macOS 14 Sonoma on Unsupported Macs Thread

[Marfan-58]

Hello dear friend @Marfan-58. I just updated to Sonoma 14.2 from the installer App which the installer package puts in the Applications folder by default.
So, in my iMac, perfectly identical to yours, Airplay works fine and of course AirDrop works too.
Likewise, when iMac appears as a speaker on iPhone and is selected, iMac plays audio.
As for the rest, everything works, including "Continuity Camera" with my iPhone 12.
So far I've found that only iMessage stickers don't work.
Maybe try resetting the NVRAM when the Mac starts but please, he keeps holding down the Option-P-R keys until he hears the Gong sound four times! At least I did it that way.

Hi OKonnel. That’s good to hear. I’ve used the NVRAM reset to good effect on my older 10,1 iMac to fix Bluetooth issues, so I’ll give it a try on the 14,2 when I next boot into Sonoma. Still using Ventura as the main OS until I’m happy that updates are stable. As I recall, things settled down last year after 13.3.1 and the AMFI pass fix, so hopefully it will be similar after 14.3 or so. I’ll let you know how I get on.

Update: NVRAM reset on my 14,2 iMac has fixed Airplay Receiver. Thanks @OKonnel
incidentally, I’m not seeing the issue with invisible menu bar icons after wake or restart. Confirm, stickers in Messages does not work, it just quits after a second or so.

 

[amaze1499]

The only issued I've been having since upgrading to macOS Sonoma 14.2 (from 14.1.2 via OTA & OCLP 1.3.0), I am having this kernel panic every time the iMac 15,1 goes to sleep.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to fix this issues or a work around?

Any help is greatly appreciated -- many thanks!

Same issue when booted in safe mode or with unpatched system or different user? PRAM reset was performed?

 

[houser]

Guys, I need some help. In updating my MBP11,4 to Sonoma 14.2 (update window download - about 13 gb, install, restart in Safe Mode, apply patch, restart etc...), I - somehow - renamed my main macOS drive - o' and I can't figure out how.

This was recently discussed here. It is Apple by design. It will update the next time you update the OS.
There might be a terminal command for it also.

 

[olad]

This was recently discussed here. It is Apple by design. It will update the next time you update the OS.
There might be a terminal command for it also.

Many thanks.

 

[amaze1499]

Guys, I need some help. In updating my MBP11,4 to Sonoma 14.2 (update window download - about 13 gb, install, restart in Safe Mode, apply patch, restart etc...), I - somehow - renamed my main macOS drive - o' and I can't figure out how. So I renamed the SSD back to macOS, did FirstAid test with Disk Utility and confirmed the drive's label - macOS. There were no errors, and I rebooted starting with Option, only to find the drive's name didn't change (from o'). Yet, the drive boots normally and has the macOS name on the desktop. It is not causing me any grief, but I would prefer to remove the o' name from the drive. Can anyone advise me how to go about it? I am using OCLP 1.30. Thanks.

Either: Click and press enter on the main drive icon on the desktop

Or

Open diskutility select the drives (incl the - Data) there, double click into the name and change it to whatever you prefer.

If you talk about the name listed in the boot picker, simply create a new snapshot using OCLPs and unpatch/repatch system.

The latter worked for me as I had seemingly the same issue a while back.

 

[INK1]

Still facing problems with Parallels on my MacBook Pro 11,5 from mid 2015. Using Sonoma 14.2 and Parallels 19.2.0
Has anybody had success with same Mac?
Icons are showing in Menus and dropdown, but without any text. Files on desktop are showing icons and text. Edge is black screen.
Was working fine in Ventura.

 

[luckyduke23]

Still facing problems with Parallels on my MacBook Pro 11,5 from mid 2015. Using Sonoma 14.2 and Parallels 19.2.0
Has anybody had success with same Mac?
Icons are showing in Menus and dropdown, but without any text. Files on desktop are showing icons and text. Edge is black screen.
Was working fine in Ventura.

I still use Parallels 18 and have almost no issues. Sometimes menus are not accessible and hide behind the open application or info boxes open in the background and I first need to use Mission Control to see all open windows to select the info box. But I have a different machine.

 

[m4f1050]

MacPro 5,1 question:

Using Monterey and happy with it, but what is the best and fastest video card supported by OCLP? Is it still the RX580 or is there a better & beefier video card? Pref. without emulation.

 

[INK1]

I still use Parallels 18 and have almost no issues. Sometimes menus are not accessible and hide behind the open application or info boxes open in the background and I first need to use Mission Control to see all open windows to select the info box. But I have a different machine.

Thank you for the reply. I suspect it has to do with drivers for the GPU´s, but I have not cracked it yet. Fall back is to reinstall Ventura and use my backup from Timemachine.

 

[INK1]

Possibly Parallels 19.2 and/or the Windows 11 graphics driver under the VM aren't handling the discrete graphics switching properly on the MBP 11,5. First thing I would check is the setting shown in this tech note.

KB Parallels: How does Parallels Desktop for Mac work with Mac video cards?

To make sure this option is enabled go to > > >

kb.parallels.com

EDIT - it looks like there have been some issues with the AMD driver under Windows 11. Most recent release was December 5th. Next thing I would try is a running Windows update in the VM and see if it finds a new driver from Microsoft. If not, then download the latest AMD driver from their site.

Thanks. I will try that.

 

[5T33Z0]

iMac11,3:

• Updated to macOS 14.3 Beta (23D5033f) succesfully
• Patching with OCLP 1.3 worked without issues
• Bluetooth needs NVRAM Reset in order to work.

 

[dogen]

An odd behavior noted today on a 2013 MacBook Air 6,2 with Sonoma 14.2 and OCLP 1.3 on a separate volume. While working on my main laptop, also, as it happens, an MBA 6,2, I heard the other's startup chime while the lid was closed. I thought perhaps the battery had drained, but it was at 48% (although the calibration may be misleading). I plugged it in and it started up with the Apple logo and cigarette-style progress bar, returning to the login screen, where I logged in normally. This is better than 14.1 with 1.21, where the laptop would require the power key to awaken from an overnight sleep, but it's still unusual behavior. I've seen it reported elsewhere on the MacRumors forums for other machines with standard OS installations. Just an FYI. Will see if an NVRAM reset will resolve this issue.

By the way, to repeat yesterday's query about data on a separate volume from an OCLP installation, if anyone has thoughts about whether to migrate data or simply leave it on the volume with the Apple-supported OS (Big Sur here), I'm interested to hear them.

 

[tennisproha]

Just wanna add a data point since I saw none. mac mini 6,2 updated to sonoma 14.2 after OCLP 1.3 update. no issues thus far aside from the usual quirks, mainly various safari issues fixed on reboot, screensaver unusable due to fan spin.

 

[justperry]

I recently received a prompt saying that "OpenCore Legacy Patcher has detected that you are booting an outdated OpenCore Build."

It says I booted from 0.6.8 but have 1.2.1 installed and is asking me if I would like to update the OpenCore bootloader. Will I break anything/experience any issues if I click OK and update the bootloader? I'm hesitant to do so, as I've had to reinstall previously and would like to avoid doing so again, if possible.

For reference, I'm on a Late 2012 Mac mini running Ventura 13.5.1.

You never have to do a reinstall if, after an OCLP upgrade, the system is unbootable.

There are several ways to do this, for instance, log into a separate bootable system, run an earlier OCLP version to then downgrade the EFI partition/Folder.

 

[PropClear]

Short info, Samsung dropped a new firmware for NVMe 990 PRO Version: 4B2QJXD7 works fine with Sonoma (updated via Magician under Win11 23H2 i've best experience using always newest firmware on Samsung SSD's)

 

[0134168]

MacPro 5,1 question:

Using Monterey and happy with it, but what is the best and fastest video card supported by OCLP? Is it still the RX580 or is there a better & beefier video card? Pref. without emulation.

I use a Vega 64.

 

[davec56]

Same issue when booted in safe mode or with unpatched system or different user? PRAM reset was performed?

Thanks for the suggestions -- I haven't done NVRAM reset in some time. I didn't have this issue under macOS Ventura 13.6.1 & OCLP 1.2.1 before I upgraded to macOS Sonoma.

 

[chris1111]

New Icon set Flavours-Apple3D for macOS Sonoma 14
Enjoy

Setup Flavours-Apple3D themes in config.plist ⬇︎​

• Misc -> Boot -> HideAuxiliary: false
• Misc -> Boot -> PickerVariant: chris1111\Flavours-Apple3D
• Misc -> Boot -> PickerAtributes: 145
• Misc -> Boot -> Picker Mode :-> External
• Misc -> Boot -> Timeout -> : 5
• Misc -> Boot -> ShowPicker: true

Attacing theme here

Edit 18 dec 2023
Correction Windows11_Alt1.icns icon for the Flavours-Apple3D theme
attaching the correct icon here

 

[OKonnel]

Hi everyone. I helped a friend to install macOS Sonoma 14.2 on his MacBook Pro 15-inch late 2013 with CPU i7 and nVidia GT750M (MacBookPro11,3). He used OCLP 1.3.0.
It all works fine, but he can't get Continuity Camera to work, he can't edit photos in Photos.app, and subject isolation in photos works in the Finder, but it doesn't work in Photos.app.
Is it normal with this Mac?
In my iMac late 2013 with the same i7 CPU and nVidia GTX780M everything works and I find it strange that in his case there are these defects.
Thanks on behalf of my friend for your attention and replies.

 

[INK1]

Thanks. I will try that.

I have now tried all possible settings without luck. I retried installing Ventura on external SSD. Worked fine with Parallels and Windows 11. Then I updated Ventura to Sonoma 14.2 which involved download of new KDK 14.2. I suspect something is wrong with this KDK, but I am not smart enough to figure out what. Have to wait to see if the OCLP team will solve it? Thanks anyhow for your comments.

 

[mode11]

MacPro 5,1 question:

Using Monterey and happy with it, but what is the best and fastest video card supported by OCLP? Is it still the RX580 or is there a better & beefier video card? Pref. without emulation.

The RX6600XT is a good option. Twice the performance of an RX580 and uses about 50W less power, so you can run it using your existing PCIe power cables. May need the vBIOS patching first; you can't use Windows on the MP to do this, as it's a hardware issue (something to do with the Mac's very old EFI implementation IIRC) - will need to use a (vaguely modern) PC. It's possible that OC or a BootROM patch has worked around this issue by now though; I haven't kept up with the scene since selling my MP.

 

[iam2diezel]

You never have to do a reinstall if, after an OCLP upgrade, the system is unbootable.

There are several ways to do this, for instance, log into a separate bootable system, run an earlier OCLP version to then downgrade the EFI partition/Folder.

Thanks for this. While I'm pretty savvy, I'm also fairly new to OCLP in general, and have been figuring things out as I go. I'll keep this in mind should I experience any issues in the future.

 

[iam2diezel]

Should be no problem, but maybe install OCLP 1.3.0 first install and repatch because 1.2.1 is also outdated - may also take a look at https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/START.html & https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/releases ;-) fingers crossed.

Everything worked out, thankfully! Appreciate the response and the suggestion.

 

[amaze1499]

Hi everyone. I helped a friend to install macOS Sonoma 14.2 on his MacBook Pro 15-inch late 2013 with CPU i7 and nVidia GT750M (MacBookPro11,3). He used OCLP 1.3.0.
It all works fine, but he can't get Continuity Camera to work, he can't edit photos in Photos.app, and subject isolation in photos works in the Finder, but it doesn't work in Photos.app.
Is it normal with this Mac?
In my iMac late 2013 with the same i7 CPU and nVidia GTX780M everything works and I find it strange that in his case there are these defects.
Thanks on behalf of my friend for your attention and replies.

@Photos - can't edit photos in Photos.app

Does it work in a new photolibrary in the same user?
Does it work in a new user?
Same issue after repairing the library?
Can you drag and drop any picture from the lib in question to the desktop and back?
Oldie but goldie: Does it work in safe mode?

 

[MacGeekYYC]

I suspect something is wrong with this KDK

It may be this turns out to be an unresolvable issue.

But, I still have a couple of thoughts.

Since you have two systems, one with the issue and one without, what do you see in the console log immediately after launching Parallels? Any errors or different entries on the MBP than the iMac?

If nothing obviously different after launching Parallels, any difference in the logs after launching your VM?

Finally, since according to Parallels they depend on the Mac OS for the video switching setting, I wonder what would happen if you set the MBP to use the discrete video card only before launching Parallels?

I wonder if this might help?

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