[Guide] Booting The USB Installer Using OpenCore

[Feartech]

I finally got OpenCore (0.6.1) configured and working properly on my Hackintosh, thanks to this and other online guides. Surprisingly, booting-up in Catalina (which I'd already installed using Clover) was the easy part; my two biggest problems were 1) Multiboot into Windows (installed on a separate SSD from Catalina); and 2) keeping OpenCore at top boot priority in my BIOS setting. Putting Bootcamp on Windows was another challenge until I figured out how to inject SMBIOS and get Windows to accept the PlatformInfo. Switching from Clover to OpenCore was a bit scary at times but, like the entire Hackintosh experience, it was an educational and rewarding trip. Thanks for your advice!

nice!! glad it worked for you!

also if you use Bootstrap.efi then it makes an option in your BIOS to load opencore first if that is any help to you

 

[HMNT96]

Hey, everytime I try to extract RecoveryHDMetaDmg.pkg into flash drive, it ends with error2 which I searched it and it was because of file corruption, but I could download catalina from appstore, can I use that instead???

 

[Feartech]

Hey, everytime I try to extract RecoveryHDMetaDmg.pkg into flash drive, it ends with error2 which I searched it and it was because of file corruption, but I could download catalina from appstore, can I use that instead???

did you follow my guide?

 

[HMNT96]

did you follow my guide?

absolutely but I think it was my network stability problem, I think there is no error checking or what so ever in gibmacos while retrieving file, anywho, I had a reliable connection at work , downloaded it again and worked like a charm.

 

[bolena]

Thanks to this and other guides i have been able to start my hack with opencore 0.6.1
and everything works perfectly.
Does anyone know how to change the names of the HDDs in the Opencore menu, I have looked but
I can not find any guide or post about it. Thank you

 

[HMNT96]

did you follow my guide?

I made a usb-drive with OC and another usb-drive with unibeast including macos catalina installer! but when I try to boot into catalina installer with OC usb-drive it ends up with "This version of Mac OS X is not supported on this platform!" and
Reason: Mac-F4208CC8.

 

[Feartech]

I made a usb-drive with OC and another usb-drive with unibeast including macos catalina installer! but when I try to boot into catalina installer with OC usb-drive it ends up with "This version of Mac OS X is not supported on this platform!" and
Reason: Mac-F4208CC8.

my guide doesn't use unibeast, this is an opencore guide, not clover

 

[HMNT96]

my guide doesn't use unibeast, this is an opencore guide, not clover

Damn, that was my first thought , First I plugged in usb-drive and tried to boot as it was intended, this showed up (pictures in the spoiler) :

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but then I saw the file that I downloaded and it was like 500MB(how would that install macos?!) then I realized maybe I should give the installation files in another usb drive, so I tried using unibeast and stuff.

 

[Feartech]

Damn, that was my first thought , First I plugged in usb-drive and tried to boot as it was intended, this showed up (pictures in the spoiler) :

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but then I saw the file that I downloaded and it was like 500MB(how would that install macos?!) then I realized maybe I should give the installation files in another usb drive, so I tried using unibeast and stuff.

it installs the recovery to the usb stick, the installation gets downloaded when you choose to install macOS, no mention of using unibeast on the guide

also what smbios are you using?

 

[HMNT96]

it installs the recovery to the usb stick, the installation gets downloaded when you choose to install macOS, no mention of using unibeast on the guide

also what smbios are you using?

You're right, my bad!

anyway I saw your reply moments ago and double checked smbios and product name was macbook pro 12.1; I used dot instead of this ---> "," !
I decided to correct it, so I used same values as my current hackintosh smbios, and this showed up:
(Picture in spoiler)

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