Hi all,
My first time posting here. I've done pretty good at digging through the forums to learn what I need when I'm troubleshooting through installs but I can't for the life of me figure this one out. Any tips would greatly be appreciated.
Problem: Screen goes black after reboot when trying to install Mojave and doesn't boot.
What I'm trying to do: I am trying to install Mojave 10.14.6 on my Mac Pro using a NVIDIA K5000 for Mac. I have had no success with every possible combination of attempts as it always ends the same which leads me to believe I could be missing something.
To clarify, I have two K5000's. One I bought from a seller on eBay that said he pulled it from his Mac Pro and another I bought off of a guy from Offerup who pulled it from his hackintosh but said it was for Mac. No issues with boot screens on either. Both have ended with the same results. They work 100% fine in High Sierra with and without web drivers.
I have about 10 Mac Pros (literally) here in my room. Ive tried this on 3 of them, a 2009 and two 2012s and all have given me the same results.
Initially, I tried installing Mojave on an OWC Accelsior E2 but was having problems. I later discovered that it's configured in raid 0 at 480 GB and people were having issues booting from that so I scratched that.
I also learned not to install Mojave from a usb installer with the K5000 as I was doing that too. Canned that.
Other attempts:
-booted from a hd backup of High Sierra and tried installing Mojave on it (with NVidia Web Drivers installed)
-booted from a hd backup of High Sierra and tried installing Mojave on it (uninstalled NVidia Web Drivers)
-installed a fresh copy of High Sierra on to a HD, updated to 17G14042, then tried installing Mojave
-booted from a fresh copy of High Sierra, updated to 17G14042, then tried installing Mojave to a PCIe SSD that was formatted to APFS.
-booted from a fresh copy of High Sierra, updated to 17G14042, then tried installing Mojave to a HD that was formatted to APFS.
-booted from hd High Sierra backup above, downloaded a new copy of High Sierra, installed new copy of HS on reformatted PCIe SSD APFS, booted from new copy of HS, then installed Mojave as an upgrade.
-booted from hd High Sierra backup above, downloaded a new copy of High Sierra, installed new copy of HS on reformatted PCIe SSD APFS, then installed Mojave as an upgrade on that SSD with backup booted
I've clearly spent ALL day on this and no success. I've tried fresh installs of High Sierra without updating and trying from 17G66 and same thing.
Boot Roms have been from 144.0.0.0.0 as it was the last step (or first depending on how you look at it) to get Mojave on there but turning the computer off then pressing the power button until it beeps.
I can't seem to even boot off of my usb drive that has a base copy of Mojave that I use.
The screen pulls up the apple logo then it starts to load and about about 10-15 seconds later, screen goes blank and that's it.
Ive tried NVRAM resets before, during fresh HS installs and before Mojave installs.
All have led me to the same result.
Where am I going wrong?
All computers I've tried are running
2 x 3.33 GHz X5680
48 GB Ram (first three on each side)
No other drives attached.
Both cards load up just fine with anything before the attempt to run Mojave. I even tried installing Dosdude's Mojave Patcher and got the same result.
Weird.
Any thoughts?
I appreciate it!
My first time posting here. I've done pretty good at digging through the forums to learn what I need when I'm troubleshooting through installs but I can't for the life of me figure this one out. Any tips would greatly be appreciated.
Problem: Screen goes black after reboot when trying to install Mojave and doesn't boot.
What I'm trying to do: I am trying to install Mojave 10.14.6 on my Mac Pro using a NVIDIA K5000 for Mac. I have had no success with every possible combination of attempts as it always ends the same which leads me to believe I could be missing something.
To clarify, I have two K5000's. One I bought from a seller on eBay that said he pulled it from his Mac Pro and another I bought off of a guy from Offerup who pulled it from his hackintosh but said it was for Mac. No issues with boot screens on either. Both have ended with the same results. They work 100% fine in High Sierra with and without web drivers.
I have about 10 Mac Pros (literally) here in my room. Ive tried this on 3 of them, a 2009 and two 2012s and all have given me the same results.
Initially, I tried installing Mojave on an OWC Accelsior E2 but was having problems. I later discovered that it's configured in raid 0 at 480 GB and people were having issues booting from that so I scratched that.
I also learned not to install Mojave from a usb installer with the K5000 as I was doing that too. Canned that.
Other attempts:
-booted from a hd backup of High Sierra and tried installing Mojave on it (with NVidia Web Drivers installed)
-booted from a hd backup of High Sierra and tried installing Mojave on it (uninstalled NVidia Web Drivers)
-installed a fresh copy of High Sierra on to a HD, updated to 17G14042, then tried installing Mojave
-booted from a fresh copy of High Sierra, updated to 17G14042, then tried installing Mojave to a PCIe SSD that was formatted to APFS.
-booted from a fresh copy of High Sierra, updated to 17G14042, then tried installing Mojave to a HD that was formatted to APFS.
-booted from hd High Sierra backup above, downloaded a new copy of High Sierra, installed new copy of HS on reformatted PCIe SSD APFS, booted from new copy of HS, then installed Mojave as an upgrade.
-booted from hd High Sierra backup above, downloaded a new copy of High Sierra, installed new copy of HS on reformatted PCIe SSD APFS, then installed Mojave as an upgrade on that SSD with backup booted
I've clearly spent ALL day on this and no success. I've tried fresh installs of High Sierra without updating and trying from 17G66 and same thing.
Boot Roms have been from 144.0.0.0.0 as it was the last step (or first depending on how you look at it) to get Mojave on there but turning the computer off then pressing the power button until it beeps.
I can't seem to even boot off of my usb drive that has a base copy of Mojave that I use.
The screen pulls up the apple logo then it starts to load and about about 10-15 seconds later, screen goes blank and that's it.
Ive tried NVRAM resets before, during fresh HS installs and before Mojave installs.
All have led me to the same result.
Where am I going wrong?
All computers I've tried are running
2 x 3.33 GHz X5680
48 GB Ram (first three on each side)
No other drives attached.
Both cards load up just fine with anything before the attempt to run Mojave. I even tried installing Dosdude's Mojave Patcher and got the same result.
Weird.
Any thoughts?
I appreciate it!
