I was using my MacBook pro, it required an update, when the update was finished and it went to restart. It began to restart like normal, the chime went, the fan startedup, it went to the grey screen with the apple, the wheel started turning but that's as far as it gets. It won't go further then this screen, the wheel just keeps spining. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
try a safe boot, and see if it fires up and behaves normally. Shift boot up.
This did not seem to work, however I don't know if I was doing the safe boot properly. I powered it on, heard the chime and pressed shift, but no luck
The following support article is somewhat outdated. Where it refers to booting from an installation disc, you should boot from your recovery partition (if running 10.7 or later) by holding down the key combination command-R at the chime.
Thanks I was able to reinstall lion and things seem to be working now. Thank god I had everything backed up on my time capsule!
Did you have Sims on your macbook by any chance? I am having the same issue and wondering what is the cause.
My MacBook pro won't boot up
