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 >
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