My Macbook Won't Boot

[PrincesseMaryam]

Good day, everyone. Please I need help. My MacBook does not boot no matter how hard I try. It gets stuck at about 75% and when the progress bar gets full, it just stays like that. I have tried all the usual methods. I cannot go into safe and recovery mode. But I can go into verbose and single user mode. When in verbose mode, it says
Open directoryd, too many corpses being created.
I will really appreciate it if anyone can help me. Thanks.

 

[Fishrrman]

What year was the MacBook made?

Can you boot to INTERNET recovery?
(this is NOT THE SAME as "the recovery partition")

Command-OPTION-R
at boot.

You'll need your wifi password.
You should see the spinning globe as the utilities load -- be patient.

Can you get to this?

 

[appltech]

"too many corpses being created" – seen this before.
You'll need to create a bootable macOS installer to boot and start clean macOS reinstall (proceed from "How to restore a Mac to factory settings with Recovery mode")

As for me, this is the only option

 

[PrincesseMaryam]

What year was the MacBook made?

Can you boot to INTERNET recovery?
(this is NOT THE SAME as "the recovery partition")

Command-OPTION-R
at boot.

You'll need your wifi password.
You should see the spinning globe as the utilities load -- be patient.

Can you get to this?

Yes, thanks so much. I'm trying to reinstall os since when it eventually booted, it showed a prohibitory sign. Really appreciate this.

 

[Fishrrman]

OK, IF you can boot to internet recovery, you can restore the OS.

But we're "not all the way there" yet.
I asked you to try that "as a first step" to see if it was possible before going further.

Once you get to the internet utilities, you're offered several choices.

The first one I'd try is to re-install the OS (WITHOUT erasing the drive).
Give this a try and see what happens.

BE AWARE that the Mac will reboot one or more times during this process, and that the display will "go black" without any indication of progress for a minute or longer. Just be patient.

If you CANNOT re-install the OS this way, it might be possible after you erase the internal drive. But don't worry about this yet. Just try a re-install as above first.