(Read more) Install Clover on Your USB Drive One big feature of Clover is that iMessage, iCloud, the Mac App Store works along with Find My Mac, Back To My Mac and FileVault since Clover can use the EFI partition. For many, Clover is considered the next-gen bootloader and soon it will become the only choice since BIOS in being replaced by UEFI in every new motherboard. It can emulate the EFI portion present on real Macs and boot the OS from there instead of using the regular legacy BIOS approach used by Chameleon and Chimera. It has a totally different approach from Chameleon and Chimera. I went with Clover as it seems to be the most popular choice among other El Capitan installers, mostly for the following reasons:Ĭlover is an open-source EFI-based bootloader created on Apr 4, 2011. There are 3 popular bootloaders to choose from. We need a bootloader that makes it possible to boot OS X on x86 and x86_64 PCs. If you tried to boot from the USB drive as is after the previous step on a PC, it wouldn't work.
When you come back, it should have finished. Go out for a quick run, or a hamburger, or both.
The command will run a script inside the Install OS X El Capitan application that will copy the installation files to the USB drive. Run the following command in the Terminal (Applications/Utilities): sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/USB -applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app -nointeraction Now that we've downloaded the installation files from the Mac App Store and formatted our USB drive, let's copy the installation files to it. Copy the Installation Files to the USB Drive Click Options and select GUID Partition Table.Ĭlick Apply to format the drive.
Also, note that installing OS X on PC is illegal. I am not responsible for any damage or information loss that could result from following this guide. Warning: Please follow these instructions at your own risk. Install OS X 10.11 El Capitan on Hackintosh (Vanilla) Nov 7, 2015