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    Hackintosh

Setup Guide


Download macOS from somewhere. Easiest way is to use an existing mac to download it from the App Store.


Use Unibeast or terminal installer to generate a usb installer


Download Clover EFI Bootloader and run it against the USB you generated in step 2. This will configure the EFI partition on the USB and fix anything bad Unibeast might do. I recommend selecting the UEFI options and the RC scripts on target volume options.


Download Clover Configurator and use this to configure your EFI partition. This tool is like the swiss army knife of hackintosh. You'll use it again and again iterating until your hackintosh is perfect. It can theme your boot menu, control which kexts you install, change boot arguments, and a lot more.


Configure your EFI and config.plist using the useful links section below


Once your kexts/drivers/themes/etc are all setup as you like, you can unmount your EFI and eject your USB.


Install Guide


Boot from the USB on your new machine. The installer should load.
Open disk utility in the installer before installing, and format the drive (this will erase everything on the drive and you will never get it back) you want macOS on to HFS+, Mojave should turn it in APFS later.
Now that you have formatted the drive, choose it to install to. This can take 10-20 mins even on a speedy NVMe drive.
The computer may restart once or twice throughout this, make sure when it restarts you boot to the drive you are installing to and not the USB stick.
Once installed you can setup your Mac, you'll find opportunities to configure everything later so I recommend skipping most of the settings other than computer name and/or wifi.
When you login you can use Clover Configurator to check if your EFI partition on this drive has the EFI folder in it. If you find it is missing, then you'll need to copy your EFI from your USB installer to your EFI partition on this computer. You may even want to rerun the clover bootloader on this EFI to be safe.
After all is done, I recommend opening the config.plist and making sure everything is as you expect it. You'll want to reboot every time you save changes to your plist. Check what is and is not working and iterate until you get it right. Once you are in a good place backup your EFI partition to a USB or other drive.

Useful links and information

Kext Updater
for easily updating kexts
https://bitbucket.org/profdrluigi/kextupdater/downloads/
Broadcom WiFi/Bluetooth kexts
https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-BrcmPatchRAM
LAN/Ethernet
https://github.com/Mieze/IntelMausiEthernet
GPU
Download latest WhateverGreen.kext + Lilu.kext
I did not need to do anything else to have graphics working, it really was that simple and should be if your card is natively supported by macOS. I mostly added these kexts so that iGPU and power would be handled properly. Plus Lilu is needed for many features.
Audio
I used AppleALC from this post with Lilu kext. The latest one can be found here
USB
You will want USBInjectAll and follow the SSDT information below for better support.
RehabMan's FakeSMC
I went with FakeSMC.kext because VirtualSMC.kext is pretty new and user vincek8s on tonymac said that they had issues using it with the Z390i. You can get RehabMan's FakeSMC package from here. Inside the zip, you'll find the HWMonitor.app. Just install it into Applications and - once you run it - it lives in the menubar, and lets you view real-time stats about your machine.
Sleep/Shutdown/Reboot
I found it necessary to make sure I had the EmuVariableUEFI kext and rerunning the clover bootloader with the RC scripts. If you forget to do that step then you will likely experience problems with NVRAM which needs to be working properly.
FakePCIID
I had to use this with the BroadcomWiFiInjector.kext to get wifi working properly. You can download it here
Clover Conifigurator - Boot
Enable Verbose (-v) while debugging, can be turned off later. I also enable dart=0 to avoid VT-d support, which you may already have disabled in bios. And keepsyms=1 for better Kernel panic information.
Custom Flags I use: -wegbeta -lilubetaall -vsmcbeta -alcbeta. I use these flags because they enable betas of WhateverGreen, Lilu, SMC, and ALC to work better with newer versions of macOS, they might not all be necessary.
I also recommend setting Default Boot Volume to LastBootedVolume, Legacy to PBR, XMPDetection=Yes. Finally I would set a timeout on boot, so it automatically starts to boot to your preferred drive, I like to set it to 5s.
Clover Conifigurator - SMBIOS
You'll spend a lot of time getting this right. All the way on the right below the Check Coverage button is a dropdown menu, you'll want to pick the right one. For me that was iMac18,3 (iGPU headless with a dGPU). If you only use an iGPU then you'll want iMac18,1 instead. The UUIDs and Serial Numbers here are also how one would get iMessage/FaceTime working properly. That and the MLB on Rt Variables. I'll link to a guide below for how to get that done properly.
Clover Conifigurator - Rt Variables
I recommend setting from SMBIOS, ROM to useMacAddr0. MLB can be generated once you have the correct serials. Set BooterConfig to 0x28 and CsrActiveConfig to 0x67 as indicated here. This should disable SIP making it easier to make changes to your system such as installing kexts as needed.
Other important topics and tips

What does an EFI folder do?
Good explanation on the EFI folder and generally how to configure your system. I would not follow it to the T, but just read over it so you know what certain flags do.
iMessage/FaceTime
An idiots guide to iMessage
SSDT
If you have the same motherboard as me Z390i I recommend this SSDT file
You should also create your own if you can, it isn't too difficult:
Create a Custom SSDT for USBInjectAll
Check Apple Serial Number
Apples Serial Checker
How to generate your own serial numbers
Themes

You can install themes by downloading them and copying them into /EFI/CLOVER/themes. Then in Clover Configurator you just need to set the theme you want to use. Open your config.plist and go to Gui. Then enter the name of the theme folder you want to use in the Theme input area.

Here is a theme you could try this with.
Benchmarking

You'll want to download the following tools if you are monitoring hardware or benchmarking.
Download HWMonitor, Intel Power Gadget, Cinebench, and Geekbench
Things I have not yet explored


FileVault (requires additional kexts)
DRM Video
Apple Watch Unlocking
Wake on Lan