Questions about booting, the process of starting a computer and putting it into a state of readiness for operation.
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Macbook Pro Early 2011 15 inch, Mountain Lion Booting issue
My Macbook Pro is not booting normally. I tried many options but no success. If I try to recovery mode or try to boot from USB, a blue screen appears. So I can't do fresh install. I checked hardware ...
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How to diagnose long start up
My Macbook Pro (OSX 10.8.2) is taking a long time to settle down after booting. I am guessing there are some background processes/apps that are taking a while to start and hogging resources. What is ...
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FreeBSD Install DVD corrupted my Mac OS X harddisk
Recently, I have tried a FreeBSD 7.4 i386 Install DVD, just to see some screens of FreeBSD on my Mac mini Intel 2006. I was going to see (to remember) just several dialog screen of and perhaps I would ...
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Apple powerbook G4 17" Trying to install Linux
I believe followed the directions on how to create a bootable USB drive from the Ubuntu website. My question is how can I get my Powerbook to boot from the USB drive? I tried doing the ...
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Can't boot MacBook Pro 13" (mid 2010)
The problem occurred after installing the update SMC 1.6 on Apple - OS X Mountain Lion:
First for a long time was a white screen and noisy cooler
After the system battery icon was crossed out and ...
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Booting internally from a harddrive that was used on a different Mac
I just bought a new Mac Mini 2012 and have just replaced the drive in it with an SSD from my old MBP. Now the Mac Mini wont boot anymore, showing a stop sign when I try (after holding alt to begin ...
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Boot time on Mountain Lion
I have my MacPro Quad and upgraded to Mountain Lion.
I have cloned the system hard disk to bootable external HD. I have tried it and works fine.
Now when I have put the external HD in the BAY I to ...
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How can I tell OSX NOT to mount some of the drives in my computer?
I have a Mac with a Windows drive that I occasionally boot to. Most of the time, I'm using the Mac, and the Windows disk always mounts and shows up on the desktop. I would like to keep it from showing ...
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Macbook Pro hangs when booting into Boot Camp Windows 7
I have a 2011 Macbook Pro 15" 10.7.4 with Windows 7 installed in Boot Camp. A few days ago, I tried to boot into Windows 7 and it just froze after I selected the Boot Camp volume on the Select Drive ...
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Windows will not boot after a restart of my Mac Pro, only after a cold shutdown and startup
I am currently experiencing a very strange issue regarding booting into Windows 7 64-bit (installed on its own 1TB HDD). If I restart my Mac Pro, hold down the option key, and select my Windows ...
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How to 'startx' from Single User Mode?
I usually run dwm inside Xquartz on OS X Mountain Lion 10.8. But is there a way to boot into Safe Mode (or a console), then startx or xinit, skipping Aqua? I'd like to boot directly into X11.
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Lion crashes on first reboot attempt, is fine on second reboot
I'm having a weird issue with Lion on 2 different machines (2008 Mac Pro, 2011 15 inch Macbook Pro). The first machine was upgraded through several OS versions to Lion, the second came with Lion ...
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How do I unfreeze my iPod Nano 4th Gen?
tl;dr -- My iPod hangs on the boot screen (black background, silver apple logo). When I try to restore it (on both my Virtual Windows XP and on a Mac laptop), it'll restore fine, but when it reboots ...
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Trying to install Ubuntu on a Macbook with a new hard drive and no OSX
The hard drive of my Macbook failed recently. After installing a new hard drive I would like to use Ubuntu as the operating system, not Mac OS x. I burned a Ubuntu .iso to a disc and when I power up ...
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What steps can I take to recover data from a FileVault 2 encrypted boot volume that won't boot and is stuck in “converting” status?
I have a 2008 Macbook Pro running OS X 10.8 on a 500GB (upgraded from original) 1-2 year old hard drive. The drive was encrypted with FileVault2, and the system was running fine a few months ago until ...
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iMac does not boot in windows 7
my iMac (iMac11,2) refuses to boot in win7. Nor from bootcamp partition, neither from win7 installation DVD. It boots without any problem into Mac OS (10.6.8), it as well boots from mac os ...
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iphone restarts on password lock screen
I have a jailbroken iPhone 4 with iOS 6.0.1. If somehow it gets shut down, I can't boot tethered. Can't use "Just Boot" in Redsn0w, because the phone needs to be shut down, but I can't make the "slide ...
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iMac hanging on startup
I've got a 2011, 21.5" iMac with a 1TB hard drive (likely Seagate, although I don't think I can check right now). After it froze, I did a cold restart by holding down the power button for a few ...
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Disable boot from CD/DVD
Is there a way to disable the boot from CD/DVD? I don't want to disable it permanently, just when it automatically checks on boot for the presence of a CD/DVD.
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iMac 2011 spinning beach ball after login
the following is the HW profile of my iMac:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac12,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 2.5 GHz
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Boot into Legacy HD option rEFIt
I just synced my rEFIt partition tool and now I get an option to boot from legacy HD when at the moment the only bootable disk is that cotaining Mac OS X. Has anyone got any idea of how I can get rid ...
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Intel bootloader for Tiger
I'm trying to boot my 2007 MBP into Tiger 10.4.11 from a backup of a PowerBook G3. The partition doesn't show up in the Startup Disk preferences, but bless will work with it. On closer inspection, ...
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Target disk mode boot flag?
I recently made a Hackingtosh, and I really need to interface with it using Target Disk mode. Is there a boot flag to be able to enable this?
It's running Lion.
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Installing Leopard on a PowerBook G4 12"
So I stupidly bought a USB on eBay with leopard on it to install on my PowerBook G4. Finding out afterward that I can't boot to a usb on this 12" 1.5Ghz 512MB with combo drive PowerBook G4.
So I ...
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Slipstream updates into an OS X install disc?
Is there a way to slipstream (like in Windows) all updates into the install disc for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard?
I found a previous answer here, but the provided link doesn't seem to work any more...
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Macbook Leopard (10.5.8) stuck in blue screen
My Mac is stuck in bluescreen at boot time. Some times it gets to the wallpaper and other times it doesn't. I tried the various steps suggested in the other threads and elsewhere:
Reset PRAM
Run ...
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Mac Mini Server running Mountain Lion (10.8.2) is freezing during boot (last line: IPv6 packet filtering initialized)
Starting in verbose mode (Cmd+V), the last line I see on the console is:
IPv6 packet filtering initialized, default to accept, logging disabled
This happens regardless of having an ethernet cable ...
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Boot Camp startup problems when using “Startup Disk” but not when using “Option” key on startup
There are essentially two ways to start up Boot Camp (mine has Windows 7 in it). The first is to open up System Preferences, click on "Startup Disk", then choose the Windows partition and click ...
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How to avoid diskutil from running on next boot?
OSX keeps trying to run diskutil to check my hard drive whenever I boot the system. Problem is it hangs up and reboots during the checking.
The system was running fine before rebooting. I suspect it ...
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dev/disk0 designation switching between HDD and SSD
I have an iMac9,1. I replaced the optical drive with an SSD. I have the OS installed on the SSD and the HDD is now for files. I have noticed that sometimes after booting that the SSD will be ...
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Macbook Pro Retina not recognizing USB3 drive at boot
My Macbook Pro Retina is not recognizing USB3 drives during boot when trying to access them with option or command+r held. Plugging the same drives into a USB2 hub or cable allows them to be visible ...
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Cannot recover system Volume after renaming backup volume name
In an iBook G4 running Tiger (10.4) I have a situation where I created with Disk Utility a "Restore" full backup of my system Volume to a partition on an external USB disk.
My system Volume ...
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rEFIt shows “boot legacy” after removing linux
I just removed my linux partition in disk utility under OSX (bad idea?) and now rather than just showing Mac OS, rEFIt shows Mac OS and 2 others. One is a "legacy OS" and the other is some reference ...
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Mac Pro 1,1 - cant boot from USB Key?
I am trying to install linux, by booting from a USB key.
When I option-boot, an orange icon labelled 'EFI Boot' appears.
When I select it, the activity light on the USB key flashes for about 3-4 ...
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System Tray sometimes empty in Windows 7 in Boot Camp?
For some reason, sometimes when I boot into Windows 7 in Boot Camp, the System Tray will be empty. So when I try to restart via the Start Menu, nothing happens. I have to manually shut down power, ...
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Booting with specific netboot image automatically (commandline)
It try to figure out how to reboot a mac automatically with a sepcific netboot Image
via bless you can reboot the mac and let it bot from the default netboot image of a specified server. But as long ...
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Creation of Image / Netboot Image stops at 4 GB
I try to create a Netboot Image / Image according to this documentation
Apple Netboot Image
And I tried it on different System and different external harddrives (mac os extended journaled, ntfs) and ...
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MacOS Network Boot with Deployment Studio or Alternative
I found Deployment Studio as Network Booting solution for Apple. I watched some videos and looked a bit into the manual. What I am not quite shure of at this point
Is Wake On LAN possible with Auto ...
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Mountain Lion booting very slow in Macbook Pro
Hi I am using a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010), i5 processor and 4 GB RAM.
I recently updated to Mountain Lion and now it takes more than 2 minutes to boot up.
Is this normal for the MacBook Pro ...
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coreaudiod[126]: FIXME: IOUnserialize problem
Every time I start my Mac I see that in the logs:
coreaudiod[126]: FIXME: IOUnserialize has detected a string that is not valid UTF-8, "`��$����P��$�����%=����".
Obviously coreaudiod reads some file ...
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Names of bootable partitions aren't the same as the names in Disk Utility
We use external FW/USB drives as portable diagnostic and installers and even though the partitions are named and have a custom icon, they show up as "Mac OS X" with a generic USB/FW icon when option ...
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Restarting from Boot Camp (Windows 7) into OS X goes back into Boot Camp?
For some reason, lately when I'm in Windows 7 using Boot Camp and I want to restart back into OS X, it'll restart back into Windows 7 again.
What I do is, I click on the Boot Camp system tray icon ...
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Mac OS X Base System interference
I have reviewed what has been written here regarding the Mac OS X Base System and I am still scratching my head.
The impetus for this inquiry is how these partitions interfere with booting problem ...
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Macbook pro 5.5 doesn't boot, superdrive doesn't work, how can I install Mountain Lion?
Less than a week ago MacOS X snow leopard just stopped booting. I had some long boot delays for some week now, but now it's just stuck at the white or blue screen (just after the apple logo + ...
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SSD only boots from USB adapter
I would like to know if anyone has an idea or suggestion to what's happening on my SSD.
I was using Lion on my Vertex 3 SSD 240GB - MacBook Pro (early 2011 model) and everything was running well ...
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Macbook pro intermittently boots in safe mode
My Early 2011 MBP has just recently started booting in safe mode,
I haven't got many other details, I don't have any specific cases where it will boot in safe. However I will outline what I can and ...
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iPhone won't charge anymore in infinite boot-loop
NOTE: I know this is a lot of text to handle, but I'll add a bounty whenever I can to the person who can bring me the solution. So see is as a motivation to read the whole text :)
My friend has the ...
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Problem booting Ubuntu from newer Macbook Pro (late 2011 model)
I'm trying to create a USB stick that is bootable on both PC and Intel Mac systems, which will contain a full installation of Ubuntu (i.e. not just a LiveCD).
I've succeeded in creating a USB that ...
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How to enable root on the Lion “Recovery” boot drive?
There's a few funny things / clues here and there on the Lion recovery disk "Systems" - that indicate you can save your settings between boots. A very light smattering of persistent settings etc. ...
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Intel core 2 Duo 2GB SDRAM version 10.6.3 Not booting up
I am unable to boot from a DVD on a MacBook Pro. I need to reinstall Lion.
I tried holding C and also I tried using the alt key. Using the alt key is only showing the internal hard drive as a boot ...
