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144 - Install Hackintosh High Sierra using Easy2Boot

Requirements

A bootable .dmg install file with FAT and HFS partitions
An Easy2Boot v1.A1 or later multiboot USB drive
A windows system with 7Zip and E2B MPI Tool Kit installed

Download

I used Hackintosh Zone High Sierra with Intel+AMD Support
https://www.hackintoshzone.com/files/file/1044-hackintosh-high-sierra/?do=download&confirm=1

Instructions

1. Download High Sierra AMD and then extract Hackintosh Zone High Sierra Installer.dmg and open it with 7zip

2. Use 7zip to extract 3.hfs (as a single large file).

3. Use 7zip to extract the CONTENTS of Windows_FAT_32 to a folder called HSFAT so we can copy these files later.

Do NOT select the boot, boot2 or boot6 files.

4. Drag-and-drop and empty folder onto MPI_FAT32 Desktop shortcut to make a new HS.imgPTN file, make sure you set SIZE=100MB and not the default of 38MB.

5. Copy HS.imgPTN and 3.hfs to E2B USB _ISOMAINMENU folder

6. Rename 3.hfs to HS

_ISOMAINMENUHS.imgPTN (100MB FAT32)

7. Switch to new partitions using _ISOSwitch_E2B.exe

When prompted for a partition type for the second image file, use 0xAF.

Ensure the E2B drive partition now contains a EFI folder indicating that the new partition image has been switched in.

8. Rename the folder USB:EFIClover to Clover_e2b (or delete it)

9. Copy all files and folders (EXCEPT the files boot, boot2 and boot6) from the HSFAT folder to the root of the E2B USB drive

10. Edit the menu.lst file and add this line

parttype (hd0,2) 0xAF

e.g.

If the partition hd0,2 type (3rd partition) is not 0xAF then the boot process will stop half-way through and probably will crash!

This line is required if you switch to the .imgPTN image using an MBR-boot.

Usage

Use E2B v1.A1 or later.

Summary of Hackintosh BIOS Settings

Reset your BIOS or Load Optimized Default.
Disable Secure Boot Mode
Disable CFG-Lock
Disable VT-d
Enable XHCI Handoff
Set OS Type to Other OS
Disable Serial Port
Disable Max CPUID Value Limit
Enable Execute Disable Bit / XD Function
Enable HPET
Set HPET to 64 bit Mode
Disable CSM (for install and/or OS boot)
Set SATA Mode to AHCI

1. IMPORTANT: MBR-boot to the E2B USB drive and the CSM menu (at least once).

OR - if SWITCH_E2B asks you for the partition type of the second image, use 0xAF.
If it loads the E2B Main menu, then select the HS menu entry to switch partitions and load the CSM menu.

Note that it is necessary load the CSM menu first before you can directly UEFI-boot from the E2B drive.
If you are using an older version of SWITCH_E2B.exe then you cannot use SWITCH_E2B.exe to switch in the new partitions and then immediately UEFI-boot from the E2B drive, you must MBR-boot to the CSM menu first unless you set the partition type to 0xAF.
You MUST MBR-boot to the CSM menu first (each time you switch in the images) so that the HFS partition is set to type 0xAF - otherwise UEFI-booting will not work.

The CSM menu sets the partition type of the HFS partition to type 0xAF. If you later restore the E2B partition, the 0xAF HFS partition will be removed.
If you want to try installing onto a new blank partition on the hard disk of the target system, you will need to create one first before you boot to the Installer.

2. You can now boot using Clover from the CSM menu or directly boot via UEFI.
If Clover- or UEFI-booting just results in a blank screen with no boot messages seen at all, you probably did not MBR-boot to the E2B CSM menu first!

Follow the appropriate instructions in the guide to install a Hackintosh version to a blank partition or hard disk.
If you are installing to a disk which already contains a Windows partition, be aware that this process may make it unbootable!
For best results, I suggest you select the entire hard disk (top level) and choose Erase + Mac OS Extended (Journaled).In particular, notice that when you click on the drive/partition icon that you want to be the target drive, a 'Customize' button will appear.

IMPORTANT: Click on the Customize' button and add the Hackintosh Zone options (add in Network, also audio, High Sierra USB Fixes - Generic USBXHCI and Laptop drivers - touchpad may be useful).

If you have a compatible Graphics card, unselect “Backup Graphic Kexts.” (If you are using nVidia Maxwell or Pascal card you may need nVidia Webdriver)

Tip: Make a careful note of what Zone options you select. You may need to repeat the installation again and add or delete some of the Zone options depending on whether drivers are missing or if it crashes/reboots during installation. For instance, adding an option may cause it to crash.

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e.g. for HackintoshNiresh High Sierra Guide see here.
Note that Hackintosh builds are very hardware specific/fussy - it may just crash!
After installing to a empty partition on my Windows hard drive of an IdeaPad 300, the installation seemed to stop just before the very end, but a few key presses and mouse clicks seemed to spur it back into action again and it completed and rebooted.
It then only booted to a blank screen. :-(
However, if I booted to Clover using the E2B USB drive, I could then boot to the OS X partition on the hard disk and get to the High Sierra desktop.
I suspect that if I had installed to a blank hard disk instead of to an MBR Primary partition, then the notebook would have booted correctly. The Clover Standard option is also needed for MBR-booting.

If possible, set your BIOS boot options to UEFI-boot from the hard disk.
I found that the notebook touchpad and keyboard would not work and so had to connect USB kbd+mouse!
This may have been because I did not, at first, use the Customize button to add in the notebook touchpad drivers, so I re-installed with the notebook driver option ticked and this time it worked! I now have my IdeaPad 300 running Hackintosh High Sierra with touchpad, keyboard, bluetooth and Ethernet.
Tip: If Clover stops at a 'Scanning' message before it displays the boot drive icons, reboot and select the Clover boot entry in the CSM menu, then press 6 just after the screen is blanked and Clover is loaded (you should briefly see the number 6 at the top-left of the screen instead of the usual number 7).

Jan 24, 2018 However, in this topic, we share two methods to download and get MacOS Sierra.DMG, then convert Sierra.DMG to Sierra.ISO (available solutions in both Mac OS X and Windows). First way, users can obviously download Sierra App from Apple store, then locate where to get the InstallESD.DMG from the. Niresh High Sierra with AMD & Intel Support Install macOS High Sierra on PC with this installer which doesnt need access to a mac; You can create bootable USB from Windows, Linux or Mac.

Creating a bootable USB drive of OS X Yosemite 10.10 if you want to save it on a external drive for future usage or just want to install it on multiple Mac computers. To make OS X Yosemite bootable USB installer drive, there are few requirements. Lets see what are those.

Note: This guide to make installer USB drive is for OS X Yosemite Developer Preview

See also: Dual Boot OS X Yosemite and Mavericks

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Make OS X Yosemite Bootable USB

Requirements

You must have an external USB drive or storage media with capacity of at-least 8GB (Save data from it because we are going to format it).
OS X Yosemite installer downloaded (You can join OS X Beta program)

Prepare USB drive for OS X Yosemite

Open Disk Utility from “Applications” > “Utilities” or press “cmd+space” keys form keyboard to find “Disk Utility”.

Plug the external USB drive into Mac (make sure you save your stuff from it). Once you attached the USB drive, it will shown on the left panel of Disk Utility.

Select the drive and then do the following steps to create a single partition that is required to make USB installer drive for OS X Yosemite 10.10.

Click on “Partition Layout” drop-down menu and select “1 Partition” option from it.
Then enter the Partition information Name: ”osxyosemite”, Format: “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)”.
Click the “Options” button to select the partition scheme, so select “GUID Partition Table” option and click OK button.

To complete the creating partition process hit the “Apply” button and then “Partition” button. This will take some time to format and making USB drive as a 1 partition. Once done, you will notice a new drive name will be displayed on the left side, the name that you given in the partition information. Now close the Disk Utility tool.

Show hidden files

Showing hidden files is required, because there are few hidden files in the OS X Yosemite installer package that you need to unhide first to write them on bootable USB drive.

Open Mac “Terminal” command line: press cmd+space keys and type Terminal in the spotlight, click the Terminal from search results or just open the Terminal from Applications > Utilities > Terminal.

Type the following two commands one by one:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

Killall Finder

First command is going to show hidden files and the second one is to restart the Finder so we can see the instant effect of first command. Close the Terminal.

Open Applications, here you will see your downloaded OS X Yosemite file “Install OS X 10.10”. Cmd+click on it to view the menu, select “Show Package Contents”.

Open “Contents” > “SharedSupport” folder and here you will see “InstallESD.dmg” file, double click to open the file and OS X may starts verifying this file so let the verification process finished.

After that you will see a folder with the following content in it, “BaseSystem.dmg” is the file that we need and it was hidden, so now you know that why we show the hidden files in above steps.

Open the Disk Utility again from “Applications” > “Utilities” > “Disk Utility” or by using Spotlight search.

Load the “BaseSystem.dmg” file into the Disk Utility, right-click on the file and choose “Open With” > “Disk Utility” option. After doing that open the Disk Utility and you will see the file “BaseSystem.dmg” is loaded in the Disk Utility on the left side.

Restore Disk Image

Now we are going to restore “BaseSystem.dmg” disk image on the USB drive.
Select your USB partition that we created in previous first steps, then click the Restore tab.
Under Restore tab there are two fields, Source and Destination.
Click and drag the “BaseSystem.dmg” to Source field and “osxyosemite” usb drive to Destination filed, see screenshot below to get more idea. When done hit the Restore button and you need to confirm “Are you sure you want to replace the content on USB drive with the content of disk image” so click the Erase button to confirm, after that you may need to enter the administrator password. Restoring disk image is time taking process so be patient.

Once the restoring disk image process is finished you will see a folder like this. Here, open the “System” > “Installation” folders and move the Packages file to trash.

Copy the “Packages” folder from the folder where the “BaseSystem.dmg” exist. and paste it into the Installation folder that you just opened in previous step.

Hide the system files again using this command
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO

How to Boot from USB Drive

Hackintosh-sierra-zone.dmg Google Drive

You must know the system requirements of OS X Yosemite before installing it, If your system to capable to run this OS X version 10.10 then Shutdown your Mac, plug the OS X Yosemite Bootable USB into Mac. Press the power button again to turn it On and then hold the Alt or Option key from keyboard, when you see this screen release the button. Double click on the USB drive to boot from it.

Congratulations! you successfully perform all steps to make bootable USB drive to install OS X Yosemite on more that one Mac computers without worried of downloading it on each computer separately, you will saved lot of bandwidth and time as well. Thanks for reading if you have any problem we are here to help you just write your problem below in comments box.

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Sierra Zone Dmg Google Drive