Update Directly to macOS High Sierra

[MajorWedgy]

So... I have a 120 GB SDD in my current Hackintosh and I have a 250 GB SDD that I have been waiting to upgrade with High Sierra. I was holding off to see if you should do a clean install of High Sierra onto the new drive. But it sounds like I could just clone Sierra onto the new SDD and run the update. Does this sound true?

MW

 

[GeraldB]

That's absolutely true. I would clone with SuperDuper and then install Clover to the new drive. Copy the EFI folder to the new drive. Put APFS.efi into the EFI Clover UEFI64drivers folder. Try to boot from the new drive. If that works just disconnect the old SSD and upgrade to Highe Sierra. Then you have a backup for just in case and later you could use it as a second drive.

 

[cumik2]

I have some VGA glitches after upgrade to High Sierra. Updating from Sierra to High Sierra with steps in tutorial:

1. Update your existing Clover install to v4173+ using MultiBeast or official Clover package.

2. Open Clover configuration folder on the root of your system drive or EFI Partition using EFI Mounter v3. Copy FakeSMC.kext and any other extra necessary kexts to /EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other/. If you need essential kexts, download them here.

3. Copy apfs.efi to /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI/.

....... etc without problem every working like a charm but VGA is glitched for example after5 minutes working, whatever app safari, pages , photoshop .... screen is divided to many small square

My spec is:
MB - Gigabyte Z170M-D3H

CPU - Intel i3-6320 3.9 GHz socket 1151 Skylake 14 nm, Intel HD Graphics 530

RAM - 16 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

VGA - EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost 2 GB

SSD - Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250 GB

HDD - WDC WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 3 TB

Case Cooltek UMX3 - Silver

Internal Intel graphics card is disabled in BIOS, i dont use it !!

I don't use webdrivers because GeForce GTX 650 is native supported (or not under High Sierra?) I read somewhere that mission control is rebuilded on metal 2 graphics, can be this problem?

 

[andyxm715]

Many Thanks @tonymacx86 and @toleda

Upgraded to 10.13 following this guide, only needed to re-do the audio.

 

[gulios]

I have some VGA glitches after upgrade to High Sierra. Updating from Sierra to High Sierra with steps in tutorial:

1. Update your existing Clover install to v4173+ using MultiBeast or official Clover package.

2. Open Clover configuration folder on the root of your system drive or EFI Partition using EFI Mounter v3. Copy FakeSMC.kext and any other extra necessary kexts to /EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other/. If you need essential kexts, download them here.

3. Copy apfs.efi to /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI/.

....... etc without problem every working like a charm but VGA is glitched for example after5 minutes working, whatever app safari, pages , photoshop .... screen is divided to many small square

My spec is:
MB - Gigabyte Z170M-D3H

CPU - Intel i3-6320 3.9 GHz socket 1151 Skylake 14 nm, Intel HD Graphics 530

RAM - 16 GB 2400 MHz DDR4

VGA - EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost 2 GB

SSD - Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250 GB

HDD - WDC WD30EFRX-68AX9N0 3 TB

Case Cooltek UMX3 - Silver

I don't use webdrivers because GeForce GTX 650 is native supported (or not under High Sierra?) I read somewhere that mission control is rebuilded on metal 2 graphics, can be this problem?
View attachment 280778

same problem with GTX 660
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/no-video-acceleration-graphics-intel-hd4600.226276/#post-1581263

still don't know how to fix it(waiting for nvidia webdrivers)

 

[ClovHex]

Many Thanks @tonymacx86 and @toleda

Upgraded to 10.13 following this guide, only needed to re-do the audio.

same here, Thanks

little Problems are:
vivaldi browser starts very slow now and lack of e.g. paragon drivers for apfs. I have a tripple boot with Debian Buster and Windows 10 pro and I can see the other partitions from within macOS but not vice versa like it was before.
Solutions will come by time.

 

[Fumomono]

Can anyone help me. After installation of macos high sierra from sierra. My screen stuck on this screen.
Using Nvidia graphics card.

Same issue here. In verbose mode I get a message that says localhost com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.bsd.dirhelper.532) <warning> : Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in() : com.apple.bsd.dirhelper

Then some other lines too fast to read, then black screen, then finally a simple line at the top of the screen with the date and "
iMac.local com.apple.XPC. Launchd[1] (com.apple.windowserver) <notice>: service only ran for 0 sec. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds". And it seems to enter in an infinite loop (left it over 30 min running, nothing, nor any sign of activity from the HD). I'll run it again to check exactly what it's saying at the end.

I've followed all the steps in the guide, and when I force a reboot I can still boot on Sierra, so I guess the installation process gets stuck before making any definite action.

 

[Casa]

same problem with GTX 660
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/no-video-acceleration-graphics-intel-hd4600.226276/#post-1581263

still don't know how to fix it(waiting for nvidia webdrivers)

It looks like I managed to fix the VGA glitches (had them the first time I booted and later in Steam) by applying the Nvidia Graphics Fixup in the current Multibeast version.

My problem is that my internal NTFS HDDs are no longer recognized by OS X, I'm getting annoying initialize/ignore/eject messages on every reboot. Could it be the 3rd party SATA driver from Multibeast I used before no longer working?

 

[VioletDragon]

It looks like I managed to fix the VGA glitches (had them the first time I booted and later in Steam) by applying the Nvidia Graphics Fixup in the current Multibeast version.

My problem is that my internal NTFS HDDs are no longer recognized by OS X, I'm getting annoying initialize/ignore/eject messages on every reboot. Could it be the 3rd party SATA driver from Multibeast I used before no longer working?

VGA is not supported in OS X/macOS hasn't been supported since 10.6. No Macs have VGA. Better to use DVI, HDMI or DisplayPort.

 

[Casa]

VGA is not supported in OS X/macOS hasn't been supported since 10.6. No Macs have VGA. Better to use DVI, HDMI or DisplayPort.

I was using the term because they did - it's actually graphics glitches. I'm using Display Port.