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Hi everybody, I read the whole thread but I'm still confused on how to proceed to reach my objective that is the following:
Upgrade Yosemite to Sierra, jumping over El Capitan, and switching the bootloader Chameleon to Clover.
At present I'm booting Yosemite in a multi boot system (Windows 10 on board) with Chimera and everything is perfectly set up.
So I wish to follow some steps to reach my goal:

1) Switch Chimera to Clover, obviously mantaining both OSs perfectly bootable.
2) Prepare Yosemite to upgrade. I already set System Definition to iMac 14_2 and I downloaded Sierra from Apple Store
3) Upgrade Yosemite to Sierra with Unibeast following the reccomended method on Tonymacx86
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...ierra-on-any-supported-intel-based-pc.200564/

Just a brief summary of my troubles:
1) set up a USB disk with Clover release 3766 I used as a standalone app.
I prepare the key with the kexts and other files (also a config file downloaded from this site) but I immediately hang because I cannot boot due to boot0af error.
To bypass this situation I try to boot the existing installation of Yosemite with the other usb key set up for point 3. At Clover options I set the same parameters I use for Chameleon (PICRootUID=1, cpus=1, npci=0x3000)and Yosemite reaches the login page but remains stuck so that I need to switch off my PC.
I don't want to be very detailed with my troubles, but can you address me to solve my troubles?
Many thanks in advance
bye Rommy
 
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Hi everybody, I read the whole thread but I'm still confused on how to proceed to reach my objective that is the following:
Upgrade Yosemite to Sierra, jumping over El Capitan, and switching the bootloader Chameleon to Clover.
At present I'm booting Yosemite in a multi boot system (Windows 10 on board) with Chimera and everything is perfectly set up.
So I wish to follow some steps to reach my goal:

1) Switch Chimera to Clover, obviously mantaining both OSs perfectly bootable.
2) Prepare Yosemite to upgrade. I already set System Definition to iMac 14_2 and I downloaded Sierra from Apple Store
3) Upgrade Yosemite to Sierra with Unibeast following the reccomended method on Tonymacx86
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...ierra-on-any-supported-intel-based-pc.200564/

Just a brief summary of my troubles:
1) set up a USB disk with Clover release 3766 I used as a standalone app.
I prepare the key with the kexts and other files (also a config file downloaded from this site) but I immediately hang because I cannot boot due to boot0af error.
To bypass this situation I try to boot the existing installation of Yosemite with the other usb key set up for point 3. At Clover options I set the same parameters I use for Chameleon (PICRootUID=1, cpus=1, npci=0x3000)and Yosemite reaches the login page but remains stuck so that I need to switch off my PC.
I don't want to be very detailed with my troubles, but can you address me to solve my troubles?
Many thanks in advance
bye Rommy
All of those boot-args are not required. Try with the attached config.plist
 

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Thank You Going Bald,
I was able to USB boot into Yosemite. My main trouble at present is missing W10 option into Clover. As soon as I solve this issue (have to test bcdboot command applied to W10 HD), I'll try to stabilize Clover booting from HD instead of USB.
Need next weekend to perform some tests.
bye
rommy
 
Thank You Going Bald,
I was able to USB boot into Yosemite. My main trouble at present is missing W10 option into Clover. As soon as I solve this issue (have to test bcdboot command applied to W10 HD), I'll try to stabilize Clover booting from HD instead of USB.
Need next weekend to perform some tests.
bye
rommy
See the pinned guides in the MultiBoot Forum.
 
See the pinned guides in the MultiBoot Forum.

Studied enough to have success!! At least as far multi booting Yosemite-Windows10 is concerned.
Now I'm engaged on the third challenge: upgrade Yosemite to Sierra on my system, an ancient X58A UDR3 with FH BIOS.
Hope to start and reach my goal without too many obstacles.
Thank you, bye
rommy
 
Studied enough to have success!! At least as far multi booting Yosemite-Windows10 is concerned.
Now I'm engaged on the third challenge: upgrade Yosemite to Sierra on my system, an ancient X58A UDR3 with FH BIOS.
Hope to start and reach my goal without too many obstacles.
Thank you, bye
rommy

I am contemplating Yosemite to Sierra also... I too have X58A UDR3 FH BIOS. Thanks to @Going Bald, I have confidence.
 
Yeah! I definitely succeeded yesterday. Now I boot Sierra 10.12.1 on my system.:clap::clap::clap:
After having set up correctly items 1 & 2 of my steps, I decided to boot following this guide:

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/direct-update-to-macos-sierra-using-clover.201465/

What's important is to erase the Yosemite partition where you want to install the new OSX. Previous backup obviously recommended.
In my case, Clover is already installed in EFI partition already configured with previously set up config.plist.
Kexts saved in clover folders as described in the guide.
Sierra booted with no troubles.
Completed the configuration with Multibeast with ALC 889 kext. Beware to have EFI partition mounted while launching Multibeast.
Try, seems easy:crazy:
Bye
Rommy
 
All of those boot-args are not required. Try with the attached config.plist

Are you using a custom DSDT with that config.plist? I've still not had a chance to edit mine, but I played with a unibeast installation of Sierra to a clean drive and dropped in your MacPro 5,1 config apparently quite happily.
 
Are you using a custom DSDT with that config.plist? I've still not had a chance to edit mine, but I played with a unibeast installation of Sierra to a clean drive and dropped in your MacPro 5,1 config apparently quite happily.
Yes, I am using a custom DSDT I edited some time ago using d00d's excellent guide for native power management on EX58 and X58A boards over on insanely. Without the DSDT you need NullCPUPM kext to prevent the AppleIntelCPUPM kext from causing a KP.
 
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