Hello - most of the detail is here: Unable to install High Sierra 10.13.2 Supplement on my early 2011 15" Macbook Pro, which runs High Sierra 10.13.2 just fine.
as this started with being unable to install the 10.13.2 Supplement. Same thing is happening with 10.13.3. Is Apple abandoning us in the middle of High Sierra?!
MacBook Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13.2)
Hello, I have a big trouble after update my MBP 2011 17” early, in 10.13.3 when my Mac run second video card Radeon 6750hd 1gb, mac was freeze and I was trying to reboot, Mac appear only empty gray screen. Apple what can I do in the situation?
Hello, I have a big trouble after update my MBP 2011 17” early, in 10.13.3 when my Mac run second video card Radeon 6750hd 1gb, mac was freeze and I was trying to reboot, Mac appear only empty gray screen. Apple what can I do in the situation?
See my post, probably last on the other discussion Cannot install OS Mac High Sierra
I think the discussion of aftermarket SSDs is probably spot on.
My solution of complete clean install of 10.13.2 and a restore from the Time Capsule Time Machine backup brought back everything from before the 10.13.3 App Store update bricked my Mac Pro laptop.
Ugh, half a terabyte over ethernet, restore took forever.
That being said, I'll stick with 10.13.2 until there's some good evidence that Apple's got this fixed.
Check my post two above’s link Cannot install OS Mac High Sierra. it should work for any style of disk, regular, fusion or SSD. The big caveat is having a time machine backup. It would be even easier with a clone using Carbon Copy Cloner. I think you need version 5 to work properly with OS X High Sierra.
Solved!
So...I was ultimately able to get my machine to 10.13.3. We shall see if it takes future updates okay.
Here's what I had to do:
My machine now shows that it is on 10.13.3 and that the SSD is formatted as APFS. Everything seems to be working ok and hopefully now it will move on normally.
I suspect the SSD I have installed was recognized as a hybrid drive when I did the original High Sierra upgrade, so it left it as HFS+ instead of migrating to APFS. Unfortunately, that started to be an issue with 10.13.2 Supplement and 10.13.3 - so I had to find a way to APFS before I could get to the latest patches.
FWIW, all or nearly all reports of 10.13.3 not installing seem to be with Macs that have a replacement drive. I've updated 5 different Macs, different years, laptops and iMacs with no problem. All had the original drives supplied by Apple.
Interesting. The original drive in my Macbook Pro failed long ago and was replaced with the SSD it has now. I find it odd though that it has installed everything through 10.13.2 just fine and been working flawlessly. And the laptop is working fine on 10.13.2. What would make the Supplement to 10.13.2 and 10.13.3 not install because of a replacement SSD? Seems like Apple should be able to resolve this pretty easily, if that is indeed the root cause. I don't know how I'll ever know...not like I have a good old drive I can reinstall.
So spent some more time on this and still not getting anywhere. I have a Crucial 500GB MX200 SSD installed (replacement for the failed original drive). I updated the firmware to the latest (MU04) and tried to install 10.13.3 from the AppStore (failed), download (failed) and download of the cumulative combo update from 10.13 (failed).
Interestingly, my SSD, even with High Sierra 10.13.2, is running journaled HFS+ as the file system. I *thought* all SSDs were supposed to be updated to APFS with High Sierra. Mine did not, and I'm wondering if that's the problem now. It does not appear that there is a way to update the drive to APFS.
So - big questions...1) if I wipe the drive and reinstall with APFS - will I get APFS or will I "brick" the drive?; 2) if I'm successful getting APFS and MacOS onto the SSD, can I then recover from a TimeCapsule backup and restore the data, even though the backup would have been of an HFS+ filesystem?
See link above - I had this issue installing the 10.13.2 Supplement. Ultimately, I had to reset the NVRAM and restore from a TimeMachine backup.
I actually tried to help a friend update their Mac to High Sierra and sadly it went into a boot loop thus failing the upgrade.
jcavalie wrote:
... What would make the Supplement to 10.13.2 and 10.13.3 not install because of a replacement SSD?
Firmware for aftermarket SSDs that Apple cannot develop and does not provide.
I have at late 2013 MacBook pro and the 10.13.3 also bricked my machine. I need a work around to restore it. I don't have an after market SSD. It is the original.
Installing 10.13.3 fails on 2011 MacBook Pro
