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While obviously there is an abundant amount of information for dual booting Windows on a Hackintosh, I'm trying to find out anything I can about any potential issues with having 2 installations of OSX, but different versions. I have a hackintosh that I built almost 4 years ago that has been...

I am trying to turn my PC into a Hackintosh, I have; Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H GTX 960 (MSI Twin Frozr) 8GB of Crucial DDR4 RAM As well as the aforementioned Pentium G4560 I have created the boot drive, and it boots to the drive correctly etc. When I am trying to boot into the installer, I get...

Hi all, Background: I was able to securely upgrade from 10.12.1 to Mac OS X Sierra 10.12.5 via combo installer as per Tony's guide, and have working drive / backup for it. Suppose this was the first hackintosh 10.12.1 (old version) successfully installed with : Unibeast version X.X based on...

Hey, a few days ago i built my first customac.. well, i successfully installed Sierra on my Windows machine. The install went smooth and i was playing around a bit, but after some time i had to use windows again to work. I installed OS X on a different drive, so i was confident that i can simply...

For months, Clover has refused to boot from the preset Default Boot Volume. After initially building and installing everything on this machine, the auto-boot function worked properly. At this point, I can't remember exactly when functionality stopped. The LastBootedVolume setting works as it...

I just bought I new SSD for my dual OS setup and I have run in to some problems. I am rocking a ASUS P5B motherboard. Before I started installing the OS's, I partiotion the SSD in to, two partitions, one named "Windows SSD" and the other "Macintosh SSD". I installed mac os sierra on the...

Hello, I've installed Clover 2.4k r4061 and I'm wondering how to skip the first 'Clover Boot Manager' screen without having to hit a key (see first image). I've figured out how to auto boot a volume and set a timeout. So, the issue is not with the typical process (see second image). I just...

I am getting ready to upgrade my OS from Mountain Lion 10.8.2 to either El Capitan or Sierra. I unplugged my 128GB SSD boot drive and plugged it into my dad's CentOS 6 machine (which BTW couldn't read or mount the hfs+ Mac OS Extended(Journaled) file-system). On that we used the dd command "dd...

Hello, I recently bought a Mac Pro off ebay that came with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 video card. Everything works fine, except for the boot screen where you could hold down the Option key to select the Drive you want to boot from, the Single user mode, etc. Can you use Multi-Beast to install...

Update: Solved - [link] Creating a bootable USB fails to complete and the progress bar hangs in the UI. I'm using a partitioned volume of the recommended max 32GB from a 1TB WD My Passport hard drive. I've also tried on an HP 8GB USB drive. I'm working from a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid...

Hello, I actually know how to do it (I think), but it's just not working. Here you can see my boot clover configuration: Timeout should be 0 if I don't want to see it, right? I tried also "Fast" option, but didn't work either. Thanks guys for any tip!

Hi folks I just decided to reinstall macOS on my computer with the newest 'Sierra'. I had Mavericks installed before and the Multibeast bootloader installation wasn't a problem as I can remember. Now I installed a fresh copy of Sierra on a new drive which worked just fine. But as I was trying...

Short post: Long story short my OS Sierra boots from my USB install drive but it doesn't boot from my SSD. When booting from my SSD it seems to hang on this line: "mbinit: done [128 MB total pool size, (85/42) split]" Longer post: I've done some pretty extensive research on this forum...

Hello, My config: 2 SSD: 1 sierra installation in each 1 HDD, with 3 partitions for cloning my setup. 1 hhd with multiple sierra installation for test and tweaking..... The idea: Having the possibilitie to tweak one EFI and config.plist on one drive without interfering thru other EFI.... The...

I have a raid 0 mounted on the mount lion when I'm going to install the sierra as a new system, it's just the "boot entries" screen. When I turn off raid 0 there I can do the normal installation, any tips for the bootloader to recognize the raid? Thanks!

I have a hackintosh (Specs posted below) and was trying to fix a freeze error it doesn't occur often, but often enough to be annoying. I followed this youtube video I downloaded Chameleon Wizard. Through chameleon I opened a file called "smbios.plist" located in my "Extra" folder. in the app...

Gigabyte Z170X Designare Motherboard Intel i7 GeForce GTX 970 I've got my new build up and running with Sierra. This is a new install and I want to move slowly over time from my other computer. As I transition, I'd like at times to boot into my original boot drive and at other times into the...

Hi, my hack works amazing, everything works, i mean everything... except one thing and its started to really annoying me. My wifi bluetooth card works flawlessly in OS but I can't for the life of me get the magic keyboard to work in bios/boot loader without plugging in a usb cable; this is...

Hi, I have recently installed MacOS Sierra 10.12.2 on my PC. I got everything working, including imessages, but yesterday when I installed windows 10 on a separate hard drive, I noticed the clover bootloader resolution changed to 1024x768 and theme switched to christmas. I opened clover...

I succesfully installed my hackintosh with sierra and installed the bootloaders to then i installed windows and then booted with the install usb.But there is no windows partition i updated the clover bootloader to but there is no win partition.I checked if windows 10 is installed and yes it is...