Install Hackintosh High Sierra on PC/Laptop

Follow this step if you are setting up High Sierra Installer on a Mac or existing Hackintosh . Plug your USB drive into macOS, and open Disk Utility (located in Applications -> Utilities in your primary hard drive).

Select your USB drive in the sidebar of Disk Utility and erase the drive, with the “Format” set to “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” and “Scheme” set to “GUID Partition Map”. You can rename the drive any way you want (Mine is named “Hackintosh” in the image below).

Next, make sure that your Hackintosh High Sierra Installer disk image file is in the same folder as “Restore High Sierra.pkg”. If “Restore High Sierra.pkg” is still in a ZIP file, double-click on that file to unzip it.

Double click on “Restore High Sierra.pkg” to start the app. By default, the app will be aimed at your computer’s main hard drive (mine is named “Mac” in the image below). You do not want this– instead, click through the installer until you reach the page with the “Change Install Location” button. Select the drive that you format (It is named “Hackintosh” in the example below)

Press the enter / return key. The app will ask for your system password. After you enter your password, it will begin writing the Hackintosh High Sierra Installer disk image onto the USB drive.

This will probably take 20-40 minutes, though it may take longer, depending on the speed of your USB drive. Once it finishes, your USB drive will contain a fully bootable version of the macOS High Sierra.

NOTE: “Restore High Sierra.pkg” is very glitchy. If you cannot find the “Change Install Location” button on the first time that you run the package, restart your computer and re-run the package.

You have to install dmg2img, use apt-get or yum to install dmg2img

sudo apt-get install dmg2img

or

sudo yum install dmg2img

Uncompress Sierra DMG with dmg2img, then restore the uncompressed image to USB, Change the variables below as you need (Warning: The following is just an example do not copy and paste)

dmg2img -v -i /path/to/'Hackintosh Zone High Sierra Installer.dmg' -o /path/to/Hackintosh-High-Sierra-Zone-Uncompressed.dmg
dd if=/path/to/Hackintosh-High-Sierra-Zone-Uncompressed.dmg of=/dev/sdb bs=1M

Boot into Windows Vista or Windows 7, and type “partition” into your Start Menu search bar. Choose “Create and Format hard drive partitions” to open the Disk Management utility in Windows.

You will see a bar displaying the partitions of your hard drive. Right-click on the emptiest partition in the hard drive that you want to install macOS on, and click “Shrink.” This will allow you to shrink the size of that partition so that you have extra space on your hard drive to create a new partition for macOS.

Once the shrinking process is complete, you should now have some unallocated on your hard drive. Right-click the Unallocated section of your hard drive’s bar, and choose “New Simple Volume.”

A helper will pop up. From here, format the Unallocated space as an NTFS volume (or an exFAT volume; it should not matter since you will be wiping this partition in macOS Installer anyways).

• Disconnect USB Devices: Unplug all USB-connected devices from your computer before you begin the setup (except your keyboard and mouse). A faulty external USB hard drive can cause your Hackintosh bootloader to give you EBIOS errors on startup.
• Unplug any Extra Hard disks: Open up your computer and unplug any extra internal hard drives that your computer has, besides the hard drive that you are installing macOS on. (Just disconnect the hard drive SATA & Power cables from your motherboard.)
• Backup Your Data: You should always take care of your data, High Sierra Installer will not damage your data but always be safe.

Essentially, the BIOS (or UEFI) is the settings page for your computer’s motherboard. From here, you can fiddle with how your computer hardware works it is often necessary to change a few basic settings in the BIOS or UEFI to get macOS up and running.

The BIOS standard is usually used by motherboards from before 2012, while the UEFI standard is used by motherboards made after that.

To access BIOS / UEFI Setup, press and hold Delete on a USB Keyboard while the system is booting up

• Load Optimized Defaults
• If your CPU supports VT-d, disable it
• If your system has CFG-Lock, disable it
• If your system has Secure Boot Mode, disable it
• Set OS Type to Other OS
• If your system has IO SerialPort, disable it
• Set XHCI Handoff to Enabled
• If you have a 6 (Six) series or x58 system with AWARD BIOS, disable USB 3.0

Save and exit.
For more information view Hackintosh UEFI Settings article

Restart your Hackintosh, and plug in your Hackintosh High Sierra Installer USB drive. Press the key to change boot device (F8 / F1 / F10); the key varies with motherboard If things go well, your computer will boot from the USB drive instead of booting from your normal hard disk.

You will then be able to view the High Sierra Installer boot menu.

This is the Clover Boot-loader of Hackintosh High Sierra Installer (UEFI / EFI), Hackintosh High Sierra Installer also can be boot from Chameleon by pressing number 2 in legacy mode (How to boot Hackintosh High Sierra Installer Installer with Chameleon).

If you do not manage to reach the Hackintosh High Sierra Installer menu, check your motherboard’s BIOS settings to make sure that the changes you made in Make PC Ready for Hackintosh Installation and Set up your motherboard’s BIOS were applied correctly.

If they were, but you still cannot boot from the High Sierra Installer USB drive, try changing the USB Port to another switch between (USB 3.0 & USB 2.0) If everything fails, try using a different USB drive for Hackintosh High Sierra Installer.

At the “High Sierra Installer” Menu select “Hackintosh High Sierra Installer” from the menu (Sometimes the name will not be visible) and press the key enter (return key).

The installer screen will take several minutes to load. Usually, you will end up in Language Chooser Menu like the following picture.

In the worst case scenarios, instead of loading the Hackintosh High Sierra installer, you may end up with a dark gray screen that tells you to restart your computer (a kernel panic), or you may end up with a small crossed-out sign (a loading error).

If you get a kernel panic / loading error (or if the Hackintosh installer simply won’t start within 10 minutes), you will need to enter some boot flags.

To enter boot flags, manually restart your computer by pressing your computer’s power button. Then, once you have booted back into the High Sierra Installer menu, try typing any necessary boot flags before pressing the enter / return key.

Check out our list of common boot flags and our guide to fixing boot problems with the verbose mode for reference.

Before installing open Terminal (Utilities > Terminal)
run the following command.

date 0927000017

After successfully getting into High Sierra Installer menu; You have to erase a Hard disk to Install macOS High Sierra. High Sierra Installer window will look like the following Image.

You need to use Disk Utility to erase a hard drive partition so that macOS High Sierra can install itself on it. In the sidebar of Disk Utility, choose the hard drive partition where you want High Sierra installed, and erase it by using the “Erase” tab.

You can also just erase the entire hard drive (this is the preferred solution if you do not plan to dual-boot Windows and Sierra from the same hard drive).

In the Image of Disk Utility above Entire Hard disk Named “Apple SSD macOS-0 SSD Media” is being erased into a Single Partition with Volume name Mac. You can also erase separate volumes.

When erasing, the format should be set to “Mac OS Extended (Journaled).” You can also partition the hard disk by using Disk Utility’s Partition tab.

On the installation page for macOS, the hard disk / disk partition should now be showing up. Select it, and then click the “Customize” button on the bottom left.

This is where using a distro becomes very useful: High Sierra Installer allows you to install extra Hackintosh drivers and kexts, straight from the High Sierra installer.

However, choosing the right options from this page can be tricky, so unless you are certain about which drivers and kexts you need to install for your computer, I do not recommend installing too much stuff from here.

The default selection will enable macOS to boot from the hard drive without any assistance, To enable audio and ethernet select the relevant packages. For most computers, that will be enough.

If you have a compatible Graphics card, unselect “Backup Graphic Kexts.” (If you are using nVidia Maxwell or Pascal card you may need nVidia Webdriver)

When your computer already has macOS installed, and you are simply updating it to High Sierra, you can uncheck all of these options. macOS treats Sierra as just another update– there’s no need to reinstall all of your kexts and drivers.

Once you are done with the “Customize” page, install High Sierra. This will take at least 30 minutes.

Once the installation finishes, remove your Hackintosh High Sierra Installer USB drive and restart your computer. At the boot screen, you will see an icon with the name of the volume for the hard drive where you installed High Sierra. Select it (use the arrow keys on your computer) and press “Enter.” High Sierra will boot.

Once again, if you get a kernel panic / loading error when you try to boot your new High Sierra installation (or if the installation simply won’t start within 10 minutes), you will need to enter some boot flags.

To enter boot flags, manually restart your computer by pressing your computer’s power button. Then, once you have booted back into the High Sierra Installer menu, try to type any necessary boot flags before pressing the enter / return key.

Check out our list of common boot flags for Hackintosh and our guide to fixing boot problems in verbose mode for reference.

Once Sierra has booted successfully, click through the High Sierra setup screens until you reach the desktop. From here, High Sierra Installer will work its magic, and automatically install the rest of the Hackintosh-specific kexts and drivers

Wait several minutes, while this process works in the background.

Once you receive a notification saying that the installation has been completed, You may have to tweak and install some kexts to make your Hackintosh work correctly.

Once that is done with, you should be running a fully functional copy of macOS High Sierra on your PC.