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My ~2013 macbook pro has this issue where, if AppleThunderboltNHI.kext is loaded, it will crash and restart every couple minutes on batteries. I'm not the only
by tekstar 6y ago
My ~2013 macbook pro has this issue where, if AppleThunderboltNHI.kext is loaded, it will crash and restart every couple minutes on batteries. I'm not the only one with this issue. If you google that kext you'll see it's an issue with a lot of us and it's a shame that it's such a dumb problem because otherwise this 9 year old laptop is absolutely great to work with. SSD, 2.3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, 16 GB RAM. Magsafe and good keyboard.
So anyways, this locked-down system volume is a real problem because typically after a system update I reboot into recovery mode, disable CSR, remove the kext, re-enable CSR and then I'm good until the next OS update where the kext is re-added and my computer starts to crash again.
It seems like a bigger issue now to remove that kext, to deal with Apple's own software problem, to keep using my old laptop. What a pain.
- katbyte 6y agoI believe it is possible to unseal the volume and disable these protections, a quick google seems to indicate this. Apple usually does seem to provide (a maybe annoying) way to bypass these sort security measures.
- bombcar 6y agoHe described how he does exactly this - and has to reapply it after every update.
- tekstar 6y agoI'm still on Catalina. I've read reports that on Big Sur you cannot remove the kext and re-enable CSR. Seems the only solution might be to leave csr disabled, which would be unfortunate.
- peterlvilim 6y agoI don’t believe you can turn on file vault if you do this (full disk encryption)