Q: Mac won't boot
My iMac started acting oddly, at first it wouldn't wake up when it went to sleep. It then started not booting anymore. It freezes up on the grey screen with the apple logo, after the circle things spins around for a while. I tried repairing disk permission, repairing disk, reset pram, ran fsck -y in Single User mode, and ran hard drive and data integrity checks with Drive Genius. No issues found. I can however boot just fine in Safe Mode, although the screen/graphics seems kinda slow and laggy, and I can boot the Recovery drive.
I then tried reinstalling the OS. My OS disks and thumb drives will not boot. I didn't want to install past Mountain Lion, however the only way I could get it to install a new OS was booting the recovery drive and download and install Mavericks. It installed no problem, but again will not boot only in safe mode.
Are there some logs that might be able to tell me what the problem is?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5), 3.06 ghz, 4gb, 512mb
Posted on Jun 26, 2016 12:09 PM