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Sierra -> High Sierra Dark Install Help

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Motherboard
Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z v1
CPU
Intel i5 2500k
Graphics
AMD Radeon HD 7870
Mac
  1. iMac
  2. Mac Pro
Hi all,

I've attempted to upgrade my existing Sierra Hackintosh to High Sierra.
My system is a single SSD with 1 Windows and 1 MacOS partition

Updated to the latest version of Clover

I copied the following latest kexts to CLOVER/kexts/Other
FakeSMB
Lilu
Whatever Green
apfs.efi (Note I think this was my big mistake)

Booted to Clover and selected the Install MacOS partition.
That installer would hang at the apple logo.
nv_disable=1 fixed that
When I booted again and selected the installer partition, the apple logo startup completed, but then my screen stayed black while the hard drive ran hard for about 15 minutes.
the machine rebooted, but this time no Mac partitions are available to Clover.

I assume part of my issue is that apfs should have been installed to CLOVER/Drivers64UEFI

Is there a way I can fix this now that I am locked out of the partition?

I've tried making a multibeast USB from my MacBook pro, but it won't let me add the High Sierra Installer as this machine has Mojave.

All your guru help much appreciated!
 
I have managed to install apfs.efi to EFI/Clover/Drivers64UEFI but am still not seeing my partition in the Clover boot menu
 
Any suggestions much appreciated! Thanks!
 
I got further by putting apfs.efi into EFI/Clover/Drivers64 instead of EFI/Clover/Drivers64UEFI however the screen is black after booting.
 
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