Hackintosh

Hackintosh installation tutorial

Hardware & BIOS Settings

Hardware

Motherboard: ASUS ROG B360-i
CPU: I9-9700
GPU: AMD-RX590
Broadcom：BCM94360Z3
SSD: Kingston 512GB

BIOS Settings

Disabled
- Fast Boot
- Secure Boot
- Compatibility Support Module (CSM) (Must be off in most cases, GPU errors/stalls like gIO are common when this option is enabled)
- Intel SGX
- Intel Platform Trust
- CFG Lock (MSR 0xE2 write protection)(This must be off, if you can’t find the option then enable AppleXcpmCfgLock under Kernel -> Quirks. Your hack will not boot with CFG-Lock enabled)
Enabled
- VT-d
- VT-X
- Above 4G Decoding
- Hyper-Threading
- EHCI/XHCI Hand-off
- OS type: Windows 8.1/10 UEFI Mode (some motherboards may require “Other OS” instead)
- DVMT Pre-Allocated(iGPU Memory): 128MB
- SATA Mode: AHCI

macOS Install image Download

https://blog.daliansky.net/
Self-build

OpenCore

OpenCore Bootloader
OpenCore Driver
OpenCore editor
OpenCore config checker
- https://opencore.slowgeek.com/ (only supported OC version up to 0.6.6)
- https://sc.ocutils.me/ (supported all OC versions)
OpenCore Theme
- Big Sur Theme (tested running on below 0.7.8 version perfectly fine, 0.8.8 have issues)
- Flavours-macIOS.zip (perfectly fine running on latest opencore)

Tools

Issues & FAQ

Asus 300 series motherboard may have F1 issue when boot each time:

Fix solution:
- ACPI->Patch (Use OpenCore Configurator just right click it will show the patch at the bottom menu)
- kernal->patch
- Kernel->add

Opencore bootloader

Most important thing we all care about is the EFI file, This is the perfectly running on my machine including everything I can say it’s 100% perfection, everything fountion well, not guarantee can perfectly run on any other machine.

OpenCore EFI-Asus-I7-9700-RX590-13.1