MacBook Pro :: Kernel Error On Start Up - Also Cannot Boot From OS X CD
May 4, 2012
On bootup, my computer shows this: [URL] and won't start. If I try to boot from an OSX startup CD, it flashes between that, the ordinary apple, and circle with a bar through it, but won't move beyond that. So I then power up holding Command + S and I get this: [URL]. I'm not sure what the problem is, but I want my computer back!
Recently my iMac 24" was randomly shutting off, finder unresponsive, applications could not launch, and startup would take upwards of 4 minutes. Thought it was most definitely a harddrive issue because when I would option-boot (had windows 7 on another partition) no bootable drives would appear and upon trying to boot the install CD I would get a Kernel Error. I ended up getting a brand new 1.5 TB this afternoon and installed it in the iMac a few hours ago. Now when booting the computer I get the HDD with a question mark as I should since there is not data on the drive... Problem begins when I try and boot from CD, where I'm getting a Kernel error. Spinning circle for about 3-4 minutes after selecting CD from the option-boot or when booting while holding down C. Here are the logs from my Verbose mode boot, I have nowhere for the logs to save so i had to take hi-res pics, sorry.
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System Specs are as follows. Aluminum 24" iMac running OS X and Windows 7 (both with all updates) 2 gigs of ram geforce 8800 i think.... Memory should be fine, i have two 1 gig sticks, and I've tried booting the computer with each of them installed separately. Also have tried resetting nvram, pram, etc... ALL the usual recommended steps so you can skip those suggestions.
I just got a used mac pro, and it didn't have a hard drive. i wiped my external drive and put that into it. when i turn it on i get a "kernel error". i have the OSX system disk in and am holding "c" as it turns on.
Yesterday my screen (30" Apple Cinema) started showing symptoms of graphics card failure, jagged lines across the screen. I rebooted my Mac Pro and it was gone. Then it happened again an hour later, this time the machine didn't boot, I get the Apple logo, and then it hangs up and the screen is shifted to left (I get apple logo on left side of the monitor instead of the middle) and jagged lines all over.
So the first thing I tested was using Target Disk Mode, it works. I can access my Mac Pro's internal HD's by TDM from my MacBook Pro. Then I tested single user mode, it does boot, I can't read what's written since the screen is shifted to left, but if I type (without seeing) reboot and hit enter, it reboots. So I assume the single user mode is working.
What else can I try to 100% make sure it's my graphics card that failed and everything else is ok with Mac Pro? I already ordered a graphics card replacement but I wouldn't like to be surprised if the Mac Pro still doesn't boot when the card arrives. It won't boot from Apple Startup DVD either. Same thing happens, gray logo then kernel panic with jagged lines all across the shifted screen.
After installing 4GB of RAM on my unibody macbook pro, I get a kernel panic error. Am I right that the problem is about CPU? Is that mean that it is dying or broken?
Here what is said:
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 141459 sec Panics Since Last Report: 2 Anonymous UUID: F96DF9E1-E94C-4FC7-B934-5DFD765093C4
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version: 10F569
Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 10.4.0: Fri Apr 23 18:28:53 PDT 2010; root:xnu-1504.7.4~1/RELEASE_I386 System model name: MacBookPro5,1 (Mac-F42D86C8)
Yesterday my screen (30" Apple Cinema) started showing symptoms of graphics card failure, jagged lines across the screen. I rebooted my Mac Pro and it was gone. Then it happened again an hour later, this time the machine didn't boot, I get the Apple logo, and then it hangs up and the screen is shifted to left (I get apple logo on left side of the monitor instead of the middle) and jagged lines all over.
So the first thing I tested was using Target Disk Mode, it works. I can access my Mac Pro's internal HD's by TDM from my MacBook Pro. Then I tested single user mode, it does boot, I can't read what's written since the screen is shifted to left, but if I type (without seeing) reboot and hit enter, it reboots. So I assume the single user mode is working.
What else can I try to 100% make sure it's my graphics card that failed and everything else is ok with Mac Pro? I already ordered a graphics card replacement but I wouldn't like to be surprised if the Mac Pro still doesn't boot when the card arrives.
P.S. It won't boot from Apple Startup DVD either. Same thing happens, gray logo then kernel panic with jagged lines all across the shifted screen.
I have been trying to boot into 64-bit kernel in Snow Leopard on my Late 2008 Aluminum MacBook (2.4 GHz), but it is not working. It is running the 64-bit EFI firmware and is updated to 10.6.1.
I got a friend and they are owner of an old MacBook pro aluminum 15 inch with intel core 2 duo.But now the problem. It doesn't boot anymore and you will see this:And then The circkel thing (I don't know the name in English haha) stops and I see the message that I have to re-boot the mac again. I tried serveral things. I tried to boot up the OSX cd but it doesn't work. Safe mode doesn't work. Nothing works. Does anybody know what the problem is?
[URL] input Music into vent and whenever I press "start" I either Get an Error Saying "cannot start Jack server, Please Check preferences or retry after a system reboot" or "Fatal error has occurred shutting down." and I reinstalled it and Used the default preferences
I've been testing this method for awhile to determine if it was possible to boot the x86_64 kernel on the Macbook Air via any process. It looks like it is. References here and here show it is possible to force boot the x86_64 kernel if you have a 64bit EFI firmware. To test your EFI firmware you can use the following: (Source).
Type the following into Terminal:
ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abi
If your Mac shows "firmware-abi" = EFI64 then you can proceed. If you see EFI32 then you're out of luck for this particular method.
The rest of the process is detailed at the links included above. I will rewrite this part when I have the method fully working, but for now I haven't been successful.
There are several relevant parts such as:
Quote:
Model (with 64-bit EFI) Byte Position in boot64.efi Old Value New Value Mac mini(Eary 2009) 0�266DB 0�00 0�80 MacBook Air(Late 2008) 0�266FB 0�00 0�80 iMac(early 2008) 0�2671B 0�08 0�80
included in the comments at this page, but so far I'm stuck.
Update 1:
As an alternate method I attempted to use lipo to modify the mach_kernel to only contain the x86_64 kernel information. A reboot confirms this didn't work so well.
Interesting notes so far from the EFI modification tests:
1) bless --info works fine on 10.6.0, but gives a Can't access "efi-boot-device" NVRAM variable on 10.6.2.
2) You can still modify which efi file is used for boot in 10.6.2 (I fouled one up in a hex editor and rebooted to see if it would fail just to test it), but the bless binary will not show the information the system is configured with.
3) The information at both links above for modifying the boot.efi doesn't seem to work in 10.6.0. It already wasn't working in 10.6.2, but there were some comments about it working in previous versions of Snow Leopard so I went back to an unpatched vanilla install from my install media (used Disk Utility to format the drive before installation) to test it.
Thread Notes:
1) Yes, I am aware that Leopard and Snow Leopard are fully capable of running 64bit programs using the i386 kernel. This is just an experiment for fun.
2) No, I do not have any reason to do this and I know the Macbook Air runs fine with the i386 kernel including every feature of the x86_64 kernel.
3) Yes, I know the Macbook Air only contains 2GB of ram so there is no reason to run the x86_64 kernel.
I have a 2-yr old MBP 3,1 (the first Santa Rosa line) which has recently hit a slew of problems (bad fan, new display, new hdd, new logic board) over the last 3 months. I thought all was fixed then yesterday it suddenly dies, starts kernel panicking on boot, and I can't even boot from an installer disk. I took it in to the Genius Bar today and the guy puts a stick of their RAM in and it seems to work +/- ok. He won't do any more until I put the original RAM back in (upgraded to 4 gigs a year ago). I take the laptop home, and it magically starts working. I grab a couple backups and it starts kernel panicking again so I grab my original RAM and put it in. Now it's still kernel panicking and I'm effectively completely locked out of my MacBook Pro (the RAM worked fine in my wife's 3-year-old MacBook which takes memory of the same specs).
I've had my macbook pro repaired a few weeks ago (new battery and keyboard).. Ever since then every time I boot it its superslow ... + with high activity on kernel_task.. When I close the lid and open it after 5 seconds again the problem is gone.
Ok so my macbook just froze up on me, and I shut it off manually. However, when I tried to start it back up it would not boot up. I am just receiving a message telling me " You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button for several seconds or press the Restart button. "I did what the message told me to do, and when I started the computer back up I just received the same exact message. I tried to take the battery out and hold down the power button to discharge any electricity in the laptop, and then I plugged in the power cable with the battery still out, and I am still receiving the same error message.I have tried the same process a couple of times and put the battery back in and then I decided to try inserting the Installation DVD, and it did nothing different then what I have been getting.
my name is SPC Sanders. I am a forward observer currently deployed to Afghanistan. I've owned a Macbook Pro for a couple of years.
About three weeks ago, I made the stupid mistake of attempting to run iOSX so I could dual boot with Windows 7 (all stuff I acquired while I was home on midtour leave.) The install seemed to be ok, however, I noticed immediately I could not make any changes to settings as my administrator password was no longer working. (Administrator is my only account on this laptop.)
At fear of losing my operability, I simply did not power down for that whole time. However, I recently moved bases, and alas, the time came to power down.
Upon bootup, I get a constant spinning wheel. I left this on for a couple of hours just to be sure, then realized it was a lost cause. I tried booting in safe mode, and I got some kernel panic. It says a bunch of stuff about debugger calling the panic, bla bla bla, but the thing that caught my eze was Mac OS version not set yet.
After booting in safe mode, getting that error, and powering off, my laptop will boot into a grezish blueish lightblueish (alternating) type of screen, which sometimes has the spinning wheel, sometimes not. Again, nothing.
I understand I will probably need my OS disc to fix this, but I didn't bring it with me. Am I SOL?
I'm new to mac so everything you say try to be as specific as possible.
i bought a used ibook g4 on ebay. i am pretty sure it is running OS X 10.1 if that matters but i'm not sure on that.
After messing around for a while i turn it off and back on a while later and when it was turning on it came to the gray screen and had a folder with a question mark then the little dude with the nice smilie face but an error comes up.
The thread title pretty much sums it all up, my friend is getting a kernel panic whenever she turns on her MacBook.
We've tried starting the OS X partition, the Windows XP partition, and loading the system discs but all three result in the same problem. The only "solution" I've tried is resetting the PRAM and that didn't work.
Well I had a kernel panic yesterday and now im stuck at start up becuase everytime I reboot the computer it takes me to the kernel panic and I tried to boot in single user mode and tried to do fsck repair but when I booted in single user mode it just stoped loading at system uptime in nano seconds: 753286880 and then I tried to boot in safe mode but had no luck it didnt even go in safe mode it just went straight to the kernel panic I also already zaped the pram but still no luck and I dont have the mac OS X install disks.
I was following the directions from the iphone dev team's blog on how to fix the DFU mode in 10.5.6 by dl'ing from Apple and installing the "IOUSBFamily-315.4-log.dmg" for Mac OS X 10.5.5 Build 9F33. After I installed it and restarted as the directions stated, the machine started to reboot and then had kernel panic on start up. Now I can't get back the start up screen. I've tried disk utility and repairing permissions but it hasn't helped. What I can do other than archiving and installing?
I've just had two kernal panics. The second time it was during start up. Now it won't start up at all. Gets to the White screen and tells me to restart. I bought this 8 months ago and have had nothing but trouble.
Trying to save/diagnose and old friend - g4 DP 1 GHZ using 10.4. I am getting repeated kernal panics and varieties of the grey screen. The last one is interesting.
I bought a used macpro still on apple warranty quad core 2.93 with 8gb ram from OWC and 4 hardrive 1 by apple factory. One WD caviar black 640gb 32mb cache, 2 HD 320gb which I am using with raid stripped. Morover I have a second DVD LG mounted. It is happening that at least once a day the system give me a GSOD and when I switchd the machine on again the system give me the following reporting error:
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 188606 sec Panics Since Last Report: 4 Anonymous UUID: 33612D32-8B49-4153-9D1D-61FF96098884
Sun Oct 11 11:31:50 2009 Machine-check capabilities (cpu 6) 0x0000000000001c09: family: 6 model: 26 stepping: 5 microcode: 15 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3540 @ 2.93GHz 9 error-reporting banks threshold-based error status present extended corrected memory error handling present Machine-check status 0x0000000000000004: machine-check in progress MCA error-reporting registers: IA32_MC0_STATUS(0x401): 0x0000000000000800 invalid IA32_MC1_STATUS(0x405): 0x0000000000000800 invalid IA32_MC2_STATUS(0x409): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC3_STATUS(0x40d): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC4_STATUS(0x411): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC5_STATUS(0x415): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC6_STATUS(0x419): 0x0000000000000000 invalid IA32_MC7_STATUS(0x41d): 0x0000000000000000 invalid Package 0 logged: IA32_MC8_STATUS(0x421): 0xfe1615000001009f valid Channel number: 15 Model: MacPro4,1, BootROM MP41.0081.B03, 4 processors, Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 2.93 GHz, 8 GB, SMC 1.39f5 Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120, NVIDIA GeForce GT 120, PCIe, 512 MB Memory Module: global_name AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x8E), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.91.19) Bluetooth: Version 2.2.1f7, 2 service, 1 devices, 1 incoming serial ports Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en2 PCI Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120, Display, Slot-1 Serial ATA Device: HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GH41N Serial ATA Device: HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GH22NS30 Serial ATA Device: WDC WD3202ABYS-01B7A0, 298,09 GB Serial ATA Device: WDC WD3202ABYS-01B7A0, 298,09 GB Serial ATA Device: WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2, 596,17 GB Serial ATA Device: WDC WD6400AAKS-41H2B0, 596,17 GB USB Device: My Book, 0x1058 (Western Digital Technologies, Inc.), 0x1102, 0xfd300000 USB Device: Hub, 0x03f0 (Hewlett Packard), 0x2f24, 0xfd100000 USB Device: Keyboard Hub, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x1006, 0xfd130000 USB Device: Apple Optical USB Mouse, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0304, 0xfd133000 USB Device: Apple Keyboard, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0221, 0xfd132000 USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0x5a100000 USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8215, 0x5a110000 FireWire Device: built-in_hub, Up to 800 Mb/se
My dad's computer just had a kernel panic and I want to fix it fast. I've already run the basic Apple hardware test and it says no problems found. About last week he added 8GB (2x4GB) modules to his Mac Pro. He's running OSX 10.5.8, when he started it back up, it said OSX has recovered from an error/serious error and sent a report to Apple. The most recent thing he did was change his external backup drive (for TM) to a fresh one - a 1TB Lacie HD. Is there anything I can do to figure out what happened? Is it possible this could be just a once off thing, or maybe it was that mosaic screensaver? When the kernel panic occurred it was on that screensaver.
When starting up my iMac G5, I get the kernal panic screen. Tried to restart computer in safe mode by holding down shift key, and I get the following message: Invalid memory access at SRR0: 00000000.066 10b84 SRR1: 10000000.00003030 Apple powerMac8,2 5.2.5f1 BootROM built on 04/06/05 Welcome to Open Firmware. To continue booting, type "mac-boot" and press return. To shut down, type "shut-down" and press return reducing system power.
My computer has been freezing for a while now, but today I got an error message which said "You need to restart your computer". When I logged in I got an error message which said "Mac OSX quit unexpectadly" I've had it since 2006 and it's worked fine up until a couple of months ago.
Panic(cpu 0 caller 0x0043913F): �Unable to find driver for this platform : �ACPI�. �@/Source Cache/xnu/xnu-1228.15.4/iokit/Kernel/IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1407
When attempting to launch call of duty 4 on my macbook pro, i get a kernel error. I've already been through Aspyr, and they've told me that there's nothing they can do about it. Here's the error report that i got, in full,
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I'm heading in the direction of reinstalling from scratch, but i want to explore all my options before going that far.
(I just posted this over at [URL] but figured I might as well post it here too) My Old iBook g4 1GHz, has just started kernel panicking. it wont start at all, it kernel panics my MacBook Pro when i try to start it in Target Disk mode, and it wont boot a DiskWarrior CD, or an OS Install disk i have either. I did manage to run an Apple Service Diagnostic Test CD, and it found no errors. ive booted into Single user mode, run fsck -fy and get no errors.
I tried: /sbin/mount - uw / and get the following message: " panic(cpu 0 caller 0x00110824): "/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228.7.58/bsd/vfs/vfs_journal.c:3109: tr blhdr max_blocks looks bad: 31 " @/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228.7.58/bsd/vfs/vfs_journal.c:3109 Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0: Backtrace: 0x0009B518 0x0009BEBC 0x00029DDB 0x00110824 0x0025EC9C 0x00268FAC 0x0025EF44 0x0025A6B0....................
I'm having problems with my powerbook freezing up and needing to be restarted. It's been concluded that when you apply pressure left of the trackpad it freezes with a kernel panic error.
Does anyone know if this can be fixed without a new logicboard? What causes the kernel panic error? Is it allways a hardware problem??