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[MetalChris87]

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Edited October 28, 2023 by MetalChris87

[Eweol]

Hi @MetalChris87,

Thanks again for sharing your EFI folder.
Unfortunately, it also not works for my surface book 3.
And I couldn't figure out so far way I have such a big problem with that stuff.
With that EFI and a cleaned drive, I can start the installation.
as far as there are 10 to 15 minutes left the installation crashes and my book restart.
Is there any way to log something there or figure out on another way what's going wrong here?

[MetalChris87]

Hi @Eweol,

 

Yes. I had the exact same problem. 

Yeah so after the system installs a bit and then goes into a boot loop, if you can edit the boot args in the EFI Config? You can add -x for safe mode which will allow you to boot but graphics won't work. 

I did create a new EFI with updated kexts for Sonoma last night, however only a few of the kexts have been updated which is the problem. I haven't put it on here because I wasn't able to get it to boot without running in safe mode.

I think WhateverGreen.kext is for the graphics and it hasn't been updated which is the issue I am having on Sonoma.

You can try downloading any updated kexts you can find and running the efi with that. 

 

I am off work next week and so I may try again if I find more updates kexts.

 

 

 

 

[Eweol]

Hi @MetalChris87,

I added -x to boot-args in config.plist.
Everything looks and works like before.

[MetalChris87]

Works like before? You mean it still isn't booting? 

I may try and get another efi which does boot posted tomorrow. I managed to get the boot by updating as many kexts as I could find and adding -x. 

If you update the kexts without -x it will boot to a black screen. 

[Eweol]

I don’t know what exactly you mean with booting.
I created an usb stick to install Sonoma on my book and added your EFI folder there.
I can boot into the installer and start installation.
But this crashes at the point where 10 up to 15 minutes left.
Than the book restarts to installation process again.

This happens independent from -x boot-arg


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[MetalChris87]

Yes. I had this issue too.

This EFI was published after a quick testing, when I realised it started the installer, however like you I had 10minutes remaining and then boot loop.

The fix i found was to download new kexts as some of them will have been updated for Sonoma, but unfortunately not all have and so -x will allow it to boot but only with those new kexts. 

I will play around later and post a new one. 

 

Thanks

Edited September 30, 2023 by MetalChris87

[Eweol]

Sounds great,
Thank you very much.


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[MetalChris87]

I've updated the EFI. It should hopefully boot for you. But can't get the graphics working yet. You'll also need mouse and keyboard. 

[Eweol]

Hi @MetalChris87,

I took your updated EFI folder and tried the installation process with that.
The installation process is now starting and running again to 10 min before finish.
Then the book is restarting and, on the boot, I can see the "MacOS Installer" Boot Entry.
On that the progress bar is filling up to the half of the bar and then I came into boot loop.
Is this in the current EFI state expected?

[MetalChris87]

No. For me it is booting to the Mac OS desktop with that EFI. How strange. 

[Eweol]

Unfortunately this is the same behavior like with your Ventura EFI [emoji17]
I already choose a lot of different edits and no one worked for me so far.


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[MetalChris87]

Are you fully deleting all partions on the drive? And are you formatting the partion as apfs?

I am no expert on this stuff, but I do like to tinker and all I can say is these EFIs I post work for my surface book and so if yours is the same as mine I can't see why it would not work.

 

[Eweol]

Hi @MetalChris87,

yes, every time I try to install I completely erase my hard drive via ubuntu and format it to fat32.
After that I start into MacOS installer and format there to apfs. (Here I have mostly trouble, because within the formatting it happens that the book freeze and restart)
After that I try to install MacOS with the result described above.

[MetalChris87]

I don't know about formatting in Ubuntu. I don't do that. If I come from windows I just delete all windows partitions on the utility page and then add the new Macintosh HD partition. Format apfs. And no issues. 

 

P.s on the disk utility page there is a show all drives button you need to press and remove the whole drive, partion table etc. 

And create new drive and partition using Apfs and GUID partition scheme. If removing the whole drive I can't see any reason you would use Ubuntu and format it as Fat32 since this should wipe everything. 

Edited October 5, 2023 by MetalChris87

[Eweol]

This sounds logic. Could it be, that the storage driver is different for my device (why ever)


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[MetalChris87]

It could be. 

[Eweol]

Do you also have an Samsung nvme drive?


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[MaLd0n]

50 minutes ago, Eweol said:

Do you also have an Samsung nvme drive?

Bro if u have a samsung built in ssd...the problem is that. 

[MetalChris87]

2 hours ago, Eweol said:

Do you also have an Samsung nvme drive?


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[MaLd0n]

7 minutes ago, MetalChris87 said:

Toshiba

I think have problem too if is NVME, SSD AHCI all work.

[MetalChris87]

I've never had an issue with mine. Works perfectly.

[Eweol]

Bro if u have a samsung built in ssd...the problem is that. 

Thanks both of you
I don’t understand why there are different hard drives in the same product but Ok
So the result is, that I cannot install MacOS in any way on my Book 3 right ?


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