Q: El Capitan stuck on load
Hi,
After upgrading to El Capitan, it fails to load and gets stuck every time.
On the developers forums there were plenty of people with same issue and good samaritan Max108 made the following steps
- Boot into Recovery Mode (cmd+R)
- From the central menu open Disk Utility.
- Then select the "Macintosh HD" partition, then the "Unlock" from the "File" menu (If you don't see "unlock" then go on to step 4 - If you don't see "Macintosh HD", stop and post back)
- Select all of the writing in bold below and press cmd+C to copy it to the clipboard:
- cd "/Volumes/Macintosh HD" ; ls -1 Library/Extensions/ ; find Library/Application\ Support -iname *.kext ; find Library/Filesystems -iname *.kext ; find System/Library/Extensions -ctime +2d -depth 2
- Then go to the Utilities menu, open Terminal and press cmd+V to paste the long command into it.
- Select all the output from that and press cmd+C to copy it to the clipboard.
The list from the output gives the idea which kext are not letting your mac boot and Max108 was helping people to resolve this problem.
Here is my output from the command
cd "/Volumes/Mac HD" ; ls -1 Library/Extensions/ ; find Library/Application\ Support -iname *.kext ; find System/Library/Extensions -ctime +3d -depth 2
ACS6x.kext
ATTOCelerityFC8.kext
ATTOExpressSASHBA2.kext
ATTOExpressSASRAID2.kext
ArcMSR.kext
CalDigitHDProDrv.kext
HighPointIOP.kext
HighPointRR.kext
PromiseSTEX.kext
SoftRAID.kext
System/Library/Extensions/AppleMobileDevice.kext/Contents
System/Library/Extensions/EltimaAsync.kext/Contents
System/Library/Extensions/JMicronATA.kext/Contents
System/Library/Extensions/ssuddrv.kext/Contents
System/Library/Extensions/USBExpressCardCantWake_Huawei.kext/Contents
If there's anyone who could help and provide some assistance it would be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Peter
Macbook Pro 17, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Posted on Oct 4, 2015 12:46 AM
I've managed to fix it myself, using developers and community topics and great guy Max108 help.
I'm a noSuperPro user, but solution here is to remove .kext kernel extension files which prevent El Captain loading due to unknown for me reasons.
So while in RecoveryMode, start terminal and cd "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Extensions" and remove all unnecessary broken kext files using rm -rf or create a temp folder and move them there. I simply deleted them
In my particular case these 3 were the reason:
System/Library/Extensions/ssuddrv.kext/Contents
System/Library/Extensions/USBExpressCardCantWake_Huawei.kext/Contents
System/Library/Extensions/EltimaAsync.kext/Contents
AFTER DELETE - El Captain loaded successfully!
Posted on Oct 4, 2015 3:51 AM