Kernel Panic - Unable to remove nvda_drv=1 boot arg (Clover)

[mrjcarter]

I managed to get into single-user mode via my Recovery partition and deleted the nvda_drv=1 boot arg from the config.plist file on the EFI partition of my startup drive. While in recovery I also verified and fixed permissions on my startup drive as well.

I then rebooted back to the Clover menu and the nvda_drv=1 boot arg was still there.

I went back into recovery just to double check that I saved the file and it's correct. How can Clover still be loading this boot arg? Can I reinstall Clover on my Yosemite drive through via recovery?

 

[Jithin.C.V]

I managed to get into single-user mode via my Recovery partition and deleted the nvda_drv=1 boot arg from the config.plist file on the EFI partition of my startup drive. While in recovery I also verified and fixed permissions on my startup drive as well.

I then rebooted back to the Clover menu and the nvda_drv=1 boot arg was still there.

I went back into recovery just to double check that I saved the file and it's correct. How can Clover still be loading this boot arg? Can I reinstall Clover on my Yosemite drive through via recovery?

Have you tried to boot with nv_disable=1??

If you have bootable USB on hand boot with the USB.

 

[jsvw007]

Did anyone ever figure out the solution to this problem? I have the exact problem in that I am trying to do a fresh install of OSX El Capitan and I have a Nvidia GTX 750... The only way to do a fresh install with this card installed is to disable nvidia drivers. For some reason, clover is forcing the nvda_drv=1 argument in there even though I have removed it in my config.plist file. And whenever I manually remove it from the options section in clover, it immediately adds it back. So whenever I boot, I have nv_disable=1, along with the automatically forced argument of nvda_drv=1. I boot in verbose mode and every time I can see that my computer is freezing because the NVidia drivers are being loaded.

I tried disabling everything but my internal graphics and booting from it, but because clover sees that I have a nvidia graphics card it keeps adding the nvda_drv=1 and causing the freeze up. I know I could literally remove my GTX 750 from the motherboard and this would solve my installation problem, but that would be my last resort. There has to be a way to get the nv_disable=1 working because it has always worked in the past. Maybe I need an older version of clover installed on my USB? Any help would be appreciated.

 

[BreBo]

Clover isn't forcing anything, it's the Nvidia web driver that writes nvda_drv=1 to NVRAM.

In the Nvidia panel set the driver to OS X Default Driver will remove nvda_drv=1 from NVRAM.

 

[SuX0rz]

I'm having this problem. If you cannot get into OSX to switch the graphics settings, how can you fix the problem?

 

[thug]

Same here. Tried everything. Stuck like many of you.

 

[thug]

SOLVED

since I couldn't the nvda_drv=1 flag to go away, I did the following:
a) removed the Nvidia card
b) booted with onboard Intel graphics
c) installed Nvidia Web Drivers
d) re-inserted the Nvidia card
e) rebooted

Once the driver was installed, I could boot with the mysteriously-appearing boot flag.

 

[CTBM]

I tried that but I keep on getting this below image. What driver did you use do you have a link to it?

 

[sereym]

currently having this issue of not being able to remove this flag from booting with it, is there anyway to remove this via boot menu ?

 

[jimmyfoz]

This is a bug, you can't remove it, even if you change it to =0 there will be another one added =1.... that's a nice trolling from clover, lol