
Boot for third time with the Clover USB thumb and boot to your freshly installed Yosemite SSD or HDD (The Hard Drive where you installed OS X El Capitan). This time the final installation will take up to 10-15 mins and again will restart the system.Ĥ.1.3. Again boot the USB to Clover and select "Install OS X El Capitan". 5-8 min and then the system will be restarted.Ĥ.1.2. Initial installation will prepare the drive of your choice for approx. Boot the USB thumb to Clover and select "Install OS X El Capitan", hit enter, the installation will begin. Make sure the USB thumb is attached to a USB 2.0 port before booting the El Capitan installation!Ĥ.1.1. Booting from the Clover USB thumb with the El Capitan installation Save these settings and exit the UEFI BIOS setup.Ĥ.1. RTC Alarm Power On = By OS (this setting doesn't cause system waking on every 2 hours!)ĬSM (Compatibility Support Module) = Disabled Intel Thunderbolt = DIsabled (Enable if you have thunderbolt) Make sure the below settings are setup as following: Restart the system and hit F2 or delete to enter the UEFI BIOS setup.
#SAVE CLOVER CONFIGURATOR EL CAPITAN INSTALL#
Install Clover r3346 Download Here to the USB thumb drive with checked Install for UEFI booting only option:Ĭopy FakeSMC.kext ( mandatory for booting OS X ) to /EFI/Clover/kext/10.11 (Clover automatically creates a 10.11 Folder, if it does not exist create it or upgrade to a new version of clover):Ĭopy HFSPlus.efi to /EFI/Clover/drivers64UEFI/ and delete VBoxHFS.efi from the same folder (example below):ĭon't remove the USB thumb, it will be used to boot Clover and to install El Capitan. The copying process will take up to max 10-15 minutes. You'll be asked to enter your password, type it and hit enter.

Sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/Install -applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El Capitan.app -nointeraction Then open Terminal and paste the following command: Using Disk Utility format the thumb drive with GUID partition mapping and name it "Install" (without the quotes, the name Install is used by the below terminal command). You'll need an 8GB USB thumb drive, the "Install OS X El Capitan.app" (make sure it resides in the /Applications folder).
#SAVE CLOVER CONFIGURATOR EL CAPITAN UPDATE#
(I still have some issues to work out and I will update this thread as I fix them).ģ.1 Preparing the USB thumb drive with El Capitan and Clover on a real Mac or Hackintosh: It worked well for me and other than a few hitches it was relatively easy. Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Pro4 AMI UEFI BIOS v.2.20ĪSRock Z97 Pro4 is a wonderful choice for building a working El Capitan Hackintosh.

Clover Configurator (not absolutely necessary but it makes editing the ist much much easier!) A working mac or hackintosh to set up the installation thumb drive (or borrow a friend, family members or someone else who has one, or get them to make the installation thumb drive for you.)ĭ. Preparing Clover USB thumb with El CapitanĪ. It will take me a few days so bear with me and check back often.)ģ.

(NOTE: This write up is a work in progress, It is incomplete and as I get time I will add to it and eventually complete it. I ran out of time, so when I get home from work I will be back at it again and try to figure out the solution to the issues that I have.) (I still have a few issues to work out but I will keep reading and hopefully some of you out there will be able to assist me. I will post what worked for me and attempt to answer any questions if there are any, hopefully this will help others who have this board. Lastly, I am no expert on this matter and I may have a mistake or two here or there. I also followed the same format as his thread as I found it easy to read and understand. ( ) Even though his board is not identical, it was similiar and i was able to follow some of his bios settings and use some of the information, it was definitely useful for my install. Secondly, I wanted to give credit to Rednous, I followed his guide located here. (I will definitely become an active member and post whatever findings I have, guides etc). Thanks to each of you for your time, dedication and efforts to further the goals of the community. This guide is intended to share my experience with the successful El Capitan installation on ASRock Z97 Pro4 using Clover UEFI boot.įirstly, I want to thank all of the members of insanely Mac, I spent countless hours reading through information and learning as much as I could.
