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Select the EFI drive on the right (not the MacOS drive).Insert the flash disk in the Macbook and reboot holding the Option.(Edit the file on the flash drive) set timeout=10 Edit the RESCUE/boot/grub.cfg file in a text editor to contain only the text below:.

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Copy the EFI and boot folders from the ISO to your thumb drive.

Format your USB drive as FAT32 name the volume "RESCUE".

This part is where I have to thank blackgate from github, his tutorial ( found here) made it possible to boot into MacOS

You should see a prompt confirming the disabling and an instruction to restart.

Enter the command csrutil disable (the risks involved in doing this is outside of the scope of this answer).

Open the Terminal (Utilities-> Terminal).

If you can see the GUI and can work within in (and previously weren't able to) you can confirm you've disabled the GPU! Select your language and continue.

Boot into Recovery Mode ( CMD + R) - this is now possible since the discrete GPU is disabled.

Reboot the Macbook (enter reboot in terminal and hit Return).

(This is where I was stuck when I posted this question) If you've entered the command above correctly, you can boot into Recovery and disable SIP With High Sierra & APFS you won't be able to write to the file system at this stage.

Executing the nvram command (in the terminal) to disable the GPU on boot nvram fa4ce28d-b62f-4c99-9cc3-6815686e30f9:gpu-power-prefs=%01%00%00%00.

I've tried to outline the steps I followed as accurately as possible to help someone else: It involves disabling the AMD discrete GPU, disabling SIP, creating a rescue disk and using a grub bootloader to boot into your Macbook! The solution was a combination of a few different suggestions. I'm not opposed to reflowing etc it's just that in South Africa, the guys who will do it seem sketchy. Would I be complicating things if I installed this drive in my 2012 MBP i7? I have a feeling it's not going to boot like a Windows machine would and I don't want to do any damage.

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The real question(s): Does anyone know how to either disable the Active Snapshots? Is this the right path to follow? Am I going to break things further? When I boot up now, I see the normal bootscreen, see the Apple logo and the progress bar goes to about 50-60% and then nothing else happens.

So I'm unable to move the required AMDRadeonX3000.kextand am now stuck. I've removed the drive and mounted it in Windows using Paragon APFS but it's only in read-only mode. The only problem was mounting the drive as writable, seems that my APFS formatted drive is in read-only mode and I'm unsure how to proceed from here. This answer was particularly useful and I managed to get as far as disabling the GPU on by setting the NVRAM variable: since then I've been looking at all of the articles online and was going to proceed with disabling the AMD GPU using the terminal in Single User Mode.

It booted up once, I saw the desktop and then rebooted. Well this week it crashed and when I booted up, it would show green vertical bars over the grey background. I know this because it would flicker green where there was pixel shading so I was using the gfxCardStatus utility to only use the Integrated GPU.

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Some background: My 2011 17" MacBook Pro (running High Sierra) has finally succumbed to the Radeon issue and won't boot up.