Upgrade to Monterey not going to plan.

[dz0rpw]

I've gone through the process to try and upgrade from BigSir to Monterey but I'm struggling.

So I updated Opencore to 7.5, removed the old Kernel patches and applied the new ones.
Followed the instructions and changed the following values over:

Replaced with 0C (for the 5900x) to 'B80C0000 0000', 'BA0C0000 0000', and 'BA0C0000 0090'

and set ProvideCurrentCpuInfo to 'true'

and set SecureBootModel to 'Disabled'

However it starts the update, creates the temporary volume, boot from that, then reboots without the temporary volume but when booting to the Monterey Volume, it pauses then reboots. The following is the last few moments from the log:

12:330 00:001 OCAK: SMBIOS Patch success
12:331 00:001 OCAK: Patching invalid size 78000 with 2E9C000 for com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform
12:332 00:001 OCAK: 64-bit CustomSmbiosGuid replace count - 1
12:334 00:001 OCAK: SMBIOS Patch success
12:335 00:001 OCAK: Patching invalid size 1D000 with 2987000 for com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement
12:337 00:001 OCAK: Patch success dummy AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement
12:415 00:078 OC: Prelinked status - Success
12:430 00:014 AAPL: #[EB.LD.LKFS|-?] Ok(0)
12:433 00:002 AAPL: #[EB.LD.LKC|-?] Ok(0)
12:438 00:005 AAPL: #[EB|BST:REV1]
12:442 00:003 AAPL: #[EB|CSR:OUT] 0x00000040
12:444 00:002 AAPL: #[EB.BST.FBS|+]
12:447 00:002 AAPL: #[EB.BST.FBS|ADSZ] 0
12:450 00:002 AAPL: #[EB.BST.FBS|KSSZ] 0
12:454 00:003 AAPL: #[EB|SB:SBGMFNS] x86legacyap.im4m
12:458 00:004 AAPL: #[EB|RHF] usr\standalone\OS.dmg.root_hash
12:465 00:006 AAPL: #[EB|RH:MF] <"usr\\standalone\\OS.dmg.root_hash.x86legacyap.im4m">
12:472 00:006 AAPL: #[EB.LD.LF|IN] 0 1 <"usr\\standalone\\OS.dmg.root_hash"> <"0">
12:480 00:008 AAPL: #[EB.LD.LF|IN] 0 1 <"usr\\standalone\\OS.dmg.root_hash.x86legacyap.im4m"> <"0">
12:483 00:003 AAPL: #[EB.BST.FBS|RHPSZ] 229
12:486 00:003 AAPL: #[EB.BST.FBS|RHMSZ] 3627
12:487 00:001 OCSMC: SmcReadValue Key 4D535463 Size 1
12:488 00:001 OCSMC: SmcReadValue Key 4D534163 Size 2
12:492 00:003 AAPL: #[EB|LOGT] 2021-11-16T18:38:25
12:497 00:004 AAPL: #[EB|LOG:EXITBS:START] 2021-11-16T18:38:25

My spare USB bootable drive which is always my failsafe also won't boot into it's BigSir, also rebooting in a loop or hanging at something to do with ACPI: Sleep States S3, S4 and S5.

I can still boot into windows and access the EFI volume to make changes and get the log files. The BigSir install had been working for the last 6months...should have stayed put.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Dz

 

[Shaneee]

Are you doing this on the MSI board in your signature? If so them I'm afraid it's not going to work. Some MSI board will work with an older BIOS but you can't do that with a 5000 series CPU. Same reason I swapped my MSI board for an ASUS board.

 

[dz0rpw]

Are you doing this on the MSI board in your signature? If so them I'm afraid it's not going to work. Some MSI board will work with an older BIOS but you can't do that with a 5000 series CPU. Same reason I swapped my MSI board for an ASUS board.

Yes it's as the signature shows...Well that's bad news...

Anyway I can reverse the upgrade and get out of this hole? As I stated I can't even boot the old faithful USB build. Something must have changed in the BIOS...I can't understand how an external device will no longer boot. I've made no changes to it.

 

[Shaneee]

Try clearing the NVRAM before booting back to Big Sur.

 

[dz0rpw]

Try clearing the NVRAM before booting back to Big Sur.

That was one of the first things I tried. Has no effect.

I simply don't understand how upgrading OC and BS>Monterey on one drive can stop a known good external backup volume from booting. My firmware version is the same, the BIOS configuration is the same yet is hangs and then reboots.

 

[Shaneee]

Create a Big Sur installer from Windows and use your current EFI folder and install it WITHOUT formatting. It'll keep your settings, apps and files in place but "refresh" the install.

 

[dz0rpw]

Create a Big Sur installer from Windows and use your current EFI folder and install it WITHOUT formatting. It'll keep your settings, apps and files in place but "refresh" the install.

Well I gave it a try but it didn't work. I got to the point of selecting the installation volume and picked the now greyed out previous boot volume and got "The Operation couldn't be completed. (com.apple.Buildinfo.preflight.error error 21.)".

So I'm currently installing it onto another disk and see if I can get the files back.

 

[dz0rpw]

Well I gave it a try but it didn't work. I got to the point of selecting the installation volume and picked the now greyed out previous boot volume and got "The Operation couldn't be completed. (com.apple.Buildinfo.preflight.error error 21.)".

So I'm currently installing it onto another disk and see if I can get the files back.

Well thanks to Timemachine, TrueNas and Proxmox...we are back up and running. I think I'll have to retry the Monterey update again...but plan a bit better and more time

btw the re-install wouldn't work due to the volume showing as 12.x rather than the 11x I was recovering with. Thanks.