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Q: Can't Boot past "en2: promiscuous mode enable succeeded"

Working on a friends MacBook Pro. When I try and boot, after the log in screen, it freezes at about a third on the status bar. In safe mode I can see that it freezes after "en2: promiscuous mode enable success". So far I have tried:

 

  • Booting in Safe Mode
  • Resetting PRAM
  • Resetting SMC
  • Booting in Recovery Mode
  • Checked hardware physically and with Apple Hardware Test - All Clear
  • Checking date in Single User Mode
  • Booting from Installer USB
  • Ran /sbin/fsck -fy in Single User Mode - Volume appears to be ok

 

Only other things I can see in terminal when I try and boot that look odd:

 

"Warning: couldn't block sleep during cache update"

"Warning: proceeding w/o DiskArb"

 

 

MacBook Pro Retina 15" Mid 2012

10.10

Intel Core i7, 2.6 GHz, 8GB Memory

 

 

I'm out of ideas. Can anybody help me?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Jan 9, 2015 9:00 PM

by William A. Schroeder,Apple recommended
William A. Schroeder William A. Schroeder
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A:

Kelsor's comment is the answer to this issue. It is a video defect and the recall covered my early 2011 MBP.

 

https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/

Posted on Sep 11, 2015 9:56 PM

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  • by emerge3d,

    emerge3d emerge3d Aug 10, 2016 6:37 PM in response to ronaldocwb
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    Aug 10, 2016 6:37 PM in response to ronaldocwb

    The recall program is no longer available from what I understand. My 17" failed completely a few weeks ago, not worth fixing until logic board prices drop to a few hundred dollars on eBay!

  • by Ábrahám Péter,

    Ábrahám Péter Ábrahám Péter Sep 6, 2016 1:19 PM in response to MaxSeager
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    Sep 6, 2016 1:19 PM in response to MaxSeager

    HI, did you find the solution? I have exactly the same issue

  • by emerge3d,

    emerge3d emerge3d Sep 6, 2016 5:43 PM in response to Ábrahám Péter
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    Sep 6, 2016 5:43 PM in response to Ábrahám Péter

    It really all depends on how far gone your machine is. When my 17" failed last year I had the vertical lines on screen and it eventually would not boot. Had the logic board replaced under the repair extension program.


    This time around it was still in the stages of freezing during boot and I found this link a few weeks back:


    http://www.asyncro.com/2014/03/24/macbook-pro-discreate-graphics-card-issue-fix- updated/


    I tried this solution with my machine and it has been running perfectly with integrated graphics! No more heavy duty gfx work in Final Cut Pro or Lightroom but it serves me fine now as an office machine.


    Cheers, Paul

  • by Ábrahám Péter,

    Ábrahám Péter Ábrahám Péter Sep 6, 2016 9:25 PM in response to emerge3d
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    Sep 6, 2016 9:25 PM in response to emerge3d

    HI Paul, mine is a 2011 macmini, i7, radeon, fusiondrive. The same issue happened, plus pci sdxc stopped, not booting in tons of solutions testing:(

    recovery and usb boot also hangs up.

  • by emerge3d,

    emerge3d emerge3d Sep 7, 2016 7:34 PM in response to Ábrahám Péter
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    Sep 7, 2016 7:34 PM in response to Ábrahám Péter

    When my laptop failed again a few weeks back I really did think it was curtains. However I persisted with the suggested method of booting with integrated graphics by getting it very hot, although I did not go as far as putting it in a bag!

     

    Does the Mac mini heat up when it hangs during boot with the fans going crazy? I think this is the key getting it hot enough to boot without the GPU. However if the PCI SDXC has also stopped working you have wider hardware issues.

     

    I also have a Mid 2010 15" MacBook Pro which suffers from the Nvidia GPU defect & non functional bluetooth, though this unit is no longer in use.

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