Update from 14.4 to 14.4.1

[madvinegar]

Just a heads up that if you plan to update your system from 14.4 to 14.4.1 you need again to follow the below steps:

1. Opencore must be updated to 0.99.
2. Remove/disable any kexts related to wifi and bluetooth. (Airportltlwm, BluetoolFixup, IntelBluetoothFirmware, IntelBTPatcher).
3. Set securebootmodel to Disabled.
5. After installation re-enable the wifi and BT kexts (AirportItlwm.kext must be the one for Sonoma14.4-v2.3.0-DEBUG).
6. Set securebootmodel back to Default.
7. Reboot.

 

[arunhk3]

Thanks for posting! This should help someone like it helped me from a Reddit post (same ifnfo as yours).

 

[backinblackx86]

any downsides to leaving secureboot as disabled?

 

[Edhawk]

It can be reset to ‘Default’ once the update has completed.

 

[Edhawk]

I am happy to read you didn't have any issues with your macOS Sonoma update, but it has not been everyone else's experience. So saying it's not true is not correct. It just happens that you didn't encounter the same issues. It is hard to say if this was you being fortunate or did you have something else in your config that allowed the update to complete?

Plenty of people on this and other Hackintosh sites have had to use the SecureBootModel change in order to install Sonoma 14.4.1. Otherwise they faced a kernel panic, or black screen during the installation.

 

[madvinegar]

I think you get these problems if you have an intel network card. If you do, for sure you have to disable the Airportltlwm, BluetoolFixup, IntelBluetoothFirmware, IntelBTPatcher kexts before updating.

 

[Edhawk]

I had to change the SecureBootModel entry on an Intel Skylake Hack that I wanted to update, it doesn’t have any WiFi/BT devices. This is a system that is used as a macOS server on my home network, it doesn‘t need WiFi or Bluetooth, plus it has a 10G PCIe network adapter.

 

[madvinegar]

You keep saying "not true". It is true for many systems. Maybe it is not true for your system but it is for others.
Apart from the thread I opened when updating to 14.4 (where some others were also facing the same problem and assisted me to update) I also checked in youtube and found this post:

You see? True.

 

[DarkSilentSC]

I didnt follow the instruction above, yet I managed to update to 14.4.1. However I have several issues: Aquantia NIC stopped working but Intel gigabit ethernet is working.
Broadcom WiFi/BT stopped working despite Opencore legacy patcher.