After you have confirmed that your Mac can run High Sierra, there is no need to wait! To check details about your Mac, click the Apple icon > About This Mac. Upgrade to macOS High Sierra. Before upgrading your Mac, make sure to backup. Here are the steps for upgrading: Go to the Mac App Store.
Making a High Sierra USB Installer Entirely From Scratch in Windows This is a proof of concept tutorial, to show it's possible to create a vanilla High Sierra installer, entirely from scratch, in Windows (even without App Store downloaded 'Install macOS High Sierra.app' from a real Mac ). Provides us with all the URLs necessary to download the needed files directly from Apple instead of some dubious source from the internet.
Pre-Requisites. 8GB or larger USB drive. v2.1.2017rev021b from @CVAD. (free 15 day trial).
Download Installer Files Directly from Apple 1) Browse Apple's and find the URLs to download the following 6 installer files. (Hint - search page for 'InstallESD' to find its URL and others nearby) to a folder named 'SharedSupport' on your Windows NTFS drive. A browser download manager (eg for Chrome, for FireFox) is handy since InstallESD is 4GB - allows you to pause/resume interrupted download.
2) Rename InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg. Clover Settings Clover configuration is required now. The default config.plist (in the Clover FAT32 partition of the USB) maybe sufficient to boot your machine if you’re lucky. If not, look at the, and for pointers and edit /EFI/Clover/config.plist accordingly with Wordpad or Notepad. The location of the important configuration files for Clover are summarized below.
config.plist-EFI/CLOVER folder. DSDT.aml with or without SSDT.aml-EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched (don't need one if your DSDT is auto patched by Clover in config.plist). Kexts eg FakeSMC, -EFI/CLOVER/kexts/ or /Other. NB BootDiskUtility by default already has FakeSMC.kext installed here. You may need to add for your laptop keyboard/trackpad to work.
If UEFI booting, you will most likely need one of the OsxAptioFixDrv-64 drivers copied from /EFI/CLOVER/drivers-off/drivers64UEFI to /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI. If you want to use the installer to run High Sierra in Windows on VMware, you can follow my to set up the Virtual Machine and replace Clover's default config with (which is compatible to run in VMware). In the screenshots below, I have attached the USB Installer (in this case PhysicalDrive7) to my macOS Virtual Machine.
Reboot the system to the USB installer to install High Sierra. What happens if we don't have access to TransMac or Paragon Hard Disk Manager? Not a problem, as long as we get 'OS X Base System' bootable, we can launch terminal from the Utilities Menu to copy the SharedSupport folder over to the Installer app. In essence, we will build the full installer app = 5GB+ on the target HD eg 'Macintosh HD', by copying both the 'small' installer app = 15MB (on 'OS X Base System') and the SharedSupport folder from the NTFS volume (mounted in this example on /Volumes/DATA). bash - 3.2 # cd / - bash - 3.2 # cp -R Install macOS High Sierra.app /Volumes/Macintosh HD/ - bash - 3.2 # cp -R /Volumes/DATA/SharedSupport /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/. The above steps can be automated with the attached 'startosinstall.command' script, which will assemble 'Install macOS High Sierra.app' on 'Macintosh HD' and launch the startosinstall utility targeting the 'Macintosh HD' volume. Copy/download to 'Macintosh HD', then run in terminal (after attaching DATA USB with /Shared Support folder).
Cd '/Volumes/Macintosh HD' chmod + x startosinstall. Command./ startosinstall. Command Updated Download Links for macOS Mojave 10.14.118B75 Browse Apple's and find the URLs to download the following 6 installer files.
Note: In Mojave, Apple has removed the -converttoapfs NO and -applicationpath arguments from the startosinstall utility. Eg to use startosinstall for the above section 'What happens if we don't have access to TransMac or Paragon Hard Disk Manager?' , the syntax is now -bash-3.2# /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Install macOS Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall -volume /Volumes/Macintosh HD This basically means that for Mojave, the default installation will always convert the target volume to the apfs file system. Edited November 24 by fusion71au update download links for 10.14.118B75.
Download Installer Files Directly from Apple and Clover from SourceForge 1) Open terminal, create SharedSupport folder in /Downloads mkdir /Downloads/ SharedSupport 2) Browse Apple's and find the URLs to download the following 6 installer files. (Hint - search page for 'InstallESD' to find its URL and others nearby) into /Downloads/SharedSupport. A browser download manager (eg for Chrome, for FireFox) is handy since InstallESD is 4GB - allows you to pause/resume interrupted download.
3) Rename InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg mv /Downloads/ SharedSupport / InstallESDDmg. Pkg /Downloads/ SharedSupport / InstallESD. Dmg 4) Edit InstallInfo.plist with a text editor to remove the chunklistURL and chunklistid keys for InstallESD, and renaming it from InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg (example of edited file attached to ). Note: You can verify the SHA1 checksum of your InstallESD.dmg and BaseSystem.dmg with the correct ones at. 5) If you don't already have Clover installed, download the latest. Extract the EFI folder to /Downloads. Fusion71au@fusion71au-VirtualBox $ 7z l /Downloads/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg 7-Zip 64 9.20 Copyright © 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18 p7zip Version 9.20 (locale=enUS.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,1 CPU) Listing archive: /Downloads/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg - Path = /Downloads/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg Type = Dmg Method = copy16-13636K zero2202-593M zlib503-1436M-455M Blocks = 721 Date Time Attr Size Compressed Name - - - - -.
512 30 0.MBR. 512 75 1.Primary GPT Header.
16384 116 2.Primary GPT Table. 3072 0 3.free. 491582140 4.hfs. 134221312 0 5.free.
16384 116 6.Backup GPT Table. 512 76 7.Backup GPT Header - - - - - 491582553 8 files, 0 folders Prepare USB with GParted and Restore OS X Base System with dmg2img 1) Open GParted. In this example, I have an 8GB installer disk, /dev/sdb, initialized as GPT from Device Menu. Fusion71au@fusion71au - VirtualBox /Downloads/ SharedSupport $ dmg2img - l BaseSystem. Dmg dmg2img v1.
6.5 ( c ) vu1tur ( to@vu1tur. Org ) BaseSystem. Dmg - ( partition list ) partition 0: Protective Master Boot Record ( MBR: 0 ) partition 1: GPT Header ( Primary GPT Header: 1 ) partition 2: GPT Partition Data ( Primary GPT Table: 2 ) partition 3: ( AppleFree: 3 ) partition 4: disk image ( AppleHFS: 4 ) partition 5: ( AppleFree: 5 ) partition 6: GPT Partition Data ( Backup GPT Table: 6 ) partition 7: GPT Header ( Backup GPT Header: 7 ) 7) Use the command sudo dmg2img -v -i BaseSystem.dmg -p 4 -o /dev/sdb3 to write the 4.hfs image to your 'OS X Base System' volume ie sdb3 partition. Fusion71au@fusion71au - VirtualBox /Downloads/ SharedSupport $ sudo dmg2img - v - i BaseSystem. Dmg - p 4 - o / dev / sdb3 sudo password for fusion71au: dmg2img v1.
6.5 ( c ) vu1tur ( to@vu1tur. Org ) BaseSystem. Dmg - / dev / sdb3 reading property list, 52391 bytes from address 491582553. Partition 0: begin = 203, size = 430, decoded = 284 partition 1: begin = 948, size = 430, decoded = 284 partition 2: begin = 1695, size = 430, decoded = 284 partition 3: begin = 2424, size = 430, decoded = 284 partition 4: begin = 3137, size = 42778, decoded = 28804 partition 5: begin = 46198, size = 430, decoded = 284 partition 6: begin = 46926, size = 430, decoded = 284 partition 7: begin = 47671, size = 430, decoded = 284 decompressing: opening partition 4.
715 100.00% ok Archive successfully decompressed as / dev / sdb3 You should be able to mount the image as root by: modprobe hfsplus mount - t hfsplus - o loop / dev / sdb3 / mnt 8) Create mounting folders in /media/yourusername sudo mkdir / media / fusion71au / EFI sudo mkdir / media / fusion71au / InstallerApp 9) Mount the InstallerApp volume (corresponding to sdb2) and copy the SharedSupport folder to its root. Sudo mount / dev / sdb2 / media / fusion71au / InstallerApp sudo cp - R /Downloads/ SharedSupport / media / fusion71au / InstallerApp / 10) Mount the EFI partition, sdb1, and copy the EFI folder containing Clover into it. Sudo mount / dev / sdb1 / media / fusion71au / EFI sudo cp - R /Downloads/ EFI / media / fusion71au / EFI / Clover Settings Clover configuration is required now. The default config.plist (in the EFI partition, /EFI/Clover folder of the USB) maybe sufficient to boot your machine if you’re lucky. If not, look at the, and for pointers and edit /EFI/Clover/config.plist accordingly with a text editor. The location of the important configuration files for Clover are summarized below.
config.plist-EFI/CLOVER folder. DSDT.aml with or without SSDT.aml-EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched (don't need one if your DSDT is auto patched by Clover in config.plist). Kexts eg FakeSMC, -EFI/CLOVER/kexts/ or /Other. You may need to add for your laptop keyboard/trackpad to work. If legacy booting, you need to install legacy boot sectors on the drive (boot0af, boot1f32 and boot6). There is an automated install for this by @StarBrilliant.
If UEFI booting, you will most likely need one of the OsxAptioFixDrv-64 drivers copied from /EFI/CLOVER/drivers-off/drivers64UEFI to /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI. Hint: For newbs, you don't necessarily need Clover to boot the installer in a VMware virtual machine. Just attach the installer (without Clover) to a macOS guest running on a VMware Windows host (patched with @Donk's unlocker program - to create the VM guest, see my.
Boot to OS X Base System, build 'Install macOS High Sierra.app' then startosinstall in Terminal 1) Unmount sdb1 & sdb2, sudo umount / dev / sdb1 sudo umount / dev / sdb2 then reboot your system to the USB Installer using the system's boot device selection key eg F12 for Gigabyte motherboards, F8 for ASUS motherboards, F11 for ASrock motherboards. 4) Type the following commands to assemble the full 'Install macOS High Sierra.app' on the InstallerApp volume. bash - 3.2 # cd / - bash - 3.2 # cp -R Install macOS High Sierra.app /Volumes/InstallerApp/ - bash - 3.2 # mv /Volumes/InstallerApp/SharedSupport /Volumes/InstallerApp/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/ Terminal Hints:. Type the first few characters of a path, then press key - rest of the path will autocomplete. Pressing the arrow key will duplicate the previous command entered into terminal. 5) Start installation with the startosinstall utility in Terminal. bash - 3.2 # /Volumes/InstallerApp/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall -volume /Volumes/Macintosh HD -converttoapfs NO -applicationpath /Volumes/InstallerApp/Install macOS High Sierra.app where 'Macintosh HD' is the target volume to install High Sierra in this example.
Download Installer Files Directly from Apple and Clover from SourceForge 1) Open terminal, create SharedSupport folder in /Downloads mkdir /Downloads/SharedSupport 2) Browse Apple's and find the URLs to download the following 6 installer files. (Hint - search page for 'InstallESD' to find its URL and others nearby) into /Downloads/SharedSupport. A browser download manager (eg for Chrome, for FireFox) is handy since InstallESD is 4GB - allows you to pause/resume interrupted download. 3) Rename InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg mv /Downloads/SharedSupport/InstallESDDmg.pkg /Downloads/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg 4) Edit InstallInfo.plist with a text editor to remove the chunklistURL and chunklistid keys for InstallESD, and renaming it from InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg (example of edited file attached to ). 5) If you don't already have Clover installed, download the latest. Extract the EFI folder to /Downloads.
Fusion71au@fusion71au-VirtualBox $ sudo gdisk /dev/sdb GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.8 Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. For help): v No problems found. 266173 free sectors (130.0 MiB) available in 2 segments, the largest of which is 264159 (129.0 MiB) in size. For help): t Partition number (1-3): 1 Current type is 'Microsoft basic data' Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300): EF00 Changed type of partition to 'EFI System' Command (? For help): c Partition number (1-3): 1 Enter name: EFI Command (?
For help): x Expert command (? For help): a Partition number (1-3): 1 Known attributes are: 0: system partition 1: hide from EFI 2: legacy BIOS bootable 60: read-only 62: hidden 63: do not automount Attribute value is 000000. Set fields are: No fields set Toggle which attribute field (0-63, 64 or to exit): 0 Have enabled the 'system partition' attribute. Attribute value is 000001.
Set fields are: 0 (system partition) Toggle which attribute field (0-63, 64 or to exit): Expert command (? For help): m Command (?
For help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 16777216 sectors, 8.0 GiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): ED6532BB-14E1-4E3C-92FF-14E1C5F1B0A8 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 16777182 Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries Total free space is 266173 sectors (130.0 MiB) Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 411647 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI 2 48815 5.8 GiB AF00 3 1253023 1.9 GiB AF00 Command (? For help): w Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING PARTITIONS!! Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): y OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/sdb. The operation has completed successfully.
4) Open Terminal, type lsblk to show the system's attached disks, partitions and their mount points. Fusion71au@fusion71au-VirtualBox $ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 50G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 200M 0 part ├─sda2 8:2 0 350M 0 part /boot ├─sda3 8:3 0 15G 0 part / ├─sda4 8:4 0 32.5G 0 part /home └─sda5 8:5 0 2G 0 part SWAP sdb 8:16 0 8G 0 disk ├─sdb1 8:17 0 200M 0 part ├─sdb2 8:18 0 5.7G 0 part ├─sdb3 8:19 0 1.9G 0 part sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom 5) Change directory to access the SharedSupport files in /Downloads cd /Downloads/SharedSupport 6) Type dmg2img -l BaseSystem.dmg to list the 'partitions' in the compressed disk image file 'BaseSystem.dmg'.
Fusion71au@fusion71au-VirtualBox /Downloads/SharedSupport $ sudo dmg2img -v -i BaseSystem.dmg -p 4 -o /dev/sdb3 sudo password for fusion71au: dmg2img v1.6.5 (c) vu1tur ([email protected]) BaseSystem.dmg - /dev/sdb3 reading property list, 52391 bytes from address 491582553. Partition 0: begin=203, size=430, decoded=284 partition 1: begin=948, size=430, decoded=284 partition 2: begin=1695, size=430, decoded=284 partition 3: begin=2424, size=430, decoded=284 partition 4: begin=3137, size=42778, decoded=28804 partition 5: begin=46198, size=430, decoded=284 partition 6: begin=46926, size=430, decoded=284 partition 7: begin=47671, size=430, decoded=284 decompressing: opening partition 4.
715 100.00% ok Archive successfully decompressed as /dev/sdb3 You should be able to mount the image as root by: modprobe hfsplus mount -t hfsplus -o loop /dev/sdb3 /mnt 8) Create mounting folders in /media/yourusername sudo mkdir /media/fusion71au/EFI sudo mkdir /media/fusion71au/InstallerApp 9) Mount the InstallerApp volume (corresponding to sdb2) and copy the SharedSupport folder to its root. Sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /media/fusion71au/InstallerApp sudo cp -R /Downloads/SharedSupport /media/fusion71au/InstallerApp/ 10) Mount the EFI partition, sdb1, and copy the EFI folder containing Clover into it. Sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/fusion71au/EFI sudo cp -R /Downloads/EFI /media/fusion71au/EFI/ Clover Settings Clover configuration is required now. The default config.plist (in the Clover FAT32 partition of the USB) maybe sufficient to boot your machine if you’re lucky.
If not, look at the, and for pointers and edit /EFI/Clover/config.plist accordingly with Wordpad or Notepad. The location of the important configuration files for Clover are summarized below. config.plist-EFI/CLOVER folder. DSDT.aml with or without SSDT.aml-EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched (don't need one if your DSDT is auto patched by Clover in config.plist). Kexts eg FakeSMC, -EFI/CLOVER/kexts/ or /Other. You may need to add for your laptop keyboard/trackpad to work.
Boot to OS X Base System, build 'Install macOS High Sierra.app' then startosinstall in Terminal 1) Unmount sdb1 & sdb2, sudo umount /dev/sdb1 sudo umount /dev/sdb2 then reboot your system. 3) Type the following commands to assemble the full 'Install macOS High Sierra.app' on the InstallerApp volume.bash-3.2# cd / -bash-3.2# cp -R Install macOS High Sierra.app /Volumes/InstallerApp/ -bash-3.2# mv /Volumes/InstallerApp/SharedSupport /Volumes/InstallerApp/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/ Terminal Hints:. Type the first few characters of a path, then press key - rest of the path will autocomplete. Pressing the arrow key will duplicate the previous command entered into terminal. 4) Start installation with the startosinstall utility.bash-3.2# /Volumes/InstallerApp/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall -volume /Volumes/Macintosh HD -converttoapfs NO -applicationpath /Volumes/InstallerApp/Install macOS High Sierra.app where 'Macintosh HD' is the target volume to install High Sierra in this example. Interesting, thanks @fusion72au.
H: gdisk gdisk64 7: to exit): 0 Have enabled the 'system partition' attribute. Attribute value is 000001. Set fields are: 0 (system partition) Toggle which attribute field (0-63, 64 or to exit): Expert command (? For help): p Disk 7:: 7827456 sectors, 3.7 GiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): ED6532BB-14E1-4E3C-92FF-14E1C5F1B0A8 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 7827422 Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries Total free space is 272317 sectors (133.0 MiB) Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 413695 201.0 MiB EF00 EFI 2 4119 3.4 GiB AF00 disk image Expert command (?
For help): w Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING PARTITIONS!!
Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): y OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to. Disk synchronization succeeded! The computer should now use the new partition table. Expert command (? For help): m Command (? For help): q Final result.
5) Open to copy downloaded files in /SharedSupport folder from NTFS Windows drive to /Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents on 'OS X Base System' HFS volume 6) Install Clover in Windows - see guide. Is for UEFI systems - only need to copy CLOVER folder into /EFI on the EFI System Partition + replace /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi with Clover's BOOTX64.efi. For legacy BIOS systems - need to also install boot sectors (boot0af, boot1f32 in MBR/PBR with Bootice Program) and boot6 or boot7 in the root / of the EFI partition. Note: the MBR installer made with @CVAD's Boot Disk Utility already has legacy boot sectors for Clover installed - should work with BOTH legacy and UEFI systems. Making a High Sierra USB Installer Entirely From Scratch in Windows This is a proof of concept tutorial, to show it's possible to create a vanilla High Sierra installer, entirely from scratch, in Windows (even without App Store downloaded 'Install macOS High Sierra.app' from a real Mac ).
Provides us with all the URLs necessary to download the needed files directly from Apple instead of some dubious source from the internet. Pre-Requisites. 8GB or larger USB drive. v2.1.2017rev021b from @CVAD.
(free 15 day trial). Download Installer Files Directly from Apple 1) Browse Apple's and find the URLs to download the following 6 installer files.
(Hint - search page for 'InstallESD' to find its URL and others nearby) to a folder named 'SharedSupport' on your Windows NTFS drive. A browser download manager (eg for Chrome, for FireFox) is handy since InstallESD is 4GB - allows you to pause/resume interrupted download.
2) Rename InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg. Clover Settings Clover configuration is required now. The default config.plist (in the Clover FAT32 partition of the USB) maybe sufficient to boot your machine if you’re lucky.
If not, look at the, and for pointers and edit /EFI/Clover/config.plist accordingly with Wordpad or Notepad. The location of the important configuration files for Clover are summarized below. config.plist-EFI/CLOVER folder. DSDT.aml with or without SSDT.aml-EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched (don't need one if your DSDT is auto patched by Clover in config.plist). Kexts eg FakeSMC, -EFI/CLOVER/kexts/ or /Other.
NB BootDiskUtility by default already has FakeSMC.kext installed here. You may need to add for your laptop keyboard/trackpad to work. If UEFI booting, you will most likely need one of the OsxAptioFixDrv-64 drivers copied from /EFI/CLOVER/drivers-off/drivers64UEFI to /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI. If you want to use the installer to run High Sierra in Windows on VMware, you can follow my to set up the Virtual Machine and replace Clover's default config with (which is compatible to run in VMware). In the screenshots below, I have attached the USB Installer (in this case PhysicalDrive7) to my macOS Virtual Machine.
Reboot the system to the USB installer to install High Sierra. What happens if we don't have access to TransMac or Paragon Hard Disk Manager? Not a problem, as long as we get 'OS X Base System' bootable, we can launch terminal from the Utilities Menu to copy the SharedSupport folder over to the Installer app. In essence, we will build the full installer app = 5GB+ on the target HD eg 'Macintosh HD', by copying both the 'small' installer app = 15MB (on 'OS X Base System') and the SharedSupport folder from the NTFS volume (mounted in this example on /Volumes/DATA).bash-3.2# cd / -bash-3.2# cp -R Install macOS High Sierra.app /Volumes/Macintosh HD/ -bash-3.2# cp -R /Volumes/DATA/SharedSupport /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/. The above steps can be automated with the attached 'startosinstall.command' script, which will assemble 'Install macOS High Sierra.app' on 'Macintosh HD' and launch the startosinstall utility targeting the 'Macintosh HD' volume.
Copy/download to 'Macintosh HD', then run in terminal (after attaching DATA USB with /Shared Support folder). Cd '/Volumes/Macintosh HD' chmod +x startosinstall.command./startosinstall.command I tried it and it all went well.
I made a image from the usb and it successfully booted a virtual box vm. After Installer did copied files to the drive it went for a reboot. After that I booted it with clover, Installer showed up again to continue installation but suddenly showed this error: macOS could not be installed on your computer The path /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg appears to be missing or damaged.
Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again. Any idea what I should do? First, verify the SHA1 checksum of your InstallESD.dmg and BaseSystem.dmg with the correct ones at. Eg for 'Install macOS High Sierra.app' 10.13.217C88, SHA1 in Terminal.
Fusion71aus-iMac: fusion71au$ shasum /Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg 47331ea6033ebd3598a827caa6596e /Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg fusion71aus-iMac: fusion71au$ shasum /Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg 209d6a382026115aaec1b7a4cdb2dd /Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg The OSInstall.mpkg error can sometimes be due to 'stale data' in /macOS Install Data. Easiest to erase target drive and start again. If using VirtualBox, follow instructions exactly as per. If using VMware, follow instructions as per. Thank you so much for this great effort. My os stopped booting.
So I have followed the steps as stated above. Except the step below. All i want to do is use the installer created above to install my mac os. My question is Do i need to do the clover settings below? I tried installing with all the steps above, so i attached the usb to my system and I was greeted with OS X Base System and EFI Boot. I choose egi boot. Then clover came up.it was trying to install, then my mac made 3 sounds continously, i gues it wasnt working,lol) so i restarted the mac and I choose OS Xbase system.that also was installing suddenly it failed.
How do i install high sierra with all the steps I have done above. And do i need clover setting below. If i need it, how can i apply it, thanks. Clover Settings Clover configuration is required now. The default config.plist (in the Clover FAT32 partition of the USB) maybe sufficient to boot your machine if you’re lucky. If not, look at the, and for pointers and edit /EFI/Clover/config.plist accordingly with Wordpad or Notepad. The location of the important configuration files for Clover are summarized below.
config.plist-EFI/CLOVER folder. DSDT.aml with or without SS DT.aml-EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched (don't need one if your DSDT is auto patched by Clover in config.plist). Kexts eg FakeSMC, -EFI/CLOVER/kexts/ or /Other. NB BootDiskUtility by default already has FakeSMC.kext installed here. You may need to add for your laptop keyboard/trackpad to work.
If UEFI booting, you will most likely need one of the OsxAptioFixDrv-64 drivers copied from /EFI/CLOVER/drivers-off/drivers64UEFI to /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI. Comparing these two files from the Apple Catalog. I noticed different version numbers: 10.13.6.0.0. And 10.13.6.0.0. Are they both release versions? Yes, both are release versions of 10.13.6: corresponds to build 10.13.6.17G65 corresponds to build 10.13.6.17G2208 (with latest security update).
Edited August 26 by fusion71au. @ How to identify the macOs version of baseSystem.dmg and InstallESD.dmg from the apple catalogue? Download, then open the corresponding English.dist file in a text editor. Eg BaseSystem.dmg and InstallESDDmg.pkg for Mojave Beta1118A389 have the following URLs.
Corresponding English.dist file URL is Opening this file in text editor shows this. Hi guys, Though native graphics acceleration is supported on i3 from Mojave, I'm not able to manage to get it. This is my system configuration: Motherboard: Asus Prime H370-Plus CPU: i3-8100 (UHD 630) OS: Mojave 10.14.2 I'm trying every possible way to get full graphics acceleration. But whatever I try it shows only 4MB video memory or leads to Kernal Panic. Here are some ways I have tried so far: Prerequisites: Installed latest Lilu+WEG on L/E. Set DMVT prealloc to 64MB on bios. Option 1: IntelGFX- 0x3E928086, ig-platform-id- 0x3E9B0007, Inject Intel = true.
Output: Kernal Panic Option 2: Blank IntelGFX, blank ig-platform-id, Inject Intel = false Output: Kernal Panic Option 3: IntelGFX- 0x3E928086, ig-platform-id- 0x5912000, Inject Intel = true. Output: Booted Successfully but no graphics acceleration. I knew that ig-platform-id- 0x5912000 doesn't work in mojave and its works only for high sierra but I set this because with this ig-platform-id I can boot.
Another way I can boot it by setting invalid Fake IntelGFX value like 0x12345678. Option 4: Downloaded Intel FBPatcher & followed this guide. But as I opened the app, its shows like this: It clearly indicates it neither can detect Intel CPU generation nor GPU memory (currently shows 0 MB). I changed to different PlatformId from the drop down but no improvement.
Anyway I applied a patch with SMBIOS -Macmini8,1 by someione's recommendation. I attached a config file (configfbpather.plist) for this.
Output: Kernal Panic I have tried the upper mentioned methods with SMBIOS like iMac14,2 / iMac181,2,3 and Macmini8,1. I'm using HDMI port for display output. Now I don't know whats wrong with theses methods but maybe someone can help me to figure out this problem. I have also attached those config.plist files.
Thanks in advance. Configfakeid0x3E928086.plist configfbpatcher.plist configfbpatcherwithdeviceid.plist configplatform-id0x59120000.plist. Hi all, My rig: i7-4930k / X79 Deluxe / Sapphire RX 580 Nitro+ 4GB / PSU be quiet! Dark Power Pro 10 750W Like many others I'm getting a black screen when Mojave 10.4.2 boots (I tried with HDMI, DVI and DP to DVI) I'm starting to feel out of options, it's supposed to work OOB Did anyone with the same card and problem manage to fix it? Here is a dump after @MaLd0n kindly offered to help: sendme.zip Current BIOS settings: — ADVANCED — Hyper-threading Disabled Enhanced Intel Speedstep Technology Enabled Turbo Boost Enabled Support C1E Enabled Intel (R) VT-d Disabled SATA: AHCI mode EHCI Hand-off Enabled — BOOT — Fast Boot Disabled CSM Disabled Secure Boot Other OS Thanks for the help.
First of all, thank you for having me here! And, well, I bought a new computer with the following build: ASRock H310M-G/M.2 motherboard Intel Core i5 8400 2.8ghz EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6gb 16gb RAM 2400mhz HyperX SSD Kingston a1000 m.2 240gb HDD 1TB HDD 500gb I had a problem with 'Still waiting for root device' when I was trying to boot the USB Install Disk I made. I managed to boot the installation using the USBInjectAll.kext and PMHeart's patch on config.plist. After that, I proceeded and formatted the 500gb HDD to install 10.13.6 on it. It starts copying the installation files to the HDD with a message poiting 5 minutes left. Then, on 2 minutes left, the installation freezes for a couple os seconds then it reboots. Did that again on verbose mode, it gave me this message: After it reboots, I booted the USB Install Disk again and used it to boot the 500gb HDD to continue the installation. After it boots, it starts the installation with a message saying 22 minutes left and, less than 1 minute later, I get a panic with this message on verbose: When I boot again, the installation continues to the point that says that it can't be installed.
Well, I don't know what to do anymore. I've tried a bunch of stuff and nothing worked so far.
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