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If you're into senseless cursed technology like I am, you can install OpenCore's OpenDuetPkg onto a flash drive and use it as an emulated EFI environment with d

If you're into senseless cursed technology like I am, you can install OpenCore's OpenDuetPkg onto a flash drive and use it as an emulated EFI environment with drivers, to load rEFInd to boot off a NVMe drive installed into a mPCIe slot, on computers predating EFI, let alone NVMe. The general approach is to follow https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/installer-guide/mac-install.html#legacy-setup https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/installer-... on a Mac (the Windows instructions produce a "BOOT MISMATCH!" warning and a 3-second delay, and there are no Linux instructions, and I don't know how to properly format the disks on Linux, though BootInstall_ARCH.tool should be easily portable to Linux), but after following https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/installer-guide/opencore-efi.html https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/installer-..., extract a rEFInd archive (not ISO) into EFI/OC/, and rename the correct architecture's .efi file to EFI/OC/OpenCore.efi. I haven't had much luck configuring OpenCore itself as an EFI bootloader, and having it find any of the USB/SATA/NVMe drives I have plugged in. I'm told you have to tailor the configuration carefully to the exact hardware you have since OpenCore is emulating a Mac-like EFI rather than generic PC, and that no generic configuration will work properly on all computers. I haven't tried using OpenCore for actual Hackintoshing.

webmobdev 4y ago
> I haven't had much luck configuring OpenCore itself as an EFI bootloader They mention in their "Terminology" section that OpenCore is not a Bootloader but a Boot Manager: > Bootloader: Piece of software that loads an OS, usually made by the OS creators. OpenCore is technically not a bootloader per se (see boot manager explanation down below). Apple's Boot.efi would be the actual boot loader in a Mac. > Boot Manager: Piece of software that manages bootloaders – we have many of these: Clover, systemd-boot, OpenCore, rEFInd, rEFIt... These are generally seen as prepping the system for the actual boot loader.

webmobdev 4y ago

> I haven't had much luck configuring OpenCore itself as an EFI bootloader They mention in their "Terminology" section that OpenCore is not a Bootloader but a Boot Manager: > Bootloader: Piece of software that loads an OS, usually made by the OS creators. OpenCore is technically not a bootloader per se (see boot manager explanation down below). Apple's Boot.efi would be the actual boot loader in a Mac. > Boot Manager: Piece of software that manages bootloaders – we have many of these: Clover, systemd-boot, OpenCore, rEFInd, rEFIt... These are generally seen as prepping the system for the actual boot loader.