- #MAC STUCK ON LOADING SCREEN STARTUP HOW TO#
- #MAC STUCK ON LOADING SCREEN STARTUP MAC OS X#
- #MAC STUCK ON LOADING SCREEN STARTUP MAC OS#
- #MAC STUCK ON LOADING SCREEN STARTUP INSTALL#
# The move command acts as a rename command in this format. # Get setup to activate a new administration account # in case of partial success repeat this command until errors go away. # Type the follow two instructions to access the startup disk in read/write.
You do not need to type in the lines beginning with an ampersand, #, they are comments. Look at what is typed out in the console to determine the exact format.
#MAC STUCK ON LOADING SCREEN STARTUP MAC OS#
The first two commands will depend on your release of Mac OS X.
#MAC STUCK ON LOADING SCREEN STARTUP HOW TO#
This page will give more details on how to get into single user mode. Continue holding down command-s until you see some text on the screen. You need to get into single use mode for steps one and two that are listed below.
#MAC STUCK ON LOADING SCREEN STARTUP MAC OS X#
This will work in all releases of Mac OS X so far. Get the Mac to set up an additional administrative account. Before wiping startup drive it's best to have two copies of your data.
#MAC STUCK ON LOADING SCREEN STARTUP INSTALL#
Install a new copy of macOS on an external drive. Should be clean of problems with existing user. No, you can copy your data from single user mode or recovery mode to an external device. It appears that your login user has a bad login item or some other snafu that prevents login and safe mode. The machine now boots fine, and everything is back to normal. kext files back into the /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/Extensions/ folder. I then identified the culprit file from the driver - RDUSB0205Dev.kext. They are the following ACS6x.kext CIJUSBLoad.kextĪTTOCelerityFC8.kext CalDigitHDProDrv.kextĪTTOExpressSASHBA2.kext HighPointIOP.kextĪTTOExpressSASRAID2.kext HighPointRR.kext kext files that are properly signed by Apple. mount -rw /Ĭd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/Extensions/Īfter reading through this I was able to identify the. kext files to an unsupported folder (see below) I was able to boot successfully boot the machine in safe mode and normal mode. I discovered the issue after reading through this. It seems that this driver does not work on macOS Mojave 10.14.6. The difference was that his machine is running 10.14.3 and mine is running 10.14.6. In this instance, it was from this driver (Roland DJ-202 DRIVER VER.1.0.3).Īt the time I didn't think this was causing the issue because this driver was installed and ran fine on a friend's MacBook Pro running on Mojave. It manifested after the installation of a driver with an unsigned. In what should be safe mode the boot still gets stuck on the above screen with loading bar. I have set to boot-args=“-x” to force safe mode. I have also tried single user mode and running fsck -fy as the answer below suggests. There is no obvious error or repeated logging. I’m stuck with the apple logo and the loading bar in the same place. I have then run the disk repair utility on the now unencrypted drive. This link explains how to remove a drive’s encryption from the terminal in recovery mode. I have removed FileVault encryption by following this. I entered my password and had the same stuck bar issue. It goes straight to the normal login page every time, not the safe mode login page(there's no safe mode written in menu bar). The machine refuses to boot in safe mode. I held the power button, restarted and held shift. I’ve tried booting in recovery mode and running the first aid operation in disk utility. This is on a MacBook Pro running Mac OS Mojave. I’ve tried restarting and rebooting after shutting down - and I get the same result. Stuck on the above screen for over 30 mins.