catherinefromorange
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Q: Trying to boot into safe mode after failed Yosemite installation, but progress bar has stalled halfway across. Any ideas?

Trying to boot into safe mode after failed Yosemite installation, but progress bar has stalled halfway across. Any ideas?

MacBook (13-inch Mid 2010)

Posted on Nov 8, 2014 10:14 AM

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catherinefromorange

Q: Trying to boot into safe mode after failed Yosemite installation, but progress bar has stalled halfway across. Any ideas?

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  • by cdmoomaw,

    cdmoomaw cdmoomaw Nov 10, 2014 7:50 PM in response to catherinefromorange
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    Nov 10, 2014 7:50 PM in response to catherinefromorange

    Something similar happened to me, and it would usually finish by about 45 minutes in. To see what's going on, you can hold down ⌘+V at startup to boot in verbose mode. The system will print out line-by-line what it is doing.

  • by VikingOSX,

    VikingOSX VikingOSX Nov 11, 2014 6:12 AM in response to catherinefromorange
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    Nov 11, 2014 6:12 AM in response to catherinefromorange

    I would boot into Recovery (command+R) and use Disk Utility to verify/repair permissions and the boot drive. Press the Clear History button after you have verified/repaired permissions. This will unclutter the results of the verify Disk operation, which you should pay keen attention too, in case there are any disk errors encountered. If there are no disk errors, boot normally.