I played with Sonoma 14.0 and OCLP 1.0.0 on an ancient spare MacPro 3.1 with RX580 and SSD. Amazingly, it installed and can boot OK with a few well-known Wi-Fi and BT problems (which are not a worry b/c Ethernet is working fine). The only annoyance is that shutdown reboots a minute or so later. I've tried the sudo pmset -a hibernate 0 terminal command recommended as the temporary fix but it seems not to work. Are there any other possible fixes besides a hard power button off shutdown?
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have you tried running "sudo shutdown -h now" in terminal to see if that makes shut down faster?
I don't know if macOS has a reboot command like Linux, and I don't remember the restart flag for the shutdown command, so at least that command will work to turn off the machine.
Edit #2, yes, it has /usr/bin/reboot, so also try that with the sudo command.
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That's super useful to know: thank you.
So, to follow up on this, I was able to fix the Watch issue. I found a help thread with same issue (non OCLP related from 2019) that said to logout of Facetime on the Mac and Phone and log back into both. I did that, and surprisingly enough, I now get the prompt on the watch!
No freezing so far with 1.0.0 either. All looking really good so far!
Interesting and the sudo shutdown -h now does still work BUT the cMP 3,1 still reboots about 30 seconds later.
updated my 2014 Mac mini headless server to Sonoma that was running Ventura with OCLP. Logged in through screen sharing from my MacBook Air to process the updates.
updated OCLP to 1.0.0 and then rebooted. did my update to OTA to Sonoma and rebooted again. was met with a HUGE amount of processor lag upon reaching the log in screen, so much I was unable to log in and was met with network errors (unable to connect). I was able to access all of its internal drives without issue from the network screen, so I know it was booting. I was able to reboot it via SSH in terminal using its IP address from my laptop. I was finally able to get to the log in screen and just patiently waited for the beach balling to slow down enough to be able to type the log in password and log in. once logged it, it ran much quicker and I was able to open OCLP and process the post install root patches. immediately, the fan slowed down and the CPU temp started to recover. must've been the networking patch that I was locked up on.
so far now all is working well. thanks to the team and everyone else who helps to make this all possible!
updated OCLP to 1.0.0 and then rebooted. did my update to OTA to Sonoma and rebooted again. was met with a HUGE amount of processor lag upon reaching the log in screen, so much I was unable to log in and was met with network errors (unable to connect). I was able to access all of its internal drives without issue from the network screen, so I know it was booting. I was able to reboot it via SSH in terminal using its IP address from my laptop. I was finally able to get to the log in screen and just patiently waited for the beach balling to slow down enough to be able to type the log in password and log in. once logged it, it ran much quicker and I was able to open OCLP and process the post install root patches. immediately, the fan slowed down and the CPU temp started to recover. must've been the networking patch that I was locked up on.
so far now all is working well. thanks to the team and everyone else who helps to make this all possible!
The internal drive is not showing up in the drives to install the macOS Sonoma... only external drives are showing up... I was able to install on 15.4 inch 2016 model without any issues.
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All well with OCLP 1.0.0 and MBP11,3 on Sonoma 14.0; while with MBP11,1 on Ventura 13.6 there are some minor glitches: it wants to root patch not only for Intel Haswell, but also for the PCIe FaceTime camera (didn’t happen with 0.6.8/0.6.9n: thus, is this now necessary also on Ventura?) and after rebooting it re-offers the root patches again (while it should say that all patches are already installed). So, it looks like OCLP 1.0.0 is optimised mainly for Sonoma, but not yet for Ventura (similarly to 0.6.x for Ventura vs. Monterey): anyway, only minor glitches, as everything seems to work as it should…
Same issue here bluetooth not working on my imac 12.2 everything else is working fine 👍🏻
May I afford a stupid question? When installing new OS from USB, is it mandatory to have OpenCore on it or may I rely on existing OpenCore previously installed on target disk?
MBP 12,1 16GB RAM. Sonoma OCLP 1.0. Ran great on a spare MBP 12,1 test machine so put it on daily driver. Everything I use works
- Thunderbolt Display with Magic Keyboard 2 and Magic TrackPad 2
- First login took awhile, fan spun up for awhile (I guess indexing). Afterwards smooth as silk
- iCloud, Brave Browser, youtube, Mail, Message, zoom all work
- Mail converted mailbox, Photo converted pics.
- VirtualBox VM w/Win10 to run iPhone/Auto diag/repair tools.
Amazing work! OCLP on a few machines shows progress is generally cumulative. Seems later versions are generally always better with more compat and less anomaly.
- Thunderbolt Display with Magic Keyboard 2 and Magic TrackPad 2
- First login took awhile, fan spun up for awhile (I guess indexing). Afterwards smooth as silk
- iCloud, Brave Browser, youtube, Mail, Message, zoom all work
- Mail converted mailbox, Photo converted pics.
- VirtualBox VM w/Win10 to run iPhone/Auto diag/repair tools.
Amazing work! OCLP on a few machines shows progress is generally cumulative. Seems later versions are generally always better with more compat and less anomaly.
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Installed Sonoma on MBP12,1, 8gb RAM with OCLP 1.0 without any issues. The whole installation process felt faster than Monterey to Ventura.
Though the first login after installation (before running root patches) was super slow to enter the password.
Though the first login after installation (before running root patches) was super slow to enter the password.
On my iMac 17,1, Sonoma works exactly like Ventura (also through OCLP) with one exception: video thumbnails, in Finder or Photos.app seem corrupted (not always) with a bright green color.
It's the only difference I have noticed.
The other problems (VMWare graphics acceleration, Xcode debug with real devices, DRM videos in Safari) are common to both systems.
It's the only difference I have noticed.
The other problems (VMWare graphics acceleration, Xcode debug with real devices, DRM videos in Safari) are common to both systems.
Not a stupid question and no you can boot from SSD EFI.
Just make sure you have the correct version of OCLP on the disk you want to boot from before you start the install.
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As we have compared performance of the same rMBP that we have, may I ask if you notice more fans than in Ventura?
Sonoma works as well or better than Ventura here and the running of the fans is my only issue-ish.
The new nice screensavers still make the fans run quite a bit. Probably to be expected, as they are notorious CPU/GPU hogs. I did a wipe and reinstall for 14.0. Happy, just curious if others also see/hear more fans.
I saw this too on some of the computers when updating. Forced restarts a few times fixed it. Needed to redo root patches on one.
The widgets are a known issue on native Sonoma generally also and seems to require some fixing from Apple and 3d parties. Maybe give it some time as it's a new feature.
The graphics performance will always suffer more or less before root patch is applied.
Loggging in and out of FaceTime has fixed continuity Camera on some installs here.
Sorry for the partial OT (ideally, this should be in the Ventura discussion), but it looks like a fix is already in the works (taken from the OCLP 1.0.1 changelog; don’t know if it’s for the camera, however):
- Remove CoreImage patch for 3802 GPUs on Ventura
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I NEVER update when a major update is what we are talking about.
ALWAYS a clean install and Migration Assistante from a backup.
You won´t believe the amount of liitle problemes you avoid.
ALWAYS a clean install and Migration Assistante from a backup.
You won´t believe the amount of liitle problemes you avoid.
Any problems with the touchbar? The info from OCLP was that the Touch ID, ApplePay and Built-in Password Manager in Safari and System Settings does not work. Could you confirm?
And, if the internal drive is not showing up, does it mean that you have installed it in an external drive?
Thanks in advance,