beijingbrad

Q: MacBook will not boot or load into single user

Hi. I'm hoping you can help

 

My sons MacBook will no longer boot up. This happened a day after he downloaded a large amount of movies from iTunes.  Not sure if there is a connection.  It shows a grey bar after typing in his password - shuts down after half the bar is filled.

 

I Tried everything I can find on the forums.

 

It will not boot into safe mode

it will boot into recovery mode.  Disc utility says everything is ok on the hard drive. However, it also says it is 100% full of "other" files.

It  will not boot into single user mode - gives me the error:

 

Builduser error () : error building a user of type 0x20010008

 

i reset the nvram

filevault is not turned on - at least recovery mode says so

 

any other ideas?

 

thx

 

brad

Posted on Apr 29, 2016 8:09 PM

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