![]() Use the arrow keys to select Boot OS X Install from Install OS X El Capitan (It should be selected by default). Restart your computer and boot from the USB drive (Press Esc/F8/Del to access the boot selection menu). Now that the installation USB drive is ready, let’s install OS X El Capitan! Boot from the USB Drive They’re optional, copy them only if you still use PS2 devices.ĭownload these files from here and copy them to the EFI mounted volume at /EFI/Clover/kexts/ 10.11/. ApplePS2Controller.kext and AppleACPIPS2Nub.kext – adds support for PS2 devices (such as PS2 keyboard/mouse).It’s optional, copy it only if you get an AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement-related kernel panic. NullCPUPowerManagement.kext – disables AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext which may cause kernel panics when you try to boot from the USB drive.Absolutely required for Hackintosh installation. Tricks OS X into thinking it’s installed on Apple hardware. FakeSMC.kext – open source SMC device driver/emulator developed by netkas.Next, we’ll need to copy some kexts (kernal extensions, similar to drivers on Windows) to the USB drive. Click Install and wait for the installation to finish.OsxAptioFixDrv-64 – fixes memory map created by AMI Aptio EFI.Click Customize and check the following options:.Click Change Install Location and set it to your formatted USB drive.It involves running an installation wizard and selecting some options.ĭownload the latest Clover installer from here. Installing Clover on your USB drive is relatively easy. (Read more) Install Clover on Your USB Drive ![]() One big feature of Clover is that iMessage, iCloud, the Mac App Store works along with Find My Mac, Back To My Mac and FileVault since Clover can use the EFI partition. For many, Clover is considered the next-gen bootloader and soon it will become the only choice since BIOS in being replaced by UEFI in every new motherboard. It can emulate the EFI portion present on real Macs and boot the OS from there instead of using the regular legacy BIOS approach used by Chameleon and Chimera. It has a totally different approach from Chameleon and Chimera. I went with Clover as it seems to be the most popular choice among other El Capitan installers, mostly for the following reasons:Ĭlover is an open-source EFI-based bootloader created on Apr 4, 2011. There are 3 popular bootloaders to choose from. ![]() We need a bootloader that makes it possible to boot OS X on x86 and x86_64 PCs. If you tried to boot from the USB drive as is after the previous step on a PC, it wouldn’t work. When you come back, it should have finished. Go out for a quick run, or a hamburger, or both. The command will run a script inside the Install OS X El Capitan application that will copy the installation files to the USB drive. Sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/USB -applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app -nointeraction Run the following command in the Terminal (Applications/Utilities): Now that we’ve downloaded the installation files from the Mac App Store and formatted our USB drive, let’s copy the installation files to it. Copy the Installation Files to the USB Drive
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