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If you look at macs that can run metal they all have a discrete graphics card or a sky lake (6th gen) CPU or better. You are really stuck at high Sierra or use an AMD supported card or a supported nvidea card.
#Vanilla hackintosh install high sierra drivers#
Now nvidia used to make osx drivers right up to High Sierra so even a card not used in real macs would work most of the time but since they fell out with apple they are not making drivers for mojave. The lowest that can run recent macos is sandy bridge which has an integrated graphics card this is 2nd gen third gen is ivy bridge and this is actually good enough to run metal (just) Mostly you will want to run a supported GPU. Ok so any 64bit intel processor will work to some extent. So on your hard drives EFI partition there is a folder called EFI, it has information thats used to boot your other partitions if they are bootable. EFI folder from your USB to the EFI partition on your hard drive. This might not be a great match at first but you mostly can tweak it till your hardware has drivers or kexts in apple speak. So if you can format a usb stick and add install osx whatever to it and set up the clover bootloader with a config that suits your hardware and it can boot the installer then you can run macos or osx. It’s kind of an emulation but essentially Macos uses the SMC chip to talk to the hardware in the EFI is a virtual SMC which does the same thing. In a hackintosh this also contains configuration information which macos interacts with macos boots because it see’s a real Mac. When the PC goes to boot it tries different EFI partitions in order of preference until it finds one with an EFI folder and then executes the boot loader in there.
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When a guid hard drive is created there are 2 partitions made a main partition and an EFI partition. Originally People hacked OSX to run on PC’s, now people hack PC’s to run OSX/Macos.