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#Mac hangs on boot how to#
#Mac hangs on boot drivers#
#Mac hangs on boot driver#

Generally rare to see issues here but if you do, try disabling AppleALC and any other audio related kexts.Īnd here we get to the GPU driver initialization, and where WhateverGreen also does its magic. This is where Apple's audio driver comes in, and where AppleALC shines. He'd do better to pirate an OS that ran great You may also get stuck at AppleACPICPU which is just the same error. If this key is missing, then DSMOS will not decrypt the rest of the binaries and you'll get stuck here. This is where our FakeSMC/VirtualSMC come into the scene and do their magic, DSMOS itself is a kext that verifies if your system has an SMC and will request a key.

"Waiting for Root Device" or Prohibited Sign error.

This is where the 15 port limit and USB mapping comes into play, and where the infamous "Waiting for Root Device" errors pops in, main things to check for:

Stuck on RTC., PCI Configuration Begins, Previous Shutdown., HPET, HID: Legacy.

#Mac hangs on boot how to#

Now here we have, this section can be seen as a hardware test for our systems, kexts and SSDTs we injected, and where IOKit starts hardware probs to find devices to attach to.įor more specific info on how to get around this area, see here: Kernel Panic Cannot perform kext summary.Corrupted kexts(or incorrectly setup under your ist -> Kernel -> Add).This section is where SMBIOS data is verified, ACPI tables/Kexts are loaded and macOS tries to get everything in order. This section is commonly referred as the Rooting phase (opens new window): Now that boot.efi has setup everything for us, we now get to watch the kernel do it's thing. Note: In macOS 10.15.4, Apple changed the boot.efi debugging protocol, so things will look quite a bit different from before but all the same rules still apply # XNU/Kernel Handoff If you're getting stuck at this point, there's likely an issue with loading the kernel, main culprits: This is where macOS's bootloader(boot.efi) comes onto the scene, specifically what it does is prep the environment for the kernel to load and where OpenCore injects kexts. If you're having issues booting at this point, main things to check for:įor the rest of the possible issues, see here: OpenCore loads and shows you all possible boot options.ACPI Tables are loaded from EFI/OC/ACPI.Graphics Output Protocol(GOP) is installed.

#Mac hangs on boot drivers#

EFI drivers are loaded from EFI/OC/Drivers.

BOOT圆4.efi is loaded which then chain-loads OpenCore.efi from EFI/OC/.

System locates BOOT圆4.efi on your OpenCore USB under EFI/BOOT/.

System powers on and searches for boot devices.

This section will be brief, as OpenCore boot issues are fairly rare and usually simple user error: While this page won't solve all your issues, it should at least help better understand where in the macOS boot-process you're getting stuck and hopefully give some ideas as to why you're stuck. So with troubleshooting a hackintosh, it can be a bit difficult to really understand where you're getting stuck as the exact keyword you're trying to search for may not match anything on google.

Getting started with ACPI (opens new window).