While you can format a drive to contain multiple file systems, volumes, and partitions, our example will be for a run-of-the-mill drive, with a single partition formatted with the standard OS X Extended (Journaled) file system.
Files to Download:. NOTE: It’s recommended to place Clover Configurator on a separate USB drive so you can use it without an internet connection, which you may not have when you first boot into macOS. STEP 1: Booting the Installer. Turn the machine on with the USB installer in one of the usb ports. Verify Installer is Selected. Press Enter NOTE: If the USB drive isn’t set as the default boot volume change the temporary boot device when the boot screen appears the button that needs to be pressed to do this is usually F10, F11, or F12.
When the temporary selection screen appears Select UEFI: (USB Device Name). When you boot into the USB you will see this screen. NOTE: The installer will load takes about 5-20 minutes. If the loading screen stops and stays that way for 10+ minutes that means that it can’t boot into the installer which is usally caused by the bootloader not being created properly and or the BIOS settings not set correctly. There may be some graphical glitches with the loading bar this is fine and expected to happen.
Note: Your screen may turn back as your installing macOS. This is caused from the display sleeping just press a key on your keyboard or move your mouse to wake your screen. When the installer finally appears Press Continue 2. Select your language and Press Continue again. When the installer appears Press Continue. Select Language. Select Disk Utility.
Select the disk you will be installing macOS and erase it with the following settings:. Name: (It can be named anything you want). Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Scheme: GUID Partition Map.
Press Erase. Close Disk Utility. Select Install macOS. Select the disk macOS will be installed on and proceed.
STEP 2: Installer Part 2 After the installer is finished the computer will restart and we move on to the second part of the installer. Repeat to the steps necessary to get back into the Clover EFI Bootloader that is if you had to select a temporary boot device do so again and select the USB drive. When Clover appears select the disk: Boot macOS Install frominstead of Install After the installation is completed the computer will restart once again repeat the steps to get back into the Clover USB Bootloader.
When Clover appears select Boot macOS from. After loading succesfully go through the setup process. If setup asks about the network select “Computer does not connect to the internet” When setup is complete you should have a bootable hackintosh. STEP 3: Configuring the EFI Partition This step must be completed to be able to boot the hackintosh without the USB Flash Drive plugged in. This part basically copies the contents of the EFI partition on the USB isntaller to the EFI paritition of the Hard Disk macOS is now installed on. Open Clover Configurator.
Mount the EFI of the Flash Drive. Press Open EFI or navigate to the EFI location in finder. Copy the EFI Folder onto your desktop. Open Finder and Eject the Flash Drive.
Using Clover Configurator Mount the EFI of the Disk. Press Open EFI or navigate to the EFI location in finder. Paste the EFI over the existing EFI on the disk. Select Replace when it prompta you with a menu saying that the folder EFI already exists You will now be able to boot macOS without the USB Flash Drive Recommendation: Delete the Folder called APPLE in your EFI Folder if it exists. This folder was created during the install and may have been corrupted. Some people have reported it cause problems when trying to sleep your hackintosh.
The folder will eventually be recreated, however you only need to delete it once after installing macOS. It sounds like you didn’t format the hard drive as a GUID partition map or properly install macOS onto your hard drive. I will try to see if I can reproduce you’re issue you could also try a different ssd/hdd to see if it has something to do with a bad SSD.
Another option you can take is following this guide which instructs you to create your own EFI, but it will also work with this motherboard, If your using a Kabylake CPU you will need to paste the config-Kabylake-GFX.plist / config-Kabylake-iGPU.plist from this guide into the EFI Folder you create with the other guide on this website here and rename it to config.plist. Hello I am having trouble getting the bios setting correct or there is a problem with my boot drive.
My system parts are as follows just without the SSD or the m.2 drive currently installed (I’m Just trying to see if it will boot, not install to the SSD) Essentially I am having this problem: ” If the loading screen stops and stays that way for 10+ minutes that means that it can’t boot into the installer which is usually caused by the bootloader not being created properly and or the BIOS settings not set correctly. ” I am pretty sure that I correctly made the boot flash drive and went through the bios settings correctly. I am on Bios level F7 Update: I am trying again this time with the SSD. Hehe Noob alert.
I was able to boot into Fedora linux from a flash drive so everything else should be working. Thank you so much for creating the guide! Hello, Also something of a noob here. Been working on a hacking project for quite a while so my hardware is a bit older. Have a gigabyte ga z97n with i5 processor, 16GBs of RAM, and what I’m pretty sure is too new a video card but maybe not.
In any event, I’d be happy to get the thing up and running without the video card door the moment. Managed it a few times but every time I’d try something additional, it would crash and not recognize anything so that I had to start again. Was working from tonymacx86 instructions, trying to use high Sierra but have decided to try a different approach which is how I found this site.
Attempting Sierra install instead. Unfortunately, I’m not having much better luck. Followed the instructions to best of my ability but when I try to do the install, it starts and then switches to a circle with a line through it. Hope I haven’t given too much information and hope you can help.
This how-to shows you the steps using Disk Utility 13 in OS X 10.10 Yosemite, but the process is the same if you’re using OS X 10.9 Mavericks or 10.8 Mountain Lion. Sometimes you want to wipe out all the data that’s on a hard drive or solid-state drive—erase it and start over. The best way to do this is to format the drive, which both erases the drive and prepares it for storing data by mapping out bad sectors, creating address tables for locating the data on the disk, and more. Similarly, you may have purchased a new drive that was formatted for Windows out of the box. You'll want to reformat that drive for your Mac. But formatting a drive so that it can be used as your Mac’s startup drive requires a slightly different procedure than formatting it for use as a secondary drive for storing data.
Click the Erase tab if it’s not already selected. At the bottom of the window, you’ll see some information about the drive you have selected. Look at the Partition Map Scheme entry.
If it says GUID Partition Table, you can format the drive by selecting Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) in the Format pop-up menu, giving the drive a name, and then clicking Erase. (Remember: This erases everything on the drive!) You can now skip directly to Step 8. If the Partition Map Scheme says Master Boot Record or Apple Partition Map, you need to continue to step 5.