Boot And Installation Steps

USB Booting & MacOS Installation Steps

This Guide For USB Booting And MacOS Installation Steps , Hackintosh Expert Guide How To Boot And Install Macos After Completing Making EFI and USB Installer

Befor Starting Installation Make Sure Your Bios Setting Configuration is Done

Step 1 : Booting

Shutdown our computer and boot from USB. Choose the Install MacOS Sonoma option and go to the installation screen.

Step 2: Drive Format

Select language.

If you are using ethernet, double-click Safari to check your internet connection. If you’re on Wi-Fi, click on the Wi-Fi icon at the top right, connect to your network, then go to Safari and test it.

Open Disk Utility.

Select Show All Devices from View button.

Select installation disk name from left menu and click Erase from top-right menu.

If you are going to install macOS Next To Windows create a partition with the video guide below.
- Splitting the disk in HFS+ format
- After doing this, right-click created volume name on left sida from Disk Utility and click Convert APFS. You can select your disk on the installation screen and start the installation.
Give your disk a name, set Format to APFS and Scheme to GUID. Click Erase.

I have macOS installed disk. So I am going to create new volume and install Sonoma there. After selecting Container, click + button from top-right menu.

Give your volume a name and set Format to APFS. Click Erase.

After erasing complete, click Done.

Step 3 : Installation

Close Disk Utility and open Install macOS “Sonoma”.

Click Continue > Agree > Agree.

Select disk that you erased and click Continue.

Select disk that you erased and click Continue.

When installation process come About 12 minutes remaining, your computer should restart and goes verbose

OpenCore should create a new boot entry named “OpenCore”. Every restart computer will boot from this entry. You can drink a coffe and wait for installation complete if you don’t have any operating system on your computer. But some computers doesn’t allow custom entries. So if you have any other operating system on your computer. You should select USB from boot menu for every restart.
After first restart chose macOS Installer on OpenCore menu.

You will see the Apple logo and a time bar. After this time has passed, the computer will restart again.

If macOS Installer still exist. Keep selecting until the option disappears.
On the last reboot you will now see an option for the name you gave the disk. Select this option and continue.

Step 4 : Setup After Installation Complete

Now we will reach the macOS installation completion steps.
Let’s choose our country.

I will click Customize Settings on the next screen because even though I use the computer in English, my native language and keyboard input are different. If the settings are correct for you, you can click Continue.

I am skipping the accessibility settings by clicking Not Now.

Even if you have an internet connection, continue with the I have no network connection option on this screen. Because we need to set our serial numbers and ROM for iCloud and iServices.

Click Continue.

If you are not installing hackintosh for the first time, you can transfer data from your other devices in this screen. However, assuming this is the first time, I am clicking Not Now.