OpenCore Mojave on a PC

I recently wanted to dive into the world of OpenCore and see if I could get my PC running as a hackintosh again. OpenCore was interesting and I wanted to get into my PC and drop my own tables. You almost certainly want a supported GPU before you endeavour on creating the install key. Many iGPU’s are supported so you can pretty much get a mac running even without an AMD GPU or select nVidia card. If you have software that you need to run on a legacy version of macOS and you find yourself without access to a mac you can certainly do it with OpenCore.

You can back up your success by creating an image of the drive once you are done. Then, if anything goes wrong you can restore the image and run it on similar hardware. I remember as a young sound editor, an editor kept an old PPC Mac for one plugin that hadn’t been updated when everything moved to universal binary. I wanted to get this under my belt before the sunset.

One thing about OpenCore that is different than Clover or other boot loaders is you will learn a lot about your PC and ACPI in the process of setting up your key. You can skip a little by using the prebuilt SSDTs and being methodical. The worst thing in my experience is grabbing someone else’s config.plist and trying to make it work. By using the sanity checker online, the documentation and all the posted materials in the git (downloaded at the same time and organized by version) you can easily make your PC boot into the macOS of your choosing.