UniBeast: Install OS X El Capitan on Any Supported Intel-based PC

[DylanMac]

Awesome job you guys did, thanks! I got this running on my Hackintosh with an SSD upgrade from a regular HDD. Its about time I put an SSD in that machine, I've been using a HDD for the main OS since I built the thing.

 

[vlackrs]

For those who have Skylake and problems with your mobo to bootup and cpu crash, disable intel turbo and disable any ddr4 profile for OC, it cause inestability, i could finally install my el capitan but is inestable, it freeze and reboot itself without error.

Btw, if you cannot boot with normal commands, use kext-dev-mod=1 help me a lot.

For the video card, sometimes i had to use PCIRootUDI=1 to make it work then i just removed it.

 

[Flipsyd]

Hi
This is the 1st time I am trying this. I did everything I believe is required . I am using a Gigabyte Z87X Mobo. Gtx750 Nvidia card . F10c bios update.

Using clover Ver 2.3k
Please help with boot Args I am stuck

 

[NightWolf]

"7. If this is a fresh installation, click Quick Start. UEFI Boot Mode is recommended for 7/8/9+ Series CustoMac desktops and all UEFI capable systems. Legacy Boot Mode is recommended for 5/6 Series CustoMac desktops and all BIOS based systems."

Stupid question, but what are these series numbers referring to? I'm still running an i5 750 2.66Ghz cpu with a ga-p55-usb3 board. I assume I want legacy because mine runs on a bios?

 

[Stork]

"7. If this is a fresh installation, click Quick Start. UEFI Boot Mode is recommended for 7/8/9+ Series CustoMac desktops and all UEFI capable systems. Legacy Boot Mode is recommended for 5/6 Series CustoMac desktops and all BIOS based systems."

Stupid question, but what are these series numbers referring to? I'm still running an i5 750 2.66Ghz cpu with a ga-p55-usb3 board. I assume I want legacy because mine runs on a bios?

The series numbers refer to the motherboard series. You have a 5 series, and, thus, you need to use the Legacy Boot Mode.

 

[kazee]

Hi all

My current running system is dual boot Windows 7 Pro (UEFI) and El Capitan 10.11.2 (separate SSDs and works well enough). I am trying to do a fresh install of OSX as current install was my first hackintosh and was not the most elegant.

I have a bit of an issue doing a fresh install of El Capitan. I have tried both 10.11.2 and 10.11.5. I download 10.11.5 from App Store. Used Unibeast (6.2) as per tonymac to create bootable USB. Process completed fine on all USB sticks and drives I have tried. Went into BIOS and set the necessary parameters (Disable Secure Boot, CSM disabled, CFG-Lock disabled, etc). Set USB stick as first boot device and start boot process. At Clover Boot I set nv_disable=1 as I run a 750 Ti. Continue boot process. Apple logo shows and progress bar proceeds to near 75%. At some point I may get spinning beach ball. I am able to move mouse pointer. After sometime, usually around 15 - 20 minutes, system freezes. I only have OS X SSD plugged in.

I also tried with the 750 Ti unplugged and used onboard video to no avail. I have reset CMOS as well. It seems that clover always remembers settings from old plist file and would not change despite using clover configurator to change on the OS X side. I am thinking of formatting the OSX SSD using Windows 7 (I have a dual boot 2 SSD rig) but if I do I will lose all access to the OSX environment in case I need.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[budafilms]

This should be upgraded for New Disk Utility.
How to make one partition, etc.

 

[kazee]

Found a solution to my issue. My guess is that Unibeast 6.2.0 has some issues. I solved my problem by using Unibeast 6.1.1 to create El Capitan installler. Same USB disk, same OS X download (10.11.5) same settings that had previously not worked. I was able to install successfully to USB drive with no issue. Didn't bother going through all the post install stuff as it was merely a test to find out what the issue was. If there is anything I can do to assist the experts to figure this out, I'm ready to help anyway I can.

 

[Stork]

Found a solution to my issue. My guess is that Unibeast 6.2.0 has some issues. I solved my problem by using Unibeast 6.1.1 to create El Capitan installler. Same USB disk, same OS X download (10.11.5) same settings that had previously not worked. I was able to install successfully to USB drive with no issue. Didn't bother going through all the post install stuff as it was merely a test to find out what the issue was. If there is anything I can do to assist the experts to figure this out, I'm ready to help anyway I can.

Please open a thread in the UniBeast forum section. Follow the sticky threads advice on posting. TIA.
http://www.tonymacx86.com/forums/unibeast.120/

 

[telicha]

Found a solution to my issue. My guess is that Unibeast 6.2.0 has some issues. I solved my problem by using Unibeast 6.1.1 to create El Capitan installler. Same USB disk, same OS X download (10.11.5) same settings that had previously not worked. I was able to install successfully to USB drive with no issue. Didn't bother going through all the post install stuff as it was merely a test to find out what the issue was. If there is anything I can do to assist the experts to figure this out, I'm ready to help anyway I can.

Same here. My SKY X4 laptop would not boot at all, always with issues with OsxAptioFix2Drv. Creating a fresh USB using 10.11.5 and Unibeast 6.1.1. solved my problem, needed to add to boot nv_disable=1 and -x -v. Just managed to boot and install the system on it, lots of issues to deal with - it is hard to read the icons in 4k resolution, no internet, no audio, no sleep, but now I can fix one thing at a time.