My Successful Mojave Installations

[cmn699]

I have been able to install Mojave 10.14.0 or 10.14.1 in all of the following Intel Series Motherboards: 6, 7, 8, 9 100 and 200.

• GA-H61HD2
• Intel DH67BL
• GA-H77-DS3H
• GA77XUP-5TH
• GA-77XUP4TH
• GA-X79-UP4
• GA-H85M-DS3H
• GA-Z97X-UD5H
• GA-B150M-DS3H
• GA-Z270X-Gaming Ultra
• GA-Z370P D3+i5-8600K+IntelHD630

I have tabulated the Motherboards, CPU, Integrated Intel Graphics, PCIE Graphics, Audio, Ethernet, and PCIE WiFi in each system I have successfully installed Mojave and will be uploading them for a quick review of the hardware.

TPLink TL WDN4800 is the PCIE Wireless card in all the systems.

In all systems where I started with Mojave, I have installed Mojave as a Clean install. Later I upgraded some of them to Mojave 14.1
In some systems, I went straight to a clean install of Mojave 10.14.1.
In the clean install, I had created the macOS Mojave or Mojave 14.1 in a 16GB Flash disk mostly Lexar or Kootion: USB 2.0 and occasionally 16GB Silicon Power USB 3.0.


I Partitioned & Formatted the USB Flash disks through the Disk Utility of my Real Mac or working macOS High Sierra Hackintosh computers in GUID +HFS+J.

For the ****Intel DH 67 BL**** I followed RehabMan’s Excellent GUIDE(s)
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-intel-dh67xx-with-hd3000-using-clover-uefi-hotpatch.233257/that specifically emphasizes the ****strange behavior of the BIOS of this series of Intel Boards which will IGNORE a GPT partitioned USB Installer but will deal OK with a GPT HDD. I therefore created a USB installer using Terminal with two Partitions using Master Boot Record scheme+ HFS+J format.

RehabMan's GUIDE is the ONLY Source of reference that clearly explains how to install OS X/macOS in this ****peculiar Intel Motherboard.

Using the steps in the above GUIDE, I have been installing macOS from el Capitan to Mojave 14.1 on this board. I encourage anyone with this board contemplating OS x /macOS installation to read Rehabman’s GUIDE way back from his use of Chimera to Clover as bootloaders.

For all my USB Installer creation, I used "createinstallmedia" command and manually installed and configured Clover EFI downloaded from RehabMan's Bucket.

Here is the Mojave Installation command:

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/UNTITLED && echo Mojave Drive Created


I will be uploading the screen shots of

• BIOS options I have chosen,
• The Screen Captures of EFI_CLOVER File structure and
• Contents of /CLOVER/drvers64UEFI,
• /CLOVER/kexts/Other,
• config. plist edited in the current Clover Configurator Global,
• the Clover Boot Manager Screen and its sub-menu Screens and
• relevant Verbose Boot Screens during successful installation and
• finally, the new Desktop,
• “About This Mac” and
• System Report Screen Captures.

This post is intended to give an illustrated outline of how I installed Mojave. 10.14.0(18A391) and Mojave 10.14.1 (18B75) with the hope it might help those with the same or very similar hardware for Mojave installation.

I will be uploading a brief introduction about each system and the related images one after the other as time permits under the same Title as a series of Mojave installations.


Mojave 10.14. 1 on GA-H61HD2+i3-3245+ Nvidia GT 710 PCIE Graphics
I have been already running a Triple boot system with macOS High Sierra 10.13.6, Windows 10 Pro and Linux Mint on this Computer from 3 separate Disks using CLOVER as the Boot Manager. It used to have ATI Radeon 5450 that worked flawlessly in all the 3 systems until Mojave came along.

• Since Mojave does not support ATI Radeon 5 Series, I installed Nvidia GeForce GT 710 which is natively supported in Mojave and High Sierra as well as Windows 10 and Linux.
• After successful System Hard disk Installation, for post-install, I simply copied and pasted the EFI folder from the perfectly working USB installer on the mounted EFI partition of System disk.

• I had a few annoying problems post install, which I have fixed with tips from various sources
  • I had problems with Preview not opening JPG and I fixed them with a modified kext in CLOVER/kexts/Other and /Library/Extensions.
  • I also had problem with my TPLink TL WDN4800PCI E WiFi which I have so far managed to run using AirPortAtheros40.kext installed using Kext Utility.
  • I realize reading Rehabman's comments about Atheros Wifi Chip that Mac may pull that rug out anytime and a long term solution would be to choose a PCIE WiFi with Broadcom chip. As many have pointed out, its more pricy now!

The uploaded Images will cover the entire installation and will include

• CLOVER configuration
• BIOS setup choices,
• CBM Screen and its Options,
• Verbose boot,
• System installation screens,
• Desktop and
• System Report
• Tabulated hardware SPECS of all the computers with Mojave installation

 

[CuriousMac]

Thanks for sharing your findings and in such detail. Bookmarked.

Curious/\/\ac

 

[cmn699]

thank you so much for sharing this with us, it will help many people who find it difficult to install. in addition it is very well explained

Thank you very much for your response. I appreciate your kind words.
I will be posting all of my Builds one after the other with images as and whenever I get some free time.
I will be posting next my Intel DH67BL Mojave 14.1 System

 

[cmn699]

Thanks for sharing your findings and in such detail. Bookmarked.

Curious/\/\ac

Thank you very much for the encouragement.
Please check my other Builds to this thread.
Next will be Mojave 14.1 Direct Installation on Intel DH67BL Motherboard.

 

[Ni6htWalker]

great post!!thank you