Mac Os Big Sur On Unsupported Macs

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I'm having an old MacBook Air 4.2, (mid 2011, SSD, 4 Gb memory), which have been running Catalina for quite some time despite that the max OS is High Sierra. I have been using the great work by dosedudes1 and his Catalina patcher.

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Unfortunately he didn't continue with patches for newer OS:s, but have helped with a new patcher. This patcher even handles Macs with graphic cards from 2008 - 2011.
Using the patcher i got the mentioned Mac up and running with Big Sur after just over an hour.
Fantastic !!!
Patcher manual
The manual for the OpenCore Legacy Patcher is nice and there are also a video that will help you for the whole process.
Create bootable USB

You start with creating a bootable USB with info from this post. Just pick Big Sur instead of the mentioned High Sierra.

Patched Sur

Mac Os Big Sur On Unsupported Macs


Building/installing the patcher

After that follow these instructions,on how to install and use the OpenCore Legacy patcher.

Big Sur Unsupported Patch

Good luck !

Patched Sur Download


Remarks

Mac Os Big Sur Download

  • Erase/format the MAC HD/SSD before installation !! I really think that this does it more simple for the installer !!
    • 'Mac OS Extended(journaled)' with an old non SSD HD
    • With en SSD use 'APFS'
  • The Mac rebooted several times during install.
  • Don't remove the USB until at the very end.
  • If you, like me, have a Mac which need the legacy video acceleration support please note that the Mac have a painfully slow display update before you have applied the 'Post-Install volume Patch'.
  • Updating the Mac from Big Sur 11.4 to 11.5, made the messages.app stop working fixed in release 0.2.4
  • Please note that 'Nightly Builds' are available but are for testing purposes only !!!

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