Struggling with this update. I waited until the Nvidia drivers (1050 TI) were available. I just updated and a normal boot after the boot hangs near the end. So I am booting in safe mode and that succeeds and I think I need to mount /Volumes/EFI to put fakeSMC in place as per instructions in the initial post. But in safe mode I cannot mount /Volumes/EFI with EFI mounter V3. I have done this many times and I am sure I have the correct drive. "Apple handler failed -1000)" . Any idea how to move past this?
Ok a got around it. Here is what I ran into and how I fixed it:
1. Stuck at 80% of the boot cycle
2. After that I got a screen with " MacOS could not be installed on you computer" ".....IOSInstall.mpkg... appears to be missing ..."
3. Unable to mount /Volumes/EFI.... to install fakeSMC kext as per thread start instructions.
Here is what I did that got me a round those 2 issues (please read the whole thing if you have trouble):
Problem 3.
- If you boot of the temporary update "partition" in clover you cannot mount /Volume/EFI. You need manually select the standard Clover Mac OS X selection. Then you can mount /Volume/EFI with the EFI mounter V3.
- This allowed me to put the fakeSMC in /Volumes/EFI/EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other
- That allowed me to get around the 80% stuck (but please continue to read if you have this)
Problem 2.
- I think because of the all the tinkering and aborted upgrade I ran into the upgrade failing.
- Chose to boot of the old (not upgraded) Partition in Clover and ran the Combo update (not the App Store version) and reapplied the update.
- Now with the fakeSMC in place I could reboot and continue the upgrade. (But please continue to read)
Problem 1.
- Now with the fakeSMC in place I should be able to get around the 80% boot problem
- As a safety measure (???) at each reboot during the upgrade process (I think there are 3) I selected (press space bar in clover before it boots) "Set Nvidia to VESA".
- This caused the upgrade to complete.
- After completion and a full boot I was able to install the new NVIDIA web drivers. (I have an EVGA GTX 1050 TI 4gb)
Now it works like a charm. USB/Audio/Video no extra fixes needed. Hope this helps.