- Joined
- Nov 3, 2013
- Messages
- 37
- Motherboard
- GA-Z87X-UD3H
- CPU
- i7 4770K
- Graphics
- EVGA GTX 760
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
I'll preface by saying I was finally able to get this all installed and 'working' as of this morning. Fingers crossed. However, I want to understand what happened in case my victory is short-lived.
----Hardware----
i7 4770k
GA-Z87X-UD3H (bios was F8m, now F10b)
GTX-770
Corsair Vengeance 16GB
Sandisk SSD
----Drama----
I decided to finally get around to doing a clean install of Yosemite (from Mavs). First time I tried installing it (with all hardware in the case), it worked without a problem. However, because I'm stupid and OCD, I thought I missed a step and tried reformatting/reinstalling shortly after. That's when these stupid "deadbeef" kernel panics started.
I tried going back to Mavs, because I thought this was being caused by Yosemite. Mavs was working, until I rebooted after multibeast and got a kernel panic on the apple load screen. It wouldn't load after multiple reboots unless I typed in "maxmem=8192". I thought my BIOS was to blame, so I updated it to 10b. The kernel panic went away. So I thought "Hey! This is what was causing the deadbeef panics on Yosemite! Now I can install!" Nope.
Due to OCD I wanted to do everything "right". I stumbled upon P1GRIM's guide. So I removed the GTX 770, removed 1 out of 2 sticks of RAM, and proceeded to install Yosemite with 1 stick and onboard graphics. That's when weird deadbeef errors, install hangs, etc started. Sometimes the installer would load, sometimes it wouldn't. It didn't seem to matter if I was putting in -x, -v, or maxmem. What bugged me was the randomness of it. The only time it would seem to load consistently is AFTER i did a fresh install on a USB drive. My poor USB is probably at the end of its rope from as many times as I've formatted and installed Unibeast on it tonight.
If I reached the installer, I would sometimes get "device errors" when trying to format using Disk Util. Sometimes I wouldn't. Each time I'd reboot to try to fix it. Finally, I'd reach the installer, and it would stop and say an error occured when reading "Essentials.pkg". WHAT?
After research, I rebooted, typed '-x -no-zp' and was able to reach the disk util, installer, and finally the desktop (the desktop required no flags, just the installer). I installed multibeast, and after a short issue with display (forgot to disable intel graphics), I was in Yosemite.
----Primary questions----
Why did I have to go through all of this? Many people have the same hardware and didn't have these issues.
Does it matter that I had a "messy" install? (i.e. having to use bootflags, etc)? Does multibeast take care of a lot of nuances that can cause issues during initial install?
Thanks a lot in advance. Here's some screenshots of random errors I got.
----Hardware----
i7 4770k
GA-Z87X-UD3H (bios was F8m, now F10b)
GTX-770
Corsair Vengeance 16GB
Sandisk SSD
----Drama----
I decided to finally get around to doing a clean install of Yosemite (from Mavs). First time I tried installing it (with all hardware in the case), it worked without a problem. However, because I'm stupid and OCD, I thought I missed a step and tried reformatting/reinstalling shortly after. That's when these stupid "deadbeef" kernel panics started.
I tried going back to Mavs, because I thought this was being caused by Yosemite. Mavs was working, until I rebooted after multibeast and got a kernel panic on the apple load screen. It wouldn't load after multiple reboots unless I typed in "maxmem=8192". I thought my BIOS was to blame, so I updated it to 10b. The kernel panic went away. So I thought "Hey! This is what was causing the deadbeef panics on Yosemite! Now I can install!" Nope.
Due to OCD I wanted to do everything "right". I stumbled upon P1GRIM's guide. So I removed the GTX 770, removed 1 out of 2 sticks of RAM, and proceeded to install Yosemite with 1 stick and onboard graphics. That's when weird deadbeef errors, install hangs, etc started. Sometimes the installer would load, sometimes it wouldn't. It didn't seem to matter if I was putting in -x, -v, or maxmem. What bugged me was the randomness of it. The only time it would seem to load consistently is AFTER i did a fresh install on a USB drive. My poor USB is probably at the end of its rope from as many times as I've formatted and installed Unibeast on it tonight.
If I reached the installer, I would sometimes get "device errors" when trying to format using Disk Util. Sometimes I wouldn't. Each time I'd reboot to try to fix it. Finally, I'd reach the installer, and it would stop and say an error occured when reading "Essentials.pkg". WHAT?
After research, I rebooted, typed '-x -no-zp' and was able to reach the disk util, installer, and finally the desktop (the desktop required no flags, just the installer). I installed multibeast, and after a short issue with display (forgot to disable intel graphics), I was in Yosemite.
----Primary questions----
Why did I have to go through all of this? Many people have the same hardware and didn't have these issues.
Does it matter that I had a "messy" install? (i.e. having to use bootflags, etc)? Does multibeast take care of a lot of nuances that can cause issues during initial install?
Thanks a lot in advance. Here's some screenshots of random errors I got.