macOS Sonoma on a Lenovo L440

macOS Sonoma on a Lenovo L440

I had managed to previously install Mojave, Catalina, was stuck on Monterey and not getting it to boot Ventura, Then someone else on here had managed to get it booting and installed perfectly fine on Ventura (no sleep tho which is okay, im not smart enough with Opencore to know how to fix it) but that gave me enough to attempt this with macOS Sonoma! If this post gets enough requests, ill dump a copy of a booting and ready EFI (scrambled serial ofc) that should just work (no sleep still)

What works?

  • almost everything except iphone mirrioring (missing T2 chip)

what doesnt?

  • Sleep (if device goes to sleep, it crashes and makes my thinkpad beep 6 times before halting (not shutting down)) <- this can be fixed, im just not expierenced enough with Opencore, i have gotten around this by using [ sudo pmset disablesleep 1 ] <- fully disables sleep all-together
  • some iServices (the wifi card was dropped in Ventura, so was added back by OpenIntel something (fantastic team of people keeping old wifi cards working with a simple drag and drop) <- There is a fix already availible, but since i dont use the iServices, theres no need to fix them (for me at least)

Laptop specs

i5-4200M

Intel HD 4600

8GB Ram

1TB samsung EVO sata SSD

intel 7260 AC wifi card (works OOB on macOS 13 and lower)

the audio is either Intel HD audio or Realtek HD audio (not 100% sure)

Edit3: reddit is refusing to let me upload a screenshot, so im sorry for the edits

https://preview.redd.it/m299nri7wntd1.png?width=1366&format=png&auto=webp&s=e76c6a7674ead4ce355cae6c9b9fdb9846a486a9

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