Sonoma Crashing on Startup

[kyle.tyrrell]

Hi All,

Really hoping someone can help. I’m having a recurring issue with Sonoma crashing at the same place multiple times (see image).

Background… this started happening about 3 weeks ago on my M1 MacBook Pro which was using the latest public beta release of Sonoma. Tried all of the usual recovery options and just couldn’t get it to load up. So took the nuclear option and did a hard erase and reinstall of the most stable Sonoma release. Fast forward 24 hours and it happened again, this time went through apple support and they tried all the usual stuff but concluded with it needing an erase and reinstall again or else they believed it was a hardware issue, which I did… everything worked for about a week and then it did it again… so I assumed hardware issue and just went and bought a new M3 MacBook Pro.

All fixed for the last 3 weeks… until today when the exact same issue has happened.

So it must be a software issue but I just can’t understand what’s causing it given that it won’t even boot up in safe mode which to be suggests it’s an OS issue rather than something I have installed?

Has anyone else had this / found a fix as currently the only fix I have is to do a hard erase and reinstall which is such a time drain to get everything set up exactly how I want it every time.

Also anything I can try other than safe mode to try and force a boot and perhaps run from diagnostics?

Thanks in advance!

Kyle

 

[Bigwaff]

I’m having a recurring issue with Sonoma crashing at the same place multiple times (see image).

When you say “crashing”, does the machine enter a boot loop, or does it freeze there for a length of time and shutdown?

 

[kyle.tyrrell]

When you say “crashing”, does the machine enter a boot loop, or does it freeze there for a length of time and shutdown?

Hi! No boot loop, just freezes, it just sticks there for an indefinite length of time, it doesn’t shut down at least i have not left it long enough but its been left for a few hours at least before. Thanks, Kyle

 

[Mac Hammer Fan]

Does it freezes in the safe mode too? I would avoid beta's.

 

[kyle.tyrrell]

Does it freezes in the safe mode too? I would avoid beta's.

Hi - Yep when booting up in Safe Mode it does exactly the same thing. I wasn’t running the beta. Originally when the issue first happened i was and that’s when I thought it was a beta issue but since then have just been running the latest non beta release. Thanks.

 

[Bigwaff]

You may have to resort to using Apple Configurator on another Mac and restore your MBP from Sonoma image.