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Direct Update to macOS Sierra using Clover

Anyone with issues ( not seeing the macOS install ) you need to mount the EFI then update as suggested.
So I've fixed the booting issue. Realised that one doesn't just need to update Clover (from the Clover Menu) but also one needs to update the Clover Bootloader -- loading Clover, then mounting EFI then Install/Update Clover. So now I can reboot and it shows the option to Boot Install.

However, now it hangs on install with the following (in verbose mode). Appreciate suggestions -- am entirely stuck! :) ThanksView attachment 211068

Same issue here! Maybe my kexts are not updated. I'll continue to try again later.
 
Did not work for me. I had a message during install of upgrade " can't install from null ".
When it rebooted back into clover I had no "boot macOS install" option.

So I had to boot back into El Capitan.



Firstly update Clover Configurator -- Run it, the on the menu (top left) hit update Clover,... Then run Clover and Mount the EFI (bottom left). After you've mounted EFI then select the Update option in the bottom left of the Clover Configurator window. This will update the boot loader of your machine. After that is done, save, then reboot. You should then see the Install Option come up.

Basically what's not explained well in the documentation is that updating the boot loader is a different and additional activity from updating Clover itself. Hope that helps. Cheers, Carl
 
So I've fixed the booting issue. Realised that one doesn't just need to update Clover (from the Clover Menu) but also one needs to update the Clover Bootloader -- loading Clover, then mounting EFI then Install/Update Clover. So now I can reboot and it shows the option to Boot Install.

However, now it hangs on install with the following (in verbose mode). Appreciate suggestions -- am entirely stuck! :) ThanksView attachment 211068


So I managed to fix this. What I did was firstly to enable viewing of hidden files in Finder.

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
killall Finder

Then mounted the EFI partition using Clover Configurator. Then I went to the Main Drive\Library\Extensions -- a folder that was hidden before -- and copied *all* the kexts into the EFI\Clover\kexts\other directory.

Following that I rebooted, selected the Install option and Sierra successfully installed.

It's blown out the NVIDIA drivers and also the HDA sound. The former doesn't appear to be available yet. Presumably it'll take them a day or so to issue an update? Appreciate advice on how to fix the HDA sound. Totally lost all sound. Thanks
 
You can use the Nvidia Sierra Beta web drivers with the 900 series until Nvidia releases updated drivers.
 
Firstly update Clover Configurator -- Run it, the on the menu (top left) hit update Clover,... Then run Clover and Mount the EFI (bottom left). After you've mounted EFI then select the Update option in the bottom left of the Clover Configurator window. This will update the boot loader of your machine.

I'm like stuck here, I went by the guide and updated the clover boot loader first, now I can't mount the EFI Partition (with clover configurator and EFI Mounter v3...) I can see the partition in terminal when I do diskutil list but I can not mount it to put kexts in the "Other" folder... What should I do here?

I'm soooooo glad that I re-made my El Capitan installer before doing this!!
 
I will confirm I have this working when enabling kext, verbose, web graphics enabled, and without cache selected.

My only issue right now is that I can't seem to get my video card to display color correctly. Installed the beta graphics card and my blues and reds are all mixed up.

I'm using Mac Pro 5,1 profile

I can confirm that this method WORKS!!! Updated to macOS Sierra on ASUS Q500A, display panel on System Preferences not working, will continue testing to see what other things do and dont work.
 
Anyone with issues ( not seeing the macOS install ) you need to mount the EFI then update as suggested.


Same issue here! Maybe my kexts are not updated. I'll continue to try again later.


solve this.. please try the following:

So I managed to fix this. What I did was firstly to enable viewing of hidden files in Finder.

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
killall Finder

Then mounted the EFI partition using Clover Configurator. Then I went to the Main Drive\Library\Extensions -- a folder that was hidden before -- and copied *all* the kexts into the EFI\Clover\kexts\other directory.

Following that I rebooted, selected the Install option and Sierra successfully installed.
 
You can use the Nvidia Sierra Beta web drivers with the 900 series until Nvidia releases updated drivers.
Thanks. Yes those work well -- using them now. So video is now working. Sound (HDA) has been blown out as has protected video content which I had working in El Capitan using the Shiki.kext. Appreciate any advice on sound: it took me ages with El Capitan to get that working and frustrating now it's not :)
 
I'm like stuck here, I went by the guide and updated the clover boot loader first, now I can't mount the EFI Partition (with clover configurator and EFI Mounter v3...) I can see the partition in terminal when I do diskutil list but I can not mount it to put kexts in the "Other" folder... What should I do here?

I'm soooooo glad that I re-made my El Capitan installer before doing this!!

Weirdly it appears that Sierra has blown out the visibility of Mounting of EFI in the Finder window. I would suggest that you Mount the EFI using EFI Mounter v3.app this then should display in the Finder window as a Device

You then need to view hidden files on the Hackingtosh so that you can copy all the kexts from Library\Extensions into EFI\Clover\Other that should work.

To show hidden files on your Hackingtosh open a Terminal and cut and paste each of these two lines

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
killall Finder

The go to the "Go" menu in Finder, hold down Option and then select Library. This will open the library window... then find extensions and copy all those kexts in there into EFI\Clover\Other

this should help... am guessing
 
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