- Joined
- Feb 2, 2019
- Messages
- 22
- Motherboard
- Z87-a
- CPU
- I7-4770k
- Graphics
- GTX-1080
Let me start off by saying I thought this update would be simple... NOT So! I basically kept getting a reboot loop or a 100% looking progress bar below the black screen with the apple logo and nothing would ever happen. I knew it was tied to the video driver so I tried a few different methods and finally was successful using the below method.
TimeMachine, TimeMachine, TimeMachine! Don't waste hours of uninstalls and installs and with different driver installation methods! I literally bricked my box at least Half a dozen times before I realized using time machine would save me an insane amount of time! Time machine takes about 10 min to restore vs an hour on average to uninstall/reinstall update to the latest security update.
THIS METHOD REQUIRES YOU TO WIPE YOUR DATA/DRIVE! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!
If I don't setup time machine backup on the newly erased machine it seems you can get your data back. (SKIP Step 15, enabling time machine). Once you enable TimeMachine on this new OS/machine it doesn't want to restore from the original time machine backup! So skip enabling time machine on the new machine until you have migrated everything from the original time machine backup using the migration wizard.
Ok, I am going to try and keep this as simple as I can.
19. Use The migration wizard and restore your applications/settings etc using your original Time Machine backup I told you to take at the very beginning. It will ask you to import the username and ask for a password... If you used your original name that you wanted on your Mac and did not follow my steps to use "test" as your account name... You now find out why I told you to do that. It DOES NOT give you the option to overwrite your current account with the old account or restore over it!! What??!?! Why? Who knows...
If you did as I told you to do above you should now have all your apps etc working and you simply need to make your old "original" account an admin, login to that account and delete the test account.
You should now have a working Hackintosh or VERY close. Take another Time Machine backup, or your very first time machine backup depending if you needed to restore data.
If everything is working as intended, reboot and go into your BIOS and set your Hackintosh Drive as your boot drive and you are good to go.
I now can use Time Machine to restore to a working Security Patch system with everything good to go.
Hopefully this saves others with GTX based cards a whole heap of time! I tried uninstalling the Nvidia drivers first, trying to disable the Nvidia Web Inject etc and nothing seemed to work. This is the only way I was able to get good results consistently.
TimeMachine, TimeMachine, TimeMachine! Don't waste hours of uninstalls and installs and with different driver installation methods! I literally bricked my box at least Half a dozen times before I realized using time machine would save me an insane amount of time! Time machine takes about 10 min to restore vs an hour on average to uninstall/reinstall update to the latest security update.
THIS METHOD REQUIRES YOU TO WIPE YOUR DATA/DRIVE! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!
If I don't setup time machine backup on the newly erased machine it seems you can get your data back. (SKIP Step 15, enabling time machine). Once you enable TimeMachine on this new OS/machine it doesn't want to restore from the original time machine backup! So skip enabling time machine on the new machine until you have migrated everything from the original time machine backup using the migration wizard.
Ok, I am going to try and keep this as simple as I can.
- Take a time machine backup before performing anything!
- Create a USB bootable High Sierra installer using UniBeast.
- Set your UEFI USB drive as first boot option within BIOS to save you some time (you can change it to your HD after we are done).
- Boot into your Unibeast Installer selecting the USB drive.
- Erase your old HFS drive/APFS drive using DiskManager before installing MacOS.
- Once you have your hard drive erased exit Disk Manger and Install MacOS as you normally would.
- When asked for a username to create use "test" as the account or something other than your main account! (Trust me we will address this later).
- Once you get into your OS that is clean, DO NOT USE MULTIBEAST (Not yet).
- If your network card isn't already working, find your kext file online and install using KextBeast and then reboot.
- Launch AppStore, Select download all updates and Restart.
- Select the (Install "Hardrivename") as the boot disk after clover loads.
- Do Step 10 one more time.
- You should now select your HFS or APFS drive within clover (which ever format you decided to choose when you initially erased your drive).
- It will take a few minutes and then you will be in a pristine version with the update applied.
- (SKIP THIS STEP IF you plan to restore from your old Time Machine backup) Setup TimeMachine and backup if you aren't worried about restoring apps/data from your original time machine backup. MAKE SURE IT COMPLETES!
- Once TimeMachine completes, download the latest Nvidia Driver and install it and then reboot. NVIDIA DRIVERS Quadro & GeForce macOS Driver Release 387.10.10.10.40.118
- Use Multibeast and select your options for your particular hackintosh... IE: UEFI Boot, 1150 Sound driver, Nvidia Web Driver, SATA and USB etc...
- Reboot
19. Use The migration wizard and restore your applications/settings etc using your original Time Machine backup I told you to take at the very beginning. It will ask you to import the username and ask for a password... If you used your original name that you wanted on your Mac and did not follow my steps to use "test" as your account name... You now find out why I told you to do that. It DOES NOT give you the option to overwrite your current account with the old account or restore over it!! What??!?! Why? Who knows...
If you did as I told you to do above you should now have all your apps etc working and you simply need to make your old "original" account an admin, login to that account and delete the test account.
You should now have a working Hackintosh or VERY close. Take another Time Machine backup, or your very first time machine backup depending if you needed to restore data.
If everything is working as intended, reboot and go into your BIOS and set your Hackintosh Drive as your boot drive and you are good to go.
I now can use Time Machine to restore to a working Security Patch system with everything good to go.
Hopefully this saves others with GTX based cards a whole heap of time! I tried uninstalling the Nvidia drivers first, trying to disable the Nvidia Web Inject etc and nothing seemed to work. This is the only way I was able to get good results consistently.
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