Opencore as standalone boot manager / picker without hackintosh

[mengshi]

Was wondering if Opencore can be used as standalone boot manager / picker without hackintosh.

 

If so, how does one do it?

 

How to edit the EFI subsequently?

[miliuco]

@mengshi

 

The way is the same. You can remove all unnecessary files (SSDTs, kexts, drivers as ToogleSipEntry, etc.), set config.plist according to it and OpenCore picker is shown to boot Windows or any tool. I don't have linux but I think it is easy to add it.

 

I've tried it with this EFI folder structure (ACPI and Kexts folders are empty):

/Users/yo/Desktop/EFI > tree
.
├── BOOT
│   └── BOOTx64.efi
└── OC
    ├── ACPI
    ├── Drivers
    │   ├── FirmwareSettingsEntry.efi
    │   ├── HfsPlus.efi
    │   ├── OpenCanopy.efi
    │   ├── OpenRuntime.efi
    │   └── ResetNvramEntry.efi
    ├── Kexts
    ├── OpenCore.efi
    ├── Resources
    │   ├── Audio
    │   ├── Font
    │   │   ├── Font_1x.bin
    │   │   ├── Font_1x.png
    │   │   ├── Font_2x.bin
    │   │   └── Font_2x.png
    │   ├── Image
    │   │   ├── Acidanthera
    │   │   │   └── GoldenGate
    │   │   └── Chris1111
    │   │       └── Squared
    │   └── Label
     ├── Tools
    │   └── OpenShell.efi
    └── config.plist

And the attached config.plist (anonymized).

Spoiler

 

config.plist

 

Edited April 10 by miliuco

[mek21]

On 4/10/2024 at 5:11 AM, mengshi said:

Was wondering if Opencore can be used as standalone boot manager / picker without hackintosh.

 

If so, how does one do it?

 

How to edit the EFI subsequently?

If you use or plan to use linux GRUB2 would be a better choice and you can chainload Refind, Open Core and Clover with GRUB2.