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Mac OS X Sierra ISO Boot "Not in text mode!"

Posted: 1. Jun 2017, 03:05
by Gamered1337
Hello,
I've recently encountered a problem whilst attempting to get a bootable Mac OS X Sierra to work on VB. This problem has occurred for several hours. I've tried reinstalling the ISO for the mac, tried redoing the commands that let it successfully work, and a bunch of other troubleshooting stuff, however nothing worked. After a few seconds of booting up the system, it immediately turns to Guru Meditation mode. I'm not a huge expert at reading crash logs, but I've noticed there was this one small piece of code which had terminated the system. Not sure what happened here.

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00:00:03.889909 read mode     : 0     write mode: 0
00:00:03.889910 set/reset data: 00    S/R enable: 00
00:00:03.889910 color compare : 00    read map  : 0
00:00:03.889911 rotate        : 0     function  : 0
00:00:03.889911 don't care    : 0F    bit mask  : FF
00:00:03.889912 seq plane mask: 0F    chain-4   : on
00:00:03.889913 !!
00:00:03.889913 !! {vgasr}
00:00:03.889913 !!
00:00:03.889914 VGA Sequencer (3C5): SR index 3C4:00
00:00:03.889914  SR00:03 SR01:01 SR02:0F SR03:00 SR04:0A
00:00:03.889916 !!
00:00:03.889916 !! {vgatext}
00:00:03.889916 !!
00:00:03.889917 Not in text mode!
00:00:03.889917 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
00:13:18.501239 GUI: User request to power VM off on Guru Meditation.
00:13:18.501252 GUI: Passing request to power VM off from machine-logic to UI session.
00:13:18.501256 GUI: Powering VM down on UI session power off request...
00:13:18.501802 Console: Machine state changed to 'Stopping'
00:13:18.501991 Console::powerDown(): A request to power off the VM has been issued (mMachineState=Stopping, InUninit=0)
00:13:18.502001 Display::handleDisplayResize: uScreenId=0 pvVRAM=000000000b830000 w=1024 h=768 bpp=32 cbLine=0x1000 flags=0x0
00:13:18.502019 GUI: UIFrameBufferPrivate::NotifyChange: Screen=0, Origin=0x0, Size=1024x768, Sending to async-handler
00:13:18.502127 Changing the VM state from 'GURU_MEDITATION' to 'POWERING_OFF'
00:13:18.502137 ****************** Guest state at power off for VCpu 1 ******************
I believe the "00:00:03.889917 Not in text mode!" string caused the system to change into Guru Meditation. Not 100% certain, however.

Many thanks for helping.

Re: Mac OS X Sierra ISO Boot "Not in text mode!"

Posted: 1. Jun 2017, 03:10
by socratis
Gamered1337 wrote:I'm not a huge expert at reading crash logs... Not sure what happened here.
Well, let us help then ;)

Start the VM (cold boot), let it crash, close the VM window, right-click in the VM in VirtualBox Manager, Show Log, save ONLY the first VBox.log, ZIP it and attach it to your response.

Re: Mac OS X Sierra ISO Boot "Not in text mode!"

Posted: 1. Jun 2017, 03:12
by Gamered1337
Here you go.
(Apologies about that; somehow the forum didn't allow me to send it last time.)

Re: Mac OS X Sierra ISO Boot "Not in text mode!"

Posted: 1. Jun 2017, 03:16
by socratis
VirtualBox VM 5.1.22 r115126 win.amd64 (Apr 28 2017 16:35:24) release log
00:00:01.217980 OS Product: Windows 10
00:00:01.243707 DMI Product Name: System Product Name
First of all, you posted on the "OSX Hosts" section. You do not have an OSX Host, you have a Windows Host. Unfortunately for you OSX guests are only supported on Apple hardware (which you do not have). See: Important notice regarding Mac OS X as Guest.