You can also erase separate volumes. This is where using a distro becomes very useful: High Sierra Installer allows you to install extra Hackintosh drivers and kexts, straight from the High Sierra installer. However, choosing the right options from this page can be tricky, so unless you are certain about which drivers and kexts you need to install for your computer, I do not recommend installing too much stuff from here.
The default selection will enable macOS to boot from the hard drive without any assistance, To enable audio and ethernet select the relevant packages.
For most computers, that will be enough. When your computer already has macOS installed, and you are simply updating it to High Sierra, you can uncheck all of these options. This will take at least 30 minutes. At the boot screen, you will see an icon with the name of the volume for the hard drive where you installed High Sierra. Check out our list of common boot flags for Hackintosh and our guide to fixing boot problems in verbose mode for reference.
Once Sierra has booted successfully, click through the High Sierra setup screens until you reach the desktop. From here, High Sierra Installer will work its magic, and automatically install the rest of the Hackintosh-specific kexts and drivers. Once you receive a notification saying that the installation has been completed, You may have to tweak and install some kexts to make your Hackintosh work correctly. Debugging Hackintosh. Hackintosh Guides.
Use the values of the Mac model that is closest to your hackintosh. For me, it's the iMac Also, don't forget to check if the serial number generated is already in use by using the 'Check coverage' button. As I mentioned earlier. Kext is like a driver. So the more supported hardware you have, the less kext you will need. Here is the list of the most popular kexts that are often used. You will also have to download the XHCI-unsupported.
You can check the supported audio chips here. Require Lilu. All kexts in this folder will be injected during the boot regardless of the MacOS version. You can also put the kexts in a specific folder to inject the kexts for a specific OS version e. Now start your PC, you should see the Clover boot manager. As with Windows, before installing the operating system, you will need to format the drive first. Follow the instructions on the screen until your hackintosh is restarted.
From the Clover menu, select 'Boot macOS Install from [your disk]' and continue the installation process until it reboots again. This time, select 'Boot macOS from [your disk]' and follow the process. And your hackintosh is almost ready. However, you still cannot boot up by yourself without the USB drive. This will also create an EFI partition on your disk and automatically mount it if not, you can use Clover Configurator to mount it.
Your hackintosh should now be able to boot itself without the installation usb! Eject the USB drive and try to reboot it. All the information provided on this article are for educational purposes only. The author is no way responsible for any misuse of the information, will not be held responsible in the event any criminal charges be brought against any individuals misusing the information in this article to break the law. Instead it runs on a host operating system. It is the full MacOS in this case, Catalina.
Warning: Please follow these instructions at your own risk. I am not responsible for any damage or information loss that could result from following this guide. Please buy a real Mac if you're satisfied with your Hackintosh. This guide is for evaluation purposes only.
Need Tech Support? Update: Our latest Hackintosh build is now here, and it's easier than ever and full of step-by. I chose to avoid the UniBeast installer by Tonymacx86 because of its commercialized nature, as described here. Here is a vanilla guide to installing El Capitan on your PC! First things first. We need to prepare a USB thumb drive that will contain the installation files as well as the bootloader and custom kexts for our specific Hackintosh build. Head over to your existing OS X environment running Search for 'El Capitan' and click Download.
The download is completely free if you're running OS X Make sure you've backed up anything important on that drive as it will be erased forever. Now that we've downloaded the installation files from the Mac App Store and formatted our USB drive, let's copy the installation files to it. This process takes about 15 minutes. Go out for a quick run, or a hamburger, or both. When you come back, it should have finished.
I went with Clover as it seems to be the most popular choice among other El Capitan installers, mostly for the following reasons:. Click Install Software. Once the installation is complete, click Close. The main reason for this was that Apple produces both the hardware Mac computer and the software Mac operating system ; so they have better control over the integration of the entire system.
Apple is also known to use only the best parts for its computers. Since the Windows operating system can run on hundreds of different types of computers, variations in hardware configurations within those computers can cause stability problems. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of PC manufacturers and so there is a wide variety in hardware quality of PCs. Another reason for Macs being traditionally more stable is that since PCs are the more popular choice in the desktop market, most hackers and computer virus makers target PCs.
As the popularity for Mac computers increase, it can be expected that the incidence of hacker and virus attacks will increase. Apple has also released a software kit called Bootcamp for running Windows on the Mac. Other software virtualization applications used to run Windows on Macs include Virtualbox and Parallels. Another factor contributing to a better user experience on the Mac is that there is no software cruft i.
PCs usually come with several 3rd-party apps pre-installed. Some of this software can be downright dangerous for the security and privacy of the user; case in point: Lenovo's Superfish scandal. Interestingly, this feature of Apple devices also applies to the iOS vs Android debate; Android devices ship with 'crapware' 3rd party applications that many people don't ever use while iPhones and iPads ship only with Apple software.
The most noticeable difference between Macs and PCs is in the user interfaces. Highlights of the UI in Mac OS X include Launchpad a screen full of app icons for easily launching your favorite apps , hot corners that can be customized for various types of views, a 'dock' that has icons for your favorite apps, full screen mode for apps, and 'spaces' that create as many desktops as you like so you can minimize clutter.
With Windows 8 UI highlights include a touch-friendly 'metro' interface that contains 'live tiles', rectangular boxes of varying sizes on the screen that represent an app and get refreshed with the latest content from the app. Several apps utilizing the 'metro' interface are full screen apps like in tablet computers.
Macs have a reputation of being more secure than Windows PCs. In the 90s and early to mids, Windows was plagued with adware, malware and viruses that were mostly a result of users downloading compromised software, opening malicious email attachments or other malicious files downloaded from the Internet.
Macs had a lower market share so malware-makers and distributors focused on the Windows platform. Today the situation is not so lopsided. Windows security and Microsoft's Defender anti-virus program have made great strides and made Windows a safe platform.
Macs have had security problems of their own, like the admin login vulnerability discovered in November And because of the growing popularity of the Mac platform — especially among high-value targets like computer programmers — malware-makers are increasingly homing in on Macs as targets. Irrespective of whether you're on a Mac or PC, it is not advisable to open files from unknown sources or any files downloaded via email or on the Internet that seem suspicious.
If you're on Windows, it is further recommended to not use anti-virus programs other than Microsoft's Defender because they introduce security vulnerabilities of their own. Mac computers are most widely used in the creative professional market, including in journalism and desktop publishing, video editing and audio editing, but have also made inroads into the educative and scientific research sectors. Macs are also popular with computer programmers — a majority of web and app developers tend to use Macs.
PCs are also used with some of the video and audio editing and research purposes but are found largely as the Home or Office Computer. PCs are also widely used in gaming due to a wider variety of games available for the Windows platform.
Apple's share of the U. Source: Associated Press.
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