[Guide] Booting the OS X installer on LAPTOPS with Clover

[Feartech]

So "my way" or the highway principle without real education. Thanks for that

the choice is yours, there is no "my way". You are asking for help and i am trying to help you by giving you options

 

[paul_o]

Followed this guide (i.e. primarily posts 1 & 2) and gotten myself a 3/4 working Lenovo Z500 Touch, running High Sierra

The longer term plan is to upgrade to Mojave - possibly Catalina - but still have a few tweaks too sort out. Success thread is here:

[Success] Lenovo Z500 Touch - dual boot (Win10)

After much searching, I didn't find an easy walkthrough in the same way you find with desktop Hacks, so I did what I know I should do anyway - search, research, read, learn. I'm no stranger to building hacks; I've done them from the mid-2000s and seen the rise of Chameleon, Clover, and now...

www.tonymacx86.com

Thanks as always to the clever folks that do the real work, so clumsy amateurs like me can enjoy MacOS

 

[andrewong.86]

hi I am having trouble loading to clover I am stock on boot with _ on the upper left corner of my laptop

my laptop is:
acer v3 471G
Intel Core i5-3210m
Intel HD Graphics 4000
8 GB Ram
Nvidia GeForce 630m

I have tried to format the usb and do it again but still the same have done it a couple of times now I am using UEFI boot

as I am a beginner I also tried legacy which didn't work so I know that I should use UEFI

 

[bbbgoi]

Hi rehab please help me with the graphics issue, my display is on 4mb and i have tried everything i could

 

[UtterDisbelief]

Hi rehab please help me with the graphics issue, my display is on 4mb and i have tried everything i could

Hi there.

Please complete your hardware Profile as has been indicated. It helps others to help you and is a part of the Site Rules. Thank you.

Please note - @RehabMan is no longer active on the site, and hasn't been for two-years now.

Regarding your problem -

1) Please explain which version of macOS you are trying to install.

2) Please explain what you have done.

3) 4MB VRAM indicates the iGPU is not accelerated so check the BIOS for DVMY - the amount of system memory allocated. It needs to be at least 65MB.