macOS High Sierra 10.13 Supplemental Update

[karea12]

You forgot to mention what to do about boot flags?
Do I add any? nv_enable=1 or NvidiaWeb=true in Clover Configurator?
or leave every thing disabled. and just use the kexts with out any boot flags and options

Leave your bootflags untouched, just the default dart=0 and nothing more related to graphics. And in clover configurator leave the nvidiaweb=true.

On terminal, start with disabling SIP,

And then the others lines, one by one v="/Volumes/YOURDISKLABEL" ; cd "$v"/Library/Extensions ; and so on.

YOURDISKLABEL is your root disk name, it IS case sensitive, so write it correctly or everything you are removing will not be removed because the path is wrong.

-edit-
You mentioned that you tried an earlier fix, it is a good idea to undo it too.

 

[RehabMan]

Lilu and plugins need to load very early to work properly. The developer therefore recommends injecting via Clover. LiluFriend is a kext that marks itself as a security plugin, with Lilu + plugins as its dependencies, so they load right at the start of boot, wherever they are installed. With the multibeast defaults you may (or may not) need LiluFriend and install to /L/E

Apart from the above exception, kexts belong in the cache, many won't work otherwise, so install to /L/E

The other situation is booting without the kernel cache, booting installers or recovery. With multibeast defaults you should install an extra copy of FakeSMC and your ethernet kext (aka essential kexts) to /efi/clover/kexts/other and keep them up to date so you are able to boot without the cache.

I understand the concept, but I have never needed LiluFriend.kext.
Personally, I don't think kext injection helps with kext start order (note difference between kext loading, kext probe/start).

 

[vulgo]

I understand the concept, but I have never needed LiluFriend.kext.
Personally, I don't think kext injection helps with kext start order (note difference between kext loading, kext probe/start).

I can only confirm that LiluFriend works as intended, Lilu and plugins do start up at the beginning of the boot sequence.

 

[Raouws]

You mentioned that you tried an earlier fix, it is a good idea to undo it too.

Ok here is my report:

*** After previous fix I restored every thing to original, and installed all the original kexts back.

Now starting from your method...

1. Opened Clover Config
2. made sure SIP was 0x67 (disabled), (and it was)
3. Set NvidiaWeb = true
4. Downloaded LATEST Lilu.kext & NvidiaGraphicsFixup.kext and placed them both in EFT/CLOVER/kexts/other
5. Started the WebDriver installer
6. Got the famous error near the end, clicked ok and the driver was "successfully installed"
7. Hit reboot.

And..... FAIL
still boot loop issue.

Some thing is definitely still missing here...
can you double check that all of the settings match? maybe I need to add some thing else?

 

[RehabMan]

I can only confirm that LiluFriend works as intended, Lilu and plugins do start up at the beginning of the boot sequence.

I have them starting at the beginning without LiluFriend.kext.

 

[karea12]

Ok here is my report:

*** After previous fix I restored every thing to original, and installed all the original kexts back.

Now starting from your method...

1. Opened Clover Config
2. made sure SIP was 0x67 (enabled), (and it was)
3. Set NvidiaWeb = true
4. Downloaded LATEST Lilu.kext & NvidiaGraphicsFixup.kext and placed them both in EFT/CLOVER/kexts/other
5. Started the WebDriver installer
6. Got the famous error near the end, clicked ok and the driver was "successfully installed"
7. Hit reboot.

And..... FAIL
still boot loop issue.

Some thing is definitely still missing here...
can you double check that all of the settings match? maybe I need to add some thing else?

Only thing I can think in the moment is that you have SIP ENABLED, and it should be disable.
In clover configurator leave it 0x3



OFC you can't get to clover configurator now, so go to your recovery partition, utilities > terminal, from there type:
csrutil disable
reboot

try booting with the verbose bootflag -v and posting the last lines of boot process.

 

[Raouws]

OFC you can't get to clover configurator now, so go to your recovery partition, utilities > terminal, from there type:
csrutil disable
reboot

I have already deleted the kexts, I'm booted back to the OS.
Ill restore every thing to factory and try again with SIP at 0x3

 

[Raouws]

Only thing I can think in the moment is that you have SIP ENABLED, and it should be disable.
In clover configurator leave it 0x3

* My mistake, 0x67 is disabled not enabled. 0x3 is partially enabled.

Can you please tell me if you have Inject Intel as True? or Inject kexts as True?
I have this:

• Graphics > Inject intel = True
• System Parameters > Inject kexts = Detect

Also some one mentioned that if you don't have NVRAM then you should use some EMUsomething.efi
how do I know if I have NVRAM? (makes no sense though since my SSD is NVRAM basically)

 

[karea12]

I have already deleted the kexts, I'm booted back to the OS.
Ill restore every thing to factory and try again with SIP at 0x3

This was the only update that gave me headaches too :/
But at least we learn something.

Here are my configs for my build, that is a lot similar to yours.

 

[Raouws]

This was the only update that gave me headaches too :/
But at least we learn something.

Here are my configs for my build, that is a lot similar to yours.

Ok, ive took a good look at your config.
First of all you are using iMac14,2, im using iMac17,1

NvidiaWeb is disabled for you
Kext are injected
Complete opposite of mine.

Well... I really don't know what to say, should I try the iMac14,2 ? or even 18,3?
maybe that will do the trick?