Least painful upgrade yet between betas. I have heard that you no longer need to boot from an EFI without EmuVariables64 kext but I did anyway:
- use App Store update, click restart when prompted
- boot from USB stick Clover with no EmuVariables64 kext, select "installer" partition (seemingly a temporary partition the installer creates and destroys when done)
- arrive at secondary installer, let installer run, reboot
- boot as normal to working new beta
Again I've heard that EmuVariables64 no longer causes the osinstall.mpkg error during secondary install with this latest beta but haven't tested.
Hey AOL!
I built the rig:
* GIGABYTE Z270X-UD5 1151
* Intel I7-7700K
* AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition 16GB
* Ballistix Sport LT 64GB (4 x 16GB) 288-Pin SDRAM DDR4 2400 (PC4 19200)
• SAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2 500GB NVMe
* OWC 240GB Mercury Accelsior E2
* 500 GB SSD Scandisk
* Dual SeikiPro 27” 4K Monitors
Used High Sierra Beta Guide:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...h-sierra-public-beta-installation-usb.225520/
Used Clover 4184 and only injected FakeSMC.kext
I did the basic USB creation using your (AnAppleADay’s) config.plist & BIOS settings:
BIOS settings: Loaded optimized defaults, changed storage boot option control to UEFI, disabled SW guard extensions, disabled the serial ports, enabled XHCI Hand-off, disabled VT-d.
The first boot was from the USB and I installed unto the NVMe, It auto re-booted, I press F-12 and booted from the NVMe and continued the install, It auto re-booted, I press F-12 and booted from the NVMe and the install got to the third re-boot and the NVMe drive and any other drives disappeared and only the USB Install drive is present.
I created a few iterations of the Install USBs of Betas 10.12.55 & 10.12.57 and the stock config.Plist, to no avail. It still installs until it reaches the last boot stage and the drives disappear.
I also only formatted the drives as GUID, Mac OS X (Journaled), but I did try to use APFS a few times, still didn’t work.
Thanks for pointing out the Installer makes a temporary partition that is disappearing. I am in the middle of trying using EmuVariables64 in Clover to see if that works.
I would appreciate any help as to why no drives appear after the installer tries to install High Sierra!
UPDATE!!!!!!!! I tried the using "EmuVariables64" and it won't even start the install.