"To install macOS High Sierra, a firmware update is required."

bottom line, we have old products apple does not care about.

I had to reboot and install CS4 and too many albums last nite for 5 hours which is waste if time.

what took air drop 3 seconds to do Monday AM took 9 minutes now, and rejected the function.

I'm trough with apple, I'm sticking to what I have now and cancel buying an new iPad Pro, Apple TV and that ihome music device.

bottom line, we have old products apple does not care about.

I had to reboot and install CS4 and too many albums last nite for 5 hours which is waste if time.

what took air drop 3 seconds to do Monday AM took 9 minutes now, and rejected the function.

I'm trough with apple, I'm sticking to what I have now and cancel buying an new iPad Pro, Apple TV and that ihome music device.

so I gave up at least Sierra works on the MBAm high on the Mac mini-life is okay Mac wise. but I has to re-install many CD because iTunes did not recognize them.

then my network was acting strange, the airport was going in and out of range.

I was advice to use a cleaner, so today I ran a maccleanner, which cleaned the Mac mini, which is must faster, no spinning ball-than I ran the cleaner on the MBA and sure enough cleaned out and set my airport better!

I rolled the dice, and reinstalled high Sierra on my MBA, which worked, after a week of trying.

finally everything is smooth as before all this annoying upgrades

shame on apple for having us go through this, and still will not ever upgrade or buy anything from them again!

Anything from third party processor boards to third party graphics cards to third party SSD cards.

There is something that is causing the installer to not allow you the Shut Down button as an option, the question is what.

It could also be that some routine is not quiescing, but that would also prevent the menu bar Shut Down from working.

Quote: Expo Bill - "shame on apple for having us go through this, and still will not ever upgrade or buy anything from them again!"

LOL, Sorry I really have to laugh out loud at that statement. If you are really that mad at Apple, go ahead and buy yourself one of those "state of the art" PCs and deal with all the virus', malware, software glitches and so forth. I have been on both systems since 1984. I was forced to learn PCs to learn how to repair them. I learned Mac because I saw just how good they are. Myself and friends who were leads in IT departments dealt with crappy PCs at work, but we all came home to our Macs, to be able to relax and not deal with the crappy PC systems. There are so many PCs out there in business because they provide JOB SECURITY for IT departments. Most of the PC IT departments I know of have 10-20 techs to keep 100-200 PCs running. Most Mac IT departments have 2-4 people for the same amount of Macs.

Yes, you have encountered a glitch with HS, so have I. Mine does the installation, I can push the "Shutdown Button" and I get the lights and long tone when holding the power button. Then it looks like it is doing its thing, only to have it boot back into macOS 10.12.6. Yes, I am frustrated after repeating this about 10 times (what did they say about doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result?)

The difference on my MacPro is it is a 2009 4.1 that was flashed to be a 5.1 to be able to run Sierra. I also have a SSD mounted onto a Pci-e host card (makes for faster access) along with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB video card.

Now there are a couple of applications that I have to run PC system…via Parallels Desktop, which runs faster than the HP Laptop that I have collecting dust on my desk (because I REALLY hate maintaining it). BUT, they will have to PRY my Macs (I have Mac Pro PowerBook, MacPro tower along with iPad air2, iPad Touch 5) from my cold, dead hands.

Cheers

scoogy2 wrote:

Then why do I keep getting that same message?

Do you hear the long tone when you restart?

If not, it hasn't been installed.

i think i might be getting some sucess with the 7th attempted, but how did you update the firmware?

but how did you update the firmware?

On my MBP, it automatically installed the update when it restarted the first time.

thanks for the reply, but im done with.

i will sticjk with sierra on the mba just for pages.

i wish i could stop updating upgrading because in set for good.

what else do i need?

chees everybody!

Yep, I've done the PRAM reset too, nothing has worked.

The firmware update just opens both drives as part of the installation process, perhaps to make sure there are no discs in the drives that might hold an alternate boot image of some type.