- Joined
- Nov 9, 2010
- Messages
- 91
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z87X-OC
- CPU
- i7-4790K
- Graphics
- HD 4600
- Mac
Looking for the definitive expert on Mojave here...
Still struggling to get a valid update installed. Early on in betas there was a flag allowing install on HFS+ so I chose that method since APFS was getting some bad ink back there... so when the final release arrived I tried and was unable to install using Unibeast... but I discovered another method elsewhere which did allow the HFS+ install, and that was successful. All my testing is using SSD drives.
Lastly, I cloned and then converted that disk to APFS and then attempted to install the update using the 6gb image download. It did begin that install but then after the progress bar had barely moved, the system just rebooted and gave up, so that was about as close as I've come so far.
I'm hoping someone can affirm or deny that APFS will be mandatory from this point forward.
I've also discovered that if I'm booted to the HFS+ version, and go into Update in SysPref, the system says I'm up to date at 10.14, and that there are no updates available... but if I clone and then convert to APFS, now the system is willing to download the update... which again seems to say the HFS+ ship has sailed. I'm about to try that download and install method next but still looking for some more experienced wisdom on all this.
Still struggling to get a valid update installed. Early on in betas there was a flag allowing install on HFS+ so I chose that method since APFS was getting some bad ink back there... so when the final release arrived I tried and was unable to install using Unibeast... but I discovered another method elsewhere which did allow the HFS+ install, and that was successful. All my testing is using SSD drives.
Lastly, I cloned and then converted that disk to APFS and then attempted to install the update using the 6gb image download. It did begin that install but then after the progress bar had barely moved, the system just rebooted and gave up, so that was about as close as I've come so far.
I'm hoping someone can affirm or deny that APFS will be mandatory from this point forward.
I've also discovered that if I'm booted to the HFS+ version, and go into Update in SysPref, the system says I'm up to date at 10.14, and that there are no updates available... but if I clone and then convert to APFS, now the system is willing to download the update... which again seems to say the HFS+ ship has sailed. I'm about to try that download and install method next but still looking for some more experienced wisdom on all this.