Just bought a used Mac Mini late 2014 3ghz i7. It has no OS installed, so I installed Mojave in the usual manner.
When I start it up, it runs several pages of code then does the normal start up.
Can I fix this? I only have 30 days to return it, so at the least I want to be sure it's not a hardware problem. How can I diagnose this?
Mac mini 2018 or later
Hello,
It sounds like Macintosh is starting up in verbose mode. This is not inherently a bad behavior. This just provides a detail system log as macOS start up. It would be a good idea to re-install macOS since this is a new (to you) Mac.
Hello,
It sounds like Macintosh is starting up in verbose mode. This is not inherently a bad behavior. This just provides a detail system log as macOS start up. It would be a good idea to re-install macOS since this is a new (to you) Mac.
Try a PRAM reset (hold the PRAM reset for at least three chimes so it activates several times).
Did you perform a clean install of Mojave by first erasing the drive before installing Mojave? If not, then you really should just to be safe that you have a good clean version of macOS.
Mac runs pages of code before starting up
