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No BOOT after 10.8.3 UPDATE

Hi after updating to 10.8.3 i'm stucked in the grey boot screen.

Booting in verbose mode shows me

disk0s2 : media is not present


in single user mode if i launch fsck -yf it shows me:


Failed to issue COM RESET succesfully after 3 attempts. Failing..

disk0s2: no suck device


..

..

update/reload mount for / failed: Device not configured


The only way to make the system active is to boot with TARGET option and select the disk.then it boots properly..


any help how to fix that s°*T of update?

Thank you

OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)

Posted on Mar 16, 2013 2:20 AM

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Mar 16, 2013 2:37 AM in response to zubatac75

Hold Command and R keys while your Mac is starting to start in Recovery HD. Then, open Disk Utility, select your OS X partition on the sidebar and verify the disk. Is it OK? If not, repair it.


If it doesn't show any problem, the update damaged the operating system. Close Disk Utility and reinstall OS X. You won't lose anything you had stored before updating.


Sometimes, problems like this happen after a OS X update, and we don't know exactly their reasons. Maybe a third-party extension, maybe a corrupted OS X package, maybe a hard disk failure. To prevent problems like yours, I recommend to install a maintenance update as OS X 10.8.3 downloading the Combo version from the Apple webpage. This version gives less problems than the version you download from the App Store and it can be used to update all your Macs downloading that update once

Mar 16, 2013 10:20 AM in response to thunderace

restored to 10.8.2 from time machine worked fine.

Updated with combo update to 10.8.3 presented the same issue


restored again to 10.8.2 worked fine

so It's quite obviuos that the problem is within the 10.8.3.

it's a little bit ridiculous that after so many betas some users have this really seriuos issue..

i really hope in an update as soon as.


oh yes i have an MBP 15" 2,53 Core 2 Duo mid 2009

Mar 16, 2013 10:59 AM in response to zubatac75

Hi there


I'm having a crisis too and I think it's the same problem. I've just updated my Mac Pro from 10.8.2 to 10.8.3 and since then my 2 monitors stay black. I tried reseting the PRAM, nothing then put it into sleep mode and several times took it out of sleep...all of a sudden on the reboot I managed to get the screens to light up. How do I fix this? It's driving me nuts....


Sophia

Mar 16, 2013 1:28 PM in response to tcl4m

Hi there


All I can say is today I updated my software from 10.8.2 to 10.8.3 my mac has been working perfectly over the years..not a problem and since this upgrade my screens are black. I've not added any firmware or 3rd party software. I tried several ways to get it up and running ..from going to sleep mode taking it out..etc but nothing..then suddenly mac screen lit up and was able to copy the important files I needed. Unfortunately I didn't think to tuna system disc and check it and when I rebooted then screen came back black again and have not been able to get it back. I'm at a loss now :-(

No BOOT after 10.8.3 UPDATE

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