Q: only boots in safe mode
Hi there,
Im currently sat in front of a Mac Pro 2 x2.66Ghz which crashed after coming out of sleep so it had to be powered down and then back on.
Since then it will not boot to the finder, just sits at a blu screen.
It will however boot ok in safe mode.
Created a new user and problem persists.
Run applejack, problem persists.
OK, lets do an archive and install. Plugged in my firewire drive with split partitions of 10.5/10.6 installers. Reboot, alt key, select my boot drive and it still hangs before getting to the installer front end...
ok, lets boot again off a 10.6.6 boot hard disk. > same problem.
next i remove the internal hard disk and attempt to boot off the firewire external. Same problem....
OK, now I insert a USB stick with a 10.6 installer on it, still won't boot up completely.....
Now I try and boot from a 10.7 boot drive, get a desktop pattern but nothing else, just a spinning wheel.
Have now put the original hard disk back in and booted it back in safe mode to keep going for the time being...
Any suggestions please ???
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Posted on May 4, 2011 4:46 AM