My Experience Running Mojave on Unsupported Macs

[Slydude]

I need to investigate that a bit more. It's possible that this is a result of the hack but I had a different suspicion. The drive originally had El Capitan on it (HFS+) and I did an upgrade install rather than clean install. I think that's the reason the formatting was left untouched. I suspect that if I had done a clean insntallation the drive could have been converted to APFS.

I've got an extra day off from work coming up this weekend. I may try a clean install just for the heck of it and see what happens.

 

[chscag]

Sly....

I thought I read somewhere that the hack to install Mojave on unsupported Macs also got around the APFS formatting? Or is that a different hack? I believe it was mentioned in threads that are on MacRumors.

 

[pm-r]

Some other comments on the subject here:
Is it possible to install Mojave and keep HFS+ ?
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/is-it-possible-to-install-mojave-and-keep-hfs.2138162/





- Patrick
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[chscag]

Thanks Patrick. That's the thread I remember seeing on MacRumors.

 

[Slydude]

Obviously I've got some work to do on this issue. The extent of my knowledge at this point is limited to what I covered in the process I outlined in the first post. I'll do some more digging into this to see if I can clarify things a bit.