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** Guide to Using HackinDROM Application to Update OpenCore **
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App Written and Maintained by @Inqnuam
Works with Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey and Ventura
Mojave users please use the HackinDROM website instead
Video Walkthrough by @joostiphone
Please do not quote this guide in its entirety. Post a link instead
App Written and Maintained by @Inqnuam
Works with Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey and Ventura
Mojave users please use the HackinDROM website instead
Video Walkthrough by @joostiphone
NOTE:
- If your system does not have functioning Bluetooth, please use v1.4.3 of the app or newer.
- Use official builds only. Please do not use GitHub commits (i.e. intermediate state of the software).
Purpose:
New versions of OpenCore are currently being released every month. This is a good thing, but updating our EFI folders at such a high frequency can become tedious and error prone. Fortunately, @Inqnuam has developed a wonderful little app that does all of the work for us. This illustrated mini-guide walks us through the entire process.
Warning:
It is always a good idea to make a backup of the EFI folder to a USB flash disk. This can be done by formatting the USB flash disk in Disk Utility with Format=MacOS Extended (Journaled) and Scheme=GUID Partition Map. Then copy current EFI folder to the EFI partition of USB flash disk. Now the USB flash disk can be an emergency boot disk.
- Download HackinDROM App from https://hackindrom.zapto.org as shown below. It will appear in your Downloads folder.
- Copy the app to your Applications folder and launch it. MacOS will show standard warning about unknown developer.
- Go to System Preferences --> Security & Privacy --> General and allow macOS to launch the app.
- The app will appear in the Menu Bar as shown:
- Click the icon. The app will take a moment to scan all drives on the system. It will then show a list of all disks that contain EFI partitions.
- The app's version number will also be shown (bottom left corner).
- The app will auto-update itself when a new version is available. It may be necessary to re-launch the app.
- There is an Exit button on the top right.
- There is a Settings button on the top left.
- When launching the app for the first time (or to change settings in the future) click the Settings icon on the top left.
- Do that now.
- NOTE: Only disks that contain an EFI partition will be shown in HackinDROM App.
- The screen shown below will appear in which various preferences can be specified via the checkboxes, and the system configuration must be specified.
- Please select motherboard vendor and motherboard model from the two pop-up menus.
- Also select GPU type (AMD or iGPU) and WiFi type (Broadcom or Intel).
- Then click Confirm.
- In the second screenshot below, we have elected to enable Notifications and to hide the window when mouse is clicked outside the window. We have also selected the Motherboard, GPU, and WiFi module we are using.
- PRO TIP:
- The app makes a backup of the current EFI folder before updating OpenCore. By default the backup will be stored on the same disk. However, EFI partitions are only 200MB, which means there might not be enough space left in some cases (especially when using OpenIntelWireless drivers).
- Fortunately, we can tell the app to store backups to a different disk.
- Click Custom folder for EFI Backups and select a different disk and folder. This will save precious space in the EFI partition.
- Setup of the app is now complete.
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