Kernel Panic after security update; can't boot into Recovery

[Tom Snow]

Hello everyone, ever since installing the security update at the end of January, I've been having two issues.

 

The first is the kernel panic that happens every time I try to boot. After much research, here and elsewhere, I learned that the issue is Lilu.kext which I did not update prior to installing the security update. So now I have the latest version downloaded to a USB drive, but I cannot copy it to the hackintosh...

 

Every time I try to boot into Recovery, the system just locks up. So I tried replacing the file via the UEFI shell and again from Kali, and in both cases I couldn't because both OS's see the Mac's file system as "read-only." I did some research on how to fix Recovery and found that I need to put FakeSMC.kext in the /EFI/CLOVER/Kexts/Other directory on the Recovery HD, which I cannot do for the same reason I can't replace the Lilu file (the HD is read-only to all other OS's).

 

I tried booting off my old Snow Leopard CD, and that doesn't work either; every time I try it just quits mid-boot, resets the computer and reboots into Clover.

 

Can anyone give me any suggestions? I'm out of ideas at this point.

[Tom Snow]

It looks like I might be able to fix it. I just found my "Install macOS Sierra" bootable USB and was able to boot the computer off of that. Now I'll try to replace the Lilu.kext and I'll let you know if that works.

[Tom Snow]

Success! I had to delete and copy everything in Terminal (that was a real pain) but I did it. I had to manually create all the subdirectories and painstakingly copy the files into those directories. After that, from the /System/Library/Extensions directory:

 

chmod -R 755 Lilu.kext

chown -R root:wheel Lilu.kext

 

I restarted the computer after that and it booted normally.