Before you begin you will want to have:
- Created a Bootable macOS USB Installer
- Make your Bootable and Hackintosh Bootable
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.
1. When the installer finally appears Press Continue
2. Select your language and Press Continue again.
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- 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 from…instead 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
Fully Working Hackintosh
After macOS is running on your hackintosh there may be things that aren’t working such as audio, ethernet and wifi and graphics acceleration. If you followed one of our Build Guides return to that guide in order to get everything working. Otherwise check out the guides on how to get various things working.
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26 Comments on "How-to Install macOS on a Hackintosh"
I am following your guide for Z270M-D3H and I can see and format my Samsung 850 EVO SSD – and install Sierra, When it restarts there is no sign of the SSD, only the single “Install macOS Sierra” from the USB drive. Any way I can figure where to go from here? PS – Noob alert…
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 http://hackintosher.com/builds/asus-z170-pro-skylake-hackintosh/ 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 http://hackintosher.com/builds/asus-z170-pro-skylake-hackintosh/ and rename it to config.plist.
I have the exact same issue and can not figure it out. Followed the guide, allowed me to install, no option to boot into Mac OS after the install. Just keep booting from USB.
Your installer is corrupted. Try downloading macOS from somewhere else, if it wasn’t from the app store that could be why.
Same Issue, I reset everything to see if I messed up but ended up with the same error.
Specs:
Pentium G4560
GTX 1050 ti
PNY 240gb ssd
Any help would be much appreciated.
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Everything goes well until I reach the loading bar, just after finish loading it seems like the computer shuts down. The tower (if you know what I mean) stills on but the monitor doesn’t, its like if the PC was hibernating. Is that OK?
Does anyone know why this is happening? It stops at “System Uptime in Nanoseconds:” and the reboots back to Clover.
hi. first off, you’re the best. excellent guide.
my problem is when i’m at the installer/selection language/disk utility. my SSD i want to install on does not show up. the only things that show up are:
the flash drive (external sandisk) nested under that is “INSTALL MACOS SIERRA”
the next thing is Apple Disk Image. nested under the first one is OS X BASE SYSTEM
the next thing is Apple Disk Image, nested under is OS X Install ESD
attached is the screenshot.
http://prntscr.com/g7lt36
i forgot to mention, i also have Windows 10 Running on another SSD on this computer.
also forgot to mention my specs.
WD Blue 250SD
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (1x16GB) DDR4 DRAM 2400MHz (PC4 19200) C14 Memory Kit – Black
MSI Gaming Intel B250 Mother Board
Intel Pentium G4600 3.6 LGA 1151
GeForce 1060 SC 6GB
figured it out!!! the hard drive settings for all the HD was set to RAID OPTAIN, not AHCI.
I Followed all instructions given–> rebooted –> kernel panic..lol.. anyone can help?
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff800076a0b6): “Process 1 exec of /sbin/launchd failed, errno 2″@/Library/Caches
_exec.c:5031
(…) could insert screenshot if helpful!
fixed it!
How your fix it? I had the same error.
You are literally the cancer of the internet. Die in a fire.
Works fine for me, shutdown too 😉
Btw how can I boot this directly to OSX without having to press clover every time? In my previous build there was a three seconds countdown. How can I do the same?
Thanks
I followed the guide but after the second install it just lets me “Boot OS X Install from Install MacOS High Sierra”
Also, my graphics are kinda screwed up on clover. (How do I make sure I downloaded the right version?)
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 https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xqkn3F (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. Ps. 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!
I am having a issue where I get the beach ball while trying to load into the installer. I have checked the bios settings several times and still have the same issue. Any Suggestions?
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.
Thanks,
ThankYou – had to fix the time on the bios after that all went GREAT with Sierra 12.6, Later will Try HighSierra
that guide apply to laptop Lenovo ideated 310-15ISK with core i3 6100u and Intel HD 520?
I am getting this error as I get to the last restart before I get to the registration part (timeout appleacpicpu) may I please get some help to resolve this error
System info
MSI-M250 Carbine
I5 Kabylake
Samsung M.2
Kingston Vengence 8gigs
Nvidia GeForce 1050 ti
I’m stuck on apple logo and nothing else shows up, not even the progression bar. Any ideas?
specs: Intel core i5-6200U // GeForce 930M // 6GB ram
Hi
I have an MSI H370 Gaming Pro Carbon + i5 8600k + MSI GT 710 2GD3H LP, I did everything as explained but I had some doubts in the situation of the darkwake.
The problem is that it opens the boot of the clover I can boot the installation but it comes to the end and does nothing else.
It does not let me go to the Sierra installation and then format the disk.
Can you help me?
After I install macos from the usb to the ssd (end of part 1) there is no option to install macos,only to boot. When I click it the apple logo appears and the bar goes full and stops. Mouse appears and is able to move. However no further progress