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Hi, for a few weeks now my MacBook's been starting up in single-user mode by itself, without me touching anything. The thing is, it only happens about half the time - otherwise it's booting up normally. I wiped my drive and reinstalled Lion, ran fsck and used disk utility several times, but it's still happening.
Anyone got any idea of what could be the problem?
Thanks.
MacBookPro 13" (mid-2009), Mac OS X (10.5.7), 4GB RAM, airport express
Do you mean single-user mode or safe mode?
Thanks Linc - single-user mode, definitely.
Are you using an external keyboard?
Yes, most of the time; think there's a link? 😕
Maybe. Try a different keyboard, or none, and see whether there's any change.
Thanks, will try that 🙂
My friend, you are onto something 🙂 Turning my keyboard on *after* startup for the last week and it hasn't happened once! Any idea why it's doing that? Thanks!
You know as much as I do.
Thanks - next step is Genius bar, I guess
The problem is probably in the keyboard, but you can't be sure unless you test with another one.
MacBook randomly starting up in single-user mode
