Ok I did the next best thing. I ran First Aid my Macintosh HD with El Capitan on it (No Errors shown).
Then I just partitioned my initial El Capitan Drive and Made a new partition called Sierra. (So recovery stays in tact). Then I tried installing Sierra on the new Sierra Partition. Same Error...
I don't want to delete my recovery partition after el capitan which is what i would need to do to extend it. I noticed I can install el capitan on the partition after the orig el capitan and recovery no problem. Sierra also fails to install on the original el capitan partition with the same...
This is all on the same drive (Disk 1 in attached photo).
I currently have a 260MB EFI partition with clover. Then I have Windows 10 installed. I also Have El Capitan Installed. They both work great. I have space after the El Capitan Drive and I am trying to install Sierra to test out before...
Did you ever get Sierra working? I tried a direct upgrade and I tried following this guide using the newer Unibeast. Cannot get the initial installer to boot up. Maybe you had better luck.
I got mostly everything working on El Capitan. I used Mirone's AppleHDAPatcher to get the speakers working but I have no microphone working. Internal or (plugged in) external. Anyone get these to work? (VoodooHDA gets everything to work but it is analog and the sound quality isnt good).
Also is...
I found the issue. My patching was good. Problem was I was still booting from the USB. You need to install the Clover bootloader on the system and boot with that. Installing Clover bootloader and getting the laptop to boot from it right away (not via USB) should be part of the instructions...
Please let me know if I am doing this right. I was able to get all the way to Step G in the guide.
To boot this laptop into OSX I need to use the USB created (boot into clover). So when I use F4 to extract the DSDT and SSDT files, they get placed on the USB's origin...
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