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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 21, 2015 3:17 PM in response to brian273

Yes, keep us posted. A quick scan on the comments today suggest things still aren't going well with crashes, errors and failures being mentioned by a few users.


I'm a little bemused by all this, what happened to stable software from Apple?


Anyways, look forward to hearing about your experiences on this update installation. I'm doing a full install on my old MBA 2012 which is my 'spare' just to see what happens this time around..... but i'm holding off on my 2015 MBP because it's the one I actually use and can't do without LOL.

Oct 21, 2015 4:24 PM in response to MichaelRT1972

Quick update. On the MBA I had been running the Beta versions, so I did a full download from the App Store. After what seemed eons, it finally started the installation.... initially it said about 24 minutes, and very slowly it got down to 15 minutes (I would say it took about 25 mins to count down 9 mins), and now it has sat on 15 mins for about 30 mins.


I'm undecided, do I just turn it off and see what happens, or do I just let it sit for a day or two?


I am far from impressed with this entire debacle that appears to be El Capitan.

Oct 22, 2015 1:28 AM in response to Brainlight

@ Brainlight - maybe it has worked alright for me (wonder if it has anything to do with previously deleting EltimaAsync.kext). Installed OS X 10.11.1 without a hitch. But then again I never had any problems installing even OS X 10.11. Trouble has always been when I reboot, which I'm not going to try now because at this point during the week I'm not willing to invite a nervous breakdown.

Oct 24, 2015 6:38 PM in response to gaboesquivel

I'm using a late 2014 Macbook Pro.


i did the same thing and it worked.


First of, did a clean install.

One reboot and the Mac got stuck with the logo and progress bar.

Tried Cmd+R // Shift etc. - nothing seemed to work.


called Apple support.

They asked me to reinstall the OS.

At the same time i was reading posts on this forum.


So i reinstalled the OS - and once it booted, the first thing i did was to open terminal and paste EltimaAsync.kext


Haven't had an issue since yesterday.


Extremely grateful to the community here for their help. I had to take a flight and it was a desperate situation - so pardon the emotion, but it was very humbling to see so many brilliant people share their experience and knowledge. Thank you everybody.

Oct 25, 2015 11:14 PM in response to rossmon1

If you can't stand to see my honest appraisal of what is todays apple then delete my entire post. What you have left is not me, mr. host.

I'll find another mac oriented place to speak which is not overly moderated along with everything else.

When I started fixing apple computers with an oscope, a soldering iron and the latest copy of the ICcircuit handbook you probably were not born yet.



Rossmon

El Capitan update won't boot

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