[Solved] high sierra update fails on reboot

[sirNoolas]

Hi all,

I've been using El Capitan for a while now, and it never had any real issues. Now the time has come to update to High Sierra, however, I have not yet been successful in doing so. Whenever I try to boot using the installer, it reboots after the apple loading screen has come to about 2/3 of the loading bar. When I then boot back into El Capitan, it complains that there was a reboot due to a problem. When I press a key, it boots normally, without further anomalies.

Clover is updated to revision 4700, using clover configurator.

I have the following kexts installed in EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other :
FakeSMC.kext
IntelMausiEthernet.kext
USBInjectAll.kext
AppleALC.kext
Lilu.kext
WhateverGreen.kext

I am using the following boot options:

1. Ai Overclock
   • AI Overclocker Tuner > X.M.P.
2. Advanced Items
   • System Agent (SA) Configuration > VT-d > Disable
   • XHCI Handoff > Enabled
   • USB Configuration > Legacy USB Support > Auto
   • USB Configuration > XHCI Hand Off > Enabled
   • APM Configuration > Power on by PCI - E/PCI > Disabled
3. Boot Menu
   • Fast Boot > Disabled
   • Boot Logo Display > Disabled
   • Secure Boot OS > Other OS

As per this tutorial: https://gist.github.com/unsalted/efa85c99d7bf7e00bebe639825362c77
El capitan boots without any problems using the above settings, and seems to work perfectly.
I've left config.plist as default. No manual changes.
After an unsuccessful boot of the installer, a kernel panic report shows in console:



Anonymous UUID: 11337A1D-8E68-B1D1-FEFC-54A123E2D3B1

Wed Oct 17 12:55:30 2018

*** Panic Report ***
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff7f8e246012): assertmsg@/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/GPUDriversIntel/GPUDriversIntel-10.36.19/Common/IONDRV/Intel/SKL/AppleIntelFramebuffer/AppleIntelController.cpp:26251
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff83c5b9baa0 : 0xffffff800a26c1c6
0xffffff83c5b9baf0 : 0xffffff800a395274
0xffffff83c5b9bb30 : 0xffffff800a387544
0xffffff83c5b9bba0 : 0xffffff800a21e1e0
0xffffff83c5b9bbc0 : 0xffffff800a26bc3c
0xffffff83c5b9bcf0 : 0xffffff800a26b9fc
0xffffff83c5b9bd50 : 0xffffff7f8e246012
0xffffff83c5b9bdb0 : 0xffffff7f8e242dc9
0xffffff83c5b9be40 : 0xffffff800a8731fd
0xffffff83c5b9be80 : 0xffffff800a872f41
0xffffff83c5b9bf00 : 0xffffff800a872467
0xffffff83c5b9bf50 : 0xffffff800a8740c6
0xffffff83c5b9bfa0 : 0xffffff800a21d557
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelSKLGraphicsFramebuffer(10.3.6)[F09DEB66-D769-37DA-B03C-F662B2F9FE80]@0xffffff7f8e21b000->0xffffff7f8e3effff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)[AEA4C7F5-CCB0-338B-B471-CF28A9792522]@0xffffff7f8aae6000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.4)[95DA39BB-7C39-3742-A2E5-86C555E21D67]@0xffffff7f8aadd000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2(378.26)[AE312652-F3AF-3BFD-AEFF-FE4CCCC33BA9]@0xffffff7f8e179000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOReportFamily(31)[D2F2FBDF-4EE4-38BA-99F5-B699F886F413]@0xffffff7f8aad6000
dependency: com.apple.AppleGraphicsDeviceControl(3.20.13)[55E796DB-EFBA-34DB-8148-E834A4383AD2]@0xffffff7f8e211000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(519.20)[0E507098-E375-39B7-9AE2-AFF2C7A5D961]@0xffffff7f8e130000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Boot args: dart=0 nv_disable=1 -rootdmg-ramdisk auth-root-dmg=file:///macOS%20Install%20Data/BaseSystem.dmg

Mac OS version:
17G65

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 17.7.0: Thu Jun 21 22:53:14 PDT 2018; root:xnu-4570.71.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 1AE5ACFD-3B6F-3D74-AD52-31F1430DBC6F
Kernel slide: 0x000000000a000000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff800a200000
__HIB text base: 0xffffff800a100000
System model name: iMac14,2 (Mac-27ADBB7B4CEE8E61)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 39025299342
last loaded kext at 39022516310: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 519.20 (addr 0xffffff7f8e437000, size 57344)
loaded kexts:
com.insanelymac.IntelMausiEthernet 2.1.0d0
org.netkas.driver.FakeSMC 1765
com.rehabman.driver.USBInjectAll 0.5.10
as.vit9696.AppleALC 1.3.2
as.vit9696.WhateverGreen 1.2.3
as.vit9696.Lilu 1.2.7
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPCHPMC 2.0.1
com.apple.driver.AppleOSXWatchdog 1
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelSKLGraphicsFramebuffer 10.3.6
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelSlowAdaptiveClocking 4.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleFIVRDriver 4.1.0
com.apple.filesystems.msdosfs 1.10
com.apple.driver.DiskImages.ReadWriteDiskImage 480.60.1
com.apple.driver.DiskImages.SparseDiskImage 480.60.1
com.apple.driver.DiskImages.UDIFDiskImage 480.60.1
com.apple.driver.DiskImages.HTTPBackingStore 480.60.1
com.apple.driver.DiskImages.FileBackingStore 480.60.1
com.apple.driver.DiskImages.RAMBackingStore 480.60.1
com.apple.filesystems.apfs 748.51.0
com.apple.driver.AppleFileSystemDriver 3.0.1
com.apple.filesystems.hfs.kext 407.50.6
com.apple.BootCache 40
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless 1.0.0d1
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0
com.apple.AppleSystemPolicy 1.0
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 329.50.2
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 6.1
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 2.1
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.7
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 183
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 8
com.apple.security.quarantine 3
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 519.20
com.apple.AppleGPUWrangler 3.20.13
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 6.0.0d8
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 281.52
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 281.52
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 206.5
com.apple.vecLib.kext 1.2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI 1.0.14d1
com.apple.AppleGraphicsDeviceControl 3.20.13
com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 378.26
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 519.20
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 211.15
com.apple.iokit.IOSlowAdaptiveClockingFamily 1.0.0
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 900.4.1
com.apple.driver.DiskImages.KernelBacked 480.60.1
com.apple.driver.usb.IOUSBHostHIDDevice 1.2
com.apple.driver.usb.cdc 5.0.0
com.apple.driver.usb.networking 5.0.0
com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBHostCompositeDevice 1.2
com.apple.driver.AppleXsanScheme 3
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 301.40.2
com.apple.filesystems.hfs.encodings.kext 1
com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBHostPacketFilter 1.0
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 900.4.1
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelLpssI2C 3.0.60
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 288
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelLpssGspi 3.0.60
com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBXHCIPCI 1.2
com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBXHCI 1.2
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 2.1
com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 2.1
com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 2.0.0
com.apple.security.sandbox 300.0
com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1
com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore 2
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTDM 439.70.3
com.apple.driver.AppleMobileFileIntegrity 1.0.5
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageDriver 140.70.2
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice 404.30.2
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 404.30.2
com.apple.driver.AppleCredentialManager 1.0
com.apple.driver.KernelRelayHost 1
com.apple.driver.AppleSEPManager 1.0.1
com.apple.driver.IOSlaveProcessor 1
com.apple.driver.AppleFDEKeyStore 28.30
com.apple.driver.AppleEffaceableStorage 1.0
com.apple.iokit.IOTimeSyncFamily 680.15
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 3.4
com.apple.driver.DiskImages 480.60.1
com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 2.1
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 6.0.7f10
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHostFamily 1.2
com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBCommon 1.0
com.apple.driver.AppleBusPowerController 1.0
com.apple.iokit.IOReportFamily 31
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 6.1
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.9
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.9
com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.4
com.apple.kec.Libm 1
com.apple.kec.pthread 1
com.apple.kec.corecrypto 1.0

 

[sirNoolas]

After spending another few hours trying different things, the solution turned out to be flashing the bios. After a little tweaking with kexts (trying the IntelGraphicsFixup.kext) and several chaotic reboots (which seemed like hopeless crashes, where at one point clover seemed to have disappeared altogether), the system miraculously rebooted into a working version of High Sierra.