CaseySJ
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- Motherboard
- Asus ProArt Z690-Creator
- CPU
- i7-12700K
- Graphics
- RX 6800 XT
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Okayyy. So firstly, thankyou very much, extremely appreciated as always.
Secondly, my computer has for some mysterious reason decided that it wants to crash CONSTANTLY today, whether it being on boot into MacOS or shortly after getting to the desktop, so getting in there making those changes to the file was an incredibly irritating process. Booting into Windows is still fine (that is when it decides to show me the option to of course), so I'm typing this from there instead. Again, I have made NO changes to the normal boot EFI since updating Opencore a couple of days ago. I must have reset the NVRAM a dozen times or more so far today..I guess it's just in a mood.
If my MacOS keeps crashing like this, I'm going to have to prioritise that as a problem to be fixed first...
Ouch! Some suggestions:
- First try a cold boot. This means flipping power switch on PSU to OFF for 10-15 seconds, then powering the system back up
- If that does not work, perform a CMOS Reset. This may change BIOS parameters back to default values so we should enter BIOS Setup afterwards and configure it properly
- If that also fails to help, check all cable connections. Press down on each cable to verify full connection. If there are USB or Thunderbolt devices connected, disconnect all but keyboard and mouse
- If multiple monitors are connected, disconnect all but one
If you see a lot of text filling up the screen and scrolling by, that's exactly what we want to see! But of course it should not reboot.Thirdly, once I did manage to edit the config.plist file and put it onto the Sonoma USB's EFI, I managed to boot into it and start the process- I saw a progress bar start to fill up!- but It was another faliure.
When trying verbose boot, there was a LOT of text, filling up the screen multiple times, and when it failed it immediately cut power & reboot so I couldn't get any capture of what the last screen of text was. I assume there's a way of safely getting a boot log file somehow?
I noticed you have an entry in DeviceProperties for a FireWire card. Was that card compatible with previous version of macOS? Which version of macOS was that?