2006 MacPro Intel Xeon? One important thing: I'm already running OSX LION, thanks to a relatively new graphic card (ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB) that allows that. I heard that there are some methods (Sfott app, converting 64 to 32). Anyone knows other or better methods?

  • Fixes adfly URL issues- Improves some error messages (makes them more explicit)

  • Fixes some minor UI issues/glitches

  • Fixes log files not appearing!

  • Add some verbosity to the install process (for logs)

Install

MacPostFactor v2.0
This version is huge! It features many improvements everywhere! Anyway, in this version, you'll find:

Other Features in Previous Versions:

  • OS X El Capitan support- Ability to use a smaller Recovery (≈ 600MB instead of 5GB)with no compromises on available features

  • Bluetooth Audio FIX on 32bit ML Hack- Better MacPostFactor UI and UX

  • New Preferences Window- New Customise button- Search again for Install OS X _ _ _.app by a click of a button

  • Nicer interface- Nicer switching animations- Better MacPostFactor App

  • Better code organization

  • Snow Leopard Compatibility (BETA)

  • Contributors now working! Donate to figure on the list!

  • Ability to change the USB name when erasing it

  • New feature: 'One click install'

  • Really fixes Paypal donation link

  • Fixes USB space check (total space instead of left space)

  • Fixes ton of other minor bugs

  • Reduces the energy footprint when creating USB Installers

  • Better OSXHackers Preview boot logo

  • Better logs in case of error

  • OS X Mav+ kernels are now stored online (reduces MacPostFactor's size and allows MLforAll to add a new kernel without updating the MacPostFactor app itself)

  • Improved the Hacking Process

  • No more Error Code 3- Use of kernelcache whenever possible

  • Fixes USB installers not booting

  • Improved MacPostFactor 'side-apps' (recovery apps)

  • Better MacPostFactor Services Init- Better OS X Manager with SIP management support

  • MUCH BETTER 'MacPostFactor OS X Installer” (active progress bar. Best google chrome for mac 10.6.8 2017 and torrent. support for ML and Mav..)

  • 'About MCPF.app' and 'Dock Glass Effect Manager.app' replaced by 'MacPostFactor Utilities.app' that also adds new tweaks!

Install Mavericks On Unsupported Mac

Note: This is a hack. Read the comments, specifically Daniel Dunbar’s, for a better way to do this. Do not use this method anymore.

After installing the developer preview of Mac OSX Mavericks, I started installing my usual list of apps, tools and tweaks. First on the list is always Homebrew, my favorite command line tool. It took a little finessing to get it running, but it works fine, despite the warnings about 10.9 being unsupported.

Install

Before trying to install any packages, I installed the developer preview of Xcode 5 to get the command line tools for compiling. Without the command line tools, you get errors like this trying to install git: git-credential-osxkeychain.c:131: error: ‘protocol’ undeclared (first use in this function)

Unfortunately, it seems that Xcode 5 is doing something different with the command line tools. They are not available for download as they were in Xcode 4.

How To Install Mavericks On Unsupported Macs

I also tried using Kenneth Reitz’s wonderful osx-gcc-installer, but Homebrew complained about mismatched compiler versions when using the Mountain Lion installer.

Mac Os Mavericks Usb

The trick is to download the command line tools from developer.apple.com and spoof the OS version as 10.8 so that it can be installed. Simply change two lines in /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist:

Install Os X Mavericks On Unsupported Mac

You may have to reboot after changing the version. Be sure to change it back to 10.9 after installing the command line tools, otherwise things get quirky.

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