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[solved] EVGA 550 Ti on Mountain Lion - Panic on boot
Hey all,
after much head scratching today, and a few clean installs, I managed to get my first ever hackintosh system working... sort of. It works great using my on board graphics, but when I try to use my EVGA GTX 550 Ti, with or without GraphicsEnabler set to yes or no...... it gets ugly.
I don't have a picture handy, but when I try booting with my graphics card set as the main graphics device, it gives a kernel panic shortly after boot. The last line off the top of my head is:
"kdp_poll: no debugger device"
I should note, this is after I tried installing the official nVidia CUDA package, as well as the OpenCL patch from MultiBeast. Like I said earlier, I've tried with a number of flags... -x won't even work now. I've just about exhausted every resource I could find on these forums & others (I went through that 100+ page topic looking for answers, but it seems it was geared more towards people who already had working cards. I cant even boot in).
Is this an issue any one else has experienced? It's really the only major roadblock I've experienced in my hackintosh quest. Thanks for any help.
For reference, my hardware:
UPDATE: SOLUTION:: thanks to stehor and PJALM for helping me figure this out. If anyone else has similar hardware and is experiencing this issue, this is how we fixed it:
1) boot into your system somehow... I used my iGPU, shared memory set to 64mb, etc. When I used my onboard graphics, I didn't need to use safemode, so I only used the flag -v for verbose output.
2) Install the nVidia Web Drivers (thank you PJALM!) available here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-313.01.01f03-driver.html (subject to change depending on when you are reading this)
3) To install the drivers above your system definition has to be MacPro 3,1 - you can change this in MultiBeast or another SMBIOS editor. But usually you'll have to reboot for the system to update its own definition of itself.
4) reboot, use your graphics card output instead of the onboard graphics.
5) when booting up now, I had to use -f and GraphicsEnabler=Yes (as well as -v so I could see whts happening). YMMV here, you may not need to use GE=Yes or -f
6) profit! I got in after this and edited my boot flags so hopefully I wont need to fuss again in the future. Thanks again to everyone who helped.
Hey all,
after much head scratching today, and a few clean installs, I managed to get my first ever hackintosh system working... sort of. It works great using my on board graphics, but when I try to use my EVGA GTX 550 Ti, with or without GraphicsEnabler set to yes or no...... it gets ugly.
I don't have a picture handy, but when I try booting with my graphics card set as the main graphics device, it gives a kernel panic shortly after boot. The last line off the top of my head is:
"kdp_poll: no debugger device"
I should note, this is after I tried installing the official nVidia CUDA package, as well as the OpenCL patch from MultiBeast. Like I said earlier, I've tried with a number of flags... -x won't even work now. I've just about exhausted every resource I could find on these forums & others (I went through that 100+ page topic looking for answers, but it seems it was geared more towards people who already had working cards. I cant even boot in).
Is this an issue any one else has experienced? It's really the only major roadblock I've experienced in my hackintosh quest. Thanks for any help.
For reference, my hardware:
- CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3
- ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
- Intel Core i5-3450 Ivy Bridge 3.1GHz (3.5GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 2500
- EVGA 01G-P3-1556-KR GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi) FPB 1GB
I'm using the HDMI output of my graphics card into my TV.
UPDATE: SOLUTION:: thanks to stehor and PJALM for helping me figure this out. If anyone else has similar hardware and is experiencing this issue, this is how we fixed it:
1) boot into your system somehow... I used my iGPU, shared memory set to 64mb, etc. When I used my onboard graphics, I didn't need to use safemode, so I only used the flag -v for verbose output.
2) Install the nVidia Web Drivers (thank you PJALM!) available here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-313.01.01f03-driver.html (subject to change depending on when you are reading this)
3) To install the drivers above your system definition has to be MacPro 3,1 - you can change this in MultiBeast or another SMBIOS editor. But usually you'll have to reboot for the system to update its own definition of itself.
4) reboot, use your graphics card output instead of the onboard graphics.
5) when booting up now, I had to use -f and GraphicsEnabler=Yes (as well as -v so I could see whts happening). YMMV here, you may not need to use GE=Yes or -f
6) profit! I got in after this and edited my boot flags so hopefully I wont need to fuss again in the future. Thanks again to everyone who helped.
