Macbook white mid 2010 cannot boot every other time with High sierra
I have "Macbook (13-inch, Mid 2010)" it has white plastic case with 4GB 1067MHz DDR3 RAM and NVIDIA Geforce 320M 256MB.
Model Identifier: MacBook 7,1
Boot ROM Version: 66.0.0.0.0
SMC Version (system): 1.60f6
It had originally El Capitan installed. It booted nicely every time. I
think that I didn't go trough all software updates it provided.
I did a fresh install of High Sierra from USB flash drive. I went trough some installation steps with errors and restarts.
Actually I can boot one time, after powering off and powering on or restarting I get stuck at boot screen: I see grey Apple logo and a progress bar that is filling slowly, gets to 100% and then nothing happens for a whole day.
After hard powering it off by holding power button I power it on and it boots nicely.
Here's a list of things I have done to test/diagnose the problem:
- three passes of extended Apple Hardware Test; passed OK.
- First Aid on HDD; passed OK.
- First Aid test from Disk Utility passed with no errors
- smartctl short and long HDD tests passed with no errors.
- I tried to reset NVRAM and SMC. Didn't help.
- I recently did an update in High Sierra and update of the SMC to the latest version provided for my hardware. Didn't help.
- I was doing some High Sierra updates, re-installs to Lion, El Capitan and Snow leopard and my Boot ROM Version has changed from MB71.003F.B00.18022149 to 66.0.0.0
- output of diskutil info disk0 | grep SMART is SMART Status: Verified but as I said I used smartctl to run short and long SMART tests which passed. Anyway SMART looking ok may mean nothing.
- verbose boot shows a message Waiting for DSMOS... with few other messages
My original question from stack exchange:
I even again fresh installed high sierra and the same DSMOS problem remains.
Any other OS I've tried can boot normally, but i need High Sierra. What should i do?
MacBook, OS X 10.11
