Hackintosh-Setup

Current hardware

• Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H LGA Sockel 1150 Micro ATX
• Intel i5 4460 3,2 GHz
• Crucial Ballistix Sport XT 8GB
• Gigabyte 760 GTX Windforce OC Version with 2GB
• Samsung EVO 850 with 256GB
• be quiet! BQT L7-530W
• Apple Keyboard
• Apple Trackpad
• Dell U2515H
• Harman Kardon SoundSticks III
• Bluetooth Adapter Dongle, GMYLE Nano USB Broadcom BCM20702
• Fenvi FV-T919 Wireless High-Speed Network Adapter

Install macOS from USB

• download macOS via App Store or...
• download installer with this tool
• create bootable USB-installer with Unibeast
  • UEFI boot mode
  • no graphics checked
• put Multibeast at the USB drive
• optional: put Little Snitch
• install macOS
• after install, use Multibeast with the following configuration:

  Quick Start > Clover UEFI Boot Mode
  Drivers > Misc > FakeSMC
  Drivers > Network > Realtek > RealtekRTL8111 v2.2.1 
  Drivers > USB > 7/8/9 Series USB Support 
  Bootloaders > Clover UEFI Boot Mode
  Customize > System Definitions > iMac > iMac 14,2 
  Drivers > Graphics > NVIDIA Web Drivers Boot Flag
  

  • select no audio driver
  • with the nvidia-flag it is possible to install macOS-graphics-driver from nvidia

Clover Bootloader and EFI parition

• use clover configurator
• latest MultiBeast should copy the FakeSMC.kext to the EFI partition. if not:
  • get latest FakeSMC.kext from here or use the version of this repo
  • mount EFI partition and copy FakeSMC.kext and any other extra necessary kexts to /EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other/

No Audio

• after installation of macOS the ALC892 audio-chip does not provide any sound natively
• use this guide to enable sound
  • basically download this file (click view raw)
  • mount EFI partition
  • execute audio.command file
  • enter password and answer every question with y, except of Patch AppleHDA.kext for HD4600 HDMI audio (see issue #1)
  • restart and there will be sound

Graphics

• check tonymacx86 for latest NVIDIA alternate graphics drivers for macOS
• use Native Display Brightness to adjust the brightness of the screen via F1/F2
  • in addition FunctionFlip is necessary to avoid pressing the fn-key

iMessage

• use this guide at tonymacx86 or view the pdf version of it
• useful tools:
  • DPCIManager or use version from repo
  • iMessageDebugv2 from here or here

Mount synology drives

• create auto-mounter-file for smb-drives

  cd /etc
  sudo touch /etc/auto_smb
  sudo chmod +x /etc/auto_smb
  

• copy content from this file to the newly created auto_smb and fill in the correct values for the two lines

  LOCAL_USER=[local_osx_user]
  SMB_SERVER=[hostname_of_the_synology_nas] 
  

• for the credentials of the synology login create the following file

  touch /Users/local_osx_user/.smb_credentials
  chmod 600 /Users/local_osx_user/.smb_credentials
  

• copy over and adjust the content from this file to the newly created file
• create mount-point

  sudo mkdir -p /mnt/Storage
  sudo bash -c "echo '/mnt/Storage auto_smb' >> /etc/auto_master"
  sudo automount -vc
  

• list all desired directories with

  cd /mnt/Storage/video
  cd /mnt/Storage/music
  cd [...] 
  

• and now you can link the automatedly mounted drives

  mkdir /Users/local_osx_user/Storage
  for i in `ls -1 /mnt/Storage`; do ln -s /mnt/Storage/$i /Users/local_osx_user/Storage/$i; done
  

iTunes crash

• problem is described here
• solution:
  • mount EFI partition and copy lilu.kext and shiki.kext to /EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other/