Slow boot after Sonoma update, no Wifi, no working ports.

[mkary]

Recently I thought that Sonoma was causing a black screen of my hack, but it turns out it loads extremely slow.

It takes a few minutes to start the OS, after that the OS speed is working properly, Final Cut Pro is rendering fast.

The shutdown process also takes long time.

Unfortunately:
-I don't have a Wifi but I do have ethernet, I have an external WiFi card
-I cannot see my other SSD on which I have Windows, which I saw on Ventura
-My external SSD which is connected via type-c cable isn't showing.
-My external HDD which is connected with a front type-a is also not showing.
-My SSD is Samsung 970 EVO, and this is why I use the SetApfsTrimTimeout = 0, which did fix the slow boot in a previous version.

These are the issues with which I'm familiar at this moment.

I'm running the latest O.C. 0.9.5, and I did a sanity checker and found no critical issues.

I'm currently searching for some kind of solutions one by one through Google but I'll be more than glad if you guys can point me to the right direction.

 

[trs96]

My SSD is Samsung 970 EVO

Buy a new WD NVMe, clean install Sonoma and then compare it to your current drive's performance. It appears that for many people, installing Sonoma makes the Samsung incompatibility problems worse. Not likely that Samsung will ever fix the macOS issues their drives have.

Choosing a Compatible NVMe SSD for your macOS Boot Drive

Introduction to NVMe Choices If you have any previous hackintosh experience, you'll know that a limited number of hardware components have native support in macOS. You can't buy just any graphics card and expect it to work. Only certain Broadcom models of Wifi/BT cards have native support etc...

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If you're using a Broadcom Wifi/BT card there's a long convoluted procedure using OCLP to get that working.

Fenvi T919 and Broadcom wifi back in Sonoma with OCLP

Note: macOS Sonoma 14.4 breaks OCLP patch Post 418 (page 42). Good morning. My wifi is Fenvi T919. I know that it is not the ideal situation that many of us want to have the system as vanilla as possible, but what the OCLP team has achieved is amazing. I have followed TO THE LETTER the...

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If it's a Realtek based USB Wifi adapter then you could use Chris1111's kext method to get it working again.

USB Wireless Adapters for Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura and Sonoma

UPDATE: 9/30/23 If you use OpenCore and have installed Sonoma 14.0 Chris1111 has a method to let you keep SIP enabled while using a Realtek USB Wifi adapter. Here's the video instructional to re-enable SIP by Chris-1111 Also See: https://github.com/chris1111/Wireless-USB-Big-Sur-Adapter...

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[mkary]

I need to get my ports working in order to make a backup and install a fresh ventura.

 

[Feartech]

I need to get my ports working in order to make a backup and install a fresh ventura.

your info.plist in your USBPorts.kext says iMac19,1

and yet you are using iMac20,1 in your config.plist

best to re read up on:

The New Beginner's Guide to USB Port Configuration

Important Update: June 2023 From Big Sur 11.3 on the built-in OpenCore XhciPortLimit quirk no-longer worked as described. This became a known "bug", though in reality it was Apple changing their internal code, making a simple "peek and poke" to keep it operating, a difficult task. However, with...

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and make sure your ports are setup correct

 

[UtterDisbelief]

I need to get my ports working in order to make a backup and install a fresh ventura.

The reason your USB ports may not be working is because -

You have iMac19,1 set in your USBPorts.kext

but ...

iMac20,1 set in your config.plist.

They should be the same.

 

[UtterDisbelief]

your info.plist in your USBPorts.kext says iMac19,1

and yet you are using iMac20,1 in your config.plist

best to re read up on:

The New Beginner's Guide to USB Port Configuration

Important Update: June 2023 From Big Sur 11.3 on the built-in OpenCore XhciPortLimit quirk no-longer worked as described. This became a known "bug", though in reality it was Apple changing their internal code, making a simple "peek and poke" to keep it operating, a difficult task. However, with...

www.tonymacx86.com

and make sure your ports are setup correct

Hi old chum!!

 

[mkary]

I read somewhere to try with iMac20,1 I returned it to 19,1 with no success, I'm currently uploading my backup on a server via cable and will try to go back to Ventura

 

[Feartech]

I read somewhere to try with iMac20,1 I returned it to 19,1 with no success, I'm currently uploading my backup on a server via cable and will try to go back to Ventura

info.plist from USBPorts.kext and config.plist settings needs to be the same

 

[c-o-pr]

-My SSD is Samsung 970 EVO, and this is why I use the SetApfsTrimTimeout = 0, which did fix the slow boot in a previous version.

This option has never been a reliable fix for trim stalls. Spaceman trim runs sometimes regardless of this setting.

Not likely that Samsung will ever fix the macOS issues their drives have.

It's not even known that Samsung is doing something wrong. All that's known is that's there's a compatibility problem.

If you're using a Broadcom Wifi/BT card there's a long convoluted procedure using OCLP to get that working.

The process is not convoluted, nor especially long. It boils down
- Disable SIP and Inject older networking and AMFI work-around kexts via OC
- Add patches to /Library/Extensions via OCLP post install
By standards of hackintosh it's not a big deal. There were some prolonged threads where confusion about links to needed pre-release of OCLP and ordinary configuration errors made it the approach seem very cumbersome.

your info.plist in your USBPorts.kext says iMac19,1

and yet you are using iMac20,1 in your config.plist

Great catch. SMBIOS in map kext must agree with chosen system definition config.plist. It has been previously working by accident. Getting port mapping straightened out will resolve USB issues.