"Unable to find driver for this platform" after software update

After today's software update my MacBook Pro won't start when the required restart is completed. I get to the "pre-login screen" where I type in my password, and then I end up at a screen saying I have to hold down the power button and then restart the computer. It also says "Unable to find driver for this platform: \"ACPI\"...
What is there to do now? Will I lose everything on my harddrive if I reboot the computer completely?
Thanks for any help,
David

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I have a Macbook pro 4,1 My Battery would not charge after only 23 cycles. I tried the battery update now my macbook will not boot. it has a kernel panic Unable to find driver for this platform:

Macbook 4,1
Early 2008 15" macbook pro
Running Snow Leopard
the Battery was not working after only 23 cycles
I tried the Battery update and now it will not boot at all
I really do not want to loose my data on the drive
panic message is
Unable to find driver for this platform: "ACPI".\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228/iokit/Kernel/IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1378
Please help

Panic Message
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x000x563ebd) : Unable to find driver for this platform:
"ACPI".\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228/iokit/Kernel/IOPlatformExpert.cpp:1378
Debugger called: <panic>
Backtrace (CPU 0), Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
(7 lines of hex)
BSD Process name corresponding to current thread: Unkonwn
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0" todays date ; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/release_I386
I tried to boot from CD can, but i dont want to loose any information.
Tried disk tools
Hardware test
Tried to check if it was memory sticks failing or battery , nothing else plugged in
if i boot holding Apple key and S
I get additional warnings about AppleACPIPlatform and not being able to load Kext

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Unable to find driver for this platform: "PowerBook5,6".
But...and here's the best part...if I boot into target disk mode and hook the computer up to another similar Powerbook we have, the similar PowerBook boots fine using my drive.
So, it seems to be a hardware problem with my PowerBook. Any ideas on how I narrow it down?
Thanks,
Gary

Glad you found your problem. Our kernel panic on our 15" G4 is a bad logic board. $500+ to fix it. Just found out yesterday.
JWTech

"unable to find driver for this platform" at random restart? please help!

i cant get past this screen, right after the screen turns grey and i see the apple logo..... tried resetting NV ram, tried holding option and booting from my startup disk, tried starting from the installation cd, running disk utility and repairing permissions/disk repair how do i get past this?! ahhhgggg the only thing was i restarted and had a diskwarrior CD in the drive, heres the first bit of the error i get
Panic(cpu 0 caller 0x0043913f) : "unable to find driver for this platform :\ "ACPI\ " . \n"@/SourceCache/xnu-1228.15.4/iokit/kernal/IOplatformexpert.cpp:1407
debugger called: <panic>
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : return address (4 potential args on stack)

It happened the same to me; I wrote in other threads in the forum hoping somebody gives me any hint to fix the problem.
Andrea (andreadandrea<at>tele2<dot>it)

I just updated my software, but seems my macbook got an error of unable to find driver for this platform..

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Did you try more than once? If so:
Reinstall Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks without erasing drive
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported then click on the Repair Permissions button. When the process is completed, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Mountain Lion or Mavericks
OS X Mavericks- Reinstall OS X
OS X Mountain Lion- Reinstall OS X
OS X Lion- Reinstall Mac OS X
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet
if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

Help! Installing updates an error occurred now my MacBook Pro will not restart. "Unable to find driver for this platform"

Help! Installing updates an error occurred now my MacBook Pro will not restart. "Unable to find driver for this platform"

Did you try more than once? If so:
Reinstall Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks without erasing drive
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported then click on the Repair Permissions button. When the process is completed, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Mountain Lion or Mavericks
OS X Mavericks- Reinstall OS X
OS X Mountain Lion- Reinstall OS X
OS X Lion- Reinstall Mac OS X
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet
if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

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One day I started my mac and received a message "panic(cpu 0 caller 0x002e0ebc): unable to find driver for this platform: "powermac6,1" it goes on with kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version8.8.0: Fri Sep 8 17:18:57 PDT 2006; root: xnu-792.12.6.obj~1/release_ppc panic: we are hanging here..."
I have search the site over and over and other threads that talked about powermac 6.3 but fixes. I did not do anything to my computer except 2 weeks prior I added a user and changed to have the computer ask who to log in. the computer worked fine and the other user never signed into the computer other then me using the other user name to test it to make sure it works.
what do I do? I read others changing hard drives etc.

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Pease help error message panic cpu 0 caller 0x563ebd Unable to find driver for this platforlease help error message on boot up// panic cpu 0 calller 0x563ebd unable to find driver for this platform

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Hello jayparks41
There are a few things to try and the article below can walk you through them before trying to hunt down a Snow Leopard install disk. I will say that it may come down to reinstall Snow Leopard but also before any troubleshooting, make sure to have a safe copy of your data.
OS X: About kernel panics
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3742
Mac OS X 10.6: Reinstalling Mac OS X
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH6606
Regards,
-Norm G.

Pease help error message panic cpu 0 caller 0x563ebd Unable to find driver for this platform

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Try booting into the Safe Mode using your normal account. Disconnect all peripherals except those needed for the test. Shut down the computer and then power it back up after waiting 10 seconds. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. When you reboot normally, the initial reboot may be slower than normal. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application un-installer. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don't do them all at once.
Safe Mode - About
Safe Mode
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I was updating my Macbook Pro's software today the standard way and when/after it was installing the latest Mac OS X, my laptop shut off and now it won't boot up. A screen comes on that says "you need to restart your computer..." (which i did, but this message keeps popping up). on the same screen, it says stuff like panic: unable to find driver for this platform, debugger called, and displays all these numbers and letters. i don't know what is wrong or how to fix it. did my computer crash when installing the updated software/platform? PLEASE HELP!

mrb1568:
If I may put in just one work of caution. Mac OS X: About the Archive and Install feature explains the procedure for the installation option. However, although you can choose to save your settings and preferences, and although all third party apps in the Applications folder are saved, as well as your Users Folder, the article starts out by suggesting that you backup. That is because if anything goes wrong, as you already know it can, you can likely lose all your data, or if it can be rescued, not without cost and a lot of time.
If you don't have a reliable, up-to-date backup I suggest that you use SuperDuper to clone the entire HDD to an external HDD. You can do that by using Firewire Target Disk Mode and connecting an external HDD to the host computer.
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cornelius
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Restart computer.
What the? I've tried restarting, holding down the
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