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HELP: Can't update to Sequoia Hackintosh

JoMei

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ASUS ROG Zephyrus G15 GA502IU
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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
 

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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?
 
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.
 
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.
 

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