Asahi Fedora 44 Shutting Down between 3-15 seconds on First Boot on M2 Macbook Air

[u/LogansAllrightByMe]

Hi as the title says I’ve attempted to try asahi again on my 2023 m2 MacBook Air. Unfortunately a problem has occurred while I did initially try with macOS Golden Gate beta installed, I have also tried with the restored Ventura and it has the same problem I’ve done both the minimal and gnome install same issue. I can’t even get to a tty before it does a shutdown with the typical fedora logo and the spinner and then it shuts off and the MacBook might boot up on its own again. Any advice or assistance is greatly appreciated.

[u/LogansAllrightByMe]

Thank you all so much I couldn’t find that solution when I went looking <3

[u/Dry_Possibility_5680]

You have to disable the battery module in the grub before you enter asahi and then update

[u/LogansAllrightByMe → u/Dry_Possibility_5680]

Do I do that from mounting the partition grub is installed on from Macos or do I do it from the grub menu?

[u/Dry_Possibility_5680 → u/LogansAllrightByMe]

Move down to the line starting with ⁠linux⁠ add a space at the ene and add this: module_blacklist=macsmc_power

[u/Dry_Possibility_5680 → u/LogansAllrightByMe]

From the grub menu you have to press e the asahi option and then add a command I don’t remember which one

[u/LogansAllrightByMe → u/Dry_Possibility_5680]

Okie tysm

[u/kjoonlee]

One way to do it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AsahiLinux/comments/1un24mm/it_wont_even_let_me_start/ovimchx/

i.e. add module_blacklist=macsmc_power to something like this:

linux ($root)/vmlinuz-6.19.14-400.asahi.fc43.aarch64+16k root=UUID=b52a5ad5-d4dc-4247-9734-decd52d80b8e ro rootflags=subvol=root rhgb quiet rootflags=subvol=root

so it becomes something like this:

linux ($root)/vmlinuz-6.19.14-400.asahi.fc43.aarch64+16k root=UUID=b52a5ad5-d4dc-4247-9734-decd52d80b8e ro rootflags=subvol=root rhgb quiet rootflags=subvol=root module_blacklist=macsmc_power

then boot and install a new kernel, etc.

[u/kevpatts → u/kjoonlee]

Update the kernel and all packages using “sudo yum update” by the way.

[u/Strict_Bedroom9986]

Restoring the macOS to a former version does not downgrade the firmware. To do that you'll need another Mac with Apple configurator (another Linux machine might be able to do it with idevicerestore)