[Solved] Updating from Yosemite to High Sierra unable to boot after working for a while

ironwood said:

Now that you have modified your config.plist and added your drivers and kexts, the opened flashdrive>EFI>EFI>Clover folder looks like this:View attachment 345202
The CLOVERX64.efi is actually the updated r4630 of Clover.

While you have your flash drive's EFI partition open in Clover Configurator (flashdrive>EFI>EFI -- the whole folder), drag the folder to the desktop and place it within another folder labeled "New USB EFI" or something to make clear what it is. You can close your flash drive's EFI partition. Open your boot HDD/SSD's EFI partition in Clover Configurator, and take the "EFI" folder from the "New USB EFI" folder on your desktop and add it to the HDD/SSD's EFI partition, and choose "Replace."

Frankly this is optional at least with HFS+, but it's good to have a copy on the HDD/SSD itself.

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You should now be able to restart or start up, use F12, choose the UEFI version of your flash drive, from there choose the Boot macOS High Sierra from {your HDD/SSD}, and reach your desktop.

To engage your NVIDIA graphics card, assuming you need the web drivers, modify the config.plist on your flash drive's EFI>Clover by checking NvidiaWeb and unchecking Inject Intel. Install the downloaded web drivers if you need them. Shutdown and install the card. Reboot. If all is OK, copy the newly modified config.plist (or the entire flashdrive EFI folder) to your HDD/SSD's EFI partition again

I hope all this is helpful. Good luck! Please post results or comments.

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Bolos said:

Wow!

Thanks a lot man! But as I wasn't seeing much help around here I decided to use the Vanilla guide from ****** and I managed to make a fresh HFS+ install on a new SDD and everything is working fine now.

Thanks again!

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Bolos said:

Stuck again. After installation (seems) completed (on a black screen) computer rebooted but I can't boot the macOS SSD.
Only working option is to boot Install macOS USB.

I'm always in verbose mode and nothing is written before the reboot, just plain black screen and reboot to Clover screen.

I tried following this thread, used recovery mode, deleted Ev0reboot.kext with Terminal but I can't find "boot with no cache" option in Clover. Looking at my Kernel Panic, it seems this hasn't worked.



I tried the following options on macOS SSD :

- Boot macOS with injected kexts
- Boot macOS without injected kexts

- Safe Mode
- Disable NVidia to VESA + WEB drivers
- Disable NVidia WEB drivers only
- Don't reboot on Panic (even with that option, when I boot from SSD it reboots)


I also tried without the kext-dev-mode=1 and rootless=0 flags.

Any help appreciated, thanks.

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Gobias said:

Maybe I'll give the Vanilla Guide a try then since I'm not making any progress. If you don't mind uploading your config, I'd appreciate it.

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Bolos said:

Hey, sorry for the delay, I couldn't log in the last time I went here and totally forgot to come back. I attached my Config.plist here, hope this helps!

I just edited the SMUUID and Serial number, just use yours (or generate a new one via Clover Configurator).

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B-San said:

Any luck?

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