[OnePlus 11] JeremeyN:
I'm looking for some guidance... I followed this guide back in mid of August 2023 and everything worked as it should. I was able to root and I just ignored the constant reminders to install OTA updates... Until I decided to follow the guide on the update. I also did have a Module attached the SafteyNetFix, which I didn't uninstall and I had the MAgisk App hidden to avoid detection form another program...So I uninstall Magisk by restoring images that went fine it asked to reboot and I pressed home button and installed the OTA incremental Software as instructed but when I opened it it never prompted me to install and update or anything I had read later in the threads it was fine to use the Systems OTA update so I installed whatever patch would have been next I believe it was Security patch that came out sometime in September for A13. That OTA installed and asked to reboot reboot, which I pressed the home key and went back to Magisk and reinstalled using the (OTA) option to install on unused or alternate slots whichever it said in the guide. and I then selected to reboot from MAgisk once that install was done... Later reading many recommendations, I go back to the OTA update and reboot from there. Once it rebooted it loaded the standard Orange State Unlock bootloader message and then went to a Black Screen sat on the Black SCreen and about 30-45 seconds it reboots and goes back to the orange State... I let it do that about 3 times and decided I'll try Power- and Vollum UP after Orange State... That just seems to reboot it back to the orange state faster for which I left it again and to a black Screen... SO I did the opposite and Held Power and Volume Down and that seem to do something and it booted up like it should showing the OnePlus logo and when it booted it said the OTA Update had failed and when I went in to MAgisk it said "Restore the Magisk app -- The hidden Magisk app cannot continue to work because root was lost. Please restore the original APK." So I click Install and it loads Magisk and an android error message bubble show in lower screen saying "Failed" and I see Magisk Status is Installed M/A Zygisk No and Ramdisk Yes....I have attached SCreenshot when I lost Root and I have each of the Logs form Magisk at each point I should be in Magisk. Step 1 and Step2 logs show they went successful...

Not sure if its because I had a module still installed or because I rebooted in Magisk instead of the OTA after Magisk was installed... But I have lost root so I figured I may as well install all the updates and now I am on the latest update CPH2451_14.0.0.501(EX01) also to clarify I have Unlocked US Variant. Because I figured if I lost root I'll use the guide and repeat Steps 4using KernelSU... but as I read through the threads it seems it is no longer a valid way once into A14... SO what process should I go about fixing my root? I saw a guide posted around Page 33 and recently someone posted a Patched init_boot.img... I can get into Fastboot as I found out Kernel SU didn't work. Also when I was in the Version info of the phone, I left a screenshot of that as well, I noticed that the Kernel mentioned Android 13.8 not sure if this was because I attempted to boot into KernelSU? but I rebooted and it still shows that so maybe that's standard...

But I thought I needed several other files to set up root... like vendor_boot.img and VBMeta files?

Don't want to blindly flash this patched init_boot.img unless that is all I have to do...

Sorry for the long post I hope you all can help me get my root back,; Thank in advance,

Jer♥