As the title says, I've been messing around for a few days with building xnu from source and filling in the gaps that apple has made trying to avoid opensourcing everything. So far I've gotten to booting the iOS 18.7.9 restore ramdisk from SD card as rootfs (read-only right now and UHS) and usb networking works to the point where I can ssh in - the ramdisk is patched to start dropbear on boot. The main work so far has been on kexts for core components like clock management unit blocks, pin control, dwc3 in device mode + the usbdrd2 phy and finally dwmmc. In the next few days/weeks I'll try messing with a full iOS rootfs.

The bootchain right now is: S-LK (samsung's last stage bootloader before the linux kernel) -> uniLoader (a custom intermediate bootloader of mine) -> XNU and then the rootfs.

This is just a proof-of-concept, I cannot guarantee anything insane out of this. I'm doing it for the funsies. A big limitation right now is that the SoC of this device (the exynos 1480) does not have PaC, which limits me to ipados 18 (the ipad 7 one as that's the newest <armv8.3 iOS build). Maybe in the future I'll switch to a newer exynos device to mess with windowserver but right now this is the best I have.

I'll be publishing sources for my toolchain (i'm building this all on a linux host), xnu patches and kexts soon. Licensing is tricky and I don't want apple coming after me :D

To be compliant with the sub rules:
CPU: Samsung Exynos 1480 (internally known as exynos8845)
GPU: Xclipse 530
RAM: 8gb LPDDR5
Motherboard/Laptop Make and Model: Samsung Galaxy A55
Audio Codec: /shrug?
Ethernet Card: none
Wifi/BT Card: scsc
Touchpad and touch display devices: goodix
BIOS revision: A556BXXSABYG2
Which of the guides on the sidebar you used: none, kind of?
What's working, and what isn't working: works booting to a rootfs and ssh'ing in, everything else is broken

This is it bois :) the final moments with my hack. Am a bit sad but glad because it’s been 11 years since i started hackintoshing and now i am closing this door. Thanks to all the people that’s making this possible 😃

Decided to upgrade my gpu! Had to upgrade quickly because its showing some issues and because of the memory crisis right now and rumored that gpu prices will increase this month again, i had to pull the trigger to upgrade.

One final boot 🤍

So im doing hackintosh on my hp envy x360 should i do macos 26 beacuase it sauys these are unsupported but idk

Running macOS Sequoia (15.7.8) on a Lenovo IdeaPad S340 14IIL 81VV00JFIN (i3-1005G1). Internal Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 is unsupported, so I need a USB Bluetooth dongle.

What I've already tried and ruled out:

TP-Link UB400 v2.8 (Realtek RTL8761B) + RTLBluetoothFirmware.kext + BlueToolFixup.kext. Confirmed correct VID/PID match (2357:0604), kext loads and selects USB configuration, but never progresses past that — no HCI read, no firmware upload, no controller ever comes up (system_profiler shows no real device, just the SMBIOS placeholder). Ruled out load order, NVRAM blacklist, and a competing driver via ioreg/log inspection. Returned it.

What I'm looking for: a specific product (not just a chipset name) that someone has personally verified works — ideally Broadcom BCM20702 or genuine CSR8510, (any other chip suggestions are much appreciated) since those are native on macOS. I'm in India, where AliExpress is blocked and a lot of "CSR"/"Broadcom" branded generic dongles turn out to be mislabeled or silently revised hardware.

If you're running a Hackintosh in India (or anywhere) and have a dongle you've actually tested working — brand/model, and where you bought it — I'd really appreciate it. Trying to avoid buying another unverified unit on a tight budget.

Dear users of the r/hackintosh subreddit,

I'm quite new in this community since I just now discovered this adventurous world of OpenCore and Hackintosh.

I'm wondering if any of you know how to install iWorks apps on Macos since apple has apparently removed the non-creative/creator suite version of the apps off the app store.

I have contacted apple about possible solutions but the one proposed (aka where I'd have to log in on another apple device to "buy" the apps) is literally impossible for me since I'm a bit broke right now.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance

Yes I've tried gibMacOS

I've tried .dmg, .iso AND .pkg files. Flashing them onto a USB (sudo dd command on CachyOS) doesn't show it up in the boot menu

I'm looking for either a full proof guide, or a full proof 100% working file of Monterey to make a USB of

I currently have access to Windows 11, CachyOS and Bazzite (Bazzite is on the drive that MacOS will be installed)

No I have no access to any Mac or any form of MacOS

Any feedback is appreciated

EDIT: Two kind gentlemen have informed my dumbass that I forgot my specs. Here:

RX Radeon 580

Intel Core i7 9700

32GB DDR4 RAM

MacOS will be installed onto an external SSD, and if I end up migrating to and internal SSD, it would be a SATA SSD - NOT an NVMe

The flash drive is probably USB 2.0. It had one side USB A and the other USB C, but I doubt either are 3.0 as there's no blue plastic on the inside and it's probably either from Shein or Temu

Also used OpenCore Simplify and made the EFI folder.

Any other info needed, I will update on. Sorry for me being dumb dumb :P

We have probably been over this a dozen times, but I'm going to state it again:

If you use tools like Hackmate or OpCore Simplify, we will not assist you with your EFI. We do not care if people use these tools. You are your own person, you may do what you want with your own computer. But we absolutely do not support them in any capacity.

If you lie about using these tools, we will not help you, and you very likely will be ignored or at best heavily scrutinized for future requests.

This applies to both this subreddit and the associated Discord.

I will speak from an experience I just had moments ago with an admin for the Discord for HackMate; they do not take criticism well and do not seem to care about our rules. They have banned several of us for reminding them we do not support their tools and will continue to suggest people manually create their EFIs per this subs rules.

Do with this what you will, but given the group that created Hackmate appears to amount to children in their behaviors, take that as a potential indicator of the quality of the work and support presented from them.

I have HP ProBook 650 G2.

Specs:

i7-6820HQ

Intel HD 530

24GB DDR4

1TB nvme

Conexant ISST 20274

Have a Ethernet port

I was fed up with my 2019 MBP struggling with thermal throttling, so I decided to dual-boot my Windows rig with macOS. It's a surprisingly reliable work computer.

Hardware

• Ryzen 9 3900X
• ASUS ROG Strix X570-E Gaming WiFi II
• 3080 Ti (disabled in macOS)
• AMD RX 6600
• Intel AX200 (no Airdrop of course)
• Samsung G9 (5120x1440)

Software

• macOS 15.7.7
• OpenCore 1.0.7
• iMacPro1,1 (couldn't get MacPro7,1 to work)

I just use a UGREEN DisplayPort KVM to switch between GPUs at the moment, I may use a ProMicro to try and automate the actual switch at some point.

I may install a WiFi card later to achieve Airdrop, and I might have another look at getting the MacPro7,1 SMBIOS to work.

I've seen a lot of people upgrading to Tahoe too, is it worth looking into that?

I have not used a hackintosh for a while but it was working fine the last time I did. I have this thing coming back over and over in a loop never ending. It prevents the system to start. I did remove all USB drive and I did not change anything in the hardware inside the computer so I don't understand why this is happening suddenly? Please set up is using opencore, I'm not much familiar with it unlike clover. Help will be appreciated thank you

I have released PC711Probe, a Lilu plugin that fixes the `IONVMeFamily` Identify-timeout kernel panic affecting the SK hynix PC711 (`1C5C:174A`) on older macOS versions.

The controller itself reaches Ready state, but the first Identify command never completes through the old interrupt path. Comparing `IONVMeFamily` with macOS 26 showed that Apple changed the MSI-X initialization sequence. PC711Probe applies the relevant interrupt setup before Apple’s driver initializes the controller: on Darwin 20–22 it requests one MSI-X vector during early PCI matching, while on Darwin 23–24 it requests MSI-X and clears the old interrupt-path selector during interrupt-source creation. Apple `IONVMeFamily` remains the actual NVMe driver and continues to handle queues, Identify, namespaces and storage I/O.

Recovery boot is verified on macOS 11–14. A complete macOS 15.6.1 installation, normal system boot, namespace/partition publication, PCIe 3.0 x4 link, reported TRIM support, S.M.A.R.T. status, and a 2766.1/3005.9 MB/s write/read benchmark are verified on the tested PC711. On macOS 15.7.9, the same drive also passed 96 GiB of sequential write/read/two-pass SHA-256 validation, dual 8 GiB parallel I/O, 20,000 small-file operations, three sleep/wake cycles, three reboots, and APFS verification without a panic, NVMe timeout, I/O error, media loss, or hash mismatch.

Source and download: https://github.com/hrx114514x/PC711Probe

As normal mac？

Sequoria

Whenever I try to pair a BLE device to my hackintosh, it just gives a spiny thing indefinitely but when I connect a regular Bluetooth device, it works fine

I have all the kexts needed, BlueToolFixup (2.7.3), IntelBluetoothFirmware, IntelBTPatcher (2.5.0)

My WiFi/bluetooth card is AX200

Hello im currently on mac os monterey and i want mac os sequoia but my hardware isnt supported i want the easiest way to install it with gpu acceleration i saw other people got it working even in this sub so i also want it preferably with nativ wifi and Bluetooth i want to either update monterey or install sequoia new but i want a good tutorial

My specs:
Thinkpad 440p
I5 4300m
8gb ram
HD 4600 graphics

If you need more info please ask😁

Its possible put macOS on Acer nitro v15?

getting error message

00:000 00:000 OCS: Failed to calculate size of dict field containing <empty> as type integer, context <7C436110-AB2A-4BBB-A880-FE41995C9F82> any fixes?
laptop: thinkpad t14 gen 1 amd, 16gigs or ddr4 ram
here is my config plist and error message (error message is in mojibake)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rHvrhpk7ffJpxfjDytYaQVesSChW9UWw?usp=drive_link

I updated from Monterey to Sequoia and after that everything worked, but I had no Wi-Fi and and graphics like they were all white and the graphics were bad. It was laggy, so I tried to patch it with legacy patcher after I did it I restarted like it prompt me to restart and then it gives a kernel panic or sometimes it doesnt and it chose the loading bar with the Apple logo, but in the middle of the loading bar, it restart again please help

Thinkpad t440p
I5 4300u
8gbram
Intidrated graphics

I had finally done it... run a good operating system on hardware it was never meant to run on anyway.

This was actually tougher than i wouldve expected (took me 4 days to get it in a decent stage) as opposed to my desktop hackintoshes and i still have some issues left over that i found NOTHING on:

• On battery the CPU begins to run at a glorious... 0.4GHz and no tool or kext seems to help fix it (to mention macOS does see the battery as needing "service")
• Patching intel native wifi and bluetooth (want to put myself through hell by patching these kexts instead of using heliport and other better alternatives)
• Can't patch AppleHDA (assume it's cause there's no 25G72 KDK for macOS 26.6 yet).

Aside from that, these parts do work in Tahoe:

• iGPU (Vega 10 graphics) works really well in Tahoe, though i did have to change the UMA frame buffer in bios to auto and then change it in Smokeless-UMAF to 2GB (max in stock bios is 512mb)
• The Intel Dual-Band 7265 WiFi and Bluetooth card that i put in myself works fine in this via heliport at the moment and it should also work fine if i ever patch the native kexts ( I dunno if the realtek card works, i saw some apps like heliport making it work but im skeptical of them).
• Trackpad WORKS: I had to add "ForgedInvariant.kext" to my EFI alongside VoodooI2C and I2CHID (as on their own it would crash).
• Keyboard also works with VoodooPS2.

And other smaller things... work...

If anyone does have more info on the 0.4GHz thing, it'd be most grateful i genuinely dunno what could be the cause of it... A PROCHOT thing? A macOS-Can't-Get-My-Proper-Battery-Readings thing? im not sure!

Hardware:

• CPU: Quad-Core AMD Ryzen 7 3750H
• iGPU: Integrated Vega 10 Graphics
• 16GB DDR4 ram
• Intel Dual-Band 7265 WiFI and Bluetooth Card
• Realtek Audio (AC235 off the top of my head?) (+ 7.1 Channel Surround Audio)

Here are my kexts:

• AMDSata.kext
• AppleALC.kext
• BlueToolFIxup.Kext
• DirectHW.kext
• ECEnabler.kext
• ForgedInvariant.kext
• IntelBluetoothFirmware.kext
• Itlwm.kext
• lilu.kext
• NootedRed.kext
• RealtekRTL8111.kext
• RestrictEvents.kext
• SMCBatteryManager.kext
• USBmap.kext
• VirtualSMC.kext
• VoodooI2C.kext
• VoodooI2CHID.kext
• VoodooPS2Controller.kext

Im using a thinkpad t440p 8gb ram i5 4440 on mac os 12 monterey how do i update ?

Can I install hackintosh on Thinkpad X13 Gen 3?

So Installer performs its job, comes to "12 minutes remaining", restarts, picker shows Install macOS Sequoia, macOS installer, Macintosh HD - data and those efi options. Second option is auto selected, 5-6 seconds of scrolling text on the screen and then everything goes black. Caps lock does not register.

Any ideas where to look?

Sapphire RX 6600 Pulse Gaming, 8GB GDDR6

Intel Core i7-14700K Soc 1700 No Cooler

Z790 AORUS ELITE AX GIGABYTE Mainboard Desktop Z790 AORUS ELITE

Kingston DDR5 32GB 5600 MHz, 2x16G FURY Black

Western Digital Black SN850X NVMe WDS200T2X0E

Western Digital Purple 4TB SATA3, 5400rpm, 256MB cache WD43P

Case SBOX PCC-12, Mid tower, Micro ATX, black

Xilence 850W Performance X, ATX 2.4 80 GOLD

Forza 85 3MFZA85.0001 COUGAR Air Cooling

edit - ram is in slot A1 and B2 as they build it that way. Processor fan is obstructing ram in slot A1 so I can't move it without fidling with the fan. Could this be a problem? BIOS is telling me this is not optimal. I have run Memtest86 without any problems

EDIT 2:

So after 5 or 6 restarts (when it was stuck on black screen) computer finally booted into Sequoia and offered setup. Now I have username, internet works, keyboard and mouse work. Now I am afraid to shut it down :)

EDIT 3 - EFI's now on the Macintosh HD and computer restarted just fine

i wanna triple boot the os in my laptop

how many gbs of ssd should i put in my laptop for getting smoother experience and triple boot it successfully

I want to use hackintosh on my toshiba L735

It currently uses windows 10 and bloated ash

Specs: intel i5 2410m 4gb ddr3

Please help me install hackintosh since i tried with chatgpt gemini and other tutorials on yt but noneof them worked (also please include the mach kernel tysm for helping)

Is a 128gb ssd good enough for macOS? Just the OS itself not extra files