Clover configurator update#
Clover configurator manual#

The guide will assume Clover Configurator (referred to as Configurator for convenience), so if you are not using this, please substitute Configurator-specific steps with your equivalent ones.

Clover configurator manual#

To do this I personally use Clover Configurator, but the manual approach can work fine too. Step 2: Updating Clover & KextsĪt this point I start by updating Clover and any Kexts I have installed that might have updates. You'll want to make sure the drive is fully independently bootable, without relying even in part on your main drive. when you have a laptop), at least make sure that you select your backup drive from the boot screen of your bios. The ideal setup would be to actually unplug your main drive, followed by trying to boot from your backup drive, but if you are unable to do this (e.g. To make sure your backup drive is indeed bootable you should test this out. Step 1.3: Confirm your backup drive is bootable

Don't copy things over before you make absolutely certain your configuration works properly, or things will go bad if you ever need to boot from the backup drive of course. You should do this every time you have made changes/updates to your Clover/boot configuration that are confirmed to be working, to ensure you will always have a working bootable backup. To do this, mount both your main drive's EFI partition as-well as your backup drive's, and simply copy the EFI folder over. To ensure your backup drive is also fully bootable, you need to copy your working Clover configuration over as-well. Step 1.2: Copying over your EFI partition

Fortunately pretty much every single motherboard supports booting from USB these days, so you should be fine there. macOS has no trouble booting from external drives, so long as your hardware supports this. Note: This is also entirely possible by using an external (USB) hard drive. The SuperDuper! screen after finishing cloning my main drive over to a backup drive. However, for me using one of these tools has a few benefits that make it easier to use, and if you decide to purchase either of them they can even ensure more up-to-date backups by letting you schedule them automatically. You can also use CarbonCop圜loner, or if you're comfortable with the command-line even dd will do the trick. Every now and then I use SuperDuper! to clone my entire main drive over, and do this every time before doing a macOS update. In my case I have an internal 500GB 7200rpm hard drive that I use as a clone of my main Samsung EVO 960 500GB SSD. This way if you ever make an oopsy on your main drive, you can use the secondary drive to boot right back up, fix whatever is broken, and reboot back from your main drive. The absolute best way to ensure you're never kicked out of your Hack, losing many hours of productivity (or fun) having to try to get things to work again, is to have a secondary hard drive (or SSD) that is bootable. If you don't already have a bootable backup drive, you might want to start with this now. While these steps are not required, I do think it's a good method as it ensures your Hack is as up-to-date as can be.

Clover configurator update#

I take the opportunity to also update Clover and any Kexts that might have an update.

This guide will cover the steps I usually take when updating my Hackintosh. Please check out the article if you came here looking information on upgrading to Catalina. I have written up a few thoughts regarding upgrading to Catalina. Update: This process still works perfectly up to and including 10.14.6, the recent-most version as of this update (). The former is important as newer updates often come with bug fixes, security updates and more good things, and the latter is to give the community as a whole a chance to check out any and all new versions to see if something perhaps more drastic has changed, requiring some additional work. using the Vanilla method, relying on as few custom Kexts as possible, and properly setting up things like your USB ports), it is always recommended to both keep your machine as up-to-date as possible, and at the same time not jumping on new updates day-one. Though this is much less of an issue if you have properly set up your Hackintosh (e.g.

One of the possible challenges with using a Hackintosh is having to deal with OS updates.