[SUCCESS] HP Z600 High Sierra Installation Guide

[d4vinder]

Ok it looks like at least one of my problems runs a little deeper than whether or not I am doing this install correctly. I installed windows yesterday and I could not get it to install onto any of my hard drives in Raid+AHCI either, could only get it to install in IDE mode. I am thinking either I need to flash my bios or I am having hard drive compatibility issues. I've read that the z600 might have these issues with non HP branded hard drives. Are your drives the stock HP branded drives?

Sorry for the delay. No my drives Samsung SSD’s

 

[d4vinder]

Hi All,

I am suffering from an issue during a clean installation, can anyone help?
These are the steps I did to my old Z600

1 - Create and config a installation HDD with UniBeast and clover configurator in my iMac
2 - Plug the installation HDD to Z600
3 - Clover boot select "Boot Mac OS X from HDD"
4 - Edit the minstallconfig.xml in terminal to prevent APFS conversion, Restart
5 - Installer started, select the SSD which has been formatted to OSX Journaled
4 - Installer started to copy the files to the SSD
5 - After a few seconds, system reboot
6 - Clover boot select "Boot Mac OS X from SSD"
7 - Then an error screen shows "an error occurred while loading the installer resources" (as below)

Thanks

Hmm. The error is a little vague. Can you boot using the -v flag and get a more detailed output?

 

[d4vinder]

Yesssss!

IF You have purchased and fitted this to your Z6/800 like I did. Now I have handoff Bluetooth and WiFi all working natively without any drivers or hacking.

The apple keyboard and Magic Mouse both work at bois level from cold boot so technically, yes, you can perform a build without the legacy PS2 keyboard or mouse

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I stand corrected. Upon the initial install you are required to deleted the AppleHPET.kext driver to allow the Bluetooth functionality to work!

So, yes you do require a PS2 keyboard and mouse for build purposes.

Additionally, when I upgraded to the later .updates by apple, the AppleHPET.kext re-appeared.

Now we can script the OS so whenever it sees that file in the directory it deletes it, but if you upgraded like I did, then was greeted without any input devices to login as a result, you will hold your head in your hands for sure.

My only saving grace as I didn’t have PS2 devices to hand was that screen sharing was already set up on this build. I remotely connected to machine and deleted the AppleHPET.kext thus gaining access back to my hackintosh.

 

[lucaswj]

Fantastic guide. Running great on a Rev. 1 z600. Thanks a ton.

My one wish is that I could find a way to boot without this old Quadra fx580 in it. The variety of supported GPUs on this model is very small, apparently. And when I try to boot with my FirePro w7000 as the primary boot card, I get the dreaded six beeps.

 

[RndMnkIII]

Fantastic guide. Running great on a Rev. 1 z600. Thanks a ton.

My one wish is that I could find a way to boot without this old Quadra fx580 in it. The variety of supported GPUs on this model is very small, apparently. And when I try to boot with my FirePro w7000 as the primary boot card, I get the dreaded six beeps.

I've running my Z600 with a MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X on High Sierra. The power supply of Z600 is at the limits of power requirements of the GTX 1070, but using some adapter to get PCI8 from Sata power did it the trick. P.D.: I don't close the Z600 case never with the GTX 1070 from MSI installed. You can try to search another model with lower profile.

 

[lucaswj]

Oh, it's not that I can't boot with the FirePro in it -- the GPU is working fine. But I have to keep the Quadro sitting in that slot just taking up a slot so the machine doesn't do the six-beeps on boot that indicate there isn't a supported GPU in the slot.

 

[RndMnkIII]

My setup

 

[lucaswj]

Success at last! And not only success, but Mojave success! But I had to use my RX 480 instead of the older single-slot FirePro. Which is fine, anyway. I guess there was just something the z600 doesn't like about that Firepro w7000 for booting purposes.

 

[Starky3000]

I don't know if anyone still looks at this post but currently I am in the process of installing 10.13 onto my own Z600.

I've been having a few issues completing and getting the system fully up and running. Sorry but these will be listed and if anyone can help I would be so greatful.


1, macOS (The drive I would like to install OS onto) disappears on occasions during start ups and at the points before changing the APFS to false task.
I had to restart, tweak settings and on some occasions unplug drive and place in another system to repair drive just so the Z600 could see it during setups.


2, For some reason I'm unable to do the unibeast option as when using application on my MacBook it couldn't see a usable drive.
So the only option I could do was the Cover option.


3, The Clover Version I use is a newer version (Clover_v2.4k_r4920) and doesn't quite look like the one shown in the example. Is Clover meant to download Kext files (Basic Drivers) that it believes it requires or should I de-select the option?

Update: I did both options and the same results.


4, I got to a point where it gets to main screen, looks awesome, little delays (Perhaps due to the drivers missing). Here I can shutdown and restart but with the Bootloader Drive still part of the system but I'm choosing macOS as my startup.

It's after I use Clover to create the EFI-folder, copy the Config file, add all the Kext files to (10.13 and Other) then do the reboot the problem appears.

I'm following the Tutorial step by step...

Unplug the Bootloader Drive (Not wiped as I may use it again) move the SSD (Yes APFS footnote 1 was followed too) into the first drive bay in the case and started the computer back up.

The computer starts up then comes to this weird Bios Screen (See Picture) can't continue as it just goes into a loop forever and would have to shutdown computer.

I have done reinstalls and on one time I went through the Bootloader to see if the drive was having an issue and it had disappeared from the Clover Menu with only a recover drive which was no help at all.


5, I know another issue, I tried getting rid of the Apple.HPET file incase that was an issue but this was before adding all the kext files to see if I could have USB working while not fully complete.
Results: Nothing!
These PS2 adapters are great investments.



I know this is a lot to take in and I bet the original poster doesn't have his system anymore but I just want to see this Z600 purr and work with me.

If anyone can help that would be fantastic!

 

[gkourk]

Success at last! And not only success, but Mojave success! But I had to use my RX 480 instead of the older single-slot FirePro. Which is fine, anyway. I guess there was just something the z600 doesn't like about that Firepro w7000 for booting purposes.

hi i have similar hp z600 with rx 580 and i try to install mojave can you share your efi folder

thanks a lot