Aside from taking the better part of an afternoon, it was surprisingly straight forward to get the OS installed and bootable. Getting my GPU to work was a little weird though, and there was a lot of conflicting/incorrect/out-dated information on the subject. I figured I'd share what I did in case anyone else with a similar setup is struggling to get things working properly.
First, I setup a virtual machine in VMWare Workstation 14 to create the installer USB. I used the tools and disk image found on this guy's youtube video description.. I also did it a second time in VMWare Player 14, after I accidentally over-wrote my USB key kexts with some messed up stuff and had to start over from scratch. I only mention it because I can confirm the tool to enable a macOS VM works on both versions of VMWare.
I formatted my USB drive in Disk Utilities, downloaded the High Sierra installers into my Applications folder, and used the following terminal command to create the installer.
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app --volume /Volumes/Hackintosher
I followed this install guide from Hackintosher pretty much exactly, and downloaded my EFI folder and whatnot from that page. Everything worked perfectly EXCEPT for the GPU configuration guide they linked. Any and all attempts to follow those steps simply resulted in my system hanging in the boot process with the same error every time, requiring me to boot off my USB key and restore my EFI folder back to normal to try something new.
I eventually came to this forum thread. The claims that it only worked with one screen were a huge turn of for me, but after a few hours of frustration I was willing to try it.
Allegedly some people were able to get their cards working with a simple hex edit and fakeID in clover, but I had to go through the whole process on the first page (including booting off the IGP) and also I had to check the RadeonDeInit box in the Graphics tab of Clover Configurator.
After doing all that, I changed my bios to boot from IGP, and restarted into darkness. I read that this first boot after these changes takes some time, so I was patient. A couple minutes later, a log-in screen appeared and the OS finally recognized my GPU. Subsequent system boots are a lot faster.
All I had to do for audio was try a second layout number suggested for my chipset and everything was working.
That was pretty much it, aside from all the normal fresh os customization and installing one normally does. So far my only issues are minor annoyances related to my GPU work-around. IE, the black screen while booting up to the login screen. Not a big deal though, it's quick to boot from an SSD and my macOS drive is the first listed on Clover.
[link] [comments]
Post a Comment