BASIC HACKINTOSH
1.Intoduction
What is hackintosh? Hackintosh is simply installing Mac OS on non-apple machine. Let’s get started with
hackintosh but first let’s have a bit of knowledge with regulations. Hackintoshing is “Ok?” as long as if
you own a Mac or the Mac OS as long as not making business out of it you will be fine.
2. Creating Bootable Mac OS USB installer
This step will be the same for laptop and desktop. Here we use Olarila, Olarila is home of vanilla. So what
is Vanilla? Basically Vanilla use Appstore version of Mac OS with clover bootloader to hackintosh and
Olarila provides a better chance of success. Whereas Niresh uses the Appstore version of Mac OS but it
has been modified with clover bootloader. Amongst the two, Vanilla is better because of its
compatibility. Let’s get started! We’re are aiming with intel processor in this tutorial.
1. Go to https://www.olarila.com then you will need to register an account. Don’t worry it may
sound fishy but we need an account to let the supporters know which person they are helping.
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2. After you finished registered and logged in your account. Head to this link:
https://olarila.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=51
3. Next, we’re going to choose which Mac OS version that will be supported for our desktop or
laptop. Newer generation of processor supports newer version of Mac OS, High Sierra or Sierra is
a good start for most machine. If you have Nvidia Graphic card only fermi and kepler plates will
work and unfortunately for optimus it will not work on any version. Don’t worry lots of the pc has
intel integrated graphic. As for AMD GPU only, some series will be compatible with Hackintosh.
4. Here I chose Mojave the latest one, Since I don’t have Nvidia Graphic card or supported AMD.
https://olarila.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=8685 here is the Olarila guide please have look
through it. I recommend High Sierra, Let’s get started!!
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5. Here’s the file we downloaded and the one next to it is after extracted.
6. For window we can use etcher or win32diskimager. As for Mac we can use etcher. Here we’re
going to use etcher.
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Click Flash! And wait until it finishes.
3. Setting Up BIOS and booting to your USB
General Bios settings:
Load Optimized Defaults
If your CPU supports VT-d, disable it
If your system has CFG-Lock, disable it
If your system has Secure Boot Mode, disable it
Set OS Type to Other OS
If your system has IO SerialPort, disable it
Set XHCI Handoff to Enabled
Set Controller From Raid to Ahci (Some Bios doesn’t have it but try anyway, some are supported
some aren’t)
Boot mode UEFI only
For MSI BIOS (some bios are similar):
Boot into bios setting by pressing “DELETE” button
Settings>Advanced>Super IO Configuration
o Here we will disable both Serial and Parallel Port Config
Settings>Advanced>Integrated Peripherals
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o Set SATA mode to AHCI
Settings>Advanced>Integrated Graphics Configuration
o Integrated Graphics Memory set to 64MB
o IGD Multi-Monitor set to Enabled
Settings>Advanced>USB Configuration
o Enable USB Controller
o Enable XHCI Hand-Off
o Enable Legacy USB Support
Settings>Boot
o Set Boot Select Mode as Legacy+UEFI
Problems Booting Window after switching from Raid to AHCI? Let your pc or laptop run diagnostic
automatically until we see Automatic Repair, Select Advanced Options>Troubleshoot>Advanced
options> See more recovery options>Startup Setting>Restart |Then Press number 4 or 5 both boots to
safe mode but 5 enables networking. After this you can open window normally.
You can dual boot with Window and Mac. If you want to install Mac only please go ahead, you can
always install another operating system. Installing hackintosh only? Proceed to STEP 4.
Dual Boot
Single Disk
Multiple Disk
1. Go to Start and search “Disk
Management” or “create and format
1. Go to Start and search “Disk
hard disk partitions”
Management” or “create and format
2. Assuming your disk is in GPT.
hard disk partitions”
3. Shrink the desire partition which has
2. Assuming your disk is in GPT.
the largest available space to the
3. You can format another disk for
desired space for installing
Hackintosh but if you have data on
Hackintosh (recommends 60 Gb and
that disk you can shrink it and create
above)
a new partition name “Hackintosh”
4. Then right click on the unallocated
so we can know which partition to
and create new simple volume with
erase to avoid deleting your
the name “Hackintosh” just to know
important data.(recommends 60 Gb
which partition we should erase later
and above).
with disk utility on Mac installer.
4. If that disk is not in GPT you have to
5. If your disk is not in GPT, sorry you
erase the whole disk with GPT
have to format the whole disk and
install Hackintosh first then install
window.
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4. Booting to USB and Install
You can boot to USB with window by going to Setting>Update & Security>Recovery> Advance Startup,
Click Restart now then you will see this and click on Use a device and select your USB.
You can also boot with boot manager or change boot priority in BIOS and put USB boot the top priority.
With a google search you can see which key you need to press for booting into Boot Manager. Example
Search, “Lenovo boot manager key”, “Hp boot manager key”, “How to boot into boot manager on HP”
…….etc.
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So now we are here on the usb
Press O not zero
Then go to config, use the mouse to click on it or use the arrow key and press enter. Choose config for
desktop and config2 for laptop
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Now we return by pressing escape key.
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Next we go to graphic injector
Check inject intel use fake id 0x12345678 then boot into the installer.
Encountering problems? Stuck? Please take video of your verbose mode(some weird texts when booting
to installer) and post onto Hackintosh Olarila and/or Hackintosh group.
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Follow the instructions appeared and until you see this. Click on Disk Utility and click on the volume
name “Hackintosh” and click on erase and name to anything you want and choose the format Mac OS
Extended (Journaled) click on erase. Then exit Disk utility and choose the volume “name” you want to
install on.
5. Post Install
For post install please ask for assistance. Ask the person who sent you this or go to the Hackintosh
Group. Or go to Olarila.com and read guide for post installation.
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