Big Sur Upgrade

[edwinmckee]

Will you guys develop an update for all Catalina Patcher to update to the latest version of Big Sur? I have an early 2008 iMac, so my CPU an't run Big Sur, but sense I already have Catalina Patcher could you make Ean update on the Catalina patcher to update to Big Sur?

[seyoon20087]

@dosdude1 commented recently directly on this topic. There will be no such patcher for Big Sur available by @dosdude1.

Alternatively, you can use one of the most popular patchers:

1. Patched Sur by @BenSova is a really nice polished GUI frontend based on option 1, the micropatcher. The GUI makes it more comfortable to follow the process. It supports macOS Catalina 10.15 and later and so can only be used to update starting from Catalina!
2. MicropatcherAutomator - this is another frontend using the micropatcher backend. The GUI makes it more comfortable to create the USB installer and follow the installation and patch process. It supports macOS 10.11 and later to create a bootable installer - so it closes a gap for a users starting with systems having older macOS versions currently installed (option 5 starts with Catalina, only).
3. BigMac by StarPlayrX is a patcher if you have a supported Mac Pro.

Source: macOS 11 Big Sur on Unsupported Macs Thread, MacRumors Forums

[ghost]

You cannot upgrade to Big Sur. Your CPU is too old, even with any of the patchers @seyoon20087 listed.

(Also, @seyoon20087, please don't copy paste directly from someone else without quoting the source, at least paraphrase it)

[Rillke]

Patched Sur by @bensova

Patched Sur is discontinued. It's recommending to use /dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher (website)

[eddisch]

and any patchers that are working without usb?

[joevt]

If you can't use usb, then create a 16 GB partition on an internal drive to put the installer.