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Q: El Capitan stuck on load

Hi,

 

After upgrading to El Capitan, it fails to load and gets stuck every time.

On the developers forums there were plenty of people with same issue and good samaritan Max108 made the following steps

 

  1. Boot into Recovery Mode (cmd+R)
  2. From the central menu open Disk Utility.
  3. Then select the "Macintosh HD" partition, then the "Unlock" from the "File" menu  (If you don't see "unlock" then go on to step 4 - If you don't see "Macintosh HD", stop and post back)
  4. Select all of the writing in bold below and press cmd+C to copy it to the clipboard:
    • cd "/Volumes/Macintosh HD" ; ls -1 Library/Extensions/ ; find Library/Application\ Support -iname *.kext ; find Library/Filesystems -iname *.kext ; find System/Library/Extensions -ctime +2d -depth 2
  5. Then go to the Utilities menu, open Terminal and press cmd+V to paste the long command into it.
  6. Select all the output from that and press cmd+C to copy it to the clipboard.

 

  The list from the output gives the idea which kext are not letting your mac boot and Max108 was helping people to resolve this problem.

 

Here is my output from the command

 

cd "/Volumes/Mac HD" ; ls -1 Library/Extensions/ ; find Library/Application\ Support -iname *.kext ; find System/Library/Extensions -ctime +3d -depth 2

ACS6x.kext

ATTOCelerityFC8.kext

ATTOExpressSASHBA2.kext

ATTOExpressSASRAID2.kext

ArcMSR.kext

CalDigitHDProDrv.kext

HighPointIOP.kext

HighPointRR.kext

PromiseSTEX.kext

SoftRAID.kext

System/Library/Extensions/AppleMobileDevice.kext/Contents

System/Library/Extensions/EltimaAsync.kext/Contents

System/Library/Extensions/JMicronATA.kext/Contents

System/Library/Extensions/ssuddrv.kext/Contents

System/Library/Extensions/USBExpressCardCantWake_Huawei.kext/Contents

 

If there's anyone who could help and provide some assistance it would be highly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Peter

Macbook Pro 17, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Oct 4, 2015 12:46 AM

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  • by Lalita Sarasvati,

    Lalita Sarasvati Lalita Sarasvati Jan 21, 2016 8:14 AM in response to Lalita Sarasvati
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    Jan 21, 2016 8:14 AM in response to Lalita Sarasvati

    Also, for anyone who is not terminal savvy, if you have renamed your hard drive, replace "Macintosh HD" with the name you have given it.

  • by tintinlad,

    tintinlad tintinlad Jan 21, 2016 8:57 AM in response to Lalita Sarasvati
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    Jan 21, 2016 8:57 AM in response to Lalita Sarasvati

    I would not know which one just do :

     

    "I have tried SUCCESSFULLY the solution of ajorbneal

    "This has been drivining me mad but found what seems like a too good to be true fix.

    from Finder

    Navigated to Macintosh HD >System > Library > Extensions

    in view options show date modified and date last opened

    then just deleted files from 2013 back."

     

    It worked and Capitan loaded without problems"

     

    all modified files from 2013 and back

  • by Hatthaphone,

    Hatthaphone Hatthaphone Jan 23, 2016 1:52 PM in response to ajorbneal
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    Jan 23, 2016 1:52 PM in response to ajorbneal

    Thank and Credit to you " ajorbneal  "

    After trying to deal with this issue for a day, I found your post that could help my powerful mac pro to boot up fine so far.

    However, after upgrading to El Capitan found that my RAM just available to 6GB from 16GB my total, meaning that 10GB use by system/ basic apps. Maybe because I just keep upgrading from Leopard!

  • by tintinlad,

    tintinlad tintinlad Jan 24, 2016 2:11 AM in response to Hatthaphone
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    Jan 24, 2016 2:11 AM in response to Hatthaphone

    I have not noticed significant memory loss with El Capitan ... No more booting problem  ?  For ram uses maybe search for another help topic

  • by Hatthaphone,

    Hatthaphone Hatthaphone Jan 24, 2016 2:22 AM in response to tintinlad
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    Jan 24, 2016 2:22 AM in response to tintinlad

    Tested boot 3 times ... now Itz perfect working!!. For memory loss, I used CleanMyMac3 to deal with it. It's fixed now back to normal after boot about 12.4GB.

  • by MrFancypants314159,

    MrFancypants314159 MrFancypants314159 Feb 6, 2016 9:34 AM in response to Hatthaphone
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    Feb 6, 2016 9:34 AM in response to Hatthaphone

    in regards to the deletion of kext files... the recommended solution is still go through them one by one...?

  • by MrFancypants314159,

    MrFancypants314159 MrFancypants314159 Feb 6, 2016 9:35 AM in response to tintinlad
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    Feb 6, 2016 9:35 AM in response to tintinlad

    HHow are you using finder if your Mac woun't boot? Command prompt?

  • by tintinlad,

    tintinlad tintinlad Feb 6, 2016 10:04 AM in response to MrFancypants314159
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    Feb 6, 2016 10:04 AM in response to MrFancypants314159

    I really dont remember exactly ... I think since it would not boot I went into the rescue mode and reverted back to Yosemite and one there I did whats below (only after deleting the files did I reinstalled El Capitan)

     

     

     

    "I have tried SUCCESSFULLY the solution of ajorbneal

    "This has been drivining me mad but found what seems like a too good to be true fix.

    from Finder

    Navigated to Macintosh HD >System > Library > Extensions

    in view options show date modified and date last opened

    then just deleted files from 2013 back."

     

    It worked and Capitan loaded without problems"

  • by jtnovak,

    jtnovak jtnovak Feb 7, 2016 11:09 PM in response to ajorbneal
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    Feb 7, 2016 11:09 PM in response to ajorbneal

    thank you so much, this finally worked for me.

  • by jfkpoir,

    jfkpoir jfkpoir May 8, 2016 10:58 AM in response to f1ght4fun
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    May 8, 2016 10:58 AM in response to f1ght4fun

    Thanks a lot to Max108, my mac was completely blocked making the upgrade from Lyon to El Capitan, changing the HD with and SSD of Samsung 850 Evo. I've tried for 3 days to let it start making also 3-4 times the reinstall from network, but it block all the time at the apple logo. Restarting in Recovery mode Cmd+R,  with Safari I've linked to this page and copied the follows:

     

    • cd "/Volumes/Macintosh HD" ; ls -1 Library/Extensions/ ; find Library/Application\ Support -iname *.kext ; find Library/Filesystems -iname *.kext ; find System/Library/Extensions -ctime +2d -depth 2

     

    after I've closed Safari and Opened Terminal and pasted it. It work immediately !!! Great solution, thanks.

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