--- title: macOS Sonoma Boot Failures | daily.dev description: macOS Sonoma and macOS Ventura 13.6 were released with multiple serious bugs in their upgrade and boot process. This can result in a black screen boot issue... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/macos-sonoma-boot-failures-urerqydg5 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: macOS Sonoma Boot Failures | daily.dev og:description: macOS Sonoma and macOS Ventura 13.6 were released with multiple serious bugs in their upgrade and boot process. This can result in a black screen boot issue... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/macos-sonoma-boot-failures-urerqydg5 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/uRErqydG5.png og:image:alt: macOS Sonoma Boot Failures og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # macOS Sonoma Boot Failures **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary macOS Sonoma and macOS Ventura 13.6 were released with multiple serious bugs in their upgrade and boot process. This can result in a black screen boot issue for certain MacBook Pro models. The bugs include using the previously installed version as System Recovery, incompatibility between older RecoveryOS and newer firmware, and incorrect display refresh rate settings. Users can fix the issue by using DFU mode or upgrading to Sonoma. Data loss is not expected. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#asahi-linux](https://daily.dev/tags/asahi-linux) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/macos-sonoma-boot-failures-urerqydg5) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"macOS Sonoma Boot Failures","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/macos-sonoma-boot-failures-urerqydg5","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/macos-sonoma-boot-failures-urerqydg5"},"datePublished":"2023-10-31T22:13:07.310Z","dateModified":"2026-10-14T02:19:24.051Z","description":"macOS Sonoma and macOS Ventura 13.6 were released with multiple serious bugs in their upgrade and boot process. This can result in a black screen boot issue...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/6bbeedbc7fe0c8ad52880291a6b5f0df?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/6bbeedbc7fe0c8ad52880291a6b5f0df?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/macos-sonoma-boot-failures-urerqydg5","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"asahi-linux","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"macOS Sonoma Boot Failures"}]} ```