Ok that should be it for this tutorial on How to Create macOS High Sierra Bootable USB Installer on Windows 10 PC. this will take 15-25 minutes, depending on the speed of your flash drive. Now the TransMac will start the process of Restoring High Sierra Image on the Flash Drive. On this screen, select the InstallESD.DMG file and click OK.Ĭlick Yes, when TransMac Gives you the Overwrite warning. OK so also, Preview on JPG files stopped working.Ok, so lets continue with TransMac Restore Disk Image to Drive. I'm going to be trying my old guide of to see if I can get it working again. My thunderbolt connections stopped working. After restarting about 5 times and continuously booting into this option with the verbose flag on, I was finally able to install Mojave successfully.
Install"Īfter disabling the serial port, I was able to boot into the "Install Mac OS" boot option on my main disk. I also had to disable my serial port in the BIOS after running into an error where everything was hanging at "STUCK at Forcing CS_RUNTIME for entitlement : com.apple. You can enable this by pressing space after highlighting your desired boot option, selecting verbose, and then selecting "boot with the selected options". For some reason, I'm only able to boot into the system by enabling the verbose (-v) flag. Now you should be able to boot into your old OS by using the UEFI boot partition on your USB drive, which will bring up a clover boot menu that lets you select the appropriate boot option. I backed up my previous EFI folder by renaming it. Replace the EFI folder on your main drive with this one.
Under Option 2 at the bottom, there is a prepared EFI folder. I got around this by creating a bootable USB drive with Mojave.
Apparently you need to update a bunch of kexts for Mojave, but I did not do these steps. Under Step 4, there is a link to open the App Store page for the Mojave installer.Īt this point, my EFI boot drive was botched. This creates a bootable clone of your drive, and if the OS X upgrade fails, you'll be able to boot into a clone of your system.ĭownloaded Clover v2.5k-5103 and ran the PKG file to upgrade.ĭownload OS X Mojave 10.14.6 installation. I like to backup my disk before I start the upgrade just in case my computer bricks. At the top, it confirms that I'm on r4558. That's a check for me after looking in the Clover_Install_Log.txt file. The first line of the tonymacx86 guide says to make sure your Clover is at least r4515. After it mounts, "Open Partition" will enable, and you can click that to open it in a Finder. For me, it's on my primary disk where OS X is installed. Next, mount the EFI partition that you boot from. It gets the computer to boot into the OS properly. The EFI partition on a disk is where the bootloader lives. Clover ConfiguratorĬlick on "Mount EFI" under the "Tools" section on the left side. It always takes me a few minutes to remember exactly what I'm doing in here. I'll be following this guide:įirst I opened my Clover Configurator. This is a documentation of the steps I'm taking in order to upgrade my Hackintosh from High Sierra to Mojave.