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macOS High Sierra (10.13) Unsupported Macs Thread

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I have an nVidia GTX 680 arriving tomorrow to see if I can escape the annoying but not fatal red screens by moving from AMD to nVidia
 
Blackriton said:
Since upgrading yesterday to High Sierra on my MacPro 3,1 with the Radeon GPU Card 5770, I noticed the first glitch this morning with no wake-up from a one-hour sleep. I had to make an hard restart and now I decided to put the Energy Saver System Preferences to never sleep. Somebody else noticed this problem today ????????
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I too have a Mac Pro 3,1 with the ATI Radeon HD5770, and my Mac also doesn't wake properly. If I put it to sleep, when it wakes, the fans start, the front light glows constant, but the screen stays black and the Mac unresponsive.
 
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Blackriton said:
Since upgrading yesterday to High Sierra on my MacPro 3,1 with the Radeon GPU Card 5770, I noticed the first glitch this morning with no wake-up from a one-hour sleep. I had to make an hard restart and now I decided to put the Energy Saver System Preferences to never sleep. Somebody else noticed this problem today ????????

I kept the kernel console details in case some expert can analyze what happened.
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I have a MacPro 3,1 (same graphics and 12GB RAM) and have not had this issue with either Sierra or High Sierra (so far). My energy saver settings are set for 1HR computer and display sleep.
 
Fredblogg said:
I have a MacPro 3,1 (same graphics and 12GB RAM) and have not had this issue with either Sierra or High Sierra (so far). My energy saver settings are set for 1HR computer and display sleep.
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It never happened with Sierra, only since yesterday after upgrading to High Sierra.........I had the same settings that Fredblogg but I change them now to never sleep till we find a soluce.........
 
Am I missing something with APFS and the EFI partition? I go to mount the EFI and it complains that it's not an HFS Volume... well, of course it's not...

What am I doing wrong?
 
Hater said:
Am I missing something with APFS and the EFI partition? I go to mount the EFI and it complains that it's not an HFS Volume... well, of course it's not...

What am I doing wrong?
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The EFI partition is meant to be selected in the option-key boot selector or from the Startup Disk system preference panel. It is just a shim to provide a mechanism to boot APFS volumes which the non-upgraded EFI firmware on unsupported machines won't recognize as valid boot volumes.
 
Hi,

I have installed (upgrade) High Sierra dosdude1's tool on my MBP 5.4 SSD and all is OK. The partition is HFS+

My question is: can I convert this High Sierra partion to APFS without loosing my data (no clean install)? If yes, how? Thank you!
 
satbox said:
Hi,

I have installed (upgrade) High Sierra dosdude1's tool on my MBP 5.4 SSD and all is OK. The partition is HFS+

My question is: can I convert this High Sierra partion to APFS without loosing my data (no clean install)? If yes, how? Thank you!
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Boot to your patched USB installer, open Disk Utility, unmount the volume you want to convert, convert it using the option in the Disk Utility Edit menu, and apply the APFS patch in the post-install tool when it's complete.
 
BookEmDanno said:
High Sierra issue on my MBP5,3 (mid-2009) with internal drives.

Prior to HS, my Sierra system had 2 internal drives - a SSD and a HDD. After successfully upgrading to High Sierra, my system only shows the SSD, with the HDD not mounted (or listed) on Disk Utility. I checked my latest Time Machine backup and verified that 2 Volumes were in the backup. From the terminal, I tried a 'tmutil restore' from the HDD volume, but unfortunately the data was not restored. Also tried to do a "Migration Assistant" restore, but my source only shows the SSD volume on the backup.

Do you guys have any suggestion on how I could re-mount or make visible, my internal HDD on High Sierra? Most of my core data (such as my virtual machine boxes on VMware) reside on the HDD. Thanks for any input/suggestion/feedback.

~Mahalo!~
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Open up your machine and ensure the second drive is properly connected. It's not uncommon for that little optical drive ribbon cable to disconnect from the board, especially with aftermaket hard disk adapters.
 
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Hi. I used the patched installer to install on a supported 2010 iMac with HD, on APFS. However, I get no Recovery partition, just an extra EFI partition. Is this due to using the patched installer?

I have a 2010 Core i7 iMac 27” with 2 TB HD. Not Fusion. I wanted to see how APFS behaved on it so using the USB installer method I installed High Sierra on it.

I booted into the installer, used Disk Utility to wipe the drive and format as APFS and then created two volumes, a boot volume and data volume. And the after unmounting the drive I initiated the install process. The installed OS on APFS works fine.
 
MacBook 5.1 (convert to APFS) all just fine, thanks very much dosdude1
Please tell me, can i am make backup on Carbon Copy Cloner and recover from it ?
 
Upgraded the Mac Pro 3,1 in our basement functioning as our media server with two Drobos (one USB 3.0, one Firewire). Everything upgraded without drama. No SSDs on that machine so everything is still HFS+. Nvidia GT120 card is supported by default. I installed the new Nvidia drivers but they seem to have some minor issues over Screen Sharing so I've switched back to the default drivers. OS X Server then upgraded to version 5.4 without incident.

Next stop will be my daily desktop, the Mac Pro 3,1. This machine has a four disk SoftRAID array so I've upgraded to the HS supported version (5.6.3) ahead of an upgrade. This machine boots with a fusion drive so like the other Mac Pro, I everything on this machine will continue to be HFS+ for awhile.
 
dosdude1 said:
Boot to your patched USB installer, open Disk Utility, unmount the volume you want to convert, convert it using the option in the Disk Utility Edit menu, and apply the APFS patch in the post-install tool when it's complete.
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Thank you dosdude1, I did it and all is OK.
 
Is there any other way of downloading the High Sierra full installer rather than using dosdude1s software patcher method as the connection keeps breaking, and when it does so the download is erased, and needs to be started again only for it to fail about two thirds of the way. Have had previous better success (Betas and Sierra) downloading the dmg from his site, but High Sierra is not listed there.
 
dosdude1 said:
Open up your machine and ensure the second drive is properly connected. It's not uncommon for that little optical drive ribbon cable to disconnect from the board, especially with aftermaket hard disk adapters.
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To the rescue again.... now mounted. Mahalo nui loa.

If ever you are in Hawaii, give me a buzz so I could at least treat you to Hawaiian food and drink to compensate for all your help and tools.
 
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1. Yes, it is possible to do an in-place upgrade.

2. Use the macOS High Sierra Patcher tool to download a copy of macOS High Sierra, create an installer USB drive, boot from it, but simply select the disk containing Sierra to install on, without erasing the disk in Disk Utility. Run the post-install patch after installing, of course.

3. You can convert the drive whenever you wish, however you'll need to be sure to re-run the post-install patch after the conversion if you do it after installing. Just a warning, I'm not exactly sure how the APFS booting implementation will handle your "home-brew" fusion drive, so be sure to back up important data in case it doesn't work.
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Happy to report that I was able to in-place upgrade both the MBP 5,5 and the MM 3,1 to High Sierra using your patcher tool! Thanks a ton!

Going forward, how does one install incremental High Sierra updates? Will they show up in the App Store and can they be directly installed from there? And does one need to then re-apply the post-install patch? Or is there a different procedure? Thanks in advance!
 
techinfant said:
Happy to report that I was able to in-place upgrade both the MBP 5,5 and the MM 3,1 to High Sierra using your patcher tool! Thanks a ton!

Going forward, how does one install incremental High Sierra updates? Will they show up in the App Store and can they be directly installed from there? And does one need to then re-apply the post-install patch? Or is there a different procedure? Thanks in advance!
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They should show up in the App Store like normal.
 
jbarley said:
Add another unhappy 5770 user to this list.:(
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I have just booted into HS, put the Mac to sleep and then woken it. This resulted in the black screen, but the up/down volume keys made a sound and the disk eject button worked. I tried typing in my lock-screen pass code blind, but after that there was nothing responding at all. So, I did a reboot, and have copied what was recorded in both the System Log and System Report. I'm no techie, so have probably copied stuff that has no bearing, but here it is in case someone can make light of it.

System Log
Sep 27 17:04:01 Matthews-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.WebKit.Networking.DE715682-06BE-4F15-ACD7-C50EDEEB9266[548]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1
Sep 27 17:04:02 Matthews-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit
Sep 27 17:04:03 Matthews-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.rootless.init): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
Sep 27 17:04:05 Matthews-Pro GarageBandExtension[554]: BUG in libdispatch client: dispatch_mig_server: mach_msg() failed (ipc/send) msg too small - 0x10000008
Sep 27 17:04:05 Matthews-Pro iTunesStorageExtension[559]: BUG in libdispatch client: dispatch_mig_server: mach_msg() failed (ipc/send) invalid data - 0x10000002
Sep 27 17:04:12 Matthews-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.CloudDocsDaemon.StorageManagement[557]): Service exited due to signal: Killed: 9 sent by CloudDocsStorageManagement[557]
Sep 27 17:04:12 Matthews-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.STMExtension.Trash[553]): Service exited due to signal: Killed: 9 sent by Trash[553]
Sep 27 17:04:12 Matthews-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.STMExtension.Applications[549]): Service exited due to signal: Killed: 9 sent by Applications[549]
Sep 27 17:04:12 Matthews-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.STMExtension.iOSFiles[558]): Service exited due to signal: Killed: 9 sent by iOSFilesExtension[558]
Sep 27 17:04:12 Matthews-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.messages.StorageManagementExtension[552]): Service exited due to signal: Killed: 9 sent by Messages Storage Management Exte[552]
Sep 27 17:04:12 Matthews-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.WebKit.Networking.77B13238-505E-48AE-8367-EC545BB674AE[570]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1
Sep 27 17:04:17 Matthews-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.STMExtension.OtherUsers[551]): Service did not exit 5 seconds after SIGTERM. Sending SIGKILL.
Sep 27 17:04:17 Matthews-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.iTunesStorageExtension[559]): Service did not exit 5 seconds after SIGTERM. Sending SIGKILL.
Sep 27 17:04:17 Matthews-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.Photos.StorageManagementExtension[550]): Service did not exit 5 seconds after SIGTERM. Sending SIGKILL.
Sep 27 17:04:20 Matthews-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.imfoundation.IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent): Unknown key for integer: _DirtyJetsamMemoryLimit
Sep 27 17:04:37 Matthews-Pro timed[76]: settimeofday({0x59cbcc15,0x20d25}) == 0
Sep 27 17:04:37 Matthews-Pro keyboardservicesd[486]: assertion failed: 17A365: libxpc.dylib + 71201 [E7C5DB12-6D0E-3D1E-A743-F750DF112F5F]: 0x89
Sep 27 17:04:42 Matthews-Pro systemmigrationd[561]: BUG in libdispatch client: dispatch_mig_server: mach_msg() failed (ipc/send) msg too small - 0x10000008
Sep 27 17:05:43 Matthews-Pro timed[76]: settimeofday({0x59cbcc57,0x2031a}) == 0
Sep 27 17:05:53 Matthews-Pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.OSDUIHelper): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.


System Report
Wed Sep 27 17:05:53 2017
Event: GPU Reset
Date/Time: Wed Sep 27 17:05:53 2017
Application:
Path:
Tailspin: /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/gpuRestart2017-09-27-170553.tailspin
GPUSubmission Trace ID: 0
OS Version: Mac OS X Version 10.13 (Build 17A365)
Graphics Hardware: ATI Radeon HD 5770
Signature: 0

Report Data:

GPURestartReportStart
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Hung Channels: PM4
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[00] AccelChannel: PM4
Pending Command from : UnknownCtx
PendingCommandTimestamp: 0x00011ea1, TotalDWords: 0x00000415, GART Offset=0x0000000040080000, stamp_idx=0, estamp=0x00011ea1
PendingCommandStart:
PendingCommandEnd
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[00] PM4 HWChannel : Enabled, NotIdle
LastReadTimestamp : 0x00011ea0
NextSubmitTimestamp : 0x00011ea1
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GPU HangFlags 0x00000006: AsicHangState 0x00000006, AsicResetRequirement 0x00000002
IndividualEngineHang: 0
NonEngineBlockHang : 1
FenceNotRetired : 1
PerEngineReset : 0
FullAsicReset : 1
HangEngineBitmap : 0x00000000
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AMDJuniperGraphicsAccelerator PCIe Device: [2:0:0] State: DISABLED
Configuration: deviceBits: 0x001168b8, capabilityBits: 0x30940100
TotalVideoRAMBytes: 0x0000000040000000 (1073741824)
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[00] PM4 Engine : Enabled, NotIdle
[00] PM4 Channel: Enabled, NotIdle, lastReadTimestamp 0x00011ea0, nextSubmitTimestamp 0x00011ea1
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[01] SDMA Engine : Disabled, Idle
[01] DMA Channel: Disabled, Idle, lastReadTimestamp 0x000007e3, nextSubmitTimestamp 0x000007e4
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[03] UVD Engine : Disabled, Idle
[02] UVD Channel: Disabled, Idle, lastReadTimestamp 0x00000000, nextSubmitTimestamp 0x00000001
 
satbox said:
Thank you dosdude1, I did it and all is OK.
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All seems to work except SuperDuper! backup tool (even beta version 3.0).

Do you know if TimeMachine works well (restore included) with High Sierra APFS patched with dosdude1's tool on MBP 5.4?
 
Woooow what'n boost for "Photos" App... Recently I used it only to make sure that all content is in sync with my iDevices without any clouds.... After factory reset of an iDevice I'll need to split my syncs of Photos (no videos synced!), with over 35.000 items it'll fail every time to sync. This is my first time since iPhoto that sync via iTunes AND the repalced app of (iPhoto) - here Photos is running smooth again on my old late 08er.

Surfing is even much more faster than before... Incredible! Donating dosdude to make this possible!
 
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