@CaseySJ Hi there, just wondering if you guys had the following issues while upgrading to Ventura (or maybe previous version). I have tried upgrading to Ventura but faced a problem when the system rebooted. The system downloaded Ventura with no problem, then "prepared" the installation and rebooted. On the reboot screen, apart from my boot disk, I had a new entry Macintosh HD which was selected by default. This is fine since this is part of the process. The system then booted from the Macintosh HD disk, then I had the black screen with Apple logo and the progressing bar. The progressing bar moved a bit then the system rebooted. First I thought it was normal so I let it complete the cycle. The system restarted, booted from Macintosh HD, started loading then rebooted again. The system is stuck in a loop. It keeps booting from the Macintosh HD, loads, resets, reboots, etc. In the end I forced a boot on my boot system disk. It reloaded Monterey 12.6 and as expected no update was performed. I am trying now to restart a SW upgrade. I have followed the recommendations in previous pages (Enable Apple Vt-d which was already enabled anyway) and remove the I225 device properties.
Update:
I have tried a second time, same problem. This time however I enable the verbose log in the OC picker and video recorded the log since taking a photo is impossible. When working backward from the reboot, I can see failure in the "ota" section.
Here are some screenshots taken from the video footage. Apologies for the quality. I have highlighted in red what seems to be suspicious. Thanks for the help.
For info OC is 0.8.5. Also another strange thing that i forgot to mention is that once I forced the boot from my system disk and it was loaded and running, I had a warning from OpenCore configuration that my config.plist was not 0.8.5. Not sure how this could have happened since I saved the config.plist using the latest OpenCore configuration with 0.8.5 version selected.