Upgrade from Mavericks failed

[EliteMacx86]

Following this guide I finally managed to reach the High Sierra installer and installed a test system on an external SSD. It was possible to boot into it despite of a lot of error messages. WiFi, Sound and brightness didn't work, so I put these kexts into the EFI:
AppleALC
BrightnessKeys
SMCLightSensor
VoodooPS2Controller
IO8021HighSierra
SMCBatteryManager

That was apparently some too many, because I got a kernel panic because of Evoreboot that had been migrated with other files from Mavericks. Even after removing this kext which is incompatible with High Sierra the kernel panic appeared again with the same message. What kexts are really needed?

I can't upgrade from Mavericks before I'm sure everything will work.

HD 3000 has a native support on High Sierra and rest should be functional as well. You don't need the IO8021HighSierra. Also, before you upgrade, ensure you have a sufficient backup.

 

[EliteMacx86]

I risked installing High Sierra to the internal drive, of course after creating a new backup. But I could not boot into it because of the same error, should have deleted EvOreboot first. After many attempts I was able to boot into the external system again, in save mode, and deleted EvOreboot from the internal drive. Now I can boot into the upgraded system, but only in safe mode. There are still some old kexts to remove.

Attach the EFI to check.

 

[Wildleecher]

Meanwhile booting in normal mode works, ethernet with an old kext and WiFi with AirportAtheros40.kext, AtherosWiFiInjector.kext and HS80211Family.kext, all 3 were necessary. Even the brightness keys are working with that kext, they never did with Mavericks and earlier. Sleep is not working yet nor is sound, sometimes there are glitches on the display and random freezes. Updates from the Appstore are not working, I can live with that. Here is a screenshot of my kexts. I'm still booting from an USB drive until everything works.
Would it make sense to add my old SMBIOS.plist to the Clover folder?
When I open the config.plist it looks changed, but it still works. Is it possible that MacOS changed it?

 

[EliteMacx86]

Meanwhile booting in normal mode works, ethernet with an old kext and WiFi with AirportAtheros40.kext, AtherosWiFiInjector.kext and HS80211Family.kext, all 3 were necessary.

As usual. But HS does has support for it.

Even the brightness keys are working with that kext, they never did with Mavericks and earlier. Sleep is not working yet nor is sound, sometimes there are glitches on the display and random freezes.

May need to inject EDID/VBIOS or other display properties.

Would it make sense to add my old SMBIOS.plist to the Clover folder?

Are you using CLOVER or OC?

When I open the config.plist it looks changed, but it still works. Is it possible that MacOS changed it?

The tool you used to open, that did it probably.

 

[Wildleecher]

Clover, all the time. Is the DSDT useful? I have it since Lion, provided by someone who had the same laptop.

 

[EliteMacx86]

Clover, all the time. Is the DSDT useful? I have it since Lion, provided by someone who had the same laptop.

You don't need to use the old smbios.plist. Regarding DSDT, see the patching guide.

 

[Wildleecher]

There is no need to patch the DSDT, it worked fine since Lion. Meanwhile I installed Clover on the SSD, or rather just copied the EFI from the boot stick. Now I can also boot the systems on the other drive. Sound works with a patch described in a Tonymac discussion, using Hackintool. I am still working on sleep and hope the system will not freeze too often. It's impossible to upgrade App Store apps to a compatible version, but that seems to be an Apple, not a hackintosh problem.
Thanks for all the help until now, and perhaps I can solve the rest.

 

[EliteMacx86]

There is no need to patch the DSDT, it worked fine since Lion.

If you mean to say already patched.

Sound works with a patch described in a Tonymac discussion,

Source?

 

[Wildleecher]

This link, it had to read it more than once to understand it:

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/an-idiots-guide-to-lilu-and-its-plug-ins.260063/

 

[Wildleecher]

After installing the security update 2020-006 the screen keeps flickering all the time, rendering the laptop almost useless. Before that it worked quite well when it did'nt hang. What was changed by this update?