This is Ultimate tutorial for installing Mac OSX up to EL Capitan 10.11.
You don't need working mac installation or AHCI capable motherboard, it can be done on any PC.
Tools that you need:
OSF Mount - http://www.osforensics.com/tools/mount-disk-images.html - This is most important tool, it can mount efi partition on image and edit it.
image link: https://goo.gl/nMcpOG
win 32 disk imager - http://win32-disk-imager.en.uptodown.com/ - this will be used to write image to USB, you can also use other software, there are many of them, i use this one.
In case you did not listen to me and you want to do this harder way:
http://www.hackintosh.zone/file/828-bootdiskutility-v212015/ - utility that can install clover from windows.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/files/Installer/ - Clover installer package
The most important note!!! ---- You need Sata kext in 10.11 folder, that will make your HDD to show up in disk manager, without it you will get still waiting for root device and your HDD wont show up in disk utility and you wont be able to install EL Capitan on your HDD.
My Specs :
Processor - e7200 core2duo
Ram - 6gb - different modules with different speed and latency
HDD - 320+720gb - sata2
USB - 16gb Kingstone
GPU - HD 7850 2gb dual bios.
Motherboard - P5N-D - https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P5ND/
As usual, Apple no longer supply a bootable USB Flash Drive with latest OS X releases - including the new OS X 10.11 El Capitan. Using this tutorial you will.
Bootable El Capitan Usb Windows 8
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- Jul 24, 2015 Jesus Vigo shows you the easiest possible way to create a bootable USB installer for OS X El Capitan. At this year's WWDC, Apple announced the next iteration of OS X, version 10.11.
- Creating bootable USB Installer can be done in different ways specifically create bootable USB Installer for macOS X El Capitan on Windows and other macOS versions. The first way to do manually and the second way is to do a software that is pre-build to do all those with a click or two.
- You can use an external drive or secondary volume as a startup disk from which to install the Mac operating system.