Glad I could help!

still working great after 5 months of use ?

@@gibougikma7282 running Ventura 13.5 some small glitches but open core fixed them

Even my early 2009 iMac is running it surprisingly well considering it’s age

Good to heard and thanks for the nice feefback.

Great to hear!

Thanks for the kind words. Glad to see this helped :)

@@jensdbe do you know how to enable sidecar on Ventura for older macs that aren’t supported?

I can explain shortly although this is not the best video for it. Typically I prepare and have more or less in my head what I will do and in which order. Then I actually do it and film it + recently also do a capture with a HDMI capture card as soon as I do something with software. Afterwards I go through the material and write the story/voiceover and record that. The story kind of determines how the video/screencapture will be used. Once I have that, I edit everything together according to the story and voiceover into the final video. Tools I typically use for that: 4K camera, HDMI capture card, OBS for capture, Audacity for audio recording and DaVinci Resolve for video editing.

@@jensdbe can you normally allow updates to this?

I’m now able to run the latest version of Minecraft on my early 2009 iMac now as I wasn’t able to run anything newer then 1.17 on OS X El Capitan

And sure it runs like utter crap but it runs

Good to hear that you got it working.

@@aIwI89 Don’t start I did nothing wrong

@@aIwI89 GOAWAY

Good to hear this helped :)

Glad you think so!

Good to hear. Glad to see this helped.

Still ok? I have iMac 2013 and thinking of doing this.

​@Pete Walsh yeah, it's still running strong with 13.2.1

Nice to hear, thanks :)

Which exact model of Macbook pro? Not all device models are fully supported for Ventura yet. If it is not, you can use the same method to run Monterey while waiting for support for Ventura.

@@jensdbe Yeah figured that out after the fact ... can't remember model number, gave it back to the friend that owns it. I could not find what models are supported for using OpenCore Legacy Patcher 5.3. I did used 5.1 for the MacBook Air ... just thought I try also with the Macbook Pro. Anyway it worked with Big Sur just fine. Thanks ...

For now only up to Monterey is supported. The same method can be used, just select Monterey instead of Ventura.

Can you check if all patches are applied successfully? Just re-run OpenCore Legacy Patcher and select Post Install Root Patch

@@jensdbe Thanks for the reply, Jens... I'm already back on Big Sur :D Maybe someone else can provide feedback on MB Air Mid/Late 2014? :D I really don't want to go all over again the process haha

Check the last part of the video, you need to build ans install opencore to your internal drive after the installation.

Good to hear it worked eventually. What went wrong the first time? Any error messages?

@@jensdbe nope. Just “something went wrong” and after I restarted it, it loaded me into internet recovery Mountain Lion (10.6???) well now it’s running 13.0 fine 😃 i5 2.9ghz gtx660m on 16GB ram with 1tb SSD

You can update through macOS as you would run a supported OS. Often an update breaks the root patches so best to download a copy of Open Core Legacy Patcher before and run it after the update.

That's strange. Was there an update of Ventura when this happened? Did OpenCore still boot?

@@jensdbe This was several months ago, so my recollection is a bit fuzzy, but I believe that Ventura had updated at least once on both computers. I used the OPenCore Legacy Patcher to apply any needed updates and all was fine for a while. Then the system would not boot at all. Black screen with possibly the folder icon. I can't recall that part specifically. Beyond that, I don't know how to 'boot' into OpenCore, so I can't answer that question. Would love to try again, but it was a real pain to reinstall everything once they failed.

Good to hear. Not sure about upgrading a Hackintosh. Not enough experience with that unfortunately.

Could it be that you tried to start Monterey from the standard bootloader? So directly instead of first booting OpenCore.

@DKap I didn’t actually I just reinstalled Monterey but did you do a fresh install or just an update

I have the same issue as you. Did you have another go installing it?

@@paulwilkinson840 I opened opencore legacy patcher and ran the post Root patch and it fixed it

@@Sammo_7 safari and mail working ok for you? They crash as soon as I open them…

@@paulwilkinson840 yea they are working for me did you install the post root patch ?

Did you select the drive itself and not the partition/volume on it? Make sure you first enable to show all devices.

Open Core needs to be specifically built for a specific Mac. You can build it on another Mac but then you wouldn't be able to use it to install Ventura. Also, opening up this type of iMac requires removing the screen in order to install another drive, so I guess a thumbdrive is a bit easier :)

I've never upgraded a native install to one with OpenCore but don't see why this would not work. In any case a good backup is always a good idea, especially if you are going to try this.

exacly same with me, Mac Mini 2012 i7 1TB. it says "an error occurred preparing the software update" right at 15 minutes left.

exacly same with me, Mac Mini 2012 i7 250SSD. it says "an error occurred preparing the software update"

@@maksolutions7494 mine fix with: turn off WiFI connect it to LAN for the internet

@@maksolutions7494 And, after first setup and first restart, do not touch or press anything on keyboard, let the mac restart, installing, restart, installing, restart installing it self until finish. (More than 3 or 5 times restart). I’m sorry for my english. 🙏🏻

I think I got this problem because I made it APFS instead of macos extended journaled

For the installation, as far as I know, you will need a separate USB drive for each version you want to install. Maybe there is a method using the OpenCore boot loader and creating separate installation images but haven't tested that.

As far as I see, both of these will not grt Wifi or support for USB. Also without graphical acceleration, it's just not workable. The mouse is moving so sluggish it will drive you crazy. I'd recommend to wait a bit more as the OCLP team is still working on fixing these things.

You don't see the drive when continuing the install or in Disk Utility? It could be that there is a too old file system present or something else is wrong with the drive maybe. In most cases, by erasing the drive with Disk Utility, this gets solved. Your device should be supported normally.

@@jensdbe Yes, its showing just my external drive and "media drive" with zero kb. No internal drive to install ventura. Funny thing is, when i try to install monterey, everything is perfect. Dont know whats the problem with ventura.

@@deanmactavish8529 Did you end up finding a solution for this? I have this same issue after doing an internal SSD swap. For some reason when booting into Recovery mode, it cannot see any drives, but as soon as I shut down and turn back on, it boots fine. I dont really get it.

Make sure you erase/format the whole drive in Disk Utility by selecting to show All devices first. If that doesn't help, I would suggest to try another USB drive.

@@jensdbe thanks. I figured it out in the end. I couldn’t see the GUID partition type in the list until I did as you described. I’m quite new to mac so it’s a learning curve. Thanks for the advice.

You try to run the First Aid option in Dist Utility after selecting your USB drive in the left section. If that doesn't help, you could retry to Erase the drive properly or try with another USB drive.

I was able to this weekend without issue.

Only booting from usb

Do you get any error message when trying to build and install Open Core to the internal drive?

nya OCLP och root Patch gjorde att min maskin är helt OK

You can just update it as any other Mac. The only thing that can happen is that the patches that were applied are being overwritten. Just make sure you download a copy of the Patcher before doing the update, then run the root patches after the update completed.

Updates come in through the regular channel but in some cases it might be needed to re-apply some of the patches if things got overwritten. So always good to keep a copy of the OCLP app handy before updating.

You can do this from another machine/model but as the OpenCore config is hardware-specific, you first need to select the correct model from the Settings options in the OpenCore Legacy Patcher application. Only tried this once and it worked just fine. Good luck :)

Try to run Disk Utility (it can be from the environment which gives you that error) Then run First Aid on the drive/partition on which you try to install Ventura. Followed by a re-try. This has helped me before in the same situation.

Did you install OpenCore on the internal HDD in your iMac? I think that should work but probably not if you install openCore to your USB SSD as the Mac will most likely not directly boot from that USB SSD.

@@jensdbeApparently the issue was indeed that I kept installing OpenCore on the USB SSD (which I thought I should) but after your reply I installed it on the internal HDD and now it works. USB drive no longer needed to be plugged in, after I turn the iMac on the HDD and SSD options appear for like 5 seconds and then boots into Ventura. So thanks a lot! Now I'm confident in trying Sonoma too. Then sometime in the future probably replace the HDD with an SSD altogether and give this beautiful machine a new life.

@@trei2unu great to hear. Nice to see that helped :)

Did you keep the USB drive in your Mac? Also check the last part of the video where I explain how to disable the boot picker (that is probably what you see for a few seconds).

Enough space on your disk?

300gb & 8gb

So far it is running pretty good. Haven't really come across anything negative. Although I also don't see such a big improvement or such in comparison with Monterey. It kind of feels the same :)