Update Directly to macOS Catalina

[Bowdog]

Is Multibeast a thing of the past?

 

[P1LGRIM]

Is Multibeast a thing of the past?

As I posted in the other thread I'm dealing with a health issue that has slowed development down.

I'm hoping to get it done as soon as I am physically able to.

 

[bobizet]

Success upgrading from Mojave to Catalina15.3!
I upgraded Clover from r4938 to r5102,installed latest Alc,Lilu and WhateverGreen to clover/kexts/other.

 

[MrNarrow]

Held off on doing this all this time, worried it would break my dev environment, then did it on my MacBook Pro the other day to see what it was like, loved it, even the change from bash to zsh (especially after installing ohmyzsh ), and so had to try on my Hackintosh.

1. Create full clone of working macOS system drive using Clonezilla.
2. Update kexts (EFI -> CLOVER -> kexts -> Other) to latest available versions (AppleALC-v1.4.7, FakeSMC-v6.26-322-g1b20eab7.1765, IntelMausiEthernet-v2.5.0, Lilu-v1.4.2, USBInjectAll-v0.7.3, WhateverGreen-v1.3.7).
3. Update Clover to latest available version (v5106).
4. Check system boots into macOS with these changes.
5. If so, run Install macOS Catalina.app.
6. Success!

 

[jaminwang2386]

I'm trying


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Hi, have you successfully upgraded to Catalina and and there any issues?

 

[johannat]

I'm trying


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Did it work...?

 

[huug]

Thanks MrNarrow

I updated straight from High Sierra using your method with success.

 

[fabiovac]

Is this point:

2. Open Clover configuration folder on the root of your system drive or EFI Partition using EFI Mounter v3. Copy FakeSMC.kext and any other extra necessary kexts to /EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other/. If you need essential kexts, download them here.

the same as the procedure described in this thread: macOS Catalina Cleanup: Remove Kexts From /Library/Extensions and Recache?

 

[t3madden]

The description here says update directly from Mojave to Catalina - Can the direct App Store update method be used to update directly from Yosemite to Catalina as well?

 

[ikotkovets]

Updated to Catalina 10.15.4 (19E287) from Mojave 10.14.6 with issues.

Updated couldn't start because error
apfs_module_start: 1689 panic

Solved by adding SSDT_EC:aml in /EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/apfs_module_start-1689-panic.294246/

Then updating started, took ~30-40 min

But after update I got another error:

begin gfx firmware load process retry

It happened because I forgot to update Lilu and WheneverGreen to the latest version.

I added bootflag to clover -disablegfxfirmware and successfully booted, then I updated Lilu and WhenewerGreen and the issue has gone

Thank you tonymac!