Mac Pro boot failure
Hello everybody. I recently bought a new Mac Pro (2x Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 2,4GHz, running OS X 10.6.8) and just encountered a very strange error at bootup. 1 out of 10 system boots take up much longer and end up in having the desktop with a light blue layer on the screen, being able to move the mouse cursor but not click on any item. I'm using the magic mouse + trackpad + wireless keyboard but have also tried to use a cable mouse with no success. The only way to shutdown the system is to force a power down. Then the computer will boot up fine again several times. Then again, the same error occurs. This is what the kernel log says. Have a look at the bold line: this is where the system hangs much longer at startup (I'm using verbose mode at startup).
Thank you in advance for your help!
Dominik
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:32:41 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_X86_64
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel vm_page_bootstrap: 3559132 free pages and 94500 wired pages
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel kext submap [0xffffff7f80800000 - 0xffffff8000000000], kernel text [0xffffff8000200000 - 0xffffff8000800000]
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel mig_table_max_displ = 73
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=0 LocalApicId=0 Enabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=1 LocalApicId=32 Enabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=2 LocalApicId=2 Enabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=3 LocalApicId=34 Enabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=4 LocalApicId=18 Enabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=5 LocalApicId=50 Enabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=6 LocalApicId=20 Enabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=7 LocalApicId=52 Enabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=8 LocalApicId=1 Enabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=9 LocalApicId=33 Enabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=10 LocalApicId=3 Enabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=11 LocalApicId=35 Enabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=12 LocalApicId=19 Enabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=13 LocalApicId=51 Enabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=14 LocalApicId=21 Enabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=15 LocalApicId=53 Enabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=16 LocalApicId=0 Disabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=17 LocalApicId=0 Disabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=18 LocalApicId=0 Disabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=19 LocalApicId=0 Disabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=20 LocalApicId=0 Disabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=21 LocalApicId=0 Disabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=22 LocalApicId=0 Disabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=23 LocalApicId=0 Disabled
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel calling mpo_policy_init for TMSafetyNet
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel Security policy loaded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel calling mpo_policy_init for Quarantine
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel Security policy loaded: Quarantine policy (Quarantine)
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel calling mpo_policy_init for Sandbox
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel Security policy loaded: Seatbelt sandbox policy (Sandbox)
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel MAC Framework successfully initialized
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel using 16384 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 64:87
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5] (S3)
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel PFM64 0xff10000000, 0xf0000000
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel [ PCI configuration begin ]
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: Turbo Ratios 0000
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: (built 16:44:42 Jun 7 2011) initialization complete
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel console relocated to 0xff20010000
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel PCI configuration changed (bridge=7 device=2 cardbus=0)
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel [ PCI configuration end, bridges 15 devices 51 ]
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel mbinit: done (96 MB memory set for mbuf pool)
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel rooting via boot-uuid from /chosen: 43D7E44E-35C3-3C6B-8EEB-548E43D81587
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib kmod start
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel 2.3.19 Little Snitch: starting
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib load succeeded
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient: ready
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel Intel82574L::staIrntt e-l 8B2u5i7l4tL ::sJtuanr t 7- 2B0u1i1l t1 6:J4u2n: 5 07 -2-0 1r1u n1n6i:n4g2 :o5n0 d-e-v ircuen naitn g on dev
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel ice at
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel BTCOEXIST off
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel wl0: Broadcom BCM432b 802.11 Wireless Controller
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel 5.10.131.42
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel FireWire (OHCI) TI ID 823f built-in now active, GUID 70cd60fffe6d31b6; max speed s800.
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleAHCI/PRT2 @2/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDri ver/WDC WD1001FALS-41Y6A0 Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/Customer@2
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel BSD root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2
16.07.11 11:51:35 kernel Kernel is LP64
16.07.11 11:51:32 com.apple.launchd[1] *** launchd[1] has started up. ***
16.07.11 11:51:32 com.apple.launchd[1] *** Verbose boot, will log to /dev/console. ***
16.07.11 11:51:36 kernel Intel82574L: Ethernet address 70:cd:60:a9:0a:c7
16.07.11 11:51:36 kernel Intel82574L: Ethernet address 70:cd:60:a8:f3:88
16.07.11 11:51:36 kernel AirPort_Brcm43224: Ethernet address c8:bc:c8:f4:bd:9dsystemShutdown false
16.07.11 11:51:36 kernel IO80211Controller::dataLinkLayerAttachComplete(): adding AppleEFINVRAM notification
16.07.11 11:51:40 bootlog[44] BOOT_TIME: 1310809891 0
16.07.11 11:51:41 mDNSResponder[32] mDNSResponder mDNSResponder-258.21 (May 26 2011 14:40:13) starting
16.07.11 11:51:43 kernel USBF: 11.997 AppleUSBHubPort: Port 2 of Hub at 0x5a100000 about to terminate a busy device (CompositeDevice) after waiting 10 seconds
16.07.11 11:51:43 kernel AirPort: Link Down on en2. Reason 1 (Unspecified).
16.07.11 11:51:43 kernel Previous Shutdown Cause: 0Waves SoundGrid Version: 2.0.0.14, Non-Interleaved Playback
16.07.11 11:51:43 kernel DSMOS has arrived
16.07.11 11:51:43 kernel ** Device in slot: SLOT-1 **
16.07.11 11:51:43 kernel 00000000 ffffffff Intel82574L::timeoutHandler - link is down
16.07.11 11:51:44 kernel Ethernet [Intel82574L]: Link up on en0, 100-Megabit, Full-duplex, Symmetric flow-control, Debug [796d,6f48,0de1,0200,45e1,4000]
16.07.11 11:51:44 configd[13] setting hostname to "Dominik-Rotherts-Mac-Pro.local"
16.07.11 11:51:44 configd[13] network configuration changed.
16.07.11 11:51:44 blued[17] Apple Bluetooth daemon started
16.07.11 11:51:44 /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow[33 ] Login Window Application Started
16.07.11 11:51:44 com.apple.SecurityServer[28] Session 0x5fbff962 created
16.07.11 11:51:45 com.apple.SecurityServer[28] Entering service
16.07.11 11:51:45 com.apple.kextd[10] Can't load /System/Library/Extensions/MobileIODriver.kext - no code for running kernel's architecture.
16.07.11 11:51:45 com.apple.kextd[10] Failed to load /System/Library/Extensions/MobileIODriver.kext - (libkern/kext) requested architecture/executable not found.
16.07.11 11:51:45 com.apple.kextd[10] Load com.mhlabs.driver.MobileIOAudioDriver.10.5 failed; removing personalities.
16.07.11 11:51:45 kernel Starting: @(#)$Id: MobileIOAudioDevice.cpp 2298 2010-10-28 08:32:26Z bj $
16.07.11 11:51:45 kernel Build #: 5.4d208 [0704]
16.07.11 11:51:45 kernel Timing:-- Using Timers
16.07.11 11:51:45 kernel MobileIOAudioDevice[0xffffff80ff7fe000]::start(0xffffff8020ad9000)
16.07.11 11:51:45 kernel MobileIOAudioDevice[0xffffff80ff7fe000]::start(0xffffff8020ad9000) hwbt: 0 bt: 0 sn: 4000
16.07.11 11:51:45 kernel mCurrentClockSourceAddr: c036
16.07.11 11:51:45 kernel Firmware: 5.0.37
16.07.11 11:51:45 kernel 2dCardType: 1
16.07.11 11:51:45 kernel fDoesntNeedInputChannelFlip: 1
16.07.11 11:51:45 kernel MobileIOAudioEngine[0xffffff8021549e00]::init()
16.07.11 11:51:45 kernel New Sample Offset: 18
16.07.11 11:51:46 com.apple.kextd[10] Can't load /System/Library/Extensions/IOSerialFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/InternalModemSu pport.kext - no code for running kernel's architecture.
16.07.11 11:51:46 com.apple.kextd[10] Failed to load /System/Library/Extensions/IOSerialFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/InternalModemSu pport.kext - (libkern/kext) requested architecture/executable not found.
16.07.11 11:51:46 com.apple.kextd[10] Load com.apple.driver.InternalModemSupport failed; removing personalities.
16.07.11 11:51:47 kernel AppleTyMCEDriver::start coreVIDPID = 0x2c708086 Number of packages = 1 Number of cpus = 16 memory monitor trough PCI
16.07.11 11:51:47 configd[13] network configuration changed.
16.07.11 11:51:47 configd[13] network configuration changed.
16.07.11 11:51:47 com.apple.usbmuxd[24] usbmuxd-211 built on Feb 8 2011 at 13:49:43 on Feb 8 2011 at 13:49:43, running 64 bit
16.07.11 11:51:48 kernel Auth result for: 00:0c:f6:55:a3:8c MAC AUTH succeeded
16.07.11 11:51:48 kernel AirPort: Link Up on en2
16.07.11 11:51:49 kernel AirPort: RSN handshake complete on en2
16.07.11 11:51:52 AGProtocolService[49] Waves SG Protocol Service: Could not Start Kernel Driver Streaming!
16.07.11 11:51:54 configd[13] network configuration changed.
16.07.11 11:51:58 kernel CompositeDevice::terminate(kIOServiceSynchronous) timeout
16.07.11 11:52:02 configd[13] network configuration changed.
16.07.11 11:52:06 kernel [ffffff8021553c00][BNBTrackpadDevice::init][54] init is complete
16.07.11 11:52:06 kernel [ffffff8021553c00][BNBTrackpadDevice::probe][54] entered
16.07.11 11:52:07 kernel [ffffff8021553c00][BNBTrackpadDevice::handleStart][54] Done
16.07.11 11:52:07 kernel [ffffff8022493a00][AppleMultitouchHIDEventDriver::start] entered
16.07.11 11:52:07 kernel [ffffff80224bbc00][AppleMultitouchDevice::start] entered
16.07.11 11:52:35 configd[13] InterfaceNamer: timed out waiting for IOKit to quiesce
16.07.11 11:52:35 configd[13] InterfaceNamer: Busy services :
16.07.11 11:52:35 configd[13] InterfaceNamer: MacPro5,1 [1]
16.07.11 11:52:35 configd[13] InterfaceNamer: MacPro5,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert [1]
16.07.11 11:52:35 configd[13] InterfaceNamer: MacPro5,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0 [1]
16.07.11 11:52:35 configd[13] InterfaceNamer: MacPro5,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI [1]
16.07.11 11:52:35 configd[13] InterfaceNamer: MacPro5,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/UHC6@1A,2 [1]
16.07.11 11:52:35 configd[13] InterfaceNamer: MacPro5,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/UHC6@1A,2/AppleUSBUHCI [1]
16.07.11 11:52:35 configd[13] InterfaceNamer: MacPro5,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/UHC6@1A,2/AppleUSBUHCI/Co mpositeDevice@5a120000 [4]
16.07.11 11:52:35 configd[13] InterfaceNamer: MacPro5,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/UHC6@1A,2/AppleUSBUHCI/Co mpositeDevice@5a120000/IOUSBCompositeDriver [1]
16.07.11 11:52:35 configd[13] InterfaceNamer: MacPro5,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/UHC6@1A,2/AppleUSBUHCI/Co mpositeDevice@5a120000/IOUSBInterface@0 [2]
16.07.11 11:52:48 WindowServer[65] kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
16.07.11 11:52:48 com.apple.WindowServer[65] Sat Jul 16 11:52:48 Dominik-Rotherts-Mac-Pro.local WindowServer[65] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
16.07.11 11:52:49 kernel Sound assertion ""Graphics vendor supplied 'av-signal-type' property indicates a DVI device with audio capabilities has been attached but cannot be supported."" failed in AppleHDAController at line 2283 goto handler
16.07.11 11:52:49 kernel Sound assertion ""Graphics vendor supplied 'av-signal-type' property indicates a DVI device with audio capabilities has been attached but cannot be supported."" failed in AppleHDAController at line 2283 goto handler
16.07.11 11:52:49 com.apple.SecurityServer[28] Session 0x22edb7 created
16.07.11 11:52:49 com.apple.SecurityServer[28] Session 0x22edb7 attributes 0x30
16.07.11 11:52:50 loginwindow[33] Login Window Started Security Agent
16.07.11 11:52:50 SecurityAgent[106] User info context values set for Dominik
16.07.11 11:52:50 SecurityAgent[106] Login Window login proceeding
16.07.11 11:52:50 SecurityAgent[106] Login Window done
16.07.11 11:52:50 loginwindow[33] Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
16.07.11 11:52:50 loginwindow[33] USER_PROCESS: 33 console
16.07.11 11:52:50 com.apple.loginwindow[33] PING 169.254.100.231 (169.254.100.231): 56 data bytes
16.07.11 11:52:50 com.apple.loginwindow[33] 64 bytes from 169.254.100.231: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.081 ms
16.07.11 11:52:50 com.apple.loginwindow[33] --- 169.254.100.231 ping statistics ---
16.07.11 11:52:50 com.apple.loginwindow[33] 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
16.07.11 11:52:50 com.apple.loginwindow[33] round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.081/0.081/0.081/0.000 ms
16.07.11 11:52:50 com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[112] launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init_per_user.d/com.adobe.SwitchBoard.monitor.plist
16.07.11 11:52:50 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[90] (com.apple.ReportCrash) Falling back to default Mach exception handler. Could not find: com.apple.ReportCrash.Self
16.07.11 11:52:51 com.apple.loginwindow[33] route: writing to routing socket: No such process
16.07.11 11:52:51 com.apple.loginwindow[33] route: writing to routing socket: No such process
16.07.11 11:52:51 com.apple.loginwindow[33] route: writing to routing socket: No such process
16.07.11 11:52:57 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[90] (com.apple.Kerberos.renew.plist[141]) Exited with exit code: 1
16.07.11 11:52:57 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[90] (0x102300070.mach_init.switchboard.sh) Failed to check-in!
16.07.11 11:52:58 com.apple.usbmuxd[24] HandleUSBMuxDictionary client 0x101800490-iTunesHelper/com.apple.iTunesHelper using library usbmuxd-211 built on Jan 13 2011 at 04:19:31, running usbmuxd-211 built on Feb 8 2011 at 13:49:43
16.07.11 11:53:04 MIDIServer[164] MIDIServer [164] starting; arch=x86_64
16.07.11 11:53:05 MIDIServer[164] PlugIn EuphonixMIDI.plugin -- /Library/Audio/MIDI Drivers/ does not contain a supported architecture.
16.07.11 11:53:05 MIDIServer[164] MIDIServer relaunching because a 32-bit driver was found
16.07.11 11:53:06 MIDIServer[164] MIDIServer [164] starting; arch=i386
16.07.11 11:53:06 EuControl[128] CoreText: Invalid 'kern' Subtable In CTFont <name: MetaKorrespondenz-Bold, size: 26.000000, matrix: 0x0>
CTFontDescriptor <attributes: <CFBasicHash 0x2510fc0 [0xa08e8ec0]>{type = mutable dict, count = 1,
entries =>
1 : <CFString 0xa05a3d78 [0xa08e8ec0]>{contents = "NSFontNameAttribute"} = <CFString 0x2607c90 [0xa08e8ec0]>{contents = "MetaKorrespondenz-Bold"}
>
16.07.11 11:53:06 EuControl[128] EuControl finished launching...
16.07.11 11:53:06 EuControl[128] Starting EuCon...
16.07.11 11:53:08 MIOConsole[155] Open Succeeded
16.07.11 11:53:08 MIOConsole[155] Reg Session ref = 20ad7800 Session ref = 1; mIOService = 4503
16.07.11 11:53:08 MIOConsole[155] MIOAddMIOUnit: Box attached! [0] - 0x2010a00 - Mobile I/O 2882 s/n: 5
16.07.11 11:53:09 [0x0-0x17017].com.Euphonix.EuConDiscovery[170] Starting to discover, main tid:15745024
16.07.11 11:53:48 kernel npvhash=4095
16.07.11 11:53:09 [0x0-0x17017].com.Euphonix.EuConDiscovery[170] Successfully inited discovery ORB
Okay, I just came a step further with troubleshooting but still hope someone may help me out of this.
Everytime I shutdown the system before the error occurs again on bootup, the shutdown messages contain something like "AppleBluetooth ..." after unmounting all disks - unfortunately I cannot find this message in the logfiles but it's there on shutdown (using verbose mode) just before the system halts. Then, the next boot will lead to the mentioned problems. If I shutdown the system and the message does not appear, everything's going to be fine on bootup.
There must be something wrong with the wireless keyboard + magic trackpad:
Jul 17 20:21:08 localhost kernel[0]: USBF: 11.976 AppleUSBHubPort: Port 2 of Hub at 0x5a100000 about to terminate a busy device (CompositeDevice) after waiting 10 seconds
Jul 17 20:21:16 Dominik-Rotherts-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: [ffffff8021462800][BNBTrackpadDevice::init][54] init is complete
Jul 17 20:21:16 Dominik-Rotherts-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: [ffffff8021462800][BNBTrackpadDevice::probe][54] entered
Jul 17 20:21:16 Dominik-Rotherts-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: 00000000 ffffffff Intel82574L::timeoutHandler - link is down
Jul 17 20:21:16 Dominik-Rotherts-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: [ffffff8021462800][BNBTrackpadDevice::handleStart][54] Done
Jul 17 20:21:16 Dominik-Rotherts-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: [ffffff802223e000][AppleMultitouchHIDEventDriver::start] entered
Jul 17 20:21:16 Dominik-Rotherts-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: [ffffff802231c100][AppleMultitouchDevice::start] entered
Jul 17 20:21:23 Dominik-Rotherts-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: CompositeDevice::terminate(kIOServiceSynchronous) timeout
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Three days later, I come in to find my Mac will no longer boot. Grey Apple logo, spinning, etc.. I power off and boot from my external diagnostic drive (OS X 10.5.5). It will not boot. I remove both internal drives and try another boot from the external diagnostic drive. It boots up fine. Shutdown. Remove the backup drive (drive bay 2) and try to reboot from the diag drive once again. It will not boot. Remove the OS drive (drive bay 1) and it boots to the diagnostic drive fine (note: no internal drives are installed at this point). Shutdown. Install the OS drive into drive bay 2 and it then boots to the diagnostic drive just fine.
So now I have booted to my external diag drive and can see that the OS drive is showing on the Desktop; however a pop-up error stating there is a problem has appeared. I try to verify the OS drive using Disk Utility and it stops about 2 seconds into the process with a "Filesystem verify or repair failed" error. The OS drive will then not mount.
I restart booting back to the external diag drive. The OS drive shows up on the Desktop with the same pop-up error message as before.
I run Tech Tool Pro from the diag drive and it comes back with a File Structure error of "Type List Offset Is Invalid" and "No method for Tech Tool Pro to repair a corrupt file". I have a surface scan and drive hardware test running now, but on a 750GB it will be a WHILE.
So here is my predicament... I can understand my original OS drive having problems. It was at least 3 yrs old and has been run quite hard. But what are the odds that I would replace it with a brand new drive running a verified to be good cloned disk image AND have almost the exact same boot issues on the new drive that I had on the old one?
I have taken my original OS drive and hooked it up to external cases and sata-to-usb adapters to make sure that it was actually dead and it is. It will not spin up properly and makes lots of clicking noises. However, having a similar boot issue with a brand new drive has me worried something may be wrong with the Mac Pro hardware also. The new OS drive ran fine for a few days and only had these problems today.
Any guesses?Here is my own "cookie cutter" template to this type of problem.
Insure your UPS is working properly and that you have 1300VA to start with.
Run Apple Hardware Test of course.
CCC has been updated so make sure latest (it auto checks probably already).
Do you have Windows? run diagnostics from there, much better.
I settled on WD drives and use WD Diagnostic and has saved a drive.
Avoid Barracudas, seems even their 1TB is also suffering early failures (the 1.5TB was suffering from firmware problem).
Check for reviews and drive upgrade DB on AccelerateYourMac.
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/
I know the F1 got a lot of early praise but they aren't compatible with Apple Pro RAID card and may have other issues.
If you want a fast low-cost drive, WD Cavair 640GB $69.
http://www.barefeats.com/harper14.html
Hitachi E7K1000: http://techreport.com/articles.x/16130/10
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hdd-terabyte-1tb,2077-8.html
I have seen more than a couple of similar stories from people going away for 1-2 weeks and coming home to system that won't work properly. Hopefully people shutdown and unplug, or shutdown and have UPS, but it is strange to say the least.
Resetting SMC is a good idea but best done with 2008 model by leaving it unplugged for a full night 8-12 hrs. and not just 5 minutes. contrary to Apple tech article. For yours, there is a small physical button accessed by pulling drive tray #4 (easier to see if it is on its side and you have flashlight!)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1806
http://www.apple.com/support/macpro/ -
2010 Mac Pro Boot Camp - Refuses to boot Windows after installing Boot Camp drivers
Hey all,
I have a quad 3.2Ghz 2010 Mac Pro with a Radeon 5870 and 8 GB RAM.
I have 2 10000RPM WD Raptor drives, the first drive is my Lion boot drive. The 4th bay contains the second Raptor which has Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit installed. Bay 2 has Time Machine, bay 3 has a Windows backup drive.
I had first installed Windows and the Boot Camp drivers a few months ago and everything was humming along smoothly. Monday I tried to boot into Windows and it crashed immediately after the black Booting Windows screen started to change to the login window. This happened repeatedly. Nothing changed on the system that I am aware of. Whenever I tried to boot windows again, it booted into the repair mode. That did not seem to work because after running the repair it would still not boot.
So I did what is usually required of Windows, and that was to reinstall. I reformatted the hard drive, ran Boot Camp assistant, and started the install.
Everything was peachy so far, so I tried to reinstall the Boot Camp drivers (4.0). Did a reboot. Same problem. Doh!
So I did ANOTHER reinstall, and everything was fine. But this time I tried to install the Boot Camp drivers off the os install disc that came with my Mac (3.1). Still no go!
So finally I did my third reinstall and after that I did not install Boot Camp drivers. However, I did load up the CD and individually installed drivers for the Apple Mouse, Apple Keyboard, Cinema Display, etc. No problems whatsoever. Everything is actually still humming along fine.
So it looks like running the full Boot Camp install for some reason no longer works. Which means I am missing the Apple Boot Camp control panel, but that's not really a big deal. Althought it's quite annoying to not have the functionality of the special Mac keyboard keys like volume control, etc.
Has anyone run into this? I thought it might be a hardware problem but my Mac OS X OS exhibits no problems whatsoever.
Thanks!Thank you to The hatter.
I have a Mac Pro mid 2010 with a SSD and several internal hard disks. For some time I was trying to install Windows 7 on a fresh boot camp volume on a new WD 7200rpm 1TB hard disk. It was taking hours to install, and then I had a series of failures to reboot that proved permanent. The Window Repair utility would come up and took forever to repair the volume - but failed to actually do so, requiring completion reinstallation of the bootcamp volume. This occurred three times, between 1 day and 2 months after installation. I had already moved the Windows drive in to drive slot 1 of the Mac Pro.
Eventually I gave up and installed boot camp on a secondary partition of the SSD. This worked fine, however is limited in capacity. So yesterday I thought I would try to install Windows on the hard disk again. The Windows installer took many hours to do its thing, and eventually a message came up that the installation had failed.
I took your tip about possible hard disk failure, and ran Techtool Pro surface scan. It turns out that there are lots of bad blocks being reported. According to Micromat's documentation, the bad blocks being reported are those that may be in critical areas of the disk that cannot be mapped out. They recommend low level reinitialisation (with zeros) to map out the bad blocks, if possible. I am now running Apple's Disk Utility to do this, and fingers crossed that this reinitialisation succeeds, or I will have to replace the drive. -
Hello all,
I ordered a CTO Mac Pro for heavy rendering and animating work, and I am planning on using bootcamp to install a windows partition (for 3DsMax). As I am now using a HP Elitebook 8770W that has several valuable files and projects on it, I have bought a Seagate 4Tb external Desktop Drive that uses USB 3.0 to use as a backup drive. Now, as I saw that Bootcamp Assistant only supports installing a x64 version of Windows 8, my question is:
Will a late 2013 Mac Pro using bootcamp assistant boot from an external USB drive with a cloned partition running x64 win7? Or do I really have to buy Windows 8 and install that to my internal SSD, and then use the migration assistant to copy over my projects?
Thanks!Posted? or found in new builds?
BCA should really just pull whatever the latest drivers are when run.
If it is with how it partitions and sets up nMP and its partition for Windows that is another matter and makes sense.
Some people want UEFI native booting in Windows, and my experieince with that on PCs has been that it boots faster and runs well, but has different partitions that it wants. For one thing, there is now a backup "system reserved" partition, just as Apple GUID has some volume information blocks and backup and areas that were once optional (and if format erase was not able to, it would not create one) are now mandatory.
Windows 8.1 is req'd, reason a backup should be a big must - is it might overwrite and use another OS's partition table entries. Especially when doing UEFI install.
There was something about which linux OS was safe and how they would each add entries in the table, but one would not place nice. That one had to be done first or not at all. -
How do I install Yosemite on a 2nd HDD I have added and have the Mac Pro boot from the new HDD?
My MacPro's HD seems to be failing. None of the tests I run indicate that, but I get constant spinning balls and everything takes a long time. I bought a 2nd HDD and installed it in the 2nd bayou my Early 2009 Mac Pro. I formatted it and want to install Yosemite and have the Mac boot off the new drive. It is currently running OS X 10.9.5. When I go to update to Yosemite it begins to download. Will it give me the option of which drive to install on? Or will it just upgrade the original Mac's HD?
A Samsung 850 EVO 128GB SSD $75 now and makes a huge improvement. But get the 250GB which is $99. 500GB $199
Wish you asked us first Awesome prices and performance.
Output from Etrecheck is an easy "quick check" of what your system is carrying around and what baggage it has.
Move data to a 'data and media library" drive.
Use CCC to skip the user data folders except ~/Library and clone to SSD
And might want to save the installer .ESD package for use as clean installer and to be able to boot from. -
After update Mac Pro boots to grey screen with Kernel Panic. Help please.
It would be great if someone can help me out. Yesterday I did a software update of iTunes and osx (it said to ease update to Lion) and now my Mac Pro tower (MacPro3,1) boots to a grey screen, kernel panic, telling me that I need to power down and restart my machine. I can boot into osx via the safe mode but unfortunately I don't have an install disk to repair the system disk. What are my options?
The machine appears to work in safe mode. I have tried resetting the PRAM. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
In safe mode, I get this error report.
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 2403 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 4
Anonymous UUID: 2F681FF9-168D-42D2-865B-C00AD4C8FA30
Thu Oct 27 14:29:21 2011
panic(cpu 7 caller 0x560821): "getPhysicalSegment() out of 32b range 0x3f10000000, len 0x0, class IOGeneralMemoryDescriptor"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1504.15.3/iokit/Kernel/IOMemory Descriptor.cpp:1594
Backtrace (CPU 7), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x840b3cc8 : 0x21b837 (0x5dd7fc 0x840b3cfc 0x223ce1 0x0)
0x840b3d18 : 0x560821 (0x5e6dfc 0x10000000 0x3f 0x0)
0x840b3d68 : 0x55d2df (0x15d9fd80 0x0 0x0 0x16a4f580)
0x840b3d88 : 0x55ceee (0x16a4f580 0x0 0x0 0x10000)
0x840b3da8 : 0x8e7ee97e (0x16a4f580 0x0 0x0 0xffffffff)
0x840b3e18 : 0x543f60 (0x8eb44000 0x15c68b00 0x1 0x506b76)
0x840b3e78 : 0x542137 (0x15c68b00 0x8eb44000 0x16abd180 0x51a1b0)
0x840b3f28 : 0x5426e9 (0x15c68b00 0x16aba8c0 0x0 0x516766)
0x840b3f78 : 0x5443d5 (0x15c68b00 0x8 0x840b3fac 0x1)
0x840b3fc8 : 0x2a179c (0x15858690 0x0 0x2a17ab 0x15f17904)
Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.aja.iokit.kona3(8.0)@0x8e7c0000->0x8e806fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily(10.0.3)@0x84130000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6.5)@0x84082000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily(1.8.3fc2)@0x8e635000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.2)@0x8e6b2000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
10K549
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacPro3,1 (Mac-F42C88C8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 22607847366
unloaded kexts:
(none)
loaded kexts:
com.aja.iokit.kona3 8.0 - last loaded 22387593921
de.novamedia.driver.NMSmartplugSCSIDevice 1.0.1
com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43224 428.42.4
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 4.7.0a1
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.5.1
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 2.1.0
com.apple.driver.CSRHIDTransitionDriver 2.4.5f3
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 2.6.8
com.apple.driver.AppleRAID 4.0.6
com.apple.BootCache 31.1
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 4.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.7.3
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 1.6.4
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 1.4.0
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA 2.5.1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 4.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI 4.2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 1.3.6
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 1.3.1
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 1.3.6
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 142.6.0
com.apple.security.sandbox 1
com.apple.security.quarantine 0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 2.1.12
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 142.6.0
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.2
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.8.3fc2
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.3
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.3
com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 320.1
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 1.10
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.0d5
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 4.7.0a1
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI 1.0.10d0
com.apple.driver.CSRUSBBluetoothHCIController 2.4.5f3
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController 2.4.5f3
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 2.4.5f3
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHIDKeyboard 141.5
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 4.2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHIDKeyboard 141.5
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 4.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 3.9.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice 2.6.8
com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily 1.6
com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.6.1
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice 2.6.8
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 402.1
com.apple.iokit.IOATAPIProtocolTransport 2.5.1
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 2.6.8
com.apple.driver.AppleFileSystemDriver 2.0
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 4.2.4
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily 4.2.6
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.0.6
com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily 2.5.1
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 4.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 1.4.0
com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 1.6.6
com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 6
com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1
com.apple.driver.DiskImages 289.1
com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 1.6.3
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 1.3.6
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.3.0
Model: MacPro3,1, BootROM MP31.006C.B05, 8 processors, Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 3 GHz, 16 GB, SMC 1.25f4
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5770, ATI Radeon HD 5770, PCIe, 1024 MB
Memory Module: global_name
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x88), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.131.42.4)
Bluetooth: Version 2.4.5f3, 2 service, 19 devices, 0 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en2
PCI Card: pcif1d0,c0ff, sppci_video, Slot-2@3,12,0
PCI Card: ATI Radeon HD 5770, sppci_displaycontroller, Slot-1
PCI Card: ATI Radeon HD 5770, ATY,HoolockParent, Slot-1
PCI Card: pcif1d0,c0ff, sppci_video, Slot-3@10,12,0
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0, 1.82 TB
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0, 1.82 TB
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0, 1.82 TB
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD5002ABYS-01B1B0, 465.76 GB
Parallel ATA Device: OPTIARC DVD RW AD-7170A
USB Device: Keyboard Hub, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x1006, 0xfd100000 / 2
USB Device: Apple Keyboard, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0221, 0xfd120000 / 3
USB Device: Kensington Expert Mouse, 0x047d (Kensington), 0x1020, 0x1d200000 / 2
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8206, 0x5d200000 / 2
USB Device: HASP HL 3.21, 0x0529 (Aladdin Knowledge Systems), 0x0001, 0x3d200000 / 2
FireWire Device: built-in_hub, Up to 800 Mb/sec
and here is my system software overview once I have booted into osx in safe mode.
System Software Overview:
System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Kernel Version: Darwin 10.8.0
Boot Volume: System
Boot Mode: Safe
Computer Name: qdise’s MacPro3,1
User Name: q2dise (dty61)
Secure Virtual Memory: Not Enabled
64-bit Kernel and Extensions: No
Time since boot: 16 minutesThere's no point in reinstalling the same driver. It hasn't changed. It's incompatible with the OS update. Contact the device manufacturer to see if there's a driver update. In the meantime, you should physically remove the device so the driver doesn't load. If you uninstall the driver and leave the device installed, that might also cause a panic.
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I have an early 2008 MAC PRO Quad Core 3.0ghz processor. 8 Gig of rams, with a 1 Gig memory Radeon 5770 HD Graphic Card running the latest Version of Snow Leopard OS. Last week lighting struck the house take out all of my hard drives (4) thank god the surge protector mitigated the mother board from damaged, use the Parted Magic to check out the motherboard and it intact with no damage. I can boot with the Parted-magic and be able surf and post this question to this forums. I replaced a newly formatted hard drive and trying to installed OS X Mountain Lions to the new drive, but unable to have it boot in my MAC PRO DVD, I get the usual chimes during the booting processed but the screen remain blackout, but able to boot with Parted-Magic to surf the web and access Apple sites/forums.
I am not well verse in using the Parted_Magic to repair or get my-mac to boot normally so I can reinstall OS X. Any help would appreciated.
Thank you
Disabled Veteran.Go to System Profile and look, does it say "MacPro3,1"?
That is 2008.
FBDIMM would be 800MHz. Did you use older slower 667MHz in yours?
You can but take a hit in performance.
Sounds like MacPro1,1.
Mac Pro (3.0GHz quad core (dual CPUs) 8GB 667 RAM)
In 2007 March an 8-core 3GHz did come out 2,1.
So just to be clear.
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It was all working fine a couple of days ago. At the time it randomly shut down I was trying to use Boot Camp to create a Windows 7 area,
Whenever you want to install Windows, remove all the drives other than the one Windows goes to. And if you use a dedicated drive YOU DO NOT NEED Boot Camp Assist, unless you use XP, which really is limited and crippled (one processor, 1.9GB RAM support).
And when it freezes, your only choice is to nuke (reformat) and restore or get out that backup CLONE you made before (ie, Step #1 in the Boot Camp Guide).
Sure that whole NTFS / MBR / GUID could be an issue, but you should just have a blank drive or clone.
No don't bother Apple, they seem to not have a good sense about Windows on Mac Pro anyway.
Other than zap pram from cold boot / tried booting with NO drives inside and just 10.6. DVD - should be fine.
You should be fine iwth Windows 7 DVD and one drive, or even XP.
Make sure you take your time and reconnect cards etc properly and any cables.
Booting from OS X DVDs may not work if there is a drive with a totally shot directory or partition table. Put them in FW case and turn on AFTER OS X is booted.
Why aren't people Cloning as a Backup Strategy
Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.2
How To clone -
Mac Pro Boot Camp Windows XP issues
Hello all, I'm a new user on the forums and a proud owner of a Mac pro with 4gb ram and 500 gb hard drive. I installed Boot Camp and Windows XP Home Edition before adding any programs so the partitioning was split down the middle. However, once I installed my Windows Version of Adobe Production Studio and other software like McAfee and Spybot S&D I noticed a few issues with Windows. I might be overreacting, but the computer(on the windows side) seems slower than my previous computer (Powerspec 3ghz processor, 1gb RAM, Windows XP Prof) especially in adobe photoshop. Some problems that have occurred:
1.) System information only shows 1.99gb RAM on the windows side.
2.) Booting Windows from Boot Camp sometimes causes the entire system to restart and bring me back to boot camp if I'm still holding option, then a message saying that windows did not start normally appears and it asks if I want to start in safe mode.
3.) Adobe Photoshop with 75% Memory Partition lags when opening and saving large files like filmstrips.
4.) Windows start up and shut down take about 1-2 minutes while Mac OS X is almost instantaneous.
I haven't tried office yet, but the installation seemed to work. I'm not sure if anyone has experienced this, but this could be a cause for my problems, when I tried to install some programs, Spybot denied registry changes. I think I may have solved the problem, but I don't think it made a difference to programs that were already installed. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7)
Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7)By *firmware update* would that include EFI?
Maybe patch or update the SATA chip controller?
Run off PCIe SATA controller is always possibility...
Bugs in ROMs were often patched by drivers, microcode and kernel extensions.
SATA has been changing more rapidly in the last year than in the previous two years - trying to hit a fast moving target.
Barefeats points to possible issues with disk read and writes with some drives and drive configurations.
Seagate had an issue with some of their drives taking more than a minute to spin back up after sleep or spin-down, which required firmware update or drive replacement.
It is also possible, running BootCamp and Windows now, to apply firmware updates to disk drives, something that Macs were excluded from before by Windows-only updates. The need for firmware updates has always been done with SCSI disk drives, and SATA drives have required updates to correct problems as well.
Not sure if we will ever see the type of EFI access that PCs have had to the BIOS, but sometimes you might be able to write something to nvram (as with Parallels right now) to get past a problem.
Tiger has seen some changes, in 10.4.0 and again in 10.4.4, that has impacted disk arbitration and RAIDs primarily but not exclusively, such that you should not be using a 10.4.0-.4.2 version of Disk Utility to repair a drive running a later version. -
I know that BC 1.2 does no have support, but i want to know if someone has successfully installed Windows Vista on a Mac Pro with a GeForce 7300 graphics card?
I managed to install Windows Vista, but there are 3 devices in the device manager that cannot work. The principal problem is the graphic card, after the windows vista installation, i can see me desktop only at 800x600 in 4 colors.
Has anybody managed to install windows vista and make all the devices work?
Thx.It is very weird, because i installed Windows Vista in many PC with onboard video card and 1 Gb. of Ram.
I really don't know why Windows Vista does not like my Mac Pro, the things i found after install Boot Camp 1.2, installed Windows Vista Ultimate using Boot Camp 1.2 and installed Apple Windows Driver's CD created with BC 1.2 is: 3 components in the device manager cannot start, one is the GeForce 7300 GT graphics card (thta's the reason for having only 800x600 at 4 colors display), Another is the "Base Systems Device", and the last is one identified as "unknow".
I just onder another Gb. of ram anyway, but i have the feeling that it won't fix my problem.
I tried to update all the firmware for my Mac pro components and everythig seen to be up-to-date.
Here's some informacion gathered from the system profiler:
Hardware Overview:
Machine Name: Mac Pro
Machine Model: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP11.005C.B04
SMC Version: 1.7f8
Serial Number: XXXXXXXXXXX
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT:
Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Type: Display
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0393
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 3008
Displays:
VP191s:
Resolution: 1280 x 1024 @ 75 Hz
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Supported
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Rotation: Supported
Display:
Status: No display connected
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT:
Name: NVDA,Display-B
Type: display
Bus: PCI
Slot: Slot-1
Vendor ID: 0x10de
Device ID: 0x0393
Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x0000
Subsystem ID: 0x0010
ROM Revision: 3008
Revision ID: 0x00a1
Thx. -
Mac Pro + Boot Camp + Leopard = No 3D Graphics HELP!!!
Why doesn't the boot camp group let me post BTW? I just bought a Mac Pro with an ATI Radeon 1900. Boot camp works great but the ATI software does not load and there are no 3D graphics. Does anyone have any thoughts? I'm striking out. Thanks.
You'd probably be better off posting your question in the Boot Camp discussions:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=237 -
Mac Pro boot problem-Get "I have no name!" error message after possible KP
I think I'm having a kernel panic... and trying to keep from doing so myself
3GHz Mac Pro/4GB RAM, 250GB boot drive and three 400GB drives as a RAID for video captures.
I'm still in the process of getting the machine set up with software.
Demo machine from an Apple Authorized VAR that has been running in his office for several weeks. Had installed Final Cut Studio Monday, allowed Software Update to update the Apple software, including the OS.
Edited quite happily with FCP on a multiclip project... and did other things over the last several days.
Had no problems until a couple of hours ago after adding a number of fonts... which may turn out to be part of the problem... or not.
Rebooted the machine, and after what seemed like a VERRRRRRY long time of gray screen with spinning gear icon, the screen goes black with a cursor in the upper left corner.
About :30 later, text appears: "3Ghz-MacPro:/ I have no name!#" followed maybe ten seconds later by "SIOCPROTOATTACH_IN6: en0 error17" and "SIOCPROTOATTACH_IN6: en1 error17"
Screen clears back to cursor... then "3Ghz-MacPro:/ I have no name!#" reappears... and eventually the cycle starts again.
I would infer that en0 and en1 are the two ethernet ports.
I've popped the install disc in, booted to it (which took a while to do) and used Disk Utility to verify the disk. No problems found. Repaired it anyway.
Verified permissions, which found a couple of issues in the library with some files not essential to booting. Repaired those. Rebooted.
Same cycle as above with "no name."
Ran Apple Hardware test (the quick one) and it found no hardware problems.
Am waiting to see whether the AppleCare TechTool Deluxe will boot. Spinning gear continues as I write this (7-8 minutes??)... now wondering whether it's 10.4.x for Intel Macs as it spins.
After waiting a while... decided to go back to the install disk and see whether I can install 10.4.7 to a handy FireWire drive and boot from that...
then remove (or turn off with FontBook) all the fonts I just installed and see whether it'll boot from the internal.
More later. Am watching e-mail on another machine so feel free to offer suggestions.
Thanks
Ted.
3GHz Mac Pro-1GHz eMac-G3 400MHz Lombard Mac OS X (10.4.8)I installed 10.4.7 onto the RAID so I could see whether it would boot OK, and to swap font folders out so that only the OS installed ones (from the RAID install) were present on the boot's original install.
Booted from the RAID just fine... and was able to do the font folder swap in the main font and user font folders.
Trying to then boot from the boot disk didn't make a difference. Same kernel panic with the text as described before.
Did an "archive and install" onto the boot disk and it came up fine on the fresh OS.
Updated QT and then the OS to 10.4.8 using Software Update (which I understand from the Apple info site is the "delta" version. Combo is also available, and it updates any 10.4.x version to 10.4.8)
Moved over some items in various library folders from the previous system to make the ProApps happy (only Motion's not working) and will get a project out the door today.
Will ultimately wipe the drive and go from scratch on the OS and Apps again.
Looking forward to half a day of intimacy with my Mac Pro and software disks this weekend.
Thanks.
Would still like to know what happened under the hood to cause the problem in the first place... so I can avoid doing anything I might have done to cause the problem... or to avoid other snafus.
Ted
Message was edited by: Ted Langdell to clarify the results booting from the RAID and from the boot after font folder swapping.
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