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Stuck on start up

After rebooting with the gray screen many times on my iMac I now have a spinning globe on a gray screen with a 24 hour clock blow it and no progress being made after 30 minutes

iMac Pro

Posted on Aug 20, 2021 11:59 AM

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Encryptor5000

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Posted on Aug 21, 2021 4:08 PM

Hi Kevin,

It looks like your Mac is trying to start up from macOS Recovery, over the Internet. Depending on your Internet speeds, this could take a while.

For context, the standard macOS Recovery image is around 500 MB (as far as I'm aware). If your Internet speed is slow, it may take a while to download the image and start up from it.

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