Questions about booting, the process of starting a computer and putting it into a state of readiness for operation.
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Move complete Lion installation to another physical drive
is there a way to completely move my OSX Lion to my new SSD without reinstalling? I came from Windows and Linux to OSX and i thought maybe it is possible to simply change the bootloader config after ...
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New hard drive not recognized
I swapped the original 80 GB hard drive for a new 640 GB Samsung HM64JI hard drive.
It is not recognized after booting from the 10.5 Installation DVD on Macbook 2.1 with recent EFI updates installed.
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How can I fix permission issue when I cannot start Mac OS X?
I was creating a guest account and to prevent it from accessing the Macintosh HD as in other applications and stuff I assigned it as in "No Access"
When I switched to the guest account everything ...
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How do I set my mac to ask what disc I want to boot from without having to hold alt?
I can switch between OSX, Windows and a network drive, but I cannot seem to find this option anywhere.
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How do I make a bootable USB flash drive for a MacBook Air?
Does anyone have a Terminal command-line recipe for making a new bootable USB flash drive for one of the new MacBook Air's? Is there a way to dd copy the USB boot device that comes in the box and ...
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How can I reset the PRAM if Recovery Mode keeps overriding the PRAM command?
Lion uses the ⌘ + R to boot into recovery mode. Resetting the PRAM in anything less than 10.7 was ⌘ + ⌥ + P + R.
Recovery mode now seems to override the PRAM command. Does anyone ...
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Why can't I no longer boot into my MacBook Air?
My MacBook Air (Late 2011) hangs during startup at the Apple logo, and the spinning cursor freezes.
I have booted into verbose mode and it hangs after the following messages:
com.parellels.kext.vnic ...
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Mac Pro failing to boot
Two times now, over the last 3 weeks my Mac Pro is failing to boot. Once on, it stays on the blue screen with the spinning icon and never gets to the login screen. To remedy this I boot from install ...
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Diagnosing a dead MacBook Pro
Anyone got a good checklist for diagnosing the problem with a dead MacBook Pro ? I've a 15" MacBook Pro Core Two vintage machine that has suddenly stopped booting up. I can hear the Superdrive spin ...
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Macbook (2,1) boots into blue screen and hangs
Last night, I shut down my computer. When I turned it back on, I just got the rEFIt logo (I have rEFIt installed). Usually, it takes a moment to populate the menu with a list of bootable devices, but ...
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Unable to boot up with Snow Leopard DVD
I accidentally deleted my /bin folder. My computer is now permanently stuck at the Apple screen with an infinite spinning indicator.
I have:
Inserted my Snow Leopard DVD
Held down c - nothing
Held ...
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Booting an Intel Mac to Linux from a U3 USB drive
Is it possible to boot an Intel Mac to Linux, or any non-OS X operating system, from the U3 partition of a USB drive?
I know that because OS X uses EFI rather than BIOS for the boot process, the only ...
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27" iMac Hangs On Reboot
I've got a 27" iMac 2.93Ghuz Intel Core i7 running 10.7.2.
Anytime I reboot (like for some software updates), it gets stuck at the gray startup screen (no Apple logo). If I press and hold the power, ...
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Command+S At Boot Doesn't Activate Single-User Mode
10.6.8. Hold down Cmd+S throughout the entire boot process. It always goes to the regular login screen and starts doing the "stop holding down buttons" chime. Why?
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iMac shows frozen at bootup, but computer running normally in background
I'm on an Intel iMac running Lion.
I'm having major issues with my iMac. The iMac froze whilst using Chrome, and I was forced to reset it.
After the reset the screen seemed to freeze on the apple ...
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1answer
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2009 Mac Mini HDD as an External Drive for a 2011 Mac Mini HDD
I have a unique plan:
I have a 2009 Mac Mini mid-2009 with 10.6 OS X. I just got the 2011 Mac Mini with 10.7. But I am planning to use the hard drive from the 2009 Mac Mini with 10.6 OS X as an ...
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Mac Mini has loud fan, won't power up
My intel-based mac mini (Model A1283, EMC 2336) refuses to boot. When I plug it in, the fan spins up very loudly, but then nothing happens when I hit the power button. I don't get a boot chime, and ...
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Install and boot Windows from USB hard drive?
I would like to install Windows 7 on an external USB 2.0 500 gb hard drive. Is it possible to both install to and boot from this USB drive from my MacBook Pro 2010?
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How to boot my mac mini up when my iPod Touch is near?
What I'm trying to achieve is if I'm near my mac mini (10 meters) I want to press a button (or something else) on my ipod touch and than my mac mini should boot up.
How could I make that?
There's a ...
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Is there a way to automate restarting with a different boot disk?
I have Lion and Snow Leopard installed on my machine, and I switch between them all the time (I develop for compatibility on both platforms). Going into System Preferences and selecting the startup ...
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White MacBook hangs at gray Apple screen forever, won't boot to single user, won't mount using Disk Utility. What do I do next?
After a forced shutdown, my white MacBook hangs at the gray screen with the Apple logo and an infinitely spinning progress wheel.
I can boot in verbose mode, but I didn't see any particular error, ...
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Ejecting CD from Mac after fresh install?
I just installed Lion on a Mac Mini, and I can't get the CD to eject. Currently, the computer boots up to the "Welcome" screen for new installs, where the Country/Region is selected. I want to leave ...
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Can I dual boot Snow Leopard and Lion?
I own a Mac Mini 3.1 with Snow Leopard installed. I would like to dual boot with Lion for development purposes.
I have partitioned my hardisk as described in Point (1) in this tutorial
How to ...
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Constantly ejecting OS X install disc when trying to boot
When trying to boot from the OS X install disc (Snow Leopard) my Macbook will just eject the disc and boot normally from the installed system on the hard drive.
Once booted, the disc can be read fine ...
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Create Lion bootable DVD [closed]
Is it possible to create a Lion bootable DVD?
I'm going to format my MacBook and then install Lion but I want to do this without reinstall Snow Leopard...
Thank you so much!
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MacBook Air dual boot Lion+10.6
Can a 2010 MacBook Air internal SSD be configured for the dual-boot of both Lion/10.7.x and Snow Leopard/10.6.x? If so, how much extra storage space is required for 2 boot partitions vs. one? Other ...
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How to disable single-user boot (command S)
By default, Macs are extremely insecure if somebody can get physical access, as they can simply shut it down, press the power button, hold command-S, and there, they get root access in 5 seconds.
Is ...
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Mac Book Pro 3,1 uneven startup behavior - sometimes start between 5min to 30min after pushing power button
First of all my Mac Book Pro wont start up after going to sleep mode - all black screen etc. When i choose power down from the menu - well it doesnt power down completely - the harddrive is still ...
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How do I clone a dual-boot Macbook
I have a Macbook Air set up for dual-boot (Lion & Windows 7) and am planning on buying a newer model. How would I go about cloning the entire hard drive to the new machine?
Do I need to ...
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Monitor remains grey after Apple logo during boot on Mac Pro
The Mac Pro here (2008 model) started acting up as of yesterday during booting - when I turn it on, I hear the typical sound, the Apple logo appears, it disappears.. and the monitor remains in that ...
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Is is possible to prevent OS X firmware password removal?
The title pretty much says it all.
I have set a firmware password on my MacBook Pro just to make things a bit harder in case of theft. Still, by pulling the RAM and resetting the PRAM, it would be ...
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Remove 2nd partition, reclaim space
If I have a dual booting computer (os x 10.7 and Linux), and would like to remove the Linux partition and return it to one single large disk running os x, how is this done? Is there risk to messing up ...
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Do the new macbook pro models (2011) still have a 4 partition limit?
If I remember correctly, the older Macbook pro models (pre 2011) had a 4 partition limit: so, if you tried to install multiple operating systems, you had this limit.
Do the new models (2011) still ...
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iMac wont startup and won't boot from CD
My 24" 3.06Ghz iMac will no longer fully boot. It constantly gives me the grey "Your machine needs to be restarted" half way through booting. At first I was able to boot into SuperUser mode and run an ...
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Restore MacBook AIr (mid 2011) partitions
I just messed up my partions on my harddisk.
The situation:
Installed windows 7 using bootcamp (NTFS).
After that i wanted to ceate a shared partition, on wich both MAC OS and Windows can write.
In ...
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Can you run Disk Utility from bootable lion disk?
I've made a bootable lion disk by extracting the InstallESD.dmg from the lion installer app's package contents. - (Contents>SharedSupport>InstallESD.dmg)
When booting from this disk, can you run disk ...
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Mac Pro: Any way to recognize a bootable USB on startup?
I have a Mac Pro 2,1 2x6-Core Xeon@2.66 GHz and am trying to boot from several ISO images written to USB sticks. I have tried the dd-based methods as recommended by Ubuntu, with no luck. In every case ...
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macbook with mac OS 10.5.- not booting past apple logo
For the past few days, my old macbook told me that it wa not charging, although the plug was plugged in. Unplugging it would just stop the computer from working, so the battery would really not ...
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Mac Mini not booting issue
I'm looking for some troubleshooting ideas on my mac mini failing to boot. The machine had been working fine until 3 days ago. I purchased the mini second hand from a friend ~ 4 months ago.
The ...
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OSX Lion showing a white screen plus pointer prior to the desktop appearing
During boot-up, immediately after the Apple logo with the spinning progress wheel ends, rather than the desktop appear, I get a white screen with pointer in the top left for about 5 seconds. Then the ...
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Create bootable USB drive from Linux ISO
I'd like to take a Linux ISO (e.g., CentOS, Ubuntu), and create a bootable USB drive. (It will be used for booting on a stock PC, not on the Mac). How do I go about creating such a drive using a Mac?
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What would it take to make an iPad support multiple user accounts?
As a mobile computer, the iPad is very personal, but it also begs to be shared. And that's a problem. I don't want my friends to be able to check my emails or delete my high score when they play with ...
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How do I change the default boot option on rEFIt?
I have two copies of OS X (10.6 and 10.7). By default rEFIt boots 10.6. However, I want to make it boot 10.7 instead.
How do I do this?
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How to remove boot from MacMini?
I have tried installing windows 7 on my MacMini.
I followed following steps.
Setup went perfectly But while installing I thought of not installing it.
So, I just restarted mac mini.
Pressed Alt ...
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Wake on LAN for MBP late 2009
Is it possible to wake my MBP via Magic Packets from power down? I read Power up Mac Mini remotely, but that does not seem to work from power down. "Wake for network access" in "Energy Saver" prefpane ...
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Bootcamp load at startup with VMware
I have bootcamp loaded with Windows and would like it to boot and login at startup through VMware Fusion instead of starting manually after OSX 10.6.7 loads.
Any ideas on how this functionality can ...
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No SIM Card installed error in iPhone 3g
My device iPhone 3G shown " "No SIM Card installed" 'insert a valid SIM With no PIN lock to activate iPhone' " It is in Emergency mode so please give me a solution if there is..? It comes when i am ...
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Can I boot from Snow Leopard DVD on 'normal' pc?
Just wondering if I have a copy of of snow leopard 10.6, if I put it in a typical pc that runs windows will it boot or do nothing?
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My mac has 64-bit EFI, but it only boots with 32-bit kernel
I followed the guide at
http://macperformanceguide.com/SnowLeopard-64bit.html
to boot into 64-bit mode. I had no problems with the instructions and on the boot screen it says "PAE enabled, 64bit mode ...
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Mac Mini won't boot. Is it the monitor or the Mac?
I just bought an old Mac Mini to start developing for iOS. The Mac Mini has a DVI port, so I connected it to my Dell 24" display which has a DVI connection. But it appears that my Mac wont boot. I ...
