The first three prompts are just information explaining the following: Open the dmg file, right click on the app, and click open.ģ. By doing that, you’re preventing yourself from recovering your patched Mac in a lot of cases. The patcher shouldn’t let you upgrade anyway, but it’s good to make sure it’s off.Īlso, know that turning it on after the upgrade isn’t a smart idea. You must Turn FileVault Off before using Patched Sur Patched Sur also uses two Open Source frameworks, Files and ShellOut by JohnSundell (MIT License), to help handle certain tasks. and several others who helped with making Big Sur run as great as it does on unsupported Macs.Macintosh, Emperor Epitaph, Finder352, Monkiey and 8itCat for testing some of the new features before release, and pointing out the bugs with them. Bweesh, Bruno Rocha, NickP0is0n, Noah Fetz, duke4e, riiveraluis, Dead_K1ller, and manthos03 for translating the app.dosdude1: OpenGL/GPUSupport swap and of course his patchers which have helped with unsupported Macs patching even in Big Sur.

ASentientHedgehog: Helped randomly along the way.StarPlayrX: Pointed out startosinstall which was later used in the patcher to allow macOS updating support without a USB.Ausdauersportler: Integrated patches for iMac Metal GPU support.testheit: Helped with the kmutil command in the micropatcher (that is used in Patched Sur too).ParrotGeek: developed the LegacyUSBInjector kext to get USB ports working on some older Macs and figuring out a way to skip the terminal commands when opening the installer app on the USB.highvoltage12v: Made the first WiFi kexts used with Big Sur.jackluke: Figured out how to bypass compatibility checks on the installer USB.ASentientBot: Made the Hax patches for the installer and brought GeForce Tesla (9400M/320M) framebuffer to Big Sur.He also helped pull together a lot of the patches used in this patcher. barrykn: Made the micropatcher that introduced me to the patching process and restored my faith in my really old computer.Patched Sur isn’t just by me (Ben), I mostly put it all together and made it easier for people to use it, several other people have contributed to the patcher and the patches making this what it is today! (Basically it says if you have anything older than a 2012/2013 Mac it’ll be terrible). To see if your Mac is supported click here. This patcher hopes to allow any user of any knowledge to patch their Mac, while still giving you freedom on how you want to use your Mac. Patched Sur is a UI patcher for macOS Big Sur, designed to make it easy to run macOS 11 on unsupported Macs.

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