Direct Update to macOS Sierra using Clover

[macusers3130]

Well,
2 maybe the output that works is DVI which I don't have, only HDMI or VGA

Yes, That maybe your issue.

 

[jminiman]

Weird - I'm not getting Menu Bar glitches but the App Store seems to have graphics issues and periodically the screen saver temporarily hangs and then springs to life. Ideas?

 

[projection32]

Well, I finally got Sierra running on both of my machines:

1st Machine: GA-X58A-UD5 rev 2.0 (Video: GV-R687OC-1GD || Radeon HD 6870) – Installation went almost flawless and all works fine, except just two minor issues: USB 3.0 doesnt work and non-wakeup after sleep.

and
2nd Machine: GA-Z68X-UD4-B3 rev 1.0 (Video: ASUS C897P || NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260) – after three days of tossing around and endless tries and failures, I finally passed the installation process. But! My GTX 260 still doesnt work. Sierra now runs on generic graphic drivers. Brand new NVIDIA Web drivers seem not to support my GPU, so I run into turned off black monitor when I use them.

Any ideas?

 

[sheikhhridoy]

I did not know this but apparently this function is completely removed in Sierra.
See, for example,
https://www.techisky.com/tips/disk-utility-missing-features-macos-sierra.html
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201560

I started to wonder if that was the cause of Onyx made my system unstable after El Capitan.
I used to use it a lot but I stop doing so now.

Apparently I had to disable SIP in command line before I can repair the permission:
csrutil disable
http://apple.stackexchange.com/ques...to-repair-permissions-with-onyx-on-el-capitan

Okay I disabled SIP from Recovery mode. It is now disabled. But still the same with the kext wizard. Also, in Sierra, no crack or patch works, it says the "crackfilename" was closed unexpectedly.

 

[Brachiator]

Success!!!
After 3 tries (third time is a charm), I made it. The reason it failed the first two times was because I used the latest Clover. What worked for me was Clover_v2.3k_r3726.
Followed post #1 to the letter and used the above Clover and voila!
Everything seems to be working very nicely, it's indexing pretty hard right now so that's good. In a few minutes I will run Toleda's script to enable sound again.
You can get Clover here : https://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/files/Installer/

 

[strungout420]

Here's an interesting one, and maybe I'm missing something.

Installed the update and everything worked as planned. Reboot after all the installation stuff to the login screen. Click on my main user account and it accepts my password, but then just sits and spins. Occasionally giving me the rainbow wheel of doom, but other than that just spins. I can move the mouse and stuff so it's not frozen.

So I hard reboot from the drive and get back to the login screen. This time I select a secondary user account and when I enter the password, it spins for a second and then prompts me to enter my Apple ID and do the initial configuration bit. Then I get to the desktop...

After some consideration, I realized that my main user accounts Home folder is located on a separate disk and is configured as such in the Users pref pane. My secondary account has it's Home folder located on the same disk as the install. I'm not sure why it makes a difference, but I can get passed the login screen with my main account.

Any one have any ideas?

EDIT: After login with my secondary account, I was able to change my primary account's Home folder location to the local folder on my main drive. I logged out of secondary, and was able to login with primary without issue. However, none of my Applications, Music, Movies, etc... are there because they all reside in my original home folder. Is this perhaps a permissions issue? I can't relocated all of my original Home folder contents because there isn't enough room on my main drive.

 

[vmiyoshi]

Graphics vs. iMessage/FaceTime.
So I followed this guided on my old X58 and it for the most part worked perfectly.
The first two things, and (only 2 things) broken were graphics and sound. After I updated the nivida web drivers oddly the graphics worked after the 2nd reboot, but every reboot after that I had broken graphics. After some reading I learned I had to add a couple of lines of code to the config.plist file.
I found the SystemParameters sections at the very end of my plist files and I added the lines in red which resolved the graphics issue.
Example -
<key>SystemParameters</key>
<dict>
<key>InjectKexts</key>
<string>YES</string>
<key>InjectSystemID</key>
<true/>
<key>NvidiaWeb</key>
<true/>
</dict>

Sound was easily resolved by running the new version of the command file.
Now here is were things get strange. iMessage and FaceTime quit working. I know iMessage was working because as soon as my computer came up from upgrading I got a text, and I was able got respond on my computer.
I found that adding those two line in the System Parameters is what caused the two services to quit working, removing them resolved the problem. So now when I reboot, I have to stop clover from booting. go into graphics and select Webdriver then boot.
I don't restart this desktop much so I'm ok with that for now.
I guess I will wait for an updated version of Clover Configurator, as I noticed editing the plist manually, and using the configurator don't mix well...lol

 

[Daril]

Well, my perfectly running Capitan on H87 n wifi now doesn't even want to boot into el capitan after trying to do the update to sierra, tired of this, give up. system restarts every time after initial apple logo, and yes i followed everything on the guide

 

[gpfeiffer]

Hi,
No sound too after update. Could you please explain in details how you did for the config.plist trick ?

When you run the Realtek AppleHDA Audio installer (audio_cloverALC-120), it updates the config.list in /EFI/CLOVER (KextsToPatch) and installs realtekALC.kext in /EFI/CLOVER/KEXTS/OTHER. If you are set up for UEFI booting, Clover will load the config.list from /EFI/CLOVER to /EFI/CLOVER/OEM/Z97X-UD5H/UEFI instead. That's why you need to copy the updated config.list as well as the realtek...kext to the appropriate place in ..../UEFI/....

 

[esafeddie]

Well, my perfectly running Capitan on H87 n wifi now doesn't even want to boot into el capitan after trying to do the update to sierra, tired of this, give up. system restarts every time after initial apple logo, and yes i followed everything on the guide

For all we know you're trying to install onto a potato - sorry for the sarcasm but unless you give us a clue as to what your specs are, you're just wasting your time posting as it won't induce anyone to offer you the help you need. All it takes is a couple of seconds to put your specs into your profile and believe or not, someone will come to your aid. Welcome to the forum and good luck.