Frankenmac 2017: From BIOS to installed macOS
Today, a look at how my Frankenmac went from the basic hardware BIOS setup screen to a usable (though not yet fully complete or natively bootable) macOS machine. If you're just tuning in, you may want to catch up…
- The Beginnings: Resources, parts list, and ordering. (Steps 1 - 3)
- The build: Turning the parts into something that powers on…but that's about it. (Steps 4 - 5)
- The roadblock: A new graphics card and an old case and old power supply do not mix.
- Transplanted: Frankenmac moves into a new home, with a new power supply, to get around the roadblock.
- The parts list: A constantly-updated list of the parts I used and the cost of each part.
Now that Frankenmac is functional in its new home—roadblock averted—it's time to explain how I got to that point from the BIOS boot screen of step five a few days back. It's a tale filled with drama, dread, doubt, defiance, and in the end, domination. Well, OK, it's pretty much none of that, but I had a string of "D words" in my head, and had to use them somewhere…