[Build] My iOS Development Build

This build has been a pain in my ass to get working (And I still haven't done it 100%) but lets get started on what I've got.

-Intel i5-6402p @ 2.5(ash)Ghz

-8GB DDR4 2133Mhz RAM

-MSI B150m BAZOOKA Micro ATX Motherboard

-XFX AMD Radeon RX480 4GB Reference

-1 32GB SDHC Card (This is important)

-1 500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD

-1 500GB Toshiba HDD

So, my main issue with this build was storage space vs. boot time. I am totally broke, using only what I already had in my house. I previously had Sierra installed to the HDD, but since Paragon HFS+ totally broke it, I had to start again. The problem is, using an HDD with macOS results in a very, VERY slow boot. My SSD, however, was almost totally filled with a Windows install I've been using for the past 3 years.

What I did:

First, I deleted a bunch of stuff and created one 32GB partition to use as a boot drive for macOS. I figured I'd use my previous HDD as a storage drive so I wouldn't have to worry too much.

I then used a macOS VM I had to download macOS Sierra. My first problem, however, is that I don't have any flash drives. At all. The only one I had got broken when my cat jumped onto my computer one day. I do, however, have an SD Card reader. I plugged that into my USB2.0 port on my motherboard and to my happiness it recognized it as a USB drive. Perfect.

After my macOS download finished, I used the createinstallmedia command to make my macOS USB and went on my way, figuring I'd just use the preexisting Clover install on my HDD to boot it.

That was my first mistake

After that didn't work, about half an hour of attempting to boot later, I decided to just install Clover directly onto the SD Card. Once again, I couldn't boot into the installer. I don't know why this was happening, and I gave up trying to figure it out after about 3 hours. I finally resigned to taking the easy way out: Unibeast.

To my complete and utter shock it worked the very first time I tried to boot. Go figure.

I had thought it was going to be smooth sailing from here. I was wrong.

I kept trying to format the 32GB partition I made earlier, and it kept telling me I didn't have enough storage space. I went in and out, time and time again trying to repartition the disk in Windows, to no avail. I was then informed that if my EFI partition on the disk was less than 200MB (It was 100MB), then Disk Util wouldn't work. So I went in and created another EFI partition. Finally, macOS was installing without a problem!

Unfortunately when I booted into macOS the first time, I couldn't mount the EFI partition. So I booted into Windows again, fiddled around with the partitions again and again until I managed to have one 200MB EFI partition without a problem. I deleted the original 100MB EFI and booted back into macOS, used Multibeast to install the AMD graphics fix (lazy I know, but one of the big problems I was having before was that Whatevergreen.kext and Lilu.kext weren't working in EFI)

So at this point I was running macOS fine, but when I went to boot back into Windows I couldn't find the boot command anywhere. Then I remembered that I deleted the original EFI partition. Luckily this was easy to fix since I had a Windows install disk lying around. The SSD boot is WAY faster than the HDD and I'm really happy with this setup.

What works:

Audio

Graphics

HDMI Audio

Ethernet

iMessage/FaceTime

What doesn't:

Night Shift (not important)

WiFi/Bluetooth (I don't have a WiFi card)

Booting off of my SSD

My biggest problem is that I have to boot off of my SD Card still. I've tried copy-pasting the entire clover install into \EFI\ but it still won't boot. It seems like the graphics enabler is broken because its doing the same thing it used to when I had to use the Helper Card method. If anyone can help with that it would be much appreciated.