HELP: Can't update to Sequoia Hackintosh

[JoMei]

Can't update my Sonoma Hackintosh to Sequoia for some reason. I tried updating the kexts and it still fails. Could you guys please check why it does not work for me?
The installer just stops at EXITBS:START and then nothing happens.
However the installer for Sonoma (and the OS itself) work perfectly on my Laptop. No Idea why Sequoia does not work (both offline and online fail)

System: ASUS ROG Zephyrus G15 (AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS, dGPU disabled, 16GB RAM) - OPEN CORE 1.0.7
EFI: https://mega.nz/file/hNVD2bDZ#Ii3mZt-XqIvXfhJZyvAI-yBG7nihNXrRgMC6ltCQm2M

 

[EliteMacx86]

Can't update my Sonoma Hackintosh to Sequoia for some reason. I tried updating the kexts and it still fails. Could you guys please check why it does not work for me?
The installer just stops at EXITBS:START and then nothing happens.
However the installer for Sonoma (and the OS itself) work perfectly on my Laptop. No Idea why Sequoia does not work (both offline and online fail)

System: ASUS ROG Zephyrus G15 (AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS, dGPU disabled, 16GB RAM) - OPEN CORE 1.0.7
EFI: https://mega.nz/file/hNVD2bDZ#Ii3mZt-XqIvXfhJZyvAI-yBG7nihNXrRgMC6ltCQm2M

Could you please mention how are you trying to update? Are you updating via OTA method or running a full installer (downloaded and executed on the Sonoma) or trying to update via USB installer?

 

[JoMei]

Could you please mention how are you trying to update? Are you updating via OTA method or running a full installer (downloaded and executed on the Sonoma) or trying to update via USB installer?

I tried OTA with settings App and also with App Store installer and also offline installer (with the according efi files on the USB Drive). But nothing worked and it always ended up with ExitBS:START
Tried to troubleshoot with ChatGPT / Gemini and Grok but nothing really worked.

 

[EliteMacx86]

I tried OTA with settings App and also with App Store installer and also offline installer (with the according efi files on the USB Drive). But nothing worked and it always ended up with ExitBS:START
Tried to troubleshoot with ChatGPT / Gemini and Grok but nothing really worked.

Your EFI is not as per the guide!

You shouldn't be requiring MmioWhitelist. Secondly, set ResizeAppleGpuBars to -1 and disable ResizeBAR in BIOS. Why are you using EnableWriteUnprotector+RebuildAppleMemoryMap together?
Remove all the device properties except for the Audio.
Given that your hardware is not Dell/SONY, you should not use CustomSMBIOSGuid+Custom.

 

[JoMei]

Alright here is what I did so far:
1. I disabled all the MmioWhitelists resulting in a Kernel Panic on my Sonoma installation
2. I enabled the Whitelists again and removed CustomSmbios and changed "custom" to "create" in "PI" Section resulting in MacOS Sonoma booting normaly
3. Then I removed all DPs besides audio and disabled EnableWriteUnprotector and enabled RebuildAppleMemoryMap + set ResizeAppleGpuBars to -1 -> MacOS Sonoma boots normaly again.
4. I tried the offline installer -> Again the same issue as before all those modifications (Stuck at ExitBS:START)
5. Sadly the same issue with the online installer (Settings App)

Here is my EFI + some Logs from boot:

33.54 MB file on MEGA

mega.nz

 

[EliteMacx86]

Alright here is what I did so far:
1. I disabled all the MmioWhitelists resulting in a Kernel Panic on my Sonoma installation
2. I enabled the Whitelists again and removed CustomSmbios and changed "custom" to "create" in "PI" Section resulting in MacOS Sonoma booting normaly
3. Then I removed all DPs besides audio and disabled EnableWriteUnprotector and enabled RebuildAppleMemoryMap + set ResizeAppleGpuBars to -1 -> MacOS Sonoma boots normaly again.
4. I tried the offline installer -> Again the same issue as before all those modifications (Stuck at ExitBS:START)
5. Sadly the same issue with the online installer (Settings App)

Here is my EFI + some Logs from boot:

33.54 MB file on MEGA

mega.nz

A few other issues remain:

- Remove ResetLogoStatus
- Remove MmioWhitelist and the related patch
- Remove NootedRed
- Remove NVMeFix
- Remove AirportItlwm
- Remove AMFIPass
- Remove AMDRyzenCPUPowerManagement
- Remove DummyPowerManagement

Beside this, why have you enabled all the tools?
Does the BIOS has ResizeBAR, 4G Decoding option?
The offline installer, is that created with createinstallmedia?

 

[JoMei]

A few other issues remain:

- Remove ResetLogoStatus
- Remove MmioWhitelist and the related patch
- Remove NootedRed
- Remove NVMeFix
- Remove AirportItlwm
- Remove AMFIPass
- Remove AMDRyzenCPUPowerManagement
- Remove DummyPowerManagement

Beside this, why have you enabled all the tools?
Does the BIOS has ResizeBAR, 4G Decoding option?
The offline installer, is that created with createinstallmedia?

The offline installer was made by olarila (RAW-FILE) and Balena Etcher. And about my BIOS: Sadly I can't find the ResizeBar, 4G Decoding option anywhere. And about the Tools: You mean the Kexts? Should I disable them temporarily for the MacOS installer?

 

[EliteMacx86]

The offline installer was made by olarila (RAW-FILE) and Balena Etcher. And about my BIOS: Sadly I can't find the ResizeBar, 4G Decoding option anywhere. And about the Tools: You mean the Kexts? Should I disable them temporarily for the MacOS installer?

You should create a Recovery based installer. Tools are in Misc>Tools section in the config.plist.

 

[JoMei]

Ah thanks. Should I disable all the tools? Those were enabled in the template I used for my Hackintosh from GitHub thats why I am not exactly sure which ones I should disable.

 

[EliteMacx86]

Ah thanks. Should I disable all the tools? Those were enabled in the template I used for my Hackintosh from GitHub thats why I am not exactly sure which ones I should disable.

Yes, you should.