Need help in installing Mojave on mid-2010 Pro 5.1? I am starting from High Sierra 10.13.6 on a Crucial MX500 - 500 GB SSD. It proceeds to the first restart and goes to the grey screen with Apple logo and starts the progress bar for a few seconds and stops. Geforce GTX 680 installed.
Mac Pro, macOS 10.13
Have you tried these, How to reset the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac - Apple Support, Reset NVRAM or PRAM on your Mac - Apple Support
If your Mac is still on High Sierra, then replace the GTX 680 with the original/ previous graphics card and see if it will
boot up.
I have seen a similar symptom in the past with earlier MAC OS X upgrades.
For some reason, Launch Services interfered with the boot process causing it to stall.
I thought this was when I did an upgrade instead of a clean install though.
I ended up deleting Launch Services. You really need to be able to boot to a separate disk with an earlier OSX to figure this out. However, AFPS may not allow you to read files with an earlier version of OS X.
Good luck.
Thanks for your efforts in trying to help me here. I'm trying to do a clean install on the 500 gig SSD. I had a terrible time just getting High Sierra installed although I really don’t know how????.
Eau Rouge, to you specifically, I had no data to back up, just a clean install. I did run first-aid on the disk and it was clean. Since the disc is new, I didn't have to worry about having enough free space. I did remove three third-party apps in the log-in area you refered to. Still would not install. When I tried to install this in safe mode, it gave me the message that all graphics cards had to be metal compatible which mine is. Can it be that because it doesn't recognize that it as Metal compatible, this causes the message and it refuses to install?
Any further suggestions??
Yes, it has High Sierra loaded on it. If I try to boot to that disk now, it will not complete booting. It will just start to fill the progress bar on the grey screen then it will go black for a couple of minutes, then blue. The computer continues to run, but I don’t have a screen.
This continues until I reinstall High Sierra. Then it seems fine until I try to reinstall Mojave. The last thing to happen when I install Mojave is as I described above….It will just start to fill the progress bar on the grey screen thenit will go black for a couple of minutes, then blue.
Yes, the system report tells me that the graphics card supports metal exactly like your screen shot.
Yes, I did convert to APFS as I was cleaning the disk.
Ok just to confirm, MacPro here with Crucial 500GB SSD and NVidia GTX 680 2GB card installed. Runs Mojave well.
Did you do all the pre install checks.
Make a full back up of your Mac first. Use Disk Utility> First Aid to check for errors. If errors are found you will need to boot to your Recovery HD and run Disk Utility> First Aid until no errors are found. Is there plenty of free space on the drive, at least 20GBs.
Open System Preferences> Users & Groups> Login Items, if there are any third party apps in the login items highlight them and click the minus sign to remove them.
If still having problems boot to Safe mode and try installing from there, Use safe mode to isolate issues with your Mac - Apple Support
Make sure your Mac High Sierra installation has all the necessary updates installed prior to trying the Mojave install.
Has your Mac been running fine on High Sierra, if not is better to resolve the problem first before upgrading.
So the disk has High Sierra on it at the moment, is that right. click on the Apple top left of your screen, click on System Report, check that the card is Metal compatible Under Hardware> Graphics/Displays.
When you installed High Sierra did your file system get converted to APFS, to install Mojave the disk must be APFS.
Boot to Recovery HD open Disk Utility, click View in the menubar select Show All Devices. now highlight the Volume (indented disk) click on Edit in the menubar and select Convert to APFS.
Any progress?
Mojave on Mac Pro 5.1 with Geforce GTX680
