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Just a quick update: Catalina (10.15 Beta (19A512f)). I haven't had time to test fully and these are observations following just 1 hour of post-install testing...
I upgraded one of my USB backup installs by using the install Cataline Beta app and it went fairly smoothly.
Things that needed to be done:
1.To get the touchpad and touchscreen I2C kexts to load, it was necessary to disable SIP (CSR - 0x67) in the Plist.
- Hmm, actually I had to move the touchpad related kexts to the Library/Extensions folder. The other kexts appear to be loading just fine so I am not sure what the issue is here.
2. For Bluetooth, the kexts from: https://github.com/headkaze/OS-X-BrcmPatchRAM/releases
Things that are still causing issues:
1. CPU friend seems to be throwing kernel panics with Catalina. Removed the 2 kexts and the system boots fine.
- Actually, I just needed to manually check for kext updates. There's a new CPU friend version, which works.
Haven't tested:
1. Filevault - although I imagine that it would work fine still.
- This also works - tested. No different from Mojave.
One final thing: I am unable to rebuild the kext cache while booted into Catalina. This is likely due to the read-only system space that Catalina introduces. I was however able to boot to my previous Mojave install and mount the Catalina drive and then rebuild the kext cache from within Mojave. That seemed to work fine but it is not an elegant solution.
I upgraded one of my USB backup installs by using the install Cataline Beta app and it went fairly smoothly.
Things that needed to be done:
- Hmm, actually I had to move the touchpad related kexts to the Library/Extensions folder. The other kexts appear to be loading just fine so I am not sure what the issue is here.
2. For Bluetooth, the kexts from: https://github.com/headkaze/OS-X-BrcmPatchRAM/releases
Things that are still causing issues:
- Actually, I just needed to manually check for kext updates. There's a new CPU friend version, which works.
Haven't tested:
- This also works - tested. No different from Mojave.
One final thing: I am unable to rebuild the kext cache while booted into Catalina. This is likely due to the read-only system space that Catalina introduces. I was however able to boot to my previous Mojave install and mount the Catalina drive and then rebuild the kext cache from within Mojave. That seemed to work fine but it is not an elegant solution.
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