Well, you guys may be great at talking to each other, but not so great at expanding the community to include those of us who don't want to spend all our time tinkering with our computers. Please, either tell us we don't belong, or provide tools to get us started with some basic information.
I just ruined a working build. Not at Step 1, but BEFORE STEP ONE!!
Someone built me a computer with two boot SSD's and an HDD shared for data a few years ago. As he built it, I asked him to explain what he was doing, but he never did. We had the machine running beautifully in either mode, Windows 10 or El Capitan. Then I was having problems clearing an iCloud issue, and after having to shut down multiple times in a row with the power button, it wouldn't reboot.
Tried to find someone to help, but nobody was nearby. Tried to ask for help on this forum, and twice got a reply, which still left me unclear, and my follow-up questions were never replied to.
Finally found someone 200 miles away who tried to work on it, unsuccessfully, but in the process, my previous build somehow magically reappeared. He still wanted me to add a graphics card, and move to Mojave from El Capitan.
At this point, I thought, maybe I could do it myself. I have now spent hundreds of hours searching thru your materials, trying to understand them, reading page after page of comments.
THESE INSTRUCTIONS on this thread are not just INCOMPLETE for a competent newbie, but DANGEROUS!! They refer to so many things that no longer apply. At least, say, "these instructions apply to these conditions. For other conditions read post xx and xx." "Complete the instructions on post yy through where it says, ____, then do the following..."
I tried your instructions to load Mojave onto a bootable jump drive, and got stuck at STEP ONE, because it didn't download the full OS, just an installer. I then found a whole thread about that, where a proposed solution no longer works, and then somebody found something else that works, and other people say no it doesn't, and all of it in lingo that we outsiders (and many insiders) don't have any way to understand. And then, no conclusion at the end: "Here's what we've figured out." So I asked, got one reply, still incomplete, asked again, "Is this what you mean?" and didn't get a reply. Decided maybe I was guessing correctly and I'd try it.
Your instructions say, "Before you begin:
- Do a full backup of your system. We strongly recommend performing a full backup of your existing system using Carbon Copy Cloner. By doing this, you can always go back to your working installation." Made sense to me!
I found many people who seemed to say SuperDuper! worked as well, so I ran that, and tried to clone my MacOS SSD. Took about 10 hours to clone ~80GB to a USB3.0 thumb drive. Not bootable.
Your instructions said, "Please note that if you make a full clone backup using Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper, you'll still need to additionally install the bootloader to make the drive bootable on a CustoMac. Simply choose the Chimera option from MultiBeast and target the cloned drive."
Well, for a newbie, I didn't know what "choose the Chimera option from MultiBeast and target the cloned drive" meant either. So, I found a download for Chimera on your website, ran the file, and seemingly nothing happened. It turned out, I realized too late, I had just put Chimera as the bootloader for the MacOS SSD, not the USB drive, and now it won't boot from either one. Disconnected the MacOS SSD inside the case, and at least got the Windows side running again. I have no working Mac, and I have no idea how to get back to where I was. No source to get a jump drive to put the OS onto to install fresh. I'd borrow one from a friend, but I'm afraid I'll ruin his computer too! All while I was just trying to make sure I had a way to get back where I was when I started if something went wrong. Which it did. And I couldn't get back.
I also think I've discovered that Chimera hasn't been the tool of choice for about 5 years! But the instructions have never been updated.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE... update the instructions for any part of the process that someone who isn't a full-time Hackintosh person might be tempted to use. Go a few extra steps to explain where to find the tools you need, and how to get them and where to put them. Please spell it out more than you think you need to.
Here's two guides I know for sure need updating:
Backup Solutions For Your Mac or CustoMac, and
UniBeast: Install macOS Mojave on Any Supported Intel-based PC
Sorry to call you out on this, but your implication that we could do this ourselves is really misleading people. It's hard enough dealing with being part in and part out of the Apple world, and hard enough that Apple doesn't seem willing to create the computers we want, but if we help each other out a little more, we can get thru it together.