I am fairly new with Hackintoshes. System Configuration(Originally an Acer Predator AG3620-ur308):
- Intel i7 3770
- Intel Integrated Graphics HD 4000
- Acer ipimb-ar rev 1.02a
- 3x4gb DDR3 ram
I have been trying to install High Sierra on this machine ever since the GPU that came with it died. I managed to get El Capitan running on it a couple years ago, but I had to replace the hard drive.
With a High Sierra VM, I used Disk Utility to erase a 32gb flash drive with format Mac OS Extended (Journaled), scheme GUID Partition Map, and name "USB". Next, I downloaded the latest version of High Sierra using a tool called "macOS High Sierra Patcher". I must use this tool because the app store only downloads a partial file that is around 15mb. Once downloaded I use the following command to create a bootable usb drive:
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/ --volume /Volumes/USB/
Once that finally finished, I used the latest version of Clover EFI Bootloader available on Sourceforge to install Clover onto the USB. The options I chose in customize are as follows:
- Install for UEFI booting only
- Install Clover in the ESP
- OsxAptioFix2Drv-64
- PartitionDxe-64
After that is installed, I copy over FakeSMC into the kexts folder. Over my several attempts at making this USB I have also tried adding and removing apfs.efi, HFSPlus.efi, VBoxHfs-64.efi. Now that the USB is finished, I plug it into the system and try boot into Clover. Within Clover, there are zero volume or drive icons or labels in the empty space. In my bios I have disabled virtualization technology, enabled legacy usb support, and disabled safe boot. I have also tried various different config.plist files, none of which have worked.
If there are any logs available I should include, let me know.
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