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After 10.8.2 update my mac does not boot !

I stay on the gray screen.


With the recovery disk i try now to reinstal a frech 10.8.2 !


😠 Thanks Apple !

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1)

Posted on Sep 19, 2012 3:26 PM

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Sep 19, 2012 4:44 PM in response to Bloblo63

I'm getting the same thing using a MacBook Pro with retina. The update went fine but on the final reboot it just hangs at gray screen with apple logo. I also tried to do a fresh install using recovery and it gives the same thing. I was able to restore to 10.8.1 with a time machine restore and it's working again. Anyone else having this issue? Or a fix?

Sep 19, 2012 6:10 PM in response to Bloblo63

Solved for me !

The frech install with the recovery partition does not help.

Then first i try to access in console mode with 'command s' during the boot process and i see the the kernel is blocked by PARAGON (used for access to bootcamp).

I boot next in save mode (shift during the boot process) and download here the paragon soft for running the desinstaller.

After reboot my mac can boot in 10.8.2.


Look after all NTSF mount application (lib pref) - and do a clean desintall !

Sep 19, 2012 10:32 PM in response to CWade3051

Ok so I restored to my 10.8.1 time machine backup and then did an uninstall of Paragon NTFS for Mac 10 using the uninstaller that came with it. I then proceeded to update to 10.8.2. Unfortunately that alone did not fix it. I had to boot holding shift to get to safe mode. Once there I did some poking around for left over paragon files and found one named something like com.paragon.snapshot in /system/library/extensions and deleted it. Then did a normal reboot and everything came up without issue.

Sep 20, 2012 4:05 PM in response to jstellman

If your problem is linked to the PARAGON Kext, you don't need your back-up. Just boot in save mode (Shift key), download your PARAGON Product and run the uninstaller from the Paragon Disk image.


To see if your problem is related to Parogon, first boot in console mode (command s) and after 5 lines the kernel is blocked by the Paragon Kext (you could read it on the screen).


For another issue boot on the recovery (option) and then chose your backup.

Sep 21, 2012 11:02 AM in response to Bloblo63

Same exact thing happened to me. I wiped and installed a fresh install of ML 10.8.2....all appeared to be going well until about an hour after my Migration...the system locked up. Did a hard reboot and it froze at the gray screen....no daisy wheel.

Rebooted with Shift key, poked around and found remnants of previous NTFS products including NTFS-3G. Buried at /System/Library/Filesystems/ntfs-3g.fs/Support/ is uninstall-package.sh

I ran that and it removed a crapload of files that were still hanging around. Rebooted and like magic....back in bidness....

After 10.8.2 update my mac does not boot !

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