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This is one of the things that were done by the Automator tool and once Big Sur is installed, we will need to execute this as well.īefore we can install Big Sur, we can format the hard drive to prepare, so choose Disk Utility from the menu. Unfortunately it’s not very visible on the screenshot but as you can see there is an additional option to be found here: Post-InstallAutomator. This will boot the installer from the USB drive and once completed you end up in Recovery: This time, instead of selecting the EFI Boot option, choose the middle one: “Install macOS Big Sur”. Repeat the process and hold the Alt/Option key while powering on your system again. If you skip this step, you will end up with a forbidden sign at boot in the next step. This is expected and prepares for the next step. Once you do this, the system will immediately power off. Here it is important to first launch the last icon (EFI Boot). The other two, the icon with the hedgehog and the USB-drive icon are coming from our patched USB drive. The first icon (1TB) is my currently installed macOS instance.

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As suggested in the last step of MicroPatcherAutomator, we need to restart our Mac (or at least the Mac where you want to install Big Sur) and boot it while holding the Option/Alt key.Īfter the chime, the bootloader should show up and you should be able to see the following: Now that we should have a working USB drive, it is time to test it. If all goes well, and you were patient enough, you should end with the following screen: Use the patched USB to install Big Sur on our unsupported Mac In my case this took around 50 minutes to complete: MicroPatcherAutomator will now copy all files to the USB drive and make the necessary changes related to the patching process.

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In my case this was “bigsurinstall”:Ĭontinue with the process and enter your password again when requested. Here its important to select the name of the volume which we used when preparing the USB drive in the first step (with Disk Utility). In the next screen, select the volume to use for the installer. Once done, the tool will ask if you want to use this downloaded installer to create a patched USB drive. Click Continue and enter your password in order to continue with the download: I chose for the second option: “Download Installer App”.

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Here you basically get to choose if you want to use a pre-downloaded installer or just download a fresh copy of the Big Sur installer. Right click on it and choose open.Ĭlick Open on the warning regarding an unverified developer and click Continue to go to the next screen in the tool:

When the DMG opens, you will see a singel icon/program in it with a hedgehog as logo. Now that the USB drive is prepared, we can download the tool which we will use for the rest of the process.ĭownload the latest version of the tool using the following link: and once downloaded, open the DMG file. If all goes well, your USB drive should be prepared and you are ready for the next step.

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Select your USB drive on the left side, then click erase in the top menu:Ĭhoose a name for the drive, Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as file systen and GUID as partition scheme. In Disk Utility, choose to show all devices: So start by inserting the drive and start Disk Utility. The installation will require a USB drive of 16GB or larger. This project greatly simplifies the work and introduces a GUI that can be used to create the media.

Fortunately, there is also MicroPatcherAutomator ( ). These patchers require quite a lot of reading and consideration in order to end up with a proper USB drive for installation. For this article, I will use MicroPatcher, made by BarryKN ( ). To end up with a patched Big Sur installation, there are a few possible options. In that case, even though it’s still possible to install the unsupported version, you will not be happy with the results. Or you might simply not have enough RAM or a CPU which is too slow. For example, since Mojave there is a requirement to have a Metal-supported video card. In some cases there are genuine hardware limitations. It simply requires quite a lot of extra work and it also motivates people to buy new hardware. Apple has its reasons to stop support for older models.

Especially if the system specifications clearly show that it has plenty of resources to run that unsupported version. It’s never nice to hear that a new version of macOS will not longer be supported on your Mac.