15-09-2021

Run Mojave On Unsupported Mac

To install on your machine, you can download and run @dosdude1's macOS Mojave Patcher application, which will let you download a copy of the latest installer app from Apple and create a bootable. Apple advises that macOS Mojave will run on the following Macs: Mac models from 2012 or later. Running Big Sur on another macOS on an unsupported Mac may also be considered against Apple's. But I would rather buy a second generation silicon mac to truly take advantage of the new OS features and remain on Catalina (or HS) for everything else. Jul 26, 2021 Apple advises that macOS Mojave will run on the following Macs: Mac models from 2012 or later. Running Big Sur on another macOS on an unsupported Mac may also be considered against Apple's. But I would rather buy a second generation silicon mac to truly take advantage of the new OS features and remain on Catalina (or HS) for everything else.

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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.