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MaxSeager Author

Level 1

3 points

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

21 replies

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

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

emerge3d

Level 1

11 points

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

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.

emerge3d

Level 1

11 points

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.

bcashhh

Level 1

4 points

Dec 5, 2016 1:12 AM in response to William A. Schroeder

Thanks. This helped. Only option is to get your laptop to Apple store and get replaced the video card before 2016 Dec free of cost. Mine is MBP early 2011 model. No other steps worked. Tried everythinv from nvram reset to hardware test etc etc.

dgm1857

Level 1

35 points

Jun 23, 2017 12:37 PM in response to ronaldocwb

Exact same issue (stops after "en1: promiscuous mode enable succeeded")

MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011) are not included in the recall.

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