I was running OpenCore just fine on a Late 2013 Mac Pro, an external drive patched to Sonoma. I have the internal SSD out for all of this to keep it safe. Well, I was encountering some bugs with Sonoma so figured I’d wipe the drive and redo everything to Ventura instead.
However, every time I would reboot, after the Apple chime, I would just see a faint black screen for maybe four minutes (the display would turn on but nothing would happen). Eventually, an Apple Logo would appear. Then, the progress bar. It would eventually boot back into the drive just fine, but somethings going on here beforehand.
I tried to enter recovery mode from the boot picker, but the picker was being extremely slow and unresponsive. No matter what I tried to do, pressing space bar in the EFI boot picker would just boot whatever was selected and I wouldn’t be able to do anything.
Frustrated beyond belief, I shut down and wiped the drive via a second computer I had. I plugged the blank drive back into the Mac Pro and held command+R to get me into normal recovery mode.
Nothing. Just the same blank screen for minutes and minutes.
I finally gave up and let go and the machine is now trying to load up internet recovery, but at a very slow pace.
I am baffled. I can’t even boot into recovery mode and I don’t know what’s gone wrong.
Can someone please work me through this? I’ve been trying to just erase a drive and reinstall the native MacOS all day, and I can’t even do that.
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