List of Default IPv4, IPv6, and MAC Multicast Addresses

Here is a list of common Multicast addresses.

Mac Addresses

LLDP01:80:C2:00:00:0E
CDP (Sends messages to)01:00:0C:CC:CC:CCMore info
MAC address Multicast Addresses

IPv4

OSPF – Neighbor Discovery (All Routers)224.0.0.5
OSPF – DR/BDR224.0.0.6More info
IPv4 Multicast Addresses

IPv6

All IPv6 DevicesFF02::1
All IPv6 RoutersFF02::2
OSPFFF02::5
EIGRPFF02::A
Router Solicitation?FF01::1?
IPv4 Multicast Addresses

Links on sending/receiving imessages with applescript or bash

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/331468/bash-script-detect-received-imessage-along-with-its-contents

Command line program to send imessage messages
https://github.com/linjunpop/imessage

Chat bot
https://github.com/ZekeSnider/Jared

Run bash commands from Applescript
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/mac-osx-applescript-run-shell-script/

Applescript Documentation archive
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptLangGuide/introduction/ASLR_intro.html

How to view hidden EFI partition on Mac drive

Open a terminal and run the following command to list your hard drives

diskutil list

It should return something similar to the following

bobs-MacBook:~ bob$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1000.1 GB  disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            999.1 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *8.0 GB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Install macOS Sierra    7.0 GB     disk2s2

bobs-MacBook:~ bob$

From above we see that the EFI partition on the main drive is disk0s1.

Make a directory for it to mount to

sudo mkdir /Volumes/TMPEFI

Mount it.

sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/TMPEFI

It should now show up in finder for you to browse.

To unmount it simple eject it in Finder, or use one of the following commands

umount /Volumes/TMPEFI
diskutil unmount /Volumes/TMPEFI

How to Create a Bootable macOS USB drive for Hackintosh with Clover

Whats needed

  1. Bootable macOS USB drive (Guide here)
  2. Clover (Download here, or on source forge)
  3. Computer running macOS to run clover from

Plug the drive into your Mac, or current Hackintosh and launch the Clover installation package you downloaded from above.  Click Continue

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And continue again.macos-clover-install-2

Select “Change Install Location”macos-clover-install-3

Select your macOS Sierra Drive.  NOT YOUR main OS drivemacos-clover-install-4

Hit Continue, it’ll take you back to the screen before, now select Customize on the left and select the following options.macos-clover-install-5 macos-clover-install-6

Now Install.macos-clover-install-7 macos-clover-install-8

You should now be able to boot the USB on a PC.  You will need to change the settings on the PC to boot using EFI, and make sure your hardware is compatible.

 

Installing macOS Sierra on Alienware 18 – Notes

Note : This is not a complete guide to Installing macOS Sierra on an Alienware, mainly just some notes for now.  Everything here should apply to the Alienware 14 and 17, and maybe some of the newer ones 15 R1, 17 R2, etc.

You will need to either patch the kernel for the Haswell CPU, or enable it from clover when booting up.   If you don’t, the system will reboot on start up (See Troubleshooting section).

You may need to boot with the nv_disable=1 option if you don’t have a supported nvidia card

Creating the Boot Drive

  • Download macOS Sierra
  • Download Clover (Download from SourceForge, or here)

Create the boot drive just like you normally would and then run clover.  When you install Clover, be sure to CHANGE THE INSTALL LOCATION to the USB drive.

Also select the following options when installing clover.

  • Install for UEFI booting only
  • Install Clover in the ESP
  • Drivers64UEFI
    • OsxAptioFixDrv-64

 

After that is finished, you should be good to go.  Setup the Alienware BIOS for UEFI, and boot from the USB drive.  Install like you normally would.

POST Install

More coming later…

Troubleshooting

Alienware reboots after selecting the macOS drive in Clover.
Issue is related to the unpatched kernel for Haswell.

Fix :

  1. Once you get to clover, hit “o” this will give you the options menu
  2. Select “Binaries patching->
  3. Select “Kernel PM Patch
  4. Go back to the main menu
  5. Select the macOS drive and hit “Space Bar”
    1. Select the other options you want i.e.(safe mode, nv_disabled, etc.), and hit “Boot macOS with selected options

Black screen after selecting the macOS boot drive
Looks like the issue is some sort of incompatible hardware.  I had a wifi card that was causing trouble.

Fix:

Disable wireless card in BIOS.

Kernel Panic
Could be any number of things:(

Things to try,

Boot in safe mode

  1. Boot to clover
  2. Select the macOS drive
  3. Hit the “Space Bar”
  4. Select the option that says “Safe mode”
    1. Hit “Boot with selected Options”

Clean GPT Drive in Windows

Hit the Windows  key, type in diskpart and hit enter

You should get a black Command like Prompt window.

List the disks

list disk

You should get a list of the disk you have as well as the number for the disk.

Select the disk you want in our case disk 3.  Change the number to the number of your drive

select disk 3

clean the disk

clean

Now you can open up Disk Manager and create a new Simple Volume on your drive.

Installing sshpass on OS X

Note: To install sshpass you need to make sure you have Xcode installed along with the Xcode command line tools.  You can download Xcode from the app store, and then install the command line tools from Xcode’s Preferences.

Now open up your terminal and run the following commands.

Download sshpass from source forge.

curl -O -L http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/sshpass/sshpass/1.05/sshpass-1.05.tar.gz

Extract the tarball and cd into the directory.

tar zxvf sshpass-1.05.tar.gz && cd sshpass-1.05

make and install.

./configure
make
sudo make install

Now test and make sure it works

sshpass -V

You should receive the following.

sshpass 1.05 (C) 2006-2011 Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
This program is free software, and can be distributed under the terms of the GPL
See the COPYING file for more information.