I've been using Mountain Lion for a while, and regularly I get a black screen, right after the login screen (after entering the password).
Often I have to reboot several times until it boots properly.
It is not clear when or why it happens: it could be some 3rd party code (gfxCardStatus, CUDA 5.0 sdk, steer mouse, Microsoft Intellimouse driver?) or something else.
Does anyone else have a similar issue?
I saw that, but the problem isn't an issue when autlogin is enabled, it's only a problem when log in is enabled and not in scale.
I had the black screen when i booted up my MBr this morning to get the update.
After 4 restarts I'm still not getting it -- will update if anything changes
Update basically does... nothing.
If the fix was found in the last few weeks, it will not be in 10.8.2 at all. It will be in 10.8.3 at most, which means we're a month or two away from a full fix.
The hardware is fine, the issue is with OS X itself. The reason I know is because this never happened on Lion, only with Mountain Lion.
Just switch to Retina before sleeping or shutting it down and you'll be okay.
My retina macbook pro is always set at the non scaled resolution, and I get the black screen when waking up from sleep all the time. It happens every other day for me at a minimum.
Sometimes it won't actually go to sleep, but gives a spinning beachball and black screen.
10.8.2 didn't fix it and neither did the firmware update.
I have my machine asking for a password upon wake from sleep, if that helps anyone
10.8.2 Seems to have fixed my "black screen of death-ish" issue.....so far 😐
Just installed the OS X 10.8.2 and the Retina EFI update 1.0 .... and restarted the rMBP 10 times. No black screen at all.
Just one observation though every alternate shutdown takes more than usual 2-3 secs time.
Its like
1st shutdown - 3 sec
2nd shut down - 15-18 sec
3rd - 3 se
4th - 15-18 sec
and so on ..
Booting time is consistant around 12 secs.
Got the black screen this morning for the first time waking the Mbpr up from sleep, this is after updating to 10.8.2 last night.
Seems fixed in 10.8.2 so far! It was rare to even boot with both settings before, and now several boots problem free last night & today... Fingers crossed!
Just update to 10.8.2, wait to see the result.
But why I can't install "MacBook Pro Retina EFI Update v1.0"? the system says that"This software is not supported on your system."
Why?!
I have the same problem... started day one. After a week I took it to the Genius bar where they ran hardware diagnostics and all seemed fine. Suposadly a hardware reset was performed however as soon as I got home and tried to boot up... black screen!!!
Mine is the 2.3GHz 250SSD 8GB RAM model.
Anyone still having the black screen issues after 10.8.2?
I don't seem to be.
Perhaps the problem finally got fixed?
Anyone?
10.8.2 didn't solve anything for me
100% fixed the problem for me. I applied 10.8.2 the day it came out and I probably reboot 3 times a day, depending on the day and my movement with the laptop, but it has NEVER shown its ugly face again.
Good job Apple!
Given this positive experience, I'll try it out myself now. Been awaiting for some confirmation. Thanks.
black screen after login, Mountain Lion on Macbook Retina
