I installed Lion and everything seems fine. I turned on Filevault and the computer rebooted (part of the FileVault process). However, I get the 'spinning wheel' seemingly forever and am unable to get to a log on screen.
The first time this happened, I let it spin for a day, and finally gave up.
Any advice?
Mac OS X (10.7)
Try: Hold the 'R' key on boot, then verify (or repair) the disk with disk utility.
Try: Hold the 'R' key on boot, then verify (or repair) the disk with disk utility.
Thanks, that worked. Here's what I did.
Logged into my account and started FileVault.
Made sure I had the encreption key written down.
Rebooted the computer, holding Command-R.
Launched Disk Utilities and 'Repaired Drive'.
Rebooted and loged into my account.
Checked FileVault to confirm it is encrypting the disk.
Everything is working as expected now!
Cousin Robert,
I run a periodontal practice and use iMacs and a Mac Pro as my server. I was also having FileVault issues. In fact, exactly as yours was. I did the restart and it spun for 24 hours, before I came back to check the progress (Friday to Sat evening).
I will do what was reccommended to you and what you said you did.
My question and this is an important piece of information, did it take 20+ hours to encrypt your server or computers? I don't have the time, until the weekend, to do it, if that is the case.
Thanks for your input.
PerioDrew
Drew Moore
Drew, Did you get yours to work?
Ran into this issue, and mine is still spinning even after repair.
Part of my problem, was that I was also trying to turn this on on my server. I would look at my server from a shared screen on my main computer and it would never show, after I did the restart. I hooked a monitor, keyboard and mouse to the server. Then, I rebooted using the R key and it worked. I didn't have the same problem on the other 5 computers, when I turned filevault on.
Thanks
Spinning Wheel after FileVault 2 Restart
