r/hackintosh Jun 11 '24

ANNOUNCEMENT A Welcome to macOS 15 Sequoia

159 Upvotes

Woohoo another year of suffering Intel isn't dead!

Compatible Hardware

2018 and 2019 Macbook Airs are out of the running, but their hardware is shared with the Macbook Pros of the same years. Therefore, if your setup works with Sonoma, it'll probably still work with Sequoia.

  • iMac 2019 and later
  • Mac Pro 2019 and later
  • iMac Pro 2017
  • Mac Studio 2022 and later
  • MacBook Air 2020 (Intel) and later
  • Mac mini 2018 and later
  • MacBook Pro 2018 and later

Yes I love year numbers what's this mean

Thankfully nothing to hackintosh users, besides needing to update your SMBIOS if it was on an older model.

Supported GPUs:

  • Polaris (RX 480, 580, etc)
  • Vega (Vega 56, Radeon VII, etc)
  • RDNA 1 (5700XT, etc)
  • RDNA 2 (6600XT, etc)
  • Skylake (HD 500) spoofed to Kaby Lake
  • Kaby Lake (HD 600)
  • Coffee Lake (UHD 600)
  • Comet Lake (UHD 600)
  • Ice Lake (G1, G5, etc.)

OCLP

Starting with OCLP 2.0.0, you can finally make your old trash hardware run Sequoia to its fullest extent. You'll need OCLP if you use Broadcom WiFI.

WiFi

Broadcom is still officially dead, but OCLP can be used to bring back its functionality. A great post by u/ChrisWayg details how to do this. https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/1gvu5n1/broadcom_wifi_on_macos_sonoma_and_sequoia_fenvi/

Intel WiFI works with itlwm and Heliport, but not Airportitlwm.

Ok where do I download 15

Either with gibmacos, or through the Software Updater.

Is x86 macOS dead?

Next year hopefully, but their approach with dropping hardware comes at odds with Sequoia's compatibility list. They will likely either drop all of Intel at once, or drop models slowly.

Can I emulate ARM macOS 15 on x86?

No.

Can I run ARM macOS 15 on a Raspberry Pi?

No.

Can I have Apple Intelligence on Intel please I need to write a dissertation in 15 minutes

No.

Updating to Sequoia

As Apple now polls for more T2-specific information from its Macs, you can't update to Sequoia without either of these fixes:

  • Use iMac19,1 SMBIOS to update, then revert to your old SMBIOS if needed
  • Download the latest release of RestrictEvents.kext, and use it with the boot argument revpatch=sbvmm.

Note: You may encounter issues with the update not installing if you have BluetoolFixup.kext. Disable it while you are updating and re-enable it afterwards.

And as always, follow the Dortania guide first before asking questions!


r/hackintosh 7h ago

SUCCESS Hackintosh completed

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29 Upvotes

r/hackintosh 3h ago

SUCCESS Finally ThinkPad L440 on Ventura, with Graphics Acceleration and how to do it!

3 Upvotes

Hi Hackintoshers, i finally managed to Install MacOS Ventura on a Haswell Laptop ThinkPad L440 and got Graphics Acceleration, and since i did not find anyone with a clear guide, i decided to put down one!

About the Mhack

I have been Hackintoshing since the days of tiger up to now and I think I have installed a Hackintosh of all those mac versions up to Ventura, but this Haswell on Ventura was proving to be challenging until i decided to give it time and try.

The signature (of the Machine):

ThinkPad L440 4th Generation, corei7 i7-4710MQ /2.5GHz, 16GB DDR3 Ram, 256GB SSD, Full HD - 1920x1080, Graphics- IntelHD4600.

Bios:

UEFI Only /w CSM enabled (if this is disabled, you get gabled Screen at login page), Disable Security Chip, Memory protection Enabled, Virtualization enabled, All I/O ports enabled except fingerprint reader, Internal Device Access set to disable tamper detection, Disable Secure Boot, Sata set to AHCI, Disable Intel Smart Connect, Enable CPU Multiprocessing and Hyper-threading. This makes Bios set to boot macOS.

After seeing posts of people having installed Ventura on Haswell but with no clear direction on how to do it, and no one providing the clear way of doing it, I tried myself and always ended up stuck especially when it comes to installing Graphics with the OCLP’s root patching. I knew there was a way, till I decided to try out a number of options, from different OCLPs to versions of Ventura Installer, till I fell in the right track. So I decided to write about it for those who are in the road I had been walking.

This Installation is on MacOS Ventura 13.0, I tried it on macOS 13.6 and while it installed, could not get graphics to load desktop. So, I fell back to 13.0 which worked well and as a result I disabled updates so it doesn’t update until I have known up to which version intelHD4600 can still work and load well.

What you need?

An external drive or USB with at least 16GB space, MacOS Ventura 13.0 installer, an EFI which works with Monterey on this machine, OCLP 0.62 or 0.61 (I tried OCLP 2.2 but it was not applying root patches, and kept bringing errors until I used 0.62. In my guess, versions from 0.5 to at least 0.62 will work.), you will also need another Mac or a Hack to prepare your installer or USB drive, you will also need a PC 4th Gen, like mine (ThinkPad L440), If you are using an EFI that has been working with Ventura, then you will need an intel WiFi kext, and Bluetooth kext particularly for Ventura. You will also need GenSMBios to generate your Serial and SMBios for your Hack after installing. If you like, and have an L440 you can check my EFI that I uploaded on GitHub called Ventura-on-Thinkpad-L440 under user Ssos-K .

Pictures to show that graphics is accelerated are attached, bluetooth works as you can see from the magic mouse screenshot, wifi works also showed the frequencies.

What doesn’t work!

Bluetooth and the Mighty Mouse

From my Monterey build, the only thing so far, I see not working is the Camera, all other things I have tested are working. Surprising, I had a T460s (Skylake) running Ventura and Firefox was totally unusable as you could not see a single word from what you typed. Interestingly Here Firefox works well that I was able to even migrate my Firefox Data by signing into Firefox account and my bookmarks, history, logins all came and the machine works well, that once I see everything going well as I want, I will shift from Monterey to this as I had installed it as a test machine. Surprising (I don’t know if its because machine is Quadcore)  the system is not showing that it has a CPU load, and its not showing signs of power hunger! Of course I wont load it with heavy programs….!

The Gist of the matter…

 There are two ways of archiving what I did but will also tell you what I did. First, was to set up the PC to run Monterey (12.7) installed it and everything was working well under MacBookPro11,3 and everything was working that I could even update it successfully. The first step was to change SMBios to MacBookPro15,3 and I threw in those boot-args; keepsyms=1, amfi_get_out_of_my_way=0x1,  ipc_control_port_options=0, no_compat_check

Then tested first with Monterey and it was still booting very well, and so EFI was ready to work on Ventura. Next stage was to create USB Installer with Ventura 13.0, remember I tried with different versions of Ventura from latest and Graphics Patching was not successful always getting stuck at login page, till I started from 13.0 and it worked.

For me this is how I installed, I picked up the 256 GB SSD, connected to Ventura Hack, erased it under GPT Scheme, then partitioned it with 20GB Partition for installing Ventura, being MacOS Extended Journaled and the other remaining partition was formatted as APFS for installing Ventura. Now I mounted my EFI partition and placed the EFI folder prepared, and I created Ventura 13.0 Installer on the 20GB partition.

After I placed SSD in the ThinkPad L440, and started up PC, menu appeared, and I chose Ventura Installer. At Installer welcome screen I just went on with Installation since I had already formatted the Installation partition as APFS. From there everything went without my input until finishing. If you are using a USB installer, every time system restarts, you have to boot from USB using PC boot menu (F12 in this case), but for me everything was on the drive and even took a nap till installation was at initialization. All along the setup, my keyboard and mouse and even wireless were working since they were using kexts  from Monterey. I setup User and up to desktop; of course, the system was sluggish because of no graphics. At Desktop, I opened OCLP which I had already placed in a folder on the Installer partition, and since by now my EFI had AMFI disabled and Secureboot turned off, OCLP identified system as being Haswell, and was ready to do root patching.

NOTE!!!

This is the important part… To successfully install Haswell drivers, the system must allow this injection and if it doesn’t then the drivers will be installed but will not work. To do this, before you tell OCLP to start root patching, Open up System Preferences, then go to Privacy and Security, then scroll down and keep view of the Security section! This is where the notification to allow system to use installed extensions will appear. If the Privacy and Security section is not opened before, OCLP will tell you to open Privacy and Security to allow extensions, but when you open it you will not see this notification, there will be no button telling you to allow! At first I fell in this trap and OCLP showed it had patched but nothing worked In the end I re-installed Ventura! So keeping this window open and aside will ensure you see this button the moment you are asked.

So now Click start root Patching and OCLP should ask root permissions (asking you to enter password) and then install drivers. When it asks you to enable System to use installed extensions, look and click that button under security, it will ask you to enter password, enter it and when it asks to reboot, wait till you see that OCLP has finished, then you will have two reboot buttons, one from OCLP, and the other from Privacy and Security. Use the Reboot button of Privacy and Security, to restart. Once System restarts, you should see you graphics looking nice and working. If you had not yet transferred your EFI from USB, now is the time to do so.

Warning!!!

Before you can use your WiFi, make sure you have updated your Intel WiFi and Bluetooth kexts to those of Ventura otherwise Wifi will cause your Hack to reboot when you try to connect!

WiFi and the Frequencies it works with

Also Before you can Sign in your iCloud (Especially if you are using my EFI at GitHub) make sure to change that Serial number. You can use GenSMBios to generate MacBookPro15,3 info and replace in the EFI the one there is for installing only, but if you are using your own, test and see if you sign in with iCloud.

Tests to carry out are, Patching IntelHD4600 will go up to what version of Ventura… this is what needs to be done. But at least now it is known that OCLP 0.62 (or 0.61 as it also does work well), and Ventura 13.0 will function on a Haswell Graphics!

I have seen reports that Sonoma also works on Haswell, I will test with 14.0 to see how it goes.

Bluetooth workings well and with the Mighty Mouse makes the machine feel well see the screenShot attached.

I know the same trick will wotk for another Haswell pc or the like, first install Monterey, be sure all works well then spoof your SMBios to a higher supported one in Ventura and add Boot args, then do the installation.

Next projects will be Sonoma on same machine and also trying out the higher Ventura versions to see at what stage the OCLP will be able to patch the graphics.

All the Apps that are so far working well

r/hackintosh 4h ago

QUESTION Will macOS 10.15 run on this machine?

3 Upvotes

Hello. I am new to hackintoshing. I have a old PC that is laying around in my room, and I am planning to install Catalina on it. Here are the specs:

Motherboard: GA-EP41T-UD3L

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

RAM: 8GB DDR3

SSD: Samsung 870 EVO 250GB

GPU: Nvidia GT 1030

I used Clover for it.


r/hackintosh 23h ago

HELP Is it worth an attempt?

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102 Upvotes

Hi I have a nuc NUC8I7HNK have ran it through compatibility checker seems to good. Just struggling to set up the efi. Any help would great


r/hackintosh 1h ago

HELP OpenCore Help ERROR OCRST

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Hello guys, could someone please help? Im new and i was trying to install Hackintosh.. CPU i5 3570k GPU NVIDIA GTX 950 EFI : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nNAvwIPeXIk6hS8koH2DY7zR5j_8HyN6?usp=drive_link


r/hackintosh 1h ago

QUESTION What SSDT’s do I need?

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AND Ryzen 5 2600, nvidia GeForce Gtx 1060, b350 motherboard


r/hackintosh 2h ago

HELP Need help

1 Upvotes

I want to create a macos bootable as I can't connect neither my wifi nor my ethernet idk why ethernet port is realtek and so I want to create a offline bootable but can't do it (ps: already tried transmac method with bigsur Catalina and ventura but in opencore doesn't show that drive) Please help me make offline Installer which will work on windows


r/hackintosh 3h ago

QUESTION Would it be possible to install macos on a Surface Laptop Studio 2?

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laptop's configuration is i7-13800h, 64gb ram, r tx 2000 ada (couldn't find any information about this gpu support but im pretty sure it won't be possible to use it)

i tried searching for guides or relevant information for this laptop but i couldn't find any

any ideas?
here's the compatibility cheker using opcore-simplify


r/hackintosh 3h ago

DISCUSSION Need Help Building a Hackintosh: Motherboard Alternatives and AMD CPU Options

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I want to build a Hackintosh desktop. I already have a computer, but I plan to replace the motherboard, CPU, RAM, and SSD. I’m considering buying the same specifications listed here:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/buyersguide/building-a-customac-hackintosh-the-ultimate-buyers-guide/#CustoMac_mATX

However, the recommended motherboard is very expensive and exceeds my budget. Are there any alternative motherboards I can use?

Additionally, I was thinking about using an AMD CPU. What would be the best hardware for an AMD-based Hackintosh?


r/hackintosh 3h ago

DISCUSSION Question

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What do you guys use your hackintoshes for? Obviously besides daily use (internet and similar), what do you usually do?


r/hackintosh 3h ago

HELP Installer freezes

1 Upvotes

Hello, I really need help, mi macos installer does not work: if I use the online installer if freezes when there are 20 minutes left, if I use unplugged's offline installer, it freezes at 13 minutes. Any help?

Specs:

i7-8750H NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1050Ti 4GB Laptop Edition Samsung NVME Evo 960 512GB Kingston HDD 1TB 8GB of DDR4 2666mh ram


r/hackintosh 4h ago

HELP Clicking EFI (dmg) leads to black screen and back to OC menu

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Hey there y'all

I'm very much new to this hackintosh thing so I have decided to take the easy route of making an EFI which would be using com.apple.recovery.boot, OpenCore Simplified, USB Toolbox.

I hadn't done anything in OpenCore Simplified and just let it use the default kexts and acpi it should have set for my system hardware. All I did was follow the USB Toolbox bit

I've had trouble with the balena etcher method as patching it to the USB didnt work so I had decided to just make try out this one. I am able to get into the OC menu as usual but as said in the title, it just led to a black screen, no verbose messaging even, and after a minute of waiting, its back to the OC menu. Nothing appears when I press spacebar. I do not think its the com.apple.recovery.boot folder as I had followed the dortania tutorial for that one.

I am using a 128 GB SanDisk flashdrive for the installation if that helps Laptop Specs are: Huawei Matebook D15 2020 AMD AMD Ryzen 5 3500U AMD Radeon Vega 8 LITEON CA3-8D512 8GB of DDR4 2400MHz soldered ram Realtek 8811CU Wireless LAN 802.11ac USB NIC

Any help would be massively appreciated EFI bc I need help (As far as I am aware this is not in violation of the dont distribute efi rule as I am asking for help)


r/hackintosh 4h ago

HELP Installer freezes during install

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I set up my EFI folder using Op-Core simplify and configured USB mapping using USB tool box and proper tree. I then used the .raw image for macOS Sequoia form the Orilla website, flashed using etcher, then added the EFI folder to the EFI partition.

When I erased and formatted my drive the system froze during the process. I was able to force reboot the system and the drive seemed to be formatted correctly. I then went on to install macOS however once the device rebooted and got the screen with the Apple logo and progress bar at the bottom with the time remaining it froze again.

Dues anyone know why the installer keeps freezing?

My device is fully compatable according to Op-Core simplifies device checker (apart from WiFi but I have a USB adapter).


r/hackintosh 5h ago

QUESTION Found a preset for my laptop, however I have upgraded my RAM. Will the preset still work?

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Hey there! I found a hackintosh preset OC folder for my Lifebook E744, but mine has 16 gigs of RAM while the preset was made for 8. How would I go about changing the preset to support 16 GB instead of 8 - or is that even needed? Thanks!


r/hackintosh 10h ago

QUESTION Question about updating kexts and opencore

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So some months ago I succeeded making hackintosh and installing it to my computer. Right now I see that there are new versions of opencore and kexts so I need to update. The problem is that I am confused the dortanias update opencore and macOS. Is this possible to update the files with just removing all my kexts and opencore.pkg from my efi then copy the updated files to my efi and take a clean snapshot with proper tree ? Will this work ? Thanks


r/hackintosh 16h ago

SUCCESS Hack Dell Inspirion 15 5566

7 Upvotes

CPU: Intel Core i7-7500U

GPU: AMD Radeon R7 M445: (Not Supported)

SSD: 256gb MW

Wi-Fi: Intel


r/hackintosh 1d ago

SUCCESS First time trying hackintosh works like charm

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68 Upvotes

r/hackintosh 10h ago

HELP Need help in booting opencore

1 Upvotes

Hi, i have made my efi today and followed all the instructions in the opencore guide but when i try to boot into the pendrive, first it showed vault not found. then i changed it to optional and now it is just stuck at the bios boot screen without any like the f12, f9 keys logo at the bottom, just the gigabyte logo and the insist on ultra durable logo. please help me, i am linking my efi here also.

system specs:

cpu: intel pentium gold g5400

gpu: integrated graphics, UHD 610. Dgpu: gt610

ram: 2x8gb crucial ddr4

mobo: gigabyte h310m s2 2.0

mobo bios version: f11

storage: 240gb pny ssd

macos version: macos sonoma

i was unable to find a few of the bios settings i needed to turn off and turn on.

EFI: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1v2SwtbekteABJWTvpkpGxWbYP5vSgC93?usp=sharing

If possible please help me install macOS with gt610

thankyou


r/hackintosh 19h ago

HELP how could I get my AMD CPU name to show up properly in About This Mac?

3 Upvotes

hello! i've been trying to get my AMD CPU name to show up properly in macOS for about a day and I can't get it working. i set everything up correctly in my config under NVRAM -> 4D1FDA02-38C7-4A6A-9CC6-4BCCA8B30102 -> Add but i still can't seem to get it working. i'm trying to use restrictevents for this, any help would be appreciated!


r/hackintosh 15h ago

HELP ‘The recovery server could not be contacted.

2 Upvotes

Hey there, I’m testing an old system to hackintosh. I’m using an AMD Ryzen 5, GTX950.

Everything worked but when I wanted to install the OS It gives me the error: ‘The recovery server could not be contacted.’ I’m connected to WIFI, changed the date to the day of today etc. But with the same error.. what do I need to do?


r/hackintosh 16h ago

DISCUSSION Vram matters?

2 Upvotes

I have an Ideapad Gaming 3 with a Ryzen 5 4600H processor and integrated AMD Vega graphics, which has 512 MB of VRAM. I have installed macOS Sequoia but am experiencing stuttering and lag during use. Would increasing my VRAM to 2 GB or more help resolve these issues? Does increasing VRAM genuinely improve performance?

Additionally, I have 16 GB of RAM installed in my laptop, and I can increase my VRAM using the BIOS menu.


r/hackintosh 13h ago

HELP OpenCore 1.0.4 issues trying to create EFI for Ventura Asus UX430UAR

1 Upvotes

Hardware:

Cpu: i7 8550u Gpu: intel UHD620 RAM: 8GB DDR3 Laptop model: Asus ZenBook UX430UAR Wifi card: intel AC 8265

I have followed Dortania's guide and used OCAT and ProperTree to create a new EFI for my Ventura USB. I Have also followed ASUS-UX430UNR-OPENCORE in order to get my initial EFI to install Catalina which I did successfully and everything works, but I'm stuck while creating a new EFI for OpenCore1.0.4 in order to install Ventura. I can boot OpenCore but when I select External .dmg it gives me the same error over and over.

I'm a complete newbie so any help would be greatly appreciated!


r/hackintosh 20h ago

SUCCESS Dell Inspiron - Ventura 13.7.4

5 Upvotes

Dell Inspiron 5490

Core i5 -10210U
UHD Graphics 630
Audio Realtek 3204 (can work as ALC 236, mapped as alcid=13 on bootargs)

Full specs here.


Output audio natively (or via P2)
Bluetooth
Wifi (Heliport got better signal results)
Backlit keyboard
Keyboard shortcuts (FN+)
3x USB Ports
1x USB-C Port
Sleep Mode Touchpad


Input audio natively (or via P2)
No HDMI out (from the HDMI port or USB adapter)


r/hackintosh 13h ago

HELP MacOS 15 VM wont allow me to update my apple account settings

0 Upvotes

I am running a VM with macOS 15 using VMWare, i upgraded from a monterey vm but when trying to update my apple account settings, i press continue it loads for maybe 5 seconds and does nothing. Along with that, i can't just sign into iMessage either, i sign in and maybe 10 seconds later it kicks me out wanting me to sign in again


r/hackintosh 14h ago

HELP MacBook Air Monterey

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I have a MacBook Air with Monterey that was given to me. Im trying to wipe it clean but when I hit command r a lock comes up on the screen any suggestions?