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Making a High Sierra USB Installer Entirely From Scratch in Windows This is a proof of concept tutorial, to show it's possible to create a vanilla High Sierra installer, entirely from scratch, in Windows (even without App Store downloaded 'Install macOS High Sierra.app' from a real Mac ). Provides us with all the URLs necessary to download the needed files directly from Apple instead of some dubious source from the internet. Pre-Requisites. 8GB or larger USB drive. v2.1.2017rev021b from @CVAD. (free 15 day trial).
Download Installer Files Directly from Apple 1) Browse Apple's and find the URLs to download the following 6 installer files. (Hint - search page for 'InstallESD' to find its URL and others nearby) to a folder named 'SharedSupport' on your Windows NTFS drive. A browser download manager (eg for Chrome, for FireFox) is handy since InstallESD is 4GB - allows you to pause/resume interrupted download. 2) Rename InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg. Clover Settings Clover configuration is required now. The default config.plist (in the Clover FAT32 partition of the USB) maybe sufficient to boot your machine if you’re lucky. If not, look at the, and for pointers and edit /EFI/Clover/config.plist accordingly with Wordpad or Notepad.
The location of the important configuration files for Clover are summarized below. config.plist-EFI/CLOVER folder.
DSDT.aml with or without SSDT.aml-EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched (don't need one if your DSDT is auto patched by Clover in config.plist). Kexts eg FakeSMC, -EFI/CLOVER/kexts/ or /Other. NB BootDiskUtility by default already has FakeSMC.kext installed here.
You may need to add for your laptop keyboard/trackpad to work. If UEFI booting, you will most likely need one of the OsxAptioFixDrv-64 drivers copied from /EFI/CLOVER/drivers-off/drivers64UEFI to /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI.
If you want to use the installer to run High Sierra in Windows on VMware, you can follow my to set up the Virtual Machine and replace Clover's default config with (which is compatible to run in VMware). In the screenshots below, I have attached the USB Installer (in this case PhysicalDrive7) to my macOS Virtual Machine. Reboot the system to the USB installer to install High Sierra. What happens if we don't have access to TransMac or Paragon Hard Disk Manager?
Not a problem, as long as we get 'OS X Base System' bootable, we can launch terminal from the Utilities Menu to copy the SharedSupport folder over to the Installer app. In essence, we will build the full installer app = 5GB+ on the target HD eg 'Macintosh HD', by copying both the 'small' installer app = 15MB (on 'OS X Base System') and the SharedSupport folder from the NTFS volume (mounted in this example on /Volumes/DATA). bash - 3.2 # cd / - bash - 3.2 # cp -R Install macOS High Sierra.app /Volumes/Macintosh HD/ - bash - 3.2 # cp -R /Volumes/DATA/SharedSupport /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/. The above steps can be automated with the attached 'startosinstall.command' script, which will assemble 'Install macOS High Sierra.app' on 'Macintosh HD' and launch the startosinstall utility targeting the 'Macintosh HD' volume. Copy/download to 'Macintosh HD', then run in terminal (after attaching DATA USB with /Shared Support folder).
Cd '/Volumes/Macintosh HD' chmod + x startosinstall. Command./ startosinstall.
Command Updated Download Links for macOS Mojave 10.14.118B75 Browse Apple's and find the URLs to download the following 6 installer files. Note: In Mojave, Apple has removed the -converttoapfs NO and -applicationpath arguments from the startosinstall utility. Eg to use startosinstall for the above section 'What happens if we don't have access to TransMac or Paragon Hard Disk Manager?'
, the syntax is now -bash-3.2# /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Install macOS Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall -volume /Volumes/Macintosh HD This basically means that for Mojave, the default installation will always convert the target volume to the apfs file system. Edited November 24, 2018 by fusion71au update download links for 10.14.118B75. Download Installer Files Directly from Apple and Clover from SourceForge 1) Open terminal, create SharedSupport folder in /Downloads mkdir /Downloads/ SharedSupport 2) Browse Apple's and find the URLs to download the following 6 installer files. (Hint - search page for 'InstallESD' to find its URL and others nearby) into /Downloads/SharedSupport.
A browser download manager (eg for Chrome, for FireFox) is handy since InstallESD is 4GB - allows you to pause/resume interrupted download. 3) Rename InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg mv /Downloads/ SharedSupport / InstallESDDmg. Pkg /Downloads/ SharedSupport / InstallESD. Dmg 4) Edit InstallInfo.plist with a text editor to remove the chunklistURL and chunklistid keys for InstallESD, and renaming it from InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg (example of edited file attached to ). Note: You can verify the SHA1 checksum of your InstallESD.dmg and BaseSystem.dmg with the correct ones at. 5) If you don't already have Clover installed, download the latest. Extract the EFI folder to /Downloads.
Fusion71au@fusion71au-VirtualBox $ 7z l /Downloads/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg 7-Zip 64 9.20 Copyright © 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18 p7zip Version 9.20 (locale=enUS.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,1 CPU) Listing archive: /Downloads/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg - Path = /Downloads/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg Type = Dmg Method = copy16-13636K zero2202-593M zlib503-1436M-455M Blocks = 721 Date Time Attr Size Compressed Name - - - - -. 512 30 0.MBR. 512 75 1.Primary GPT Header. 16384 116 2.Primary GPT Table. 3072 0 3.free. 491582140 4.hfs.
134221312 0 5.free. 16384 116 6.Backup GPT Table. 512 76 7.Backup GPT Header - - - - - 491582553 8 files, 0 folders Prepare USB with GParted and Restore OS X Base System with dmg2img 1) Open GParted.
In this example, I have an 8GB installer disk, /dev/sdb, initialized as GPT from Device Menu. Fusion71au@fusion71au - VirtualBox /Downloads/ SharedSupport $ dmg2img - l BaseSystem. Dmg dmg2img v1.
6.5 ( c ) vu1tur ( to@vu1tur. Org ) BaseSystem. Dmg - ( partition list ) partition 0: Protective Master Boot Record ( MBR: 0 ) partition 1: GPT Header ( Primary GPT Header: 1 ) partition 2: GPT Partition Data ( Primary GPT Table: 2 ) partition 3: ( AppleFree: 3 ) partition 4: disk image ( AppleHFS: 4 ) partition 5: ( AppleFree: 5 ) partition 6: GPT Partition Data ( Backup GPT Table: 6 ) partition 7: GPT Header ( Backup GPT Header: 7 ) 7) Use the command sudo dmg2img -v -i BaseSystem.dmg -p 4 -o /dev/sdb3 to write the 4.hfs image to your 'OS X Base System' volume ie sdb3 partition.
Fusion71au@fusion71au - VirtualBox /Downloads/ SharedSupport $ sudo dmg2img - v - i BaseSystem. Dmg - p 4 - o / dev / sdb3 sudo password for fusion71au: dmg2img v1. 6.5 ( c ) vu1tur ( to@vu1tur. Org ) BaseSystem. Dmg - / dev / sdb3 reading property list, 52391 bytes from address 491582553. Partition 0: begin = 203, size = 430, decoded = 284 partition 1: begin = 948, size = 430, decoded = 284 partition 2: begin = 1695, size = 430, decoded = 284 partition 3: begin = 2424, size = 430, decoded = 284 partition 4: begin = 3137, size = 42778, decoded = 28804 partition 5: begin = 46198, size = 430, decoded = 284 partition 6: begin = 46926, size = 430, decoded = 284 partition 7: begin = 47671, size = 430, decoded = 284 decompressing: opening partition 4.
715 100.00% ok Archive successfully decompressed as / dev / sdb3 You should be able to mount the image as root by: modprobe hfsplus mount - t hfsplus - o loop / dev / sdb3 / mnt 8) Create mounting folders in /media/yourusername sudo mkdir / media / fusion71au / EFI sudo mkdir / media / fusion71au / InstallerApp 9) Mount the InstallerApp volume (corresponding to sdb2) and copy the SharedSupport folder to its root. Sudo mount / dev / sdb2 / media / fusion71au / InstallerApp sudo cp - R /Downloads/ SharedSupport / media / fusion71au / InstallerApp / 10) Mount the EFI partition, sdb1, and copy the EFI folder containing Clover into it. Sudo mount / dev / sdb1 / media / fusion71au / EFI sudo cp - R /Downloads/ EFI / media / fusion71au / EFI / Clover Settings Clover configuration is required now. The default config.plist (in the EFI partition, /EFI/Clover folder of the USB) maybe sufficient to boot your machine if you’re lucky. If not, look at the, and for pointers and edit /EFI/Clover/config.plist accordingly with a text editor.
The location of the important configuration files for Clover are summarized below. config.plist-EFI/CLOVER folder. DSDT.aml with or without SSDT.aml-EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched (don't need one if your DSDT is auto patched by Clover in config.plist). Kexts eg FakeSMC, -EFI/CLOVER/kexts/ or /Other. You may need to add for your laptop keyboard/trackpad to work. If legacy booting, you need to install legacy boot sectors on the drive (boot0af, boot1f32 and boot6).
There is an automated install for this by @StarBrilliant. If UEFI booting, you will most likely need one of the OsxAptioFixDrv-64 drivers copied from /EFI/CLOVER/drivers-off/drivers64UEFI to /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI. Hint: For newbs, you don't necessarily need Clover to boot the installer in a VMware virtual machine. Just attach the installer (without Clover) to a macOS guest running on a VMware Windows host (patched with @Donk's unlocker program - to create the VM guest, see my. Boot to OS X Base System, build 'Install macOS High Sierra.app' then startosinstall in Terminal 1) Unmount sdb1 & sdb2, sudo umount / dev / sdb1 sudo umount / dev / sdb2 then reboot your system to the USB Installer using the system's boot device selection key eg F12 for Gigabyte motherboards, F8 for ASUS motherboards, F11 for ASrock motherboards.
4) Type the following commands to assemble the full 'Install macOS High Sierra.app' on the InstallerApp volume. bash - 3.2 # cd / - bash - 3.2 # cp -R Install macOS High Sierra.app /Volumes/InstallerApp/ - bash - 3.2 # mv /Volumes/InstallerApp/SharedSupport /Volumes/InstallerApp/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/ Terminal Hints:. Type the first few characters of a path, then press key - rest of the path will autocomplete. Pressing the arrow key will duplicate the previous command entered into terminal. 5) Start installation with the startosinstall utility in Terminal.
bash - 3.2 # /Volumes/InstallerApp/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall -volume /Volumes/Macintosh HD -converttoapfs NO -applicationpath /Volumes/InstallerApp/Install macOS High Sierra.app where 'Macintosh HD' is the target volume to install High Sierra in this example. Download Installer Files Directly from Apple and Clover from SourceForge 1) Open terminal, create SharedSupport folder in /Downloads mkdir /Downloads/SharedSupport 2) Browse Apple's and find the URLs to download the following 6 installer files. (Hint - search page for 'InstallESD' to find its URL and others nearby) into /Downloads/SharedSupport.
A browser download manager (eg for Chrome, for FireFox) is handy since InstallESD is 4GB - allows you to pause/resume interrupted download. 3) Rename InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg mv /Downloads/SharedSupport/InstallESDDmg.pkg /Downloads/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg 4) Edit InstallInfo.plist with a text editor to remove the chunklistURL and chunklistid keys for InstallESD, and renaming it from InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg (example of edited file attached to ). 5) If you don't already have Clover installed, download the latest. Extract the EFI folder to /Downloads. Fusion71au@fusion71au-VirtualBox $ sudo gdisk /dev/sdb GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.8 Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. For help): v No problems found. 266173 free sectors (130.0 MiB) available in 2 segments, the largest of which is 264159 (129.0 MiB) in size.
For help): t Partition number (1-3): 1 Current type is 'Microsoft basic data' Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300): EF00 Changed type of partition to 'EFI System' Command (? For help): c Partition number (1-3): 1 Enter name: EFI Command (? For help): x Expert command (? For help): a Partition number (1-3): 1 Known attributes are: 0: system partition 1: hide from EFI 2: legacy BIOS bootable 60: read-only 62: hidden 63: do not automount Attribute value is 000000. Set fields are: No fields set Toggle which attribute field (0-63, 64 or to exit): 0 Have enabled the 'system partition' attribute. Attribute value is 000001.
Set fields are: 0 (system partition) Toggle which attribute field (0-63, 64 or to exit): Expert command (? For help): m Command (? For help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 16777216 sectors, 8.0 GiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): ED6532BB-14E1-4E3C-92FF-14E1C5F1B0A8 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 16777182 Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries Total free space is 266173 sectors (130.0 MiB) Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 411647 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI 2 48815 5.8 GiB AF00 3 1253023 1.9 GiB AF00 Command (? For help): w Final checks complete.
About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING PARTITIONS!! Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): y OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/sdb. The operation has completed successfully. 4) Open Terminal, type lsblk to show the system's attached disks, partitions and their mount points.
Fusion71au@fusion71au-VirtualBox $ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 50G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 200M 0 part ├─sda2 8:2 0 350M 0 part /boot ├─sda3 8:3 0 15G 0 part / ├─sda4 8:4 0 32.5G 0 part /home └─sda5 8:5 0 2G 0 part SWAP sdb 8:16 0 8G 0 disk ├─sdb1 8:17 0 200M 0 part ├─sdb2 8:18 0 5.7G 0 part ├─sdb3 8:19 0 1.9G 0 part sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom 5) Change directory to access the SharedSupport files in /Downloads cd /Downloads/SharedSupport 6) Type dmg2img -l BaseSystem.dmg to list the 'partitions' in the compressed disk image file 'BaseSystem.dmg'. Fusion71au@fusion71au-VirtualBox /Downloads/SharedSupport $ sudo dmg2img -v -i BaseSystem.dmg -p 4 -o /dev/sdb3 sudo password for fusion71au: dmg2img v1.6.5 (c) vu1tur ([email protected]) BaseSystem.dmg - /dev/sdb3 reading property list, 52391 bytes from address 491582553.
Partition 0: begin=203, size=430, decoded=284 partition 1: begin=948, size=430, decoded=284 partition 2: begin=1695, size=430, decoded=284 partition 3: begin=2424, size=430, decoded=284 partition 4: begin=3137, size=42778, decoded=28804 partition 5: begin=46198, size=430, decoded=284 partition 6: begin=46926, size=430, decoded=284 partition 7: begin=47671, size=430, decoded=284 decompressing: opening partition 4. 715 100.00% ok Archive successfully decompressed as /dev/sdb3 You should be able to mount the image as root by: modprobe hfsplus mount -t hfsplus -o loop /dev/sdb3 /mnt 8) Create mounting folders in /media/yourusername sudo mkdir /media/fusion71au/EFI sudo mkdir /media/fusion71au/InstallerApp 9) Mount the InstallerApp volume (corresponding to sdb2) and copy the SharedSupport folder to its root. Sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /media/fusion71au/InstallerApp sudo cp -R /Downloads/SharedSupport /media/fusion71au/InstallerApp/ 10) Mount the EFI partition, sdb1, and copy the EFI folder containing Clover into it.
Sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/fusion71au/EFI sudo cp -R /Downloads/EFI /media/fusion71au/EFI/ Clover Settings Clover configuration is required now. The default config.plist (in the Clover FAT32 partition of the USB) maybe sufficient to boot your machine if you’re lucky. If not, look at the, and for pointers and edit /EFI/Clover/config.plist accordingly with Wordpad or Notepad. The location of the important configuration files for Clover are summarized below. config.plist-EFI/CLOVER folder. DSDT.aml with or without SSDT.aml-EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched (don't need one if your DSDT is auto patched by Clover in config.plist). Kexts eg FakeSMC, -EFI/CLOVER/kexts/ or /Other.
You may need to add for your laptop keyboard/trackpad to work. Boot to OS X Base System, build 'Install macOS High Sierra.app' then startosinstall in Terminal 1) Unmount sdb1 & sdb2, sudo umount /dev/sdb1 sudo umount /dev/sdb2 then reboot your system. 3) Type the following commands to assemble the full 'Install macOS High Sierra.app' on the InstallerApp volume.bash-3.2# cd / -bash-3.2# cp -R Install macOS High Sierra.app /Volumes/InstallerApp/ -bash-3.2# mv /Volumes/InstallerApp/SharedSupport /Volumes/InstallerApp/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/ Terminal Hints:. Type the first few characters of a path, then press key - rest of the path will autocomplete. Pressing the arrow key will duplicate the previous command entered into terminal. 4) Start installation with the startosinstall utility.bash-3.2# /Volumes/InstallerApp/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall -volume /Volumes/Macintosh HD -converttoapfs NO -applicationpath /Volumes/InstallerApp/Install macOS High Sierra.app where 'Macintosh HD' is the target volume to install High Sierra in this example.
Interesting, thanks @fusion72au. H: gdisk gdisk64 7: to exit): 0 Have enabled the 'system partition' attribute. Attribute value is 000001. Set fields are: 0 (system partition) Toggle which attribute field (0-63, 64 or to exit): Expert command (? For help): p Disk 7:: 7827456 sectors, 3.7 GiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): ED6532BB-14E1-4E3C-92FF-14E1C5F1B0A8 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 7827422 Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries Total free space is 272317 sectors (133.0 MiB) Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 413695 201.0 MiB EF00 EFI 2 4119 3.4 GiB AF00 disk image Expert command (? For help): w Final checks complete.
About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING PARTITIONS!! Do you want to proceed?
(Y/N): y OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to. Disk synchronization succeeded!
The computer should now use the new partition table. Expert command (?
For help): m Command (? For help): q Final result. 5) Open to copy downloaded files in /SharedSupport folder from NTFS Windows drive to /Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents on 'OS X Base System' HFS volume 6) Install Clover in Windows - see guide. Is for UEFI systems - only need to copy CLOVER folder into /EFI on the EFI System Partition + replace /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi with Clover's BOOTX64.efi. For legacy BIOS systems - need to also install boot sectors (boot0af, boot1f32 in MBR/PBR with Bootice Program) and boot6 or boot7 in the root / of the EFI partition.
Note: the MBR installer made with @CVAD's Boot Disk Utility already has legacy boot sectors for Clover installed - should work with BOTH legacy and UEFI systems. Making a High Sierra USB Installer Entirely From Scratch in Windows This is a proof of concept tutorial, to show it's possible to create a vanilla High Sierra installer, entirely from scratch, in Windows (even without App Store downloaded 'Install macOS High Sierra.app' from a real Mac ). Provides us with all the URLs necessary to download the needed files directly from Apple instead of some dubious source from the internet. Pre-Requisites. 8GB or larger USB drive.
v2.1.2017rev021b from @CVAD. (free 15 day trial). Download Installer Files Directly from Apple 1) Browse Apple's and find the URLs to download the following 6 installer files. (Hint - search page for 'InstallESD' to find its URL and others nearby) to a folder named 'SharedSupport' on your Windows NTFS drive.
A browser download manager (eg for Chrome, for FireFox) is handy since InstallESD is 4GB - allows you to pause/resume interrupted download. 2) Rename InstallESDDmg.pkg to InstallESD.dmg. Clover Settings Clover configuration is required now. The default config.plist (in the Clover FAT32 partition of the USB) maybe sufficient to boot your machine if you’re lucky. If not, look at the, and for pointers and edit /EFI/Clover/config.plist accordingly with Wordpad or Notepad. The location of the important configuration files for Clover are summarized below. config.plist-EFI/CLOVER folder.
DSDT.aml with or without SSDT.aml-EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched (don't need one if your DSDT is auto patched by Clover in config.plist). Kexts eg FakeSMC, -EFI/CLOVER/kexts/ or /Other. NB BootDiskUtility by default already has FakeSMC.kext installed here. You may need to add for your laptop keyboard/trackpad to work.
If UEFI booting, you will most likely need one of the OsxAptioFixDrv-64 drivers copied from /EFI/CLOVER/drivers-off/drivers64UEFI to /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI. If you want to use the installer to run High Sierra in Windows on VMware, you can follow my to set up the Virtual Machine and replace Clover's default config with (which is compatible to run in VMware).
In the screenshots below, I have attached the USB Installer (in this case PhysicalDrive7) to my macOS Virtual Machine. Reboot the system to the USB installer to install High Sierra. What happens if we don't have access to TransMac or Paragon Hard Disk Manager? Not a problem, as long as we get 'OS X Base System' bootable, we can launch terminal from the Utilities Menu to copy the SharedSupport folder over to the Installer app. In essence, we will build the full installer app = 5GB+ on the target HD eg 'Macintosh HD', by copying both the 'small' installer app = 15MB (on 'OS X Base System') and the SharedSupport folder from the NTFS volume (mounted in this example on /Volumes/DATA).bash-3.2# cd / -bash-3.2# cp -R Install macOS High Sierra.app /Volumes/Macintosh HD/ -bash-3.2# cp -R /Volumes/DATA/SharedSupport /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/. The above steps can be automated with the attached 'startosinstall.command' script, which will assemble 'Install macOS High Sierra.app' on 'Macintosh HD' and launch the startosinstall utility targeting the 'Macintosh HD' volume.
Copy/download to 'Macintosh HD', then run in terminal (after attaching DATA USB with /Shared Support folder). Cd '/Volumes/Macintosh HD' chmod +x startosinstall.command./startosinstall.command I tried it and it all went well. I made a image from the usb and it successfully booted a virtual box vm. After Installer did copied files to the drive it went for a reboot. After that I booted it with clover, Installer showed up again to continue installation but suddenly showed this error: macOS could not be installed on your computer The path /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg appears to be missing or damaged. Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again. Any idea what I should do?
First, verify the SHA1 checksum of your InstallESD.dmg and BaseSystem.dmg with the correct ones at. Eg for 'Install macOS High Sierra.app' 10.13.217C88, SHA1 in Terminal. Fusion71aus-iMac: fusion71au$ shasum /Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg 47331ea6033ebd3598a827caa6596e /Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg fusion71aus-iMac: fusion71au$ shasum /Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg 209d6a382026115aaec1b7a4cdb2dd /Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/BaseSystem.dmg The OSInstall.mpkg error can sometimes be due to 'stale data' in /macOS Install Data. Easiest to erase target drive and start again. If using VirtualBox, follow instructions exactly as per.
If using VMware, follow instructions as per. Thank you so much for this great effort. My os stopped booting. So I have followed the steps as stated above. Except the step below.
All i want to do is use the installer created above to install my mac os. My question is Do i need to do the clover settings below? I tried installing with all the steps above, so i attached the usb to my system and I was greeted with OS X Base System and EFI Boot. I choose egi boot. Then clover came up.it was trying to install, then my mac made 3 sounds continously, i gues it wasnt working,lol) so i restarted the mac and I choose OS Xbase system.that also was installing suddenly it failed.
How do i install high sierra with all the steps I have done above. And do i need clover setting below. If i need it, how can i apply it, thanks.
Clover Settings Clover configuration is required now. The default config.plist (in the Clover FAT32 partition of the USB) maybe sufficient to boot your machine if you’re lucky. If not, look at the, and for pointers and edit /EFI/Clover/config.plist accordingly with Wordpad or Notepad. The location of the important configuration files for Clover are summarized below. config.plist-EFI/CLOVER folder.
DSDT.aml with or without SS DT.aml-EFI/CLOVER/ACPI/patched (don't need one if your DSDT is auto patched by Clover in config.plist). Kexts eg FakeSMC, -EFI/CLOVER/kexts/ or /Other. NB BootDiskUtility by default already has FakeSMC.kext installed here.
You may need to add for your laptop keyboard/trackpad to work. If UEFI booting, you will most likely need one of the OsxAptioFixDrv-64 drivers copied from /EFI/CLOVER/drivers-off/drivers64UEFI to /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI. Comparing these two files from the Apple Catalog. I noticed different version numbers: 10.13.6.0.0.
And 10.13.6.0.0. Are they both release versions? Yes, both are release versions of 10.13.6: corresponds to build 10.13.6.17G65 corresponds to build 10.13.6.17G2208 (with latest security update). Edited August 26, 2018 by fusion71au. @ How to identify the macOs version of baseSystem.dmg and InstallESD.dmg from the apple catalogue?
Download, then open the corresponding English.dist file in a text editor. Eg BaseSystem.dmg and InstallESDDmg.pkg for Mojave Beta1118A389 have the following URLs. Corresponding English.dist file URL is Opening this file in text editor shows this. See signature per spec. Asus P8B75M-CSM First of all thanks to Clover teams and InsanelyMac peepz.
Hi guys, Im hoping some one can help me out of this jam. Maybe this is an easy fix but im lost. I've been running yosemite for years on my asus N53SV but i figured its time to upgrade.
And since i was told mojave its too much trouble im fine with going to High Sierra. My issue is this: I created a usb boot and grabbed a clover folder from a website that claimed everything worked out of the box. I was able to boot in to the setup screen, however my image looks all distorted. Im guessing it has something to do with the fact that i replaced the panel on my laptop from a 720P to a 1080p display.
I was able to solve this same issue when i was on yosemite by using a patched DSDT but if i use that same old patch DSDT then i get issues/conflicts like my internal keyboard and trackpad not working. This are my specs: ASUS N53SV HD3000 1080p i7 2670qm 512 GB SSD 8GB Ram maybe someone can point me in the right direction. Im attaching aa picture in case someone has seen this issue before. Budget Workstation MacOS 10.14.1 build: z370 AORUS Gaming 5 - i5-8600K - RX 580 - UHD 630 flawless iGPU/dGPU integration, fast FCPX editing/rendering, great overall performance for $1200 / £1000 I'm gonna come straight out and admit it - I used newb tools which are considered taboo on InsanelyMac, and so this isn't so much an installation guide as it is a green flag to anyone considering the same hardware. My first and previous Hackintosh project was just over ten years ago and this site was massively helpful, so this is my (very small) way of giving back. EFI DIRECTORY HARDWARE CPU: Intel i5-8600K 3.6GHz hexacore (contains UHD 630 iGPU) CPU Cooler: be quiet! Pure Rock Slim (no paste needed, and fan facing front) Mobo: GIGABYTE z370 AORUS Gaming 5 (WIFI) RAM: 1x 8GB CORSAIR Vengeance LPX C16 2666MHz (in first slot) GFX Card: Sapphire RX 580 NITRO+ SE SATA: used ports 0, 1, 3, 5 (HDD problems when connected to port 4) HDD: generic DVD Drive: generic PSU: EVGA 500W Semi Modular (but you should get 650W!) Case: CoolerMaster CM590 III Fans: 2x stock case fans (one sucky on front, one blowy on back), 3x be quiet!
BL046 120mm fans (two blowy on top, one sucky on front). Airflow near-perfectly balanced.
ADVICE With the Clover configuration, you want to pay close attention to all things relating to graphics. There are some specific settings for ACPI, Boot, Devices and Graphics which should be copied exactly in order to get the iGPU and dGPU to work in perfect harmony. For instance, make sure you use ig-platform-id 59120003 rather than 59120000 if you want FCPX to be usable. With the right settings, FCPX will not only run, but run flawlessly.
I was not able to figure out how to make NVRAM/PRAM behave itself, and I got errors when I tried to issue relevant commands. As a result, I could not get iMessage to work properly. It worked precisely once, on my first installation attempt. This Clover configuration therefore has no consideration whatsoever toward iMessage reliability - if you can get NVRAM/PRAM working properly on this hardware, please do edit the config as you see fit. Onboard WiFi does not work. There is no driver for it.
I'm using wired ethernet to a bridge router as it was cheaper than getting a compatible PCI card. Audio is working well after I installed the z370 audio patch, then the ALC1220 codecs, then AppleALC. With kexts for generic 3rd party SATA and generic 3rd party eSATA, my HDDs and DVD drive work perfectly well.
Sleep/Wake functions run perfectly. ICloud functions run perfectly. Shutdown leaves the mobo LEDs on, annoyingly. Overall, this system appears to run about as well under MacOS 10.14 Mojave as it does under Windows 7. I would solidly recommend this build to anyone looking to build a computer for workstation purposes, on a budget.
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