big sur installation does not boot

[estyseesghosts]

pretty much title. the big sur recovery OS boots just fine and i can install macOS 11, but when i actually try to boot from said installation my computer reboots and i see the kernel panic screen

catalina works perfectly fine for me though

what causes this?

laptop specs are i5 8250U, 16GB DDR4, intel 512GB NVMe SSD

[the-ethernal]

Disable AppleBacklightSmoother.kext, it has issues with latest big sur release. Faced the same yesterday and that fixed it.

[estyseesghosts]

Disable AppleBacklightSmoother.kext, it has issues with latest big sur release. Faced the same yesterday and that fixed it.

awesome, i’ll try this, thanks!

[EETagent]

hieplpvip/AppleBacklightSmoother#12

It seems like WEG 1.4.6 made some API changes and AppleBacklightSmoother causes KP because of that. Going to remove it in next update

[whosdev]

I tried to remove the AppleBacklightSmoother.kext, but it still didn't work. I only removed the file, Do I need to do something else?

[zombillano]

I tried to remove the AppleBacklightSmoother.kext, but it still didn't work. I only removed the file, Do I need to do something else?

Disable the kext on the config.plist file in your efi folder

[EETagent]

This issue is already fixed in master, closing