Hello! I installed Monterey a few months ago on my 2012 Retina 15" Macbook Pro via OCLP. It's mostly been great but in the fall it stopped booting up.
When I looked at the bootup process in verbose mode I found that it was freezing at different points seemingly at random, so it was hard to diagnose what the problem was. On normal mode it would freeze about 1/4 or 1/5 into the progress bar loading process.
I forget what I did, but after trying different boot procedures it ended up working and all was well until November.
In November I was using the laptop as I normally would. While the Mega sync daemon was running I turned off the wi-fi card which caused the computer to crash. Since then it hasn't booted properly again.
From forum posts, I uninstalled some OCLP-related .kext files with Terminal which has allowed me to be able to boot in safe mode. Of course it sucks running the operating system without any of the OCLP-provided drivers (installed during the OCLP post-install root patching procedure), especially the Nvidia graphics drivers.
When installing those drivers (Nvidia and also some Intel chipset drivers I believe) now it once again starts freezing at that same 1/4 or 1/5 point in the boot process.
Chatgpt suggested simply reinstalling Monterey, but this looks to have been a hallucination as it doesn't seem to be possible without a full drive wipe. I could upgrade further to see if an OS reinstall would help but people in online discussions have suggested Monterey as the best OS for this specific Macbook.
Anyone have any thoughts about what to do? I'd like to avoid a full reinstall if possible. Thanks so much! :-)
PS - thanks to any OCLP devs reading this! Apple sucks, thanks for helping them suck less. :-)
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