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recently tried Linux Mint on my old 2008 iMac 20" it installed fine, ran well enough, hardware worked etc. Problem is - the iMac runs way hotter that it does on any Mac OS and, even Win7, when slightly tweaked on the iMac, runs almost as cool. Years ago i had overheating problems with various...

Hello. I am wondering if this laptop would be able to download hackintosh. I am interested in this laptop because I need something that will be an all around good laptop. It has a great screen, a relatively good price, and I trust the brand. If you are able to find a company that uses windows...

Hello all! My machine has two HDDs, the secondary one contains ext4 and linux swap partitions. The problem is macos Sierra keeps showing me a warning message that Linux partition "... is not readable by this computer" every time the computer starts. I tried to edit /etc/fstab and set noauto...

Hi there, I successfully made my Laptop Clover boot both El Capitan and Linux by directly passing the kernel EFI to Clover bootloader, with a custom entry. Now I'm wondering if it's possible to leave the ACPI tables as they are when booting a custom entry in Clover, just because I "removed" my...

I created a bootable USB with Ubuntu 16.0.4 (GPT Bios/UEFI; portable) using rufus and I was wondering if there was some way I could configure Clover (or the OS itself) to boot Ubuntu from it. I am not planning on installing Ubuntu on my computer, I just want to boot it from the USB. The USB...

Hello everyone Have an old PC and wanted to build a triple boot system. Configurations: A-bit IX38 QuadGT (LGA775) Core2Quad Q6600 Geforce 9800GT DDR2 2x2Gb two HDDs - 1st 320GB 2nd 1TB (for data storing) disconnected 1. In OSX install menu with diskutility I formatted 1st HDD to GPT and...

I have an Intel NUC6i5 with 16GB RAM and a 750GB SSD. I have successfully installed OSX Sierra on the computer following ammulder's guide (Thanks!). Everything works as described and I boot into clover and can select my OSX install or the recovery partition. I have tried several times to...

Hi there! Trying to install Linux alongside Hackintosh onto the same HDD. Clover simply won't boot... =( I have linux bootloader installed on the same partition that linux. What is going to happen if I use default option and install it to the root of the drive (dev/sda) ? It's going to mess up...

Hello everyone! Need a help for triple-booting. I have PC from jurassic period which is lying uselessly. So I decided to build triple boot PC for emergency needs. My dinosaur's configurations: A-bit IX38 Quad GT (Legacy) Core2Quad Q6600 4gb RAM WDGreen 320GB (OSX) WDBlue 320GB (Windows 7)...

i am unable to boot to the EFI with UniBeast or Clover on this device. it shipped with linux. I have followed the guides for both install options and tried with El Cap and Sierra and nothing will boot. When i boot to the boot manage it shows a USB device but not the EFI that either system...

After successfully getting Sierra up and running on my old Gigabyte box, I'm now attempting to dual-boot Ubuntu 16.04, using the second 80 GB HD I had used to beta test Sierra. In a sense, that's going back to this machine's roots, as Ubuntu was the OS originally installed when I bought it. I...

So, here's the deal, my job is video editing, and I use something called Final Cut Pro at work, I was told it's only on Macs but a friend told me about Hackintoshing so I came here. My dilemma is that I already run Windows 10 Pro on my PC and every tutorial pretty much says start from scratch, I...

Clover can boot linux without the need for chain-loading of bootloaders e.g. GRUB. This is possible because for some time (>3.3) the kernel has contained its own EFI bootloader. Clover loads the kernel as an EFI executable. Arch Linux Example steps using an existing EFI system partition (e.g...

My laptop is a lenovo y510p. I am intalling el capitan using unibeast and clover configurator. Everything works fine until I have gotten to the end of the install process with only the restart required before I can boot the system for the first time. However, when I restart, the computer...

Hi all! I'm wanting to get all OS's to boot properly, but I'm having trouble trying to get Mac and Linux to boot properly. Before I go into detail, this is what I have as the core of my rig: Processor: Intel i7-4790K Mobo: Asus Maximus VII (Z97) Graphics: GTX 980 As for my hard drives: 250GB...

Hey, I recently got a SATA cable so I could re-use a old 160GB hard drive. On it I installed Kali, a version of Debian, which is a version of Linux. When I installed it, I plugged out all of the hard drives including my Mac SSD. After it was installed, I turned it off and re-pluged all of my...

[GUIDE] ASUS N550JX El Capitan install, Triple-Boot with Windows 10 and Linux Mint This guide is specifically for the ASUS N550JX, but some of these settings will likely be compatible with other Asus N-Series laptops You will need purchase a new WiFi card. I chose to purchase the Broadcom...

Long time reader of the forums here, reaching out for some assistance... Current system is working great (dual boot Ubuntu and OSX), with Clover recognizing both options out of the box. Due to a work-related requirement, I need Fedora 23 up and running on the system, as well. It is currently...

I'm using Clover currently to boot OS X from my SSD and Windows from my HDD. I'd like to now go a little further and install Linux/Ubuntu on another drive - what are the best methods for doing this?

Hi there, I have a 256 GB SSD on my Lenovo y580 which runs Windows 10 and alongside that there's a 1TB HDD for data. I was imagining I could perhaps... upgrade my primary ssd drive to an either 512 GB or even 1 TB MSata SSD upgrading my bios to remove the wifi white-listing and then also get...