Life was all good for a year or so on OpenCore and with time I became careless. I was happily running (I think) 14.3 on my Intel macbook pro 2015, Apple proposed an update (I suppose 14.4? Didn't even check) and I went for it. No backups, nothing.
After install & reboot all was well. Then legacy patcher asked to re-install itself to patch everything as usual, and after that reboot trouble started.
The laptop starts fine, I can enter my password, then the boot process hangs and the fan starts blowing. The horizontal progress bar is approximately at 1/3rd the way through. Let it go for a couple hours hoping it was just very slow and no dice.
Tried: * recovery Cmd-R and: no time machine backups + only Captain 10.1 proposed as an install option. * Safe mode doesn't help. Gets stuck in the same place. One of the last messages in safe mode before the hung appears to start is "Opened corefile of size 1 MB", then a little later "port is powering off". There's nothing here that seems to match my symptoms. * following the instructions on OpenCore Install Guide to create a USB recovery stick and I'm probably doing it wrong as the Mac is ignoring the USB stick when I press Option on boot. I never had to choose the kext or settings manually as I the UI did it all for me in the past.
I'm very much desperate. Some of the documents on this laptop have a special meaning to me. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance :)
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