Questions about booting, the process of starting a computer and putting it into a state of readiness for operation.
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How to image and deploy a Bootcamp setup?
We are rolling out iMac's and MacBook Pro's throughout the business and are setting them up with Boot Camp and an option to boot into Windows 7. Essentially the partition is just split down the ...
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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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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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New Corsair ram beeping on late 2008 MacBook
I purchased Corsair RAM memory (2x4GB) CMSA8GX3M2A1066C7 from Amazon.com. According to the description it "Works with any Mac computer that supports 4GB DDR3 SODIMMs". My MacBook supports 6GB ...
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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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Lion Boot from a Flash Drive Mac
So I'm trying to load a Lion DMG onto a 16GB flash drive according to this tutorial, but I only get as far as step 9. The data starts to restore to the flash drive, but right as it gets to the end, ...
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Error “/dev/disk04 could not be mounted” when using NTFS-3G
I use NTFS-3G in order to let myself read and write to my external hard drive in the correct format. My Mac is also bootcamped with Windows 7 on the other side.
Every time I startup my Mac I get an ...
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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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Will upgrading to Mountain Lion allow USB Boot?
One problem I have with my 2009 MBP running 10.6.8 Snow Leopard is that I can't boot from USB (well, I can, but only OS X in certain formats). I would really like to be able to boot linux from USB at ...
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Could trying to disable WindowsServer.plist break my iMac it will no longer start?
Forgive the long story, but I have a mix of old knowledge and unfamiliarity with Mac so I don't know what might be relevant. The tldr version is my iMac won't boot.
Trying to put op an upnp server: ...
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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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“This version of OSX is not supported on this platform.” when booting 2012 Mac Mini with SSD drive from previous system
When trying to boot a 2012 Mac Mini (purchased from apple.com) with the SSD drive from my previous system (a 2009 MBP), I get "This version of OSX is not supported on this platform". The version of ...
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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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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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Strange Freeze on My MacBook Pro 15.4" 2.0GHZ (A1150 / MA600LL) & No Sound After Boot
I have a MacBook Pro 15" A1150 (MA600LL) that will not boot except in safe mode. It gets almost all of the way through the boot then freezes with two vertical checkerboard lines and the ...
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Problem Installing Lion on MacBook2,1 using USB
I have a Macbook2,1 with 4GB RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz and Leopard 10.5.8 and I need to upgrade it to Lion. I've downloaded Lion installation dmg file and restored it to a USB disk using Disk ...
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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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Booting from USB to install Windows 7 on Macbook Pro, Early 2011
I used Bootcamp (5.0) to create a Windows 7 install USB. It successfully created the install USB but when I reboot the system and hold down the option-key to boot from the USB drive, the boot-loader ...
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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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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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Can't start up MacBook Pro from OS X install discs
I wanted to re-install my mid-2010 15-inch MacBook Pro (Intel Core i7 2.66 gHz 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 RAM) which is currently running Mac OS X 10.6.8.
I inserted the retail Mac OS X 10.6 install disc, ...
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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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How to permanently disable (defective) graphics card in MacBook Pro?
My graphics card has malfunctioned and is preventing my MacBook Pro (2011) from booting.
Based on my research I will have to otherwise have the logic board replaced.
The defective ATI graphics card ...
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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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putting windows 7 on a flash drive using bootcamp
I'm thinking of changing to a new MacBook Pro 15" (the one with an 256GB SSD), 256GB is enough for my files and OS, but I also want to have about 50GB for a Windows 7 (BootCamp) partition. So, taking ...
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Boot Camp drivers don't always load (for Windows 7)?
Recently, I backed up my Windows 7 Boot Camp partition with Carbon Copy Cleaner before realizing that it would not be a bootable backup. Well, after some fiddling around, I made it bootable again ...
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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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How do I restore a Windows 7 DMG file to Boot Camp (and make it bootable)?
My iMac's HD died last week, and so I was unable to access OS X (I had a Time Machine backup of it though). Fortunately I was able to boot into the Recovery HD and use Disk Utility to backup Boot Camp ...
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Booting Windows 7 in Boot Camp shows a black screen with a blinking cursor
I am trying to restore a DMG image of a Windows 7 Boot Camp partition back to Boot Camp. (I know that I should have used Winclone, but I didn't have that option because the drive was already dying and ...
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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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Install Snow Lepard from USB
I have a clean and formatted SSD where I want to install Snow Leopard from a USB flash drive containing a OS X image from a (not the one it came with) original install-DVD. But for some reason it wont ...
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Why does it take so long to boot and shut down my MacBook Air?
It takes about 90 seconds to boot and shut down my MacBook Air. I have got it this year. I have checked numerous things on the Internet but they don't help at all. What do I do?
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2008 iMac Running OS X 10.8.2 Won't Boot
My 2008 iMac is having trouble booting—it never gets past the initial grey screen with the Apple logo and spinner. After letting it try to boot (spinner working) for upwards of 10 minutes, I'll get ...
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Repair or recover drive from recovery mode
My main HDD is failing to boot. (Neither Normal, Safe mode nor Single User).
I can only boot from Recovery Mode or DVD.
The scenario was the following:
Computer was asleep (lid down).
Lifted the ...
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Is this fun partition mess I have made fixable on the Mac OS X side?
On a MacBook Pro, a wrong decision long time ago still causing numerous problems.
In a nut shell, I run bootcamp and OS X together on the same drive and the OS X stopped booting a while ago (I was ...
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MacBook Pro running OS X lion stuck on boot screen
My MacBook is stuck on the boot screen like this:
I have tried multiple things such as launching it in safe mode and pressing some buttons as soon as the computer boot logo shows up.
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How to mute bootup sound? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I disable or get rid of the startup sound my Mac makes?
I have an old MacBook Pro (pre-unibody) running OS 10.6. I am annoyed by the traditional Macintosh bootup ...
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MacBookPro stopped booting what should I try?
My 2008 MacBook Pro suddenly stopped booting the other day and now the screen looks like this each time it attempts to boot:
The boot time sound still happens, but I just see the dodgy pink with the ...
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How to tweak boot time by disabling apple kexts (including cryptography related ones)?
Initially, I am running OSX Mountain Lion on a mid 2010 6,2 MBP.
I wanted to enhance my boot time a little, maybe by disabling some official apple kexts. Has anyone played with that, knowing which ...
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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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On/Off vs. Sleep Mode
The new retina MacBook Pro is boot so quickly that if I don't use it for even 5 minutes it doesn't make a difference to me whether I shut the computer down or sleep it.
What is the best option for ...
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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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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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Macbook won't boot, possibly HDD issue
I am posting this for a friend who is having this problem but obviously can't post this himself as his computer will not boot up. He started having problems after a video game crashed during online ...
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Boot from different drive without using Alt/Option
My 2011 27 inch iMac will not boot, it plays the startup sound and then freezes on a white screen. I am fairly confident I could fix it myself if I could get it to boot from a USB drive or external ...
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What can be done to fix a 2011 iMac that will not boot past the white screen?
I have now tried opening the iMac and removing the cables to the SSD, it still gets stuck on the white screen. I tried again, removing the cables to the HDD as well and the same thing occurs.
No idea ...
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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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BOOTCAMP HDD move - Missing operating system
A few weeks ago I put a bootcamp partition on my 320gb HDD in my mbp early 2009. However, a few days ago I bough me a 1tb hdd and exchanged it. Of course, I don't really want to re-install windows all ...
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Mac operating system from disc at startup
Hello everyone and thank you in advance.
I have just downloaded Linux Ubuntu and put it on a disk. What i want to do is to hold C during the Mac startup so that I can choose to boot my mac through ...
