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OpenCore Visual Beginners Guide
  • 📗Step-by-Step
    • Intro & Hardware
    • Create EFI & Config - OCAuxiliaryTools
    • Create macOS Installer - OCLP
    • Install & Postinstall
      • USB Port Mapping
    • Use Debug Versions
    • Upgrade OpenCore
    • Hackintosh Checklist
    • Tools and Boot Keys
  • 📙Alternatives
    • Create macOS Installer - TINU
    • USB Mapping on Windows
  • 📘Advanced Topics
    • Open Core Legacy Patcher (OCLP)
      • Broadcom Wifi on macOS Sequoia
    • Using Alder Lake (or Raptor Lake)
    • BIOS Settings Explained
    • OpenCore UEFI Shell
      • acpiview - command
    • Dual-Boot Options
      • Dual-Boot on Single Disk
      • Create rEFInd BOOTer
    • Common Boot Args for macOS
    • Block Update Notifications
    • Low End GPUs
    • Tips & Tricks (WIP)
  • Hackintosh Opinions
    • Olarila - Not Recommended
    • Hack Studio SFF
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Tools and Boot Keys

Hackintosh Tools, Boot Key Combinations, and Links

General Hackintosh Tools

  • OCAuxiliaryTools: OpenCore Auxiliary Tools - OCAT the best config.plist editor and EFI configurator

  • EFI Mounter: EFI Agent

  • Xplist Plist Editor: Xplist

  • ProperTree Plist Editor: ProperTree plist editor with OpenCore Snapshot features

  • PlistEdit Pro – Advanced Plist editor: PlistEdit Pro - nice, but commercial

  • Open Core Legacy Patcher: OCLP for downloading macOS and updating root patches

  • Mist macOS Downloader: Mist a Mac utility that downloads macOS Installers

Tools for Checking

  • System Info: Hackintool

  • Hardware Monitor: HWMonitorSMC2

  • Metal benchmark: Geekbench

  • Disk Speedtest: AJA System Test Lite or AmorphousDiskMark

  • Menu Bar SIP Detector: menu bar app that displays the current status of SIP

  • CPU Torture Test: Prime95

  • CPU monitoring: Intel Power Gadget

  • Battery checker: coconutBattery useful for Laptops

  • GLview: OpenGL Extensions Viewer

  • USB Port Mapper: USBToolBox or Hackintool

  • IORegistryExplorer IORegistryClone

  • Hardware Decode Acceleration (linked from here): VDADecoderChecker

  • Gfxutil for checking GPU acceleration: Gfxutil tool to work with Device Properties

OpenCore Boot Key Combinations

  • Mac startup key combinations.

  • Enable KeySupport & PollAppleHotKeys in Config.plist.

  • For PC keyboard: enable KeySwap.

  • Press keys after power on:

    • OPT or ESC or Zero — at startup to show OpenCore Picker.

    • CMD+OPT+P+R — reset NVRAM.

  • Press keys when OpenCore Picker is shown

    • CMD+V — verbose startup.

    • CMD+S — boot in single user mode.

    • CMD+R — boot into macOS recovery partition.

    • SHIFT+ENTER — boot macOS in Safe Mode.

    • CTRL+ENTER — to set default boot option.

    • SPACE — to show more options such as NVRAM reset or UEFI Shell

Links

  • OpenCore Post-Install

    • covers iGPU, Audio, Sleep, Power Management, USB mapping, NVRAM, Security, Battery, Multibooting, DRM, iMessage, etc.

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