UniBeast: Install macOS High Sierra on Any Supported Intel-based PC

[voigtstr]

Running UniBeast 8.3.2 on a mid 2010 Mac Mini Server (no longer running server, currently running 10.13.4) Trying to get UniBeast to set up USB with 10.13.6. UniBeast fails with "There was an error creating your UniBeast drive: Copy of apfs.efi failed." What do?

 

[P1LGRIM]

UniBeast fails with "There was an error creating your UniBeast drive: Copy of apfs.efi failed." What do?

See https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/unibeast-8-troubleshooting-notes.235489/

 

[voigtstr]

See https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/unibeast-8-troubleshooting-notes.235489/

thanks for that, I now have the correct partition type on the USB which allowed unibeast to install. Cheers!

 

[JR67]

Hi,
Question;
I am following this walkthrough.

UniBeast: Install macOS High Sierra on Any Supported Intel-based PC
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...any-supported-intel-based-pc.235474/#download

When I come to:
STEP 2: Create a Bootable USB Drive with UniBeast
10. At Destination Select, choose USB and click Continue

I get this message:
“Selected Mac OS X Installer is Incomplete”
“Your selected Mac OS X Installer is the partial installer and doesn't contain everything that UniBeast needs to work correctly.”

What should I do?

 

[Feartech]

Hi,
Question;
I am following this walkthrough.

UniBeast: Install macOS High Sierra on Any Supported Intel-based PC
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...any-supported-intel-based-pc.235474/#download

When I come to:
STEP 2: Create a Bootable USB Drive with UniBeast
10. At Destination Select, choose USB and click Continue

I get this message:
“Selected Mac OS X Installer is Incomplete”
“Your selected Mac OS X Installer is the partial installer and doesn't contain everything that UniBeast needs to work correctly.”

What should I do?

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...ed-intel-based-pc.235474/page-43#post-1783141

 

[jiffyslot]

All I can get now for an install option (from a newly created USB installer) in Clover is "Install from Recovery" -everything's been reset from the ground up.

 

[MacLi]

Hi, is it possible to install HiSierra onto an external USB3 SSD? I've created the USB pendrive installer, and it starts up fine, but the external USB3 SSD harddisk is not present in Disk Utility, as if it wasn't there. I've also formatted it first HFS+ just in case, but it makes no difference. Is there any way to get the installer to recognise an external USB disk? Also the disk is recognised by BIOS, and is present in the boot select menu at the beginning (F12).
Thanks, Mac

 

[P1LGRIM]

Hi, is it possible to install HiSierra onto an external USB3 SSD? I've created the USB pendrive installer, and it starts up fine, but the external USB3 SSD harddisk is not present in Disk Utility, as if it wasn't there. I've also formatted it first HFS+ just in case, but it makes no difference. Is there any way to get the installer to recognise an external USB disk? Also the disk is recognised by BIOS, and is present in the boot select menu at the beginning (F12).
Thanks, Mac

What you can do is to put an SSD into a SATA to USB adaptor, create a partition of 32GB or less and then make your installer with UniBeast. You then take the SSD out of the adaptor and attach it to a SATA port on the machine on which you want to install the OS. I keep some 16GB SSDs for this purpose, they work well and install faster than from USB.

 

[MacLi]

What you can do is to put an SSD into a SATA to USB adaptor, create a partition of 32GB or less and then make your installer with UniBeast. You then take the SSD out of the adaptor and attach it to a SATA port on the machine on which you want to install the OS. I keep some 16GB SSDs for this purpose, they work well and install faster than from USB.

Thanks for your help! I have a USB pendrive Sandisk 16GB and I've created a HiSierra installer on this pendrive with Unibeast. It works fine. I also have attached an external USB drive, an SSD 120GB in a USB3 enclosure to the computer. This SSD is recognised in both Windows and OSX. Except for when I boot with the Sandisk pendrive 16GB HiSierra installer. When it gets to the part where you can run DiskUtility, the problem is that the SSD 120GB in a USB3 enclosure is not recognised, so I can't proceed with the install. (I would like to install OSX HiSierra onto this SSD 120GB in a USB3 external enclosure)

 

[MacLi]

Sorry if I don't explain very well. I don't want to create the installer on the external USB3 120GB SSD with Unibeast (I've already created the installer with Unibeast on a Sandisk 16GB pendrive) Now when I boot from the Sandisk 16GB pendrive, the problem is that the external USB3 120GB SSD is not recognised in DIskUtility. And that's where I would like to make the complete install of HiSierra. But I can't because the external USB3 120GB SSD is not available or present.