lvs1974 / APFSPayloadFixup

This plugin resolves sporadical boot panic "The global payload bytes pointer is NULL" by waiting for available payload in overrided kernel method vfs_mountroot()

APFSPayloadFixup

An open source kernel extension providing patches for kernel and com.apple.filesystems.apfs.

Features

• This plugin resolves sporadical boot panic "The global payload bytes pointer is NULL" by waiting for available payload in overrided kernel method vfs_mountroot().

Boot-args

• -apfspayloadfixupoff disables kext loading
• -apfspayloadfixupdbg turns on debugging output
• -apfspayloadfixupbeta enables loading on unsupported osx

Credits

• Apple for macOS
• vit9696 for Lilu.kext
• Sherlocks for the idea & testing
• dokterdok for patch
• lvs1974 for writing the software and maintaining it