Questions tagged [startup]

Usually referring to the startup process of a device or computer from an initial "cold" state rather than sleep or hibernation.

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Can an eMac boot from a USB optical drive connected via a FireWire adapter?

I've got an eMac that's mostly working (running Tiger, plus a selection of other nice software), but has a broken optical drive. I have a spare USB optical drive lying around, and it works for most ...
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Macbook Pro (late 2016) reboots during boot but Ubuntu is fine

I've been working on troubleshooting a macbook pro which was donated to our makerspace which was rebooting over and over again when plugged in. We did the standard stuff like attempting to boot in ...
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MacBook pro is stuck booting indefinitely after updating to Monterey

Setup 2017 MacBook Pro 13" Model A1706 EMC 3163 No T2 Chip i5-7267UCPU @ 3.10GHz Problem After updating to Monterey, the mac was stuck on the black loading screen with the apple icon on it. I ...
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How to change a system startup daemon into a user launch agent

I'm using The Pritunl VPN software for one of my Mac's user accounts. The software installer creates a system LaunchDaemon found under /Library/LaunchDaemons called com.pritunl.service.plist ...
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I'm unable to reinstall OS X

I have an iMac11,1 without an OS on it (Recovery mode is still on it) and I therefore want to reinstall OS X. First thing I've tried was doing it using the recovery mode. I've reformatted the "...
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How to recover files from a Macbook that won't boot which has an SSD

My Macbook pro 2011 won't boot completely anymore (can't open it). In the recovery mode, I can see my disk (SSD) but when I want to download the last IOS on my mac, it seems my computer can't find my ...
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How to install a fresh macOS on an iMac with a new hard disk?

I have an old iMac with a brand new disk (completely empty). I do not have the old disk, I just have the new one. Of course, now it can't boot, and the flashing folder with the question mark appears. ...
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Why will my MacBook Pro (15" Late 2016) not power on after disabling 'Boot on Lid Open'?

I wanted to disable the boot/power on by opening the lid. To do so, I entered the below command in the terminal sudo nvram AutoBoot=%03 Post that, I shut down the laptop by going to the Top Left ...
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macOS BigSur keep booting from external backup disk (made with CCC)

My Mac is on BigSur and I am using Carbon Copy Cloner to create a one on one disk which is bootable also. I have this setup running for years now and never noticed any problems – also on BigSur it ...
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Is there a way to delay the launch of the Finder app when logging in in macOS?

In recent macOS releases (Ventura/Sonoma), I have had this problem where, when I reboot and log in, the Finder launches before macOS has finished mounting my external (Thunderbolt) volumes. I don't ...
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No bootable disk when booting Windows after installing Linux on Mac

That must the weirdest title you've read in a long time. I have a MacBook Pro Mid 2012, I installed Windows 7 with Bootcamp and all was working fine. Last night I installed Kali Linux with a bootable ...
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Change EFI label for external volume

I am booting a retrogaming system (Recalbox, linux-based) on my Macbook Pro 2009 (Intel, El Capitan) from an SD card (FAT format). The SD card is currently displayed as "EFI boot" upon boot ...
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What is the point of FileVault on a Mac with the T2 security chip if the chip is already responsible for encrypting the drive?

Does having a Mac with a T2 chip automatically prevent someone from booting into Recovery mode or Target Disk Mode or from accessing disk utility or a terminal without having a user's password ...
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I deleted Macintosh HD - Data and now the computer won't boot even in Recovery Mode

Okay all, I think I messed up really big time. Was so excited and delighted today to see my brand spanking new MacBook Air arrive (running Catalina). Everything was wokring great; I started Migration ...
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Boot camp install of Windows issue, no bootable devices

So I have a 2010 15" macbook pro (MBP6,1) and I replaced the optical drive with a hard disk. I wanted to install windows 7 on the hard disk with boot camp with a USB and ISO image. After searching I ...
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How to install Windows 7 (and beyond) onto a mid-2010 Mac mini with Mac OS X Snow Leopard without Boot Camp or an optical (DVD) drive

This problem is very similar to How to install Windows 10 into a 2011 iMac without using the Boot Camp Assistant, an optical (DVD) drive or third party tools? - Ask Different, with the following ...
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My MacBook A1502 boots slows at USB CR has no interface nub after 1->0 transition

My system $ sw_vers ProductName: macOS ProductVersion: 12.7.3 BuildVersion: 21H1015 My MacBook: A1502 Customizations: I replaced original Apple SSD with Samsung 2TB M.2 PCIe Gen4 NVMe 980 PRO ...
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Used Bootcamp to get Windows 10 on MacBook Pro (Mid-2012, Catalina) says "no bootable device - insert boot disk and press any key"

My late 2012 MacBook Pro is running Catalina. I used the Bootcamp Assistant to format a blank flash drive, copy my Windows 10 ISO file (downloaded from the provided Bootcamp assistant link) onto the ...
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Windows 7 on MacBook Pro installed successfully but restarts with a white screen

I have a MacBook Pro Mid-2009. Unfortunately, I erased my internal drive which led me to OS X Utilities only. When I clicked on reinstall OS X, it asked me to sign into my Apple ID. But, it ended with ...
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MacBook Pro 2018: macOS reinstall to Mac without existing macOS, admin account & startup disk

I'm trying to reinstall macOS to a seriously messed up MacBook Pro 2018. Apparently, problems started initially when the Big Sur update failed. The computer's disk has since been erased and all ...
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iMac boot stuck after incomplete uninstall of Kaspersky Internet Security

Even though I perfectly knew that it wasn’t the right method to uninstall Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac, I dragged and dropped the app icon on the trash bin. Later, I switched it off. The day ...
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Can't boot into or mount Mojave APFS partition after repartitioning for Linux

MacBook Pro 2015, 256GB SSD disk I have created a second partition on my disk to try Linux. Everything was fine, but at some point, macOS disappeared from the boot menu. After some googling and trying ...
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How to disable M1 Mac auto-boot on lid open?

There have been answers that describe how this can be prevented for Intel Macs using an NVRAM setting, but this AutoBoot setting has no effect on an M1 Mac. There is a similar auto-boot setting in the ...
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Does resetting NVRAM reset EFI Boot Order?

I've had a Macbook Pro for a year or so now and have experimented with quite a few Linux distributions which have added and changed things in the EFI Boot Order. I am looking to clean things up. The ...
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MacBook Air 2015; Login and recovery mode failed

I’ve been having problems with my MacBook Air (Early 2015). Since installing an update to 10.13.6 (From 10.13.3, I believe) the computer freezes once the progress bar fills up on the login screen. ...
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Dual boot MacBook Pro 14.1 w/ Mojave/Ubuntu 22.04 won't set permanently macOS as default boot option after each Ubuntu session

I just installed Ubuntu 22.04 on a partition. I'd like macOS 10.14.6 to be the default system to boot and having the possibility to choose Ubuntu only if I hold option key to get into the Mac startup ...
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Making macOS bootable USB stuck on "Making disk bootable"

I've followed the instructions in "Create a bootable installer for macOS" to create a bootable macOS USB installer using the following command: sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Ventura.app/...
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2009 Mac with Upgraded GPU

Well I feel really silly. I had a stable running 10.13 with a metal supported gpu but I wanted to clone the drive as I move into Mojave. So I thought, oh I’ll start it up on an old hard drive running ...
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Question about macOS Bootcamp

I have a mid-2012 Intel Macbook Air (256GB) which is physically fine. I had bought it second-hand in 2017 & the seller specified that it was only running Windows 10 & did not have macOS ...
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Restore partitions table

Just tried to install Windows on an external SSD, but mistakenly deleted partitions on a Mac SSD from the Windows installer. I had 2 partitions: Macintosh HD (APFS) MacData (ExFat, ~108 GB) So I ...
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How to play audio in Safe Boot?

I am having an issue recently which causes my MacBook Pro 2015, 15", to spontaneously (and randomly?) shut down. These shut downs do not happen in Recovery Mode or Safe Boot. Temporarily, before I ...
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Blocking/Remove Boot Camp ablities

I'm looking for a way to prevent Boot Camp from being used on a mac. IDEALLY while keeping the user as an admin (or close to it). The issue I see is that basic user access is too restrictive and admin ...
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OS volume shows as type 'FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF'

Yesterday, I have tried to delete an Ubuntu partition. Since, my Mac (13", MBPro mid-2014) doesn't boot. Now, I boot on Mac OS copy with an USB. i follow different subject of this forum (like this : ...
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Macbook boots up to grey 'prohibited' symbol

I'm having an issue with my '09 13" Macbook Pro. When I boot it up, it seems to be booting normally until about thirty seconds in, when the Apple symbol is replaced with a kind of 'no-smoking' symbol, ...
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Installing Windows 11 on Mid-2011 iMac (full install, not Boot Camp) but it BSODs after the Win 11 logo disappears

I kept getting a BSOD in OOBE when I was setting up Win 11 (error: SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION). I've seen people say that it's because of Windows 11 installing Intel display drivers, instead of AMD ones....
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MacBook doesn't boot on MacOS (only on Windows)

I have a Apple MacBook Pro 13 i5 16/512GB Grey(MWP42D/A). A few days ago, I was struggling to get my Samsung Portable SSD T7 Touch to work with it, so I reinstalled the Samsung encryption software and ...
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Mac Studio stopped recognising Apple wired keyboard

last week my Mac Studio suddenly stopped recognising my wired Apple keyboard. This happens after a reboot or when it was shut down - at first, it was enough to unplug it once and then it was ...
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WD Blue SSD stuck in a boot loop

My Mac is stuck in a boot-loop with a third party SSD. So I recently pruchased a WD Blue 500GB SSD to replace my HDD in my 13" MBP mid-2012. At first I wanted to clone my HDD to the SSD, looked ...
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Macbook 12" doesn't sleep/wake on close/open

I bought an Macbook 12" 2016 which doesn't want so sleep when I close the lid. Furthermore it also doesn't want so start if I open the lid. I tried resetting the SMC and NCRAM, then I reinstalled ...
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How can I cold-boot a mac with FileVault enabled without physical access to the mac?

If I had a Linux machine, I'd be able to enter the password for the encrypted boot disk in a serial terminal during the boot process, via another machine connected to the serial port I can SSH into. ...
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How does a Homebrew-installed Emacs get the same PATH variable as set in the shell?

I am running homebrew on an M2 Mac mini under macOS Ventura. I use Emacs.app from the railwaycat/emacsmacport/emacs-mac cask and when I check in Emacs the inherited PATH environment variable, Emacs ...
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Epson XP-2100 printer driver breaks Mac OS X El Capitan boot

I have a Macbook pro 2009 running both Mac OS X El Capitan and Ubuntu 21.04 and an Epson XP-2100 Wifi printer and scanner. Installing the Epson recommended printer driver produces an error that was ...
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Missing Boot Options MacOS High Sierra

I have previously 3 OS installed on my MBP 2010 13”, MacOS High Sierra, Windows 10 and Linux (Peppermint OS). So I decided to change my linux to ZorinOS and trying to flash it. However, I think the ...
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Rename EFI boot entries (MacBook Air)

I can't figure out how to rename boot entries on a MacBook Air 2012, i.e. those that appear when holding alt during boot. The problem was initially that my EFI Ubuntu installation could only be booted ...
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Boot from external drive using rEFInd only if external drive is connected

I'm trying to use an external drive to contain a Windows install and a Big Sur install, but I'm having trouble configuring the boot options on a MacBook Pro 2018. I partitioned the external drive to ...
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Can't boot from Monterey bootable installer, goes to recovery instead

I've created a bootable installer for MacOS Monterey (on a USB flash drive) using the usual method of downloading the installer and using 'createinstallmedia' within Terminal. The command appears to ...
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Undentified shell script "open" added to open at login

Logged in into my laptop this morning, to see that a shell script "open" has been added to open at login. Its from an unidentified developer, created a month back, but just got added to ...
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Mac not booting after moving SSD and HDD to another Mac

I had a mid-2011, 2.5GHz, AMD graphics, Mac Mini with an SSD and HDD using OWC’s dual drive setup. The SSD drive had the OS (10.11 I think) and the HDD had my home folder and an old version of OS X (...
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How to make MBP bootcamp boot faster

I had a mid 2012 MBP not doing anything and decided to install Win 10 on it. I didn't do a dual boot setup. I replaced the drive which had macOS on it with a spare and installed Windows using the ...
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Always start the Mac to Startup Manager without having to press and hold the Option key

I frequently switch between mac OS and Bootcamp. So I was wondering if there is an option to not have a preferred Startup Disk and always start to the Startup Manager, like you would get when pressing ...

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