el capitan patcher tool for unsupported macs

I left the El Captain install process running but came back to find a blank screen, so had to hard-reboot.I had to type “reboot” in Terminal whenever reboot was needed. Selecting 'Restart' from menubar didn’t generate a response.Installing El Captain was also frictionless, except:.I wasn’t patient the first time, and interrupted the process after download seems to have stopped without much happening (and probably now have a few GB of temp file space unreleased somewhere in my other mac). MacOSDownloader took about 20 min download + an hour behind the scene all up.I wasn’t sure where to get the installer app, but 0403979 very promptly pointed me to using MacOSDownloader.Preparing USB installer drive was almost frictionless, except:.Some hiccups along the way, but still pretty smooth all things considered. I used the the same “prepare-install-patch” method. Here's my experience successfully installing El Captain on MacBook 3,1 coming from Lion (10.7.5). It wasn't as easy as it sounds but it would be if I had to do it again! No worries anymore about Apple updates mucking it all up as there won't be any. The USB ports, Bluetooth, audio, wifi all work. I installed the free “QuickShade” app via the App Store which allows some control over brightness. The screen brightness is stuck at a reasonable level. The graphics issues are there but tolerable. The iSight camera didn’t work (and the light was stuck “on”) without the Lion kext and I actually tried that last, re-blessing and “permissioning” again. Rebooted into El Capitan without the USB rEFInd stick attached.Manually installing and configuring rEFInd to the EFI partition on the MacBook 4,1 making sure that I setup the SIP switch to OFF (and only off).

Selecting the EC disk and starting it up.

Starting up the MacBook 4,1 and setting SIP to “off” in the rEFInd bootloader.Creating a USB flash rEFInd stick and inserting it into the MacBook 4,1.Putting the USB-attached SSD with EC into one of the MacBook 4,1 USB ports.Performing all the proper blessings and permissions changes.Replacing the “Apple_iSight.kext” with one from a Lion installation into the Extensions folder (see below).Putting all the proper kexts, as discussed elsewhere in this thread, into the Extensions folder.Installing EC and applying all updates to a USB-attached SSD on a MacBook Pro 3,1 already running EC.Keeping it short, what I ended up doing was: I have a successful installation of El Capitan 10.11.6 on a MacBook 4,1 using method 3 with variations.

El capitan patcher tool for unsupported macs