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El Capitan update won't boot

Hi All,


I've just downloaded and installed El Capitan from the App store to my Macbook Pro Retina and now it won't boot. It finished telling me how long it was going to take, rebooted to apple logo with progress bar but it just hangs with the progress bar at 90-100% for hours.


I've forced it to restart numerous times and even run recovery and re-installed. Same issue.


In Verbose mode the last thing it says is 'Waiting for DSMOS'.


Not good, thanks Apple.


Anyone else with the same?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Oct 1, 2015 6:45 AM

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Oct 7, 2015 3:33 PM in response to wernki

Here's another little "Apple Trap".


Update to El Capitan.

Run Photos.

It'll request to migrate your photo library.

IF it runs, it will import them.

When the entire OSX Crashes, and you try to re-run your Yosemite Photos, it'll say the photo file only works with a newer version, and YOUR YOSEMITE PHOTO LIBRARY CAN'T BE READ ANYMORE.

If you don't have a clean backup of your Yosemite Photos File saved, you could lose everything.


BACKUP CRITICAL FILES BEFORE UPDATING TO El CAPITAN and then make another backup somewhere else to be safe....BEFORE UPDATING OR RUNNING 10.10.11


Don't ask me how I know. I do keep multiple back-ups in my Mac Pro, fortunately.

Oct 8, 2015 2:19 AM in response to urquhartps

I have installed El Capitan on my iMac and it works perfectly. Hooray.


I have installed on my MacBook Air (mid 2011, 4gb memory, 120gb storage with 77gb free) and it works perfectly; HOWEVER when I restart or turn off my MacBook Air it just hangs. Disk repair and reinstall El Capitan works OK but does not fix the problem.


Can anyone help please.

Oct 9, 2015 11:57 PM in response to urquhartps

Plus one on this issue. I upgraded a 2013 imac to el capitan last night. Ran fine all day today, but suddenly went into complete lock up, with all open apps becoming unresponsive. I did a hard shut down, and have been unable to initiate anything since. I can't even get single user mode to drop me into a shell; hangs right after logging an issue with a syncmate kext; never get a prompt. I then tried going into local recovery with command - R, and get presented with apple logo and 90% progress. After a few hours of that, I hard rebooted again, this time trying option key to get a different start up disk option. I see REcovery 10.11, and my time machine disk, but neither will proceed past initial disk and wifi selection; stuck on just apple logo. I'd really like to avoid doing an internet recovery. Seems like a growing, significant problem. Definitely a major pain

El Capitan update won't boot

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