[Release] Hackintool v3.x.x

[headkaze]

Hey @headkaze! Just got back from my trip, and trying to finally sort out my USB ports. I think I might have a new bug for you: all of my ports are duplicated! Anything I can do to help bug fix?

It's not really a bug just the backward compatility isn't working. If you do a "Clear All" then "Refresh" it should correctly list your ports again.

 

[stiligFox]

It's not really a bug just the backward compatility isn't working. If you do a "Clear All" then "Refresh" it should correctly list your ports again.

Woo hoo! That did the trick - I have all my USB ports working exactly as they should now! Thanks so much for all your patience and help!!

 

[XanderW]

I did a fresh install of Catalina and installed kexts using Hackintool to L/E. I was expecting problems and/or a prompt to mount the root partition as read/write, but none of this happened and it just installed the kexts. Is mounting the root as read/write no longer needed? And what about disabling Gatekeeper? Also no longer needed? (no prompt for that either)

Anyone who can confirm this behavior?

 

[jaymonkey]

I did a fresh install of Catalina and installed kexts using Hackintool to L/E. I was expecting problems and/or a prompt to mount the root partition as read/write, but none of this happened and it just installed the kexts. Is mounting the root as read/write no longer needed? And what about disabling Gatekeeper? Also no longer needed? (no prompt for that either)

@XanderW,

You are correct in that Gatekeeper needs to be disabled and the system drive flagged as Read/Write to install kexts into /L/E on Catalina.

Hackintool automatically does this when you use the install kexts feature (on a Catalina system) so you only need to enter your admin password once. The process is documented in this guide :-

[GUIDE] Installing 3rd Party Kexts - El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina

Installing 3rd Party Kexts in /Library/Extensions Note: This guide was originally written to support MacOS Mojave and older versions (< r5200) of the Clover boot-loader. The methods detailed here are now considered legacy methods and should only used with older versions of MacOS as detailed...

www.tonymacx86.com

Cheers
Jay

 

[XanderW]

@XanderW,

You are correct in that Gatekeeper needs to be disabled and the system drive flagged as Read/Write to install kexts into /L/E on Catalina.

Hackintool automatically does this when you use the install kexts feature (on a Catalina system) so you only need to enter your admin password once. The process is documented in this guide :-

[GUIDE] Installing 3rd Party Kexts - El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina

Installing 3rd Party Kexts in /Library/Extensions Note: This guide was originally written to support MacOS Mojave and older versions (< r5200) of the Clover boot-loader. The methods detailed here are now considered legacy methods and should only used with older versions of MacOS as detailed...

www.tonymacx86.com

Cheers
Jay

Thanks! I read that, but in fact none of this did happen when I installed the kexts. So I wonder: is mounting as read/write and disabling gatekeeper not needed anymore as of macOS 10.15.3? (I tested also using finder and I can just add/delete files in L/E without having to mount the system drive as read/write or without having to disable gatekeeper)

 

[jaymonkey]

in fact none of this did happen when I installed the kexts. So I wonder: is mounting as read/write and disabling gatekeeper not needed anymore as of macOS 10.15.3?

@XanderW,

Hummm that does not sound right, Catalina 10.15.3 still needs Gatekeeper disabled and the system drive flagged as R/W in order to install kexts in to /L/E/.

Sounds like the drives permissions have been globally changed or SIP is completely disabled.

Cheers
Jay

 

[pkdesign]

i know this is a silly thing, but can you change the title of this thread to just "Hackintool" or something? The 2.8.6 makes people think this is old or not the right forum for the current bersion.

 

[pit512]

+1
I would suggest “3.2.x” or “3.x” so that you don't have to change it too often...

 

[Archangeliques]

HACKINTOOL
The Swiss army knife of vanilla Hackintoshing

Hi, headkaze, it's a great work! I have a suggestion, Boot and Extensions tabs have 3 buttons under the window. Refresh and Download are mutual buttons. Boot's button order is Download, Refresh whereas Extension's Refresh, Download. For consistency and UX I suggest Refresh - Download - X order for both of them or at least same order for both pages.

Btw, Boot Refresh button on v3.2.5 is no longer working for me.

Cheers

 

[LisaAlterEgo]

Hi, headkaze, it's a great work! I have a suggestion, Boot and Extensions tabs have 3 buttons under the window. Refresh and Download are mutual buttons. Boot's button order is Download, Refresh whereas Extension's Refresh, Download. For consistency and UX I suggest Refresh - Download - X order for both of them or at least same order for both pages.

Btw, Boot Refresh button on v3.2.5 is no longer working for me.

Cheers

There's a strange renumbering of version 5105 which is throwing it off.