Questions tagged [boot]
Questions about booting, the process of starting a computer and putting it into a state of readiness for operation.
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Cannot boot APFS Volume after time machine restore
First time i've seen this, but had a kernel panic from an installation, so booted into recovery, did a time machine restore. The log says it completed successfully, but upon boot I get the message: "...
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kernel panic – MacBook Pro 2011 won't boot, keeps restarting
My MacBook Pro 17" Late 2011 is suddenly unable to boot, keeps restarting over and over again, like 10-20 times until it decides to shut down. As it restarts each time, it displays a message like this ...
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Any way to repeatably assign a disk ID for a Fusion Drive hdd?
When mounting my fusion drive at boot time, sometimes the hdd is assigned disk0 and ssd is assigned disk1; other times these assignments are reversed.
Is there a way to ensure that the id assignment ...
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Boot Partition suddenly inaccessible
I've run into quite a problem - my Mac (mid 2015 21.5" 4k iMac, running Mojave) cant find my boot partition (disk0s2).
I've made some headway, it previously just showed it as FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-...
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Mojave 59 second hang
About two weeks ago, my Mac started hanging on boot. It has been driving me crazy.
Today I looked at the logs in /var/logs/system.log and on every boot I can see a 59 - 60 second hang, exactly. And ...
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Unable to boot into MacBook Pro after macOS Mojave upgrade
I tried to install macOS Mojave on my MacBook Pro. It failed, but when it rebooted, it can't read the hard drive. I tried booting it into Recovery Mode, but First Aid says that it found an error and ...
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Recovery USB doesn't work
I followed tutorial to create bootable USB stick with Mac OS Mojave and then from System Preferences --> Startup disk I selected USB drive and restarted my Macbook Pro and after boot I see:
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Cannot install Mojave via USB drive on new 2018 MacBook pro
Hey I have a new 15" MacBook Pro with High Sierra installed. I want to do a clean install of Mojave. I have followed the instructions at https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/clean-install-macos-10-14-...
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Failure to update from macOS 10.12 to 10.13 [closed]
Mid 2012 MBP: i5 16GB RAM
What I’ve tried
Boot from USB installer -
macOS could not be installed on your computer
A boot helper partition is required when working with Core Storage.
Quit the ...
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Unexpected shut downs on MacBook Air '15 with code -128
I have a MacBook Air, Early 2015, running macOS Mojave. Over the last 2 weeks, it has been unexpectedly shutting down and rebooting over varied time periods.
Upon checking the shutdown logs, I found ...
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Installed refind to a separate HFS+ partition alongside macOS 10.14, but can't set it as the startup disk
I use refind as my boot manager on my 2015 MacBook Air. Originally I had it installed on to my internal drive's EFI partition (and installed it in the recovery environment) but every time I update ...
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Bless error when installing rEFInd
I am trying to install rEFInd on my MacBook Pro 2018 laptop with the new T2 chip that adds extra boot security.
I have both used APFS and MacOS Extended (Journaled). I have also disabled secure boot ...
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Will my Mid-2012 Unibody MBP boot from an SSD containing Linux?
I have an SSD from another laptop that has Ubuntu Linux installed on it and fully working. It's a standard UEFI Ubuntu install using the GRUB bootloader, and the entire SSD is used (i.e. there are no ...
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Which NetBoot Server Am I Booted From?
Is there a way I can tell which NetBoot server a client machine has booted off of, from within the client machine itself?
This is kind of an obscure question, but I am in an environment that has two ...
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Mac Mini Failing Half Way Through Boot
I am, however, able to boot up from this hard drive using Target Disk Mode, from my Mac Book Air (via a Lightning cable). And it runs fine via external boot like that. I was able to do an external ...
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Can I mount all volumes on the internal/boot APFS container before startup tasks run?
Programs that run on startup are either not starting (httpd) or are starting with the wrong preferences (Alfred). I suspect its because the APFS volumes on the container where I store some of the ...
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Can't start Mac in recovery mode - only get folder with question mark instead
I can't start my MacBook Pro 2017 using controlR, controloptionR, or shiftcontroloptionR.
For all combinations I only get the folder with a question mark shown.
What can it mean and how can I fix ...
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macOS Mojave Installation
I have downloaded macOS Mojave from some other website due to Mac App Store download problem. So now I have to boot the installation file, to do so the help box of the website says I have to press and ...
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Trouble rebooting from Mojave to High Sierra
I have High Sierra installed on a partition of my MacBook Pro’s internal SSD, and Mojave installed on a partition of an external drive. If I have selected the High Sierra boot volume in Startup Disk ...
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Possible to boot Mac Pro from two PCIe M.2 AHCI PCIe SSD in RAID 0 on macOS High Sierra?
I have an M.2 AHCI PCIe SSD and I am considering purchasing a second one to install both in a 2009 Mac Pro in a RAID 0 configuration using Disk Utility similar to the setup in this video.
I have used ...
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Mac Mini 1TB HDD being 100% full - cant mount, cant boot
I just unburied an old 2007 Mac Mini Server which I had put a 1TB drive into. I had kinda forgotten why it broke, but after a while I remembered...the hard way.
That Mac's hard drive is so full and ...
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rEFInd - can boot to Mac Recovery or Ubuntu, but shuts down after loading bar for MacOS
I have rEFInd installed on my 2015 rMBP - I can access the boot menu for rEFInd (although sometimes this doesn't appear / runs very slowly), and all the right options are there, but when I select ...
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MacBook Pro not booting
I have a mid 2010 MacBook Pro that won't boot up. Faced this problem quite a while ago, so i sent it in for repair and was told the logic board may need replacement. The store told me they tested my ...
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Unwanted GRUB on macOS High Sierra
While installing Linux Mint 19 to a USB, I managed to get GRUB installed on my Mac hard drive. I can still boot to the macOS if I hold the Option key down.
How can I remove GRUB and revert my Mac ...
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Getting a 🚫 sometimes on boot
On a Mac mini end 2009, with a drive updated to a SSD, and RAM updated to 8GB running OS X 10.11.6, I sometimes get a "🚫" on boot. It then boots in Recovery mode by itself, so i shut it down and ...
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How do I make an external USB bootable?
My main HD has 222GB in use, and is formated OS X 10.10 Yosemite (latest). I am marrried to 10.10, no time to upgrade. I bought a 256GB (244 reported) USB stick (Sandisk midrange, their $56 midrange) ...
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Every time I turn on macbook pro I get menu for choosing startup disk
Every time when I turn on my macbook pro mid 2014 I have to choose my startup disk to continue with booting. It behaves as if I am holding the option key...
However, the right option key doesnt work ...
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macOS High Sierra: This disk cannot be used to startup your computer
I have an Air'13. I used to have bootcamp with win7 and removed it then.
Now I want to install High Sierra update and I get message This disk cannot be used to startup your computer.
diskutil list ...
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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 Pro internal Hard Drive booting up in READ-ONLY Mode
I just recently replaced my mid-2012 MacBook Pro's HDD to SSD.
I used SuperDuper! to clone my disk into the new SSD and everything seemed to have worked fine, until some repeated boot ups. What I am ...
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Can't create a bootable USB for my MacBook Pro
I can't create a bootable USB for my MacBook Pro. I know all the steps. The only problem I have is that my main computer is running macOS 10.14 Mojave and I can't see to open any macOS lower than that ...
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Boot partition missing:
My 2010 Mac Mini (High Sierra 10.13 and upgraded 500GB Intel SSD 840 EVO) won't boot into the mac side. I bootcamped it several years ago with a copy of Windows 7. It can still boot into the Windows ...
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Option to boot into Windows missing after Boot Camp Assist
I just completed installing Windows using Bootcamp Assist. I allocated 30 GB to the Windows partition. The process completed after taking a long time (> 7 hours), and a Bootcamp partition has been ...
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Missing Firmware Partition after NVRAM reset in MacOS High Sierra
Maybe someone can help me. Earlier today, I was working on my MBP and it wouldn't read my external flash drive, yet it read it last night before I ejected it. However, today it wouldn't find it. I ...
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How to stop mac from default booting in deleted windows via boot camp?
I bountied this question Boot into Mac from Windows after failed Bootcamp after being trapped in Windows hell on my mac, after the first time using boot camp.
When I got back to my mac I erased ...
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Can't enter Apple Hardware Test Mode on my macbook pro
I have an Early 2011 MacBook Pro. When I hold down D immediately after restart, it boots to the normal login screen.
When I hold down ALT+D (with a working wifi connection before the reboot) the same ...
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How To Let My MBP know that a USB is bootable?
I have got Unetbootin and have put the files onto my drive which is properly formatted as MS-DOS(FAT) and GUID. I have several folders and files: [BOOT], boot, casper, dists, EFI, install, isolinux, ...
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Boot into Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 on a 2015 MacBook Air
I have an external SSD containing a bootable installation of Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6. It also contain some software crucial to my use.
Can I boot into it using my 2015 13" MacBook Air?
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My Mac repeatedly beeps three times on startup. What does this mean?
When I try to boot my Mac I get nothing but strange beeps. They beep as follows:
BEEP BEEP BEEP [3 second pause] BEEP BEEP BEEP [3 second pause] and it continues until I power off.
So far, I have:
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Boot Camp keeps booting to Ubuntu instead of Windows
I have a macos and Windows 10 already installed. I went ahead and installed ubuntu via EFI, and I think I really messed something up.
Every time I boot and select Windows it goes to the purple ...
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How to upgrade boot rom firmware without an original drive
I have a 2015 MacBook pro that I am in the process of refurbishing. I purchased it used and it was missing many parts (wifi card, IO board, SSD). I have replaced all of these parts and purchased an ...
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2016 MacBook Pro won't get past the Login Screen
My laptop running 10.13.6, has been working great without any issues until I restarted it on Monday. After I logged in, it got stuck on the loading screen and displaying a loading icon for over an ...
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Black console screen shows up during boot (verbose mode not turned on)
Over the past few months when my Mac boots up, the grey screen with the apple disappears and is replaced with a unix style console screen, which scrolls like a linux PC booting up.
I have tried ...
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Does booting a 2015 iMac from an external disk require “touching” the internal disk?
The hard drive (a Fusion Drive) on my 2015 iMac has become badly corrupted, possibly getting into that state via some incompatible ram that had previous been installed in it. (The ram was removed and ...
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Boot Camp Assistant stuck on creating partition due to EFI formatted as NTFS
Boot Camp Assistant is stuck on ‘create a partition’. I have followed the guide as answered in the question Boot Camp Assistance is stuck on create a partition? but it didn't work after step 8. After ...
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rEFInd is not working in macos high sierra 10.13.6 on 2018 MacBook Pro 13 inch even after proper installation
I have installed rEFInd in my mac by going into recovery mode -> open terminal -> csrutil disable -> cd "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/username/Downloads/refind-bin-0.11.2" -> bash ./refind-install -> ...
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Missing Operating System
So I recently made a post about my Mac not recognizing USB's or Boot. here's the link : MacBook Wont Boot or Recognize USB. Anyway this is an update. So my 2009 MacBook is still not working. It doesnt ...
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MacBook Wont Boot or Recognize USB
So I recently tried to downgrade to El Capitan from High Sierra using a bootable USB. All went well until I deleted the hard disk and the hard disk's volume which is a big no no. Afterwards I tried ...
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how can I troubleshoot a long “hang” during boot?
Since I reinstalled OS X 10.13.6 on my MacBook Pro (mid-2015, 2.8 Ghz, 1TB SSD), I've noticed that when it gets to about 4/5 of the way through the boot sequence, the progress bar stops for at least ...
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How can I reinstall Mac OS 9 on a G3 PowerBook's original hard drive?
I have a PowerBook G3 from 2000 or so and would like to put Mac OS 9 on it for nostalgia reasons. There are games that simply don't perform well with SheepShaver, plus networking with SheepShaver isn'...
