MyHackintosh

A Hackintosh repository for lzwang. I like macOS Catalina with Clover rather than BigSur with OpenCore, and the following are my config and EFI.

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Hardware List

1. Motherboard: Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master
2. CPU: Intel® Core™ i9-9900K
3. GPU: NVIDIA Quadro K600
4. RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB * 4
5. SSD: Samsung 970 EVO 250GB
6. Power: Seasonic Focus GX-1000W
7. Monitor: Dell U2718Q

Software List

1. macOS: macOS Catalina 10.15.7(19H15)
2. Clover: 5107
3. Clover Configuator: 5.18.0.0
4. Clover theme: Material

How to Disable macOS updates?

1. Disable auto update

(Apple Logo) -> System Preference -> Software Update -> Uncheck "Keep my mac up to date"

2. Kill finder to remove red dot for update

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences AttentionPrefBundleIDs 0
Killall Dock

3. Block network access

sudo vi /etc/hosts

Insert the following text:

127.0.0.1 swscan.apple.com
127.0.0.1 swcdn.apple.com
127.0.0.1 swdist.apple.com

4. Change permission for system-updater

1. Reboot your hackintosh to recoveryOS.
2. Open Utilities -> Terminal and do as followings.

# your_hackintosh_volume like “Macintosh HD” -> /Macintosh\ HD
cd /Volumes/${your_hackintosh_volume}

# change system updater permission
chmod 644 System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SoftwareUpdate.framework/Versions/A/Resources/SoftwareUpdateNotificationManager.app/Contents/MacOS/SoftwareUpdateNotificationManager

# clear update files
rm -rf Library/Updates/

Reboot your hackintosh.

Note: If you want to install some tools (like xcode tools), just remove the three lines in step 3 in file /etc/hosts.

Reference

1. EFI Config Source (modified): https://github.com/cmer/gigabyte-z390-aorus-master-hackintosh
2. Clover download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/
3. Clover Configuator download: https://mackie100projects.altervista.org/download-clover-configurator/
4. Clover themes collection (GitHub): https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverThemes
5. Clover themes collection (Facebook): https://www.facebook.com/notes/hackintosh-indonesia/clover-themes-gallery/10155245189403649/
6. Disable macOS Catalina updates (Chinese): https://sysin.org/article/Disable-macOS-Update/