This guide is for upgrading your system from previous version to high sierra 10.13.x. For how to prepare USB installation kit, check here: Install Mac OS X with clover EFI bootloader on ASUS Z87a
This guide is for upgrading your system from previous version to high sierra 10.13.x. For how to prepare USB installation kit, check here: Install Mac OS X with clover EFI bootloader on ASUS Z87a
If you tried use MacOS’s disk utility to erase or format a old/new hard drive, you may encounter some issue. MacOS will show below error when you tried to erase or format the drive, regardless your hard drive space:
Instruction for how to prepare Clover USB system installation flash driver can be found from here: Install Mac OS X with clover EFI bootloader on ASUS Z87a Hardwares used in this instruction: Motherboard: Asus Z87-A motherboard (Get ASUS Z87-A motherboard from Amazon) CPU: I7 4770K CPU or any LGA1150 CPU (Get LGA1150 CPU from Amazon) Graphics Card: Integrated Graphics Processor (HD Graphics 4600) Sound Card: Integrated Realtek ALC892 Harddriver: SATA3 SSD Clover’s configuration and files from this guide will fit El Capitan and Sierra. You can directly upgrade from previous macOS to Sierra using this guide for Asus Z87-A motherboard or other similar Asus motherboards. What is working? CPU Power management/Sleep/Wake OK USB 3.0 OK USB 2.0 OK ALC892 Sound Card OK Graphic Card OK Almost everything What is not working? None macOS bug or Clover bug and fix?
Clover is an open source EFI bootloader. clover can do better job than Chameleon, especially on newer UEFI based systems. Using Clover is easy and straightforward. There are tons of documents about how to use clover on Gigabyte motherboards because Gigabyte motherboards usually have less compatibility issues with MAC OS X in the old day. However, with Clover and new OS X after Yosemite, Asus motherboard can also be turned into a perfect Hackintosh. Hardwares used in this instruction: Motherboard: Asus Z87-A motherboard (Get ASUS Z87-A motherboard from Amazon) CPU: I7 4770K CPU or any LGA1150 CPU (Get LGA1150 CPU from Amazon) Graphics Card: Integrated Graphics Processor (HD Graphics 4600) Sound Card: Integrated Realtek ALC892 Overview for this instructions: