Hackintosh

How to create bootable USB by Clover

• Option 1: MBR with a FAT32 partition for Clover and separate HFS+J partition for OS X installer
• Option 2: GPT with a single HFS+J partition for the OS X installer (hidden EFI partition automatically created)

Option 1 is recommended as most computers can boot from it (even with UEFI), and it is convenient that the EFI partition will mount automatically when the USB is inserted.

Option 1

• Insert 16GB usb, open terminal, find usb drive name (/dev/disk4 in this case)

diskutil list

# repartition /dev/disk1 MBR, two partitions
# first partition, "CLOVER EFI" FAT32, 200MiB
# second partition, "install_osx", HFS+J, remainder
diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk4 2 MBR FAT32 "CLOVER EFI" 200Mi HFS+J "install_osx" R

• Download Clover installer
• Install Clover to the USB “CLOVER EFI” partition
  • Check “Install for UEFI booting only”, “Install Clover in the ESP” will automatically select
  • Check “BGM” from Themes
  • The defaults for Drivers64UEFI -> OsxAptioFixDrv2.efi are recommended
  • Most systems will work without DataHubDxe-64.efi, but some may require it
• Delete EFI folder, copy your EFI folder
• Download Mac OS app from AppStore
• Install MacOS installer

# Copy installer image
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/install_osx

# Rename 
sudo diskutil rename "Install macOS Big Sur" install_osx

Option 2

• Insert 16GB usb, open terminal, find usb drive name (/dev/disk4 in this case)

# Figure out identifier for of your usb (/dev/diskX, for example)
diskutil list

# Partition your usb in GPT
diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk4 1 GPT HFS+J "install_osx" R

• Download Clover installer
• Download Mac OS app from AppStore
• Install MacOS installer

# Copy installer image
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Big\ Sur.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/install_osx

# Rename 
sudo diskutil rename "Install macOS Big Sur" install_osx

• Download Clover Configurator
• Use the app to mount USB EFI partition
• Copy EFI from repo USB Efi partition

How to create EFI partition from your Windows PC?

• Open Windows Disk management
• Create a new 200MB partition
• Format it as FAT32
• Copy your EFI folder into this new drive

How to dual boot Windows and Mac?

Windows

• Format all your HDD
• Install Windows as normal
• Create a new 100GB partition
• Format it as HTFS

Mac bootable USB

• Boot Mac Installer from your bootable USB
• Use Disk Utilities to format above HTFS partition as APFS
• Install Mac into this APFS partition

How to setup serial number for your Hackintosh?

• Use ProperTree to open “/EFI/OC/config.plist” file
  https://github.com/corpnewt/ProperTree
• Use GenSMBIOS to generate serial number
  https://github.com/corpnewt/GenSMBIOS
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