Intel Coffee Lake macOS installation guide

Hackintosh guide for Intel Coffee Lake systems

Things to remember

• DO AT YOUR OWN RISK, THIS GUIDE WILL NOT COVER ANY KIND OF HARDWARE ISSUES!
• Knowing your hardware properly (trust me, you'll not able to install macOS if you do not know anything about your PC)
• Time and patience, because Hackintosh is not that easy, even if you follow the guide properly.

Getting started

Download these files:

• Bootloader: OpenCore Bootloader

• Kexts:
  • VirtualSMC
  • Lilu
  • WhateverGreen
  • AppleALC
  • Realtek RTL8111 Ethernet
    • Remember, this depends on what motherboard you're using, and your Ethernet card
  • USBToolBox
  • XHCIUnsupported
    • Common chipsets needing this: H310, H370, B360, Z390 (not needed on Mojave and newer), X79, X99, ASRock Intel board
• SSDTs:
  • SSDT-PLUG
  • SSDT-EC-USBX-DESKTOP
  • SSDT-AWAC
  • SSDT-PMC

config.plist configuration

Tools we need:

• ProperTree
• GenSMBIOS
• config.plist file: Included in the OpenCore Bootloader file, original name Sample.plist, just rename it and copy into EFI/OC folder

Starting point: Snapshot your OC folder in order to make this config.plist file can read all your SSDTs and kexts

• ACPI: There's nothing to change here

• Booter: Head to Quirks section, change these setting:

  • DevirtualiseMmio: YES
  • EnableWriteUnprotector: NO
  • ProtectUefiServices: YES (needed on Z390 systems)
  • RebuildAppleMemoryMap: YES
  • ResizeAppleGpuBars: -1 (If your firmware supports increasing GPU Bar sizes (ie Resizable BAR Support), set this to 0)
  • SyncRuntimePermissions: YES

• DeviceProperties: In the Add section, add this device properties:

  • PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0)
    • This section is set up via WhateverGreen's Framebuffer Patching Guide (opens new window)and is used for setting important iGPU properties. If you have a -F series CPU, you can ignore this section as you do not have an iGPU.
    • The config.plist doesn't already have a section for this so you will have to create it manually.
    • If you have a dedicated GPU, do this under the PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x0) you created:
      • Add AAPL,ig-platform-id, set it to Data, and change the value to this: 0300913E
    • If you want to use your iGPU to drive a display:
      • Add AAPL,ig-platform-id, set it to Data, and change the value to this: 07009B3E
      • Add framebuffer-patch-enable, set it to Data, and change the value to this: 01000000
      • Add framebuffer-stolenmem, set it to Data, and change the value to this: 00003001

• Kernel: Head to Quirks section, change these setting:

  • AppleXcpmCfgLock: YES (Not needed if CFG-Lock is disabled in the BIOS)
  • DisableIoMapper: YES (Not needed if VT-D is disabled in the BIOS)
  • LapicKernelPanic: NO (HP machines will require this quirk)
  • PanicNoKextDumpL: YES
  • PowerTimeoutKernelPanic: YES
  • XhciPortLimit: YES (Disable if running macOS 11.3+) Misc:
  • In Boot section, set HideAuxiliary to NO
  • In Debug section:
    • AppleDebug: YES
    • ApplePanic: YES
    • DisableWatchDog: YES
    • Target: 67
  • In Security section:
    • AllowSetDefault: YES
    • BlacklistAppleUpdate: YES
    • ScanPolicy: 0
    • SecureBootModel: Default
    • Vault: Optional NVRAM:
  • In 7C436110-AB2A-4BBB-A880-FE41995C9F82 section, add these boot-args:
    • debug=0x100, alcid=1, unfairgva=1 (Used for fixing hardware DRM support on supported AMD GPUs), wegnoegpu (use this if you have a unsupported dedicated GPU, and want to use only your iGPU)
    • prev-lang:kbd: change to 656e2d55533a30 (Russian moment, this will change your installer language to English) PlatformInfo:
  • For setting up the SMBIOS, , we'll use CorpNewt's GenSMBIOS application. Coffee Lake systems have 2 main SMBIOS: iMac19,1 for Mojave and newer, iMac18,3 for High Sierra and older.
    • Run GenSMBIOS, pick option 1 for downloading MacSerial and Option 3 for selecting out SMBIOS. This will give us an output similar to the following

  iMac19,1 SMBIOS Info
  Type	iMac19,1
  Serial	C02XG0FDH7JY
  Board Serial	C02839303QXH69FJA
  SmUUID	DBB364D6-44B2-4A02-B922-AB4396F16DA8
  Apple ROM	11223300 0000

  (DO NOT COPY THIS! THIS SMBIOS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE)

The Type part gets copied to Generic -> SystemProductName.

The Serial part gets copied to Generic -> SystemSerialNumber.

The Board Serial part gets copied to Generic -> MLB.

The SmUUID part gets copied to Generic -> SystemUUID.

• UEFI: nothing to change here

That's it, you have created an EFI for your system, now you just have to change some settings in BIOS

Things to disable:

• Fast Boot
• Secure Boot
• Serial/COM Port
• Parallel Port
• Compatibility Support Module (CSM) (Must be off in most cases, GPU errors/stalls like gIO are common when this option is enabled)
• Thunderbolt (For initial install, as Thunderbolt can cause issues if not setup correctly)
• Intel SGX
• Intel Platform Trust
• CFG Lock Things to enable:
• VT-x
• Above 4G Decoding
• Hyper-Threading
• Execute Disable Bit
• EHCI/XHCI Hand-off
• OS type: Windows 8.1/10 UEFI Mode (some motherboards may require "Other OS" instead)
• DVMT Pre-Allocated(iGPU Memory): 64MB or higher (only enable this if you want to use your iGPU to drive a display)
• SATA Mode: AHCI