No worries. Configuring OpenCore EFI is quite easy as follows:
- Download OpenCore 0.7.4 EFI folder from this post. Click the one on the left (4.6 MB).
- Rename the top level folder to simply EFI
- Now open the EFI/OC folder. Inside you'll find two .plist files.
- Because you have an AMD GPU, rename the file
config-AMD-GPU.plist
to just config.plist
.
- Download latest version of OpenCore Configurator by clicking here. Current version is 2.52.0.1.
- Launch OpenCore Configurator. MacOS will throw a warning because this was downloaded from the Internet. Just go to System Preferences --> Security & Privacy --> General tab, and click Allow from the bottom right.
- Look at the title bar of OpenCore Configurator. Does it say OpenCore 0.7.4 Release Configuration? If not, follow these screenshots:
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- Now open
config.plist
from step 4 using OpenCore Configurator. Take a moment to flip through each of the sections on the left side. Get to know briefly what's there. This will become the central focus of your Hackintosh life!!
- Run Hackintool (it can downloaded from here by clicking Hackintool.zip).
- Launch Hackintool and keep it running.
- Now go back to OpenCore Configurator and select PlatformInfo --> DataHub
- Copy and paste the items below from Hackintool to OpenCore Configurator:
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- Be very careful -- double-check everything.
- Save the file (CMD-S).
Now you're ready to test the new OpenCore configuration:
- Use a USB flash disk that has EFI partition. Or find a blank USB disk and format it in Disk Utility:
- Name: Anything
- Format: FAT32 (any option is okay)
- Scheme: GUID Partition Map
- Mount EFI partition of USB flash disk.
- Copy the entire new EFI folder to the root level of the EFI partition on USB flash disk.
Now test to see if Mojave/Catalina will still work:
- Reboot
- When Gigabyte Splash screen appears, press F12 to open BIOS Boot Menu
- Select the USB flash disk
- You should see the new OpenCore Canopy (graphical boot picker)
- Select your Mojave/Catalina disk
- Does Mojave/Catalina boot up?
- If so, use Mojave/Catalina for a little while to make sure everything is okay
- Check your WiFi, Bluetooth, Audio, Ethernet ports, etc.
- Check Sleep/Wake behavior
Once you're satisfied that Mojave/Catalina is working normally, do the following:
- Mount the EFI partition of (a) Mojave/Catalina NVMe SSD and (b) USB flash disk.
- In the Mojave/Catalina EFI partition, rename the "EFI" folder to something like "EFI-Clover"
- Then copy the EFI folder from USB EFI partition to Mojave/Catalina EFI partition
- Eject the USB flash disk
- Reboot and let system boot from internal Mojave/Catalina SSD
- Does it boot up properly?
If so, you're ready to begin
System Preferences --> Software Update.