When updating to 1.4.6 the macbook no longer boots

[ijhoan]

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• [ ] I understand I did the update but it does not load the system

[dosdude1]

Boot off the USB installer once again, re-apply post-install patches, and that should resolve the issue.

[ijhoan]

Thank... Excuse me, is there a step by step? To do the process? What if I no longer have the USB I used when I installed?

[bcslaam]

Hi dosdude1 which forum can we ask non-code related questions on where you will answer?

I used your installer successfully a couple of years ago, thanks :) and have been running up to Catalina 10.15.7 (OS updates without additional patching) since then without issue, but now...

The last few days the Patch Updater v1.01 wants to update Library Validation which doesnt work and messes up my OS. After trying to apply the update, it freezes on restart, then after forced power down, my machine wont boot. I have to use your latest Patcher 1.4.6 in the adjacent High Sierra install, make a new usb installer, then apply the post install to get back up and running. Now Patch Updater keeps asking every couple of hours to do this update. I've tried many times to do it but my OS gets hosed every time.

The Patch Updater was never updated beyond 1.01 and so it apparently doesnt successfully apply any of these new updates. Also a weird thing has happened, there is no delete/uninstall option for any of my apps from Launchpad anymore. Before these attempted updates the minus sign when holding option in Lauchpad was visible.

1. Is 1.01 the current version for the updater app? How do I update the Updater?
2. Why did this only happen in the last few days? It seems the last updates you made where a couple of months ago.
3. Then is it possible it has been compromised and become a hack vector? If we dont update the patches does our security risk increase?
4. If there's no problem with the OS now, apart from Updater wanting to update a patch etc, wouldn't this indicate that it's not necessary to do this update?
5. How do I uninstall or disable its requests to update? Provided there's no security risk and I dont use Safari.

If the OS updates itself and it wont boot, needing a patch update, I can solve that with your latest installer USB. To me thats a much better solution instead of an auto-update I cant disable.

Model Identifier: MacBookPro8,1 Boot ROM Version: 87.0.0.0.0 OSX 10.15.7 (updated by OS, no patching required) default post installs applied

[wapenshaw]

Boot off the USB installer once again, re-apply post-install patches, and that should resolve the issue.

@dosdude1 Thanks, after the latest patch from the patcher, by MacBook air 2011 refused to boot. It was stuck at 99% booting screen (apple logo and progress bar). After booting from the USB made from 1.4.7 and applying the post install patches, it booted again normally. Thanks. Will remember this for next time it gives up booting :)

Thank... Excuse me, is there a step by step? To do the process? What if I no longer have the USB I used when I installed?

@ijhoan Ok I had the same problem. I didn't know what was causing and I didn't know about this repo when I was trying to fix it. I don't have a spare mac to make a catalina patcher boot usb so I had to use a Windows PC. Here is what I did:

1. Go to gibmacos download the scripts, run gibMacOS.bat and select the latest officially supported version of MacOS (for me it was High Sierra).
2. Execute the MakeInstall.bat (make sure you have the USB > 7GB connected) and select the appropriate prompts
3. This will create a bootable USB from which you can boot on the broken mac
4. Boot from this USB (press option key right after boot for start-up manager), connect to your wifi.
5. Open disk utility and erase the drive you want to install the OS to ITS SHOUD NOT BE APFS IT SHOULD BE MACOS JOURNALED FILE SYSTEM
6. After erasing close disk utility and select the Re-install macOS option. I will connect to the apple servers and install the latest officially supported verion on the system.
7. It will boot back to a fresh install of macOS and you then can use this patcher from there again and create a USB and use it.

I know this a repetitive process, but I didn't have the USB created from the patcher and I had no other mac available for me to create the bootable usb.

[tejasraman]

@bcslaam I was discussing a different patch work @dosdude1 and he implemented it - and then reversed it. The non-metal updates are because he wanted to improve the driver.

[tejasraman]

@bcslaam I was discussing a different patch work @dosdude1 and he implemented it - and then reversed it. The metal updates are because he wanted to improve the drive.

@wapenshaw Use APFS if your laptop supports High Sierra

@ijhoan Boot the USB, click macOS post install and install patches.

[bcslaam]

Thanks it has seemed to stop requesting the update. Kudos for dosdude1 wanting to improve the video driver. I just hope he will consider enabling updates as optional so users can wait until it is more proven.

Also, sorry for hijacking your thread. I didn't see my issue worth starting a new thread, and thought it was related.

What is the version of your updater (not the usb installer) mine is stuck at v1.01 even though I have booted to a newly created usb and installed 1.4.7 post installs.

[tejasraman]

Patch updater version is always 1.01.