rob7997

Q: Will not boot into Safe Mode

MacBook will not boot into Safe Mode, only fills bar to about one third and hangs up.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Feb 19, 2012 10:36 PM

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Q: Will not boot into Safe Mode

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  • by Graham Perrin,

    Graham Perrin Graham Perrin Jan 25, 2014 8:03 PM in response to William Donelson
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    Jan 25, 2014 8:03 PM in response to William Donelson

    It's a different problem.

  • by node-nine_inc,

    node-nine_inc node-nine_inc Jan 29, 2014 11:10 AM in response to rob7997
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    Jan 29, 2014 11:10 AM in response to rob7997

    I can confirm that 'Apple memory' does seem to have a factor in this for some folks.

     

    I too have been plagued by this safe mode hung trouble.  I was asked to try some actions in Safe Mode by Apple support for an unrelated issue when I stumbled across this non-booting-into-safe-mode behavior.

     

    In my case I'm running 10.7.5.  Tried safe-mode booting multiple times - no luck.  Ran diskutility several times - no difference.  Rebooted into single-user mode and manually fsck'd the harddrive - still no improvement or progress beyond the 'extended attributes' examination step.

     

    I finally dug out my original memory, removed all my RAM, and installed a single 2G stick of the mem that came with the system - Safe Mode finally booted just fine.

  • by dwhitla,

    dwhitla dwhitla Jan 30, 2014 10:00 PM in response to node-nine_inc
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    Jan 30, 2014 10:00 PM in response to node-nine_inc

    The memory thing is a red herring. Every machine I have with this problem is bog stock from Apple. The cause has already been wsuccessfully diagnosed way back in this thread as a fault with Apple's fsck.

  • by Graham Perrin,

    Graham Perrin Graham Perrin Jan 30, 2014 11:00 PM in response to dwhitla
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    Jan 30, 2014 11:00 PM in response to dwhitla

    Is it OS X 10.9.1 (Mavericks) on all Macs that you now find affected?

  • by Kikonda12,

    Kikonda12 Kikonda12 Apr 3, 2014 8:30 AM in response to Steven Slupsky
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    Apr 3, 2014 8:30 AM in response to Steven Slupsky

    I'm having this same issue, any conclusive answers?

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