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.

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under the Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International — CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Attribution by link to chriswayg · GitHub.