[Solved] can't install Security Update 2018-001

[AllanMarcus]

Whenever I install the Security Update 2018-001, the mac restarts, there is a short progress indicator, then the mac reboots. Clover comes up and preboot, preboot install, and my OS disks are there. I choose the OS disk, and it boots, but the security update isn't installed. This happen with the stand alone installer and from the App store.

Any ideas? Thanks.

 

[cci[RR]us]

Edit: I have a different problem.

 

[sirmipsalot]

Is there no "Mac OS Install" option? It should be present after first running the update from the app store upon the very first reboot. I selected the Mac OS Install - it then brought me through what looks like the initial installation. After this, it rebooted again - this time, the "Mac OS Install" option is gone, and I just select my Mac OS option in clover, and the installation has been completed. (I had to update my nvidia graphics driver after, naturally).

I had this same problem with a previous supplemental update.

 

[littlecreature]

I have the same problem, but I run headless. Can someone confirm that @sirmipsalot is right?

 

[sirmipsalot]

I have the same problem, but I run headless. Can someone confirm that @sirmipsalot is right?

Yeah, if what I mentioned doesn't work, I'd be interested in those details, too. I learn from negative results, too, same as everyone else.

 

[ironwood]

Whenever I install the Security Update 2018-001, the mac restarts, there is a short progress indicator, then the mac reboots. Clover comes up and preboot, preboot install, and my OS disks are there. I choose the OS disk, and it boots, but the security update isn't installed. This happen with the stand alone installer and from the App store.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Same problem!

Same problem too!

I had this same problem with a previous supplemental update.

I have the same problem, but I run headless. Can someone confirm that @sirmipsalot is right?

Every update including security updates in High Sierra have shown the option after first reboot to select "Install macOS..." in the Clover bootloader. This was also true in this last update, see my post at
#523. You must find and use the "Install macOS..." option in the Clover bootloader; and do NOT use "Install OS X..." at any time. When the option to install macOS is gone, you then boot from your updated drive in Clover bootloader.

Beforehand--and especially if you don't see the option to "Install macOS..." when you reboot--update your Clover to the latest issue (that's been especially important on this update). Make sure that every kext you use is the newest, including NvidiaGraphicsFixup (1.2.6) and Lilu (1.2.3), which you should be using regardless of smbios/blackscreen issues. Make sure the APFS driver is the latest. Added "hackintosh" kexts should NOT be in volume/System/Library/Extensions and in High Sierra likely not in volume/Library/Extensions either. They should be located in the EFI partition of your disk to be updated--found by mounting the EFI in Clover Configurator. The drivers go here, and the kexts go here into disk/EFI/EFI/Clover/Kexts/Other. Folders like "10.13" etc in /Kexts should be trashed.

Edit: When you reboot with the updater, I believe the option in Clover bootloader is called "Boot macOS Install from {your disk name}, but you don't want to choose "Boot OS X Install from {well...anything}.

 

[AllanMarcus]

well, I updated clover to v2.4k_r4449. when I reboot I see the Boot from Mac OS Install from <diskname> and boot from it. It never finishes. I'm losing hope.

 

[me.home]

Well it took rather long on my hardware too...and I'm using a SSD, restarted, installed and restarted again, shows about 45min but took about 20min altogether.

 

[ironwood]

well, I updated clover to v2.4k_r4449. when I reboot I see the Boot from Mac OS Install from <diskname> and boot from it. It never finishes. I'm losing hope.

Don't lose hope--you've been doing this a long while. You might post your Clover config plist and pics of your kexts and drivers. I'm not the best at this, but I can look anyway. You've got two signatures, so which system are you talking about? I assume the 4790K system--if so, man, you can get that going, you just have something off. Make sure every single one of your kexts and drivers is the newest. Build a new USB flash drive installer like you would for a brand new setup--but then make sure the proper kexts. plist, and drivers are on it--and boot from that flash drive--use your mainboard bootloader to choose your flash drive by hitting F12 at startup. Try this method of making a new USB flash drive, by RehabMan, no less.:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-booting-the-os-x-installer-on-laptops-with-clover.148093/

(Frankly, you can always startup this way and have no hack kexts/drivers anywhere on your drive, not in S/L/E or L/E or disk EFI--except maybe the two they talk about FakeSMC and APFS driver, perhaps. Guide to vanilla install, google it.) I have the same EFI file on my USB flash drive and on my disk (system) EFI, and keep them matched, just in case.

In installing updates, the preference is App Store first, and second download the combo update installer. So try the combo, it's surprising how many people say that helps them. Sometimes, and it's a head shaker, you just have to keep trying to install the update, if you do choose the "Boot macOS install" from your drive.

And consider SIP. Enable it. Or disable it if it is enabled now. See my previous posts elsewhere. Reread posts #1 and 2 of the 10.13.4 and 10.13.4 Security Update threads.

 

[ironwood]

Also list your smbios system definition, e.g. iMac14,2. It seems like this is getting more relevant with the last updates.