


Mount both your boot disk EFI and your USB drive EFI partitions via MountEFI.Get a USB drive and GUID format it to HFS+ Journaled.It’s better to first test drive the new boot loader on a removable drive: You can do this on your machine directly, but it might not boot anymore if you make a mistake. Bootable USB Driveīefore updating macOS, you want to update OpenCore and the needed kexts.

If you’re curious about building a Hackintosh, check out the OpenCore Vanilla Guide. Legacy setups might still use Clover, but OpenCore is much better on a long-term basis, and you don’t have to disable security features such as SIP. I chose OpenCore, as it’s fast, modern, and open source. To run macOS on non-Apple hardware, you need a bootloader. I’m impressed with the overall stability - I had considerably fewer kernel panics here than with my MacBook Pro, and I’m using the LG 5K in full resolution on the Hackintosh, thanks to the Gigabyte GC-Titan Ridge. I still work 95 percent of my time on my 16-inch MacBook Pro, but it’s convenient to have a really powerful machine to compile large projects (like Swift). BackgroundĮarlier this year, I built myself a Hackintosh, similar to this setup ( picture porn here). Since a few folks on Twitter were curious, here’s how this works. This does take a bit more preparation than updating genuine Mac hardware. With macOS 10.15.5 out, it was time to update my Hackintosh again.
