Hello,
Got the latest version of Yosemite running on an early 2008 iMac. Not ideal but chugs along okay. Kids use it mainly.
Had some problems recently that I can't seem to solve and need some advice and help with.
The computer allegedly had a healthy shut down (not forced or plug pulled out of the wall) and then the next time a boot attempt was made, the progress bar would make it about 40% of the way then go to a grey screen with the cursor visible. It would be stuck like this and not do anything from here on.
At this point I did all sorts:
I have a Bootcamp partition created pre-Yosemite. I booted into it (XP) and backed up files from my OS X partition, then I went back into recovery and reinstalled OS X (not a clean install, just patching over).
After it was done it booted up fine, I logged in and it seemed all clean. I was going to tweak the startup services settings and turn off filevault, but I forgot. When I restarted the computer, a new issue happened and I haven't been able to solve it.
It gets to about 40%, then a white spinning loading bar appears over the progress bar. The Apple logo / progress bar usually disappear for a second before this happens. It goes to a black screen. The cursor appears for a few seconds, followed by the white spinner appearing again, and then the cursor disappearing. It does this on a loop, I left it for about 30 minutes then turned it off. Ran fsck again, tried clearing the NVRAM again, restarted a few extra times. It's stuck there.
Advice for what to do next? Starting to suspect something is wrong on the hardware side, although all seemed well in the Bootcamp XP partition.
Thanks in advance.
Got the latest version of Yosemite running on an early 2008 iMac. Not ideal but chugs along okay. Kids use it mainly.
Had some problems recently that I can't seem to solve and need some advice and help with.
The computer allegedly had a healthy shut down (not forced or plug pulled out of the wall) and then the next time a boot attempt was made, the progress bar would make it about 40% of the way then go to a grey screen with the cursor visible. It would be stuck like this and not do anything from here on.
At this point I did all sorts:
- Recovery mode Disk Utility, permissions and disk repair. Came back fine. I did fsck multiple times in single user mode after this.
- Tried to boot into safe mode; it'd just get stuck at 40% and do nothing.
- Cleared NVRAM
- Boot into recovery, turn off wireless, then restart unit
- disk0s2 warning; something like diskarbs not working, as well as NO WRITE appearing
- Complaints about the bootplaylist directory not existing, as well as something like install_cleanup. I think the directories stated were /var/db/
- Keeps saying it needs to rebuild an apple kext to do with the kernal or a cache, I think it shows //System/Library/****** (yes, two //)
- Makes an exception for something called JMicronAta kext
I have a Bootcamp partition created pre-Yosemite. I booted into it (XP) and backed up files from my OS X partition, then I went back into recovery and reinstalled OS X (not a clean install, just patching over).
After it was done it booted up fine, I logged in and it seemed all clean. I was going to tweak the startup services settings and turn off filevault, but I forgot. When I restarted the computer, a new issue happened and I haven't been able to solve it.
It gets to about 40%, then a white spinning loading bar appears over the progress bar. The Apple logo / progress bar usually disappear for a second before this happens. It goes to a black screen. The cursor appears for a few seconds, followed by the white spinner appearing again, and then the cursor disappearing. It does this on a loop, I left it for about 30 minutes then turned it off. Ran fsck again, tried clearing the NVRAM again, restarted a few extra times. It's stuck there.
Advice for what to do next? Starting to suspect something is wrong on the hardware side, although all seemed well in the Bootcamp XP partition.
Thanks in advance.