Re: Gray screen of death
Carl Hoefs <[email protected]>
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Thanks, George & Macs. The mobo's fried. I tried booting from an USB stick, and it craps out that way too. If I transfer the internal 500GB HDD to another MacBook, will it work there? It's encrypted with FileVault, and I don't know where I placed the volume key. Would it "just work" or am I screwed without the pwd? -Carl > On Apr 10, 2019, at 7:00 AM, George N. White III <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 23:12, Macs R We <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Could be faulty memory. Could be motherboard. > > Others have reported this error from a failed boot drive, e.g., https://forums.macg.co/threads/probleme-kernel-panic.1295906/ <https://forums.macg.co/threads/probleme-kernel-panic.1295906/> > > First, try zapping the PRAM. You never know. > > If it still fails, I'd boot it off an external drive with a good system on it (I keep one for each release). If you have another Mac with the proper system on it, you can always throw it into Transfer Disk mode and then boot the bad one off it. > > If it still fails, it's hardware. If removing the memory chips one at a time doesn't fix it, I'd write it off. > > It can be helpful to try booting a live Linux distro. If it works then you can try reinstalling MacOS. I had a similar vintage macbook pro with failed graphics hardware. MacOS refused to run, but Ubuntu was able to boot to a text console from which it is possilbe to tweak the configuration to work around the failed hardware. Linux `dmesg` often has details of hardware issues found at startup. > > >> On Apr 9, 2019, at 4:09 PM, Carl Hoefs <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> If I try booting up my 2010 MacBook Pro 7,1 I get a gray screen of death. >> >> <IMG_0965x.jpeg> >> >> "unexpected SIGKILL of init with reason -- namespace 9 code 0x1 description none" >> >> Does this mean a mobo issue, or the HDD is kaput? >> >> There's no recovery partition, and the HDD is FileVaulted with who-knows-what password. > > > -- > George N. White III > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk