El Capitan won't Boot after update

I removed Fuse and then tried the upgrade to El Capitan for the third time. It now can reboot. I tried several times and no hangup. Thanks! So Fuse was the problem.

Thanks to jaccofromalmere, removing exactly and only this file worked for me too.

I had upgraded to El Capitan.

Then days later there was this update (the recent most update as of my writing this on 13 Oct 2015) after which when I restarted my Macbook Pro 13" Mid 2012, it got stuck at the start screen having Apple logo and the progress bar empty.

The only thing that I did that worked was:

01 Restart and keep Cmd-R pressed to boot into recovery mode

02 From the Utilities menu open Terminal

03 Typed the command to reach this location: cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/System/Library/Extensions/

04 Then move this particular file to another location with this command: mv EltimaAsync.kext /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Users/YOURLOGINNAME

05 Restart

El Capitan booted successfully!

Hope that helps.

Hi Argott

I too have macFuse. I'm currently doing a new time machine backup. (2-3 days 3TB), once it done i will try and remove macFuse

and give it a go. I have rename my hard drive & even removed startup programs, then i did a "StartUp Disk"

this worked GREAT, but the next day the problem return.

Can you confirm it still boots up fine after removing macFuse? Which macFuse version did you have

Beta Version 2.2.0.0

Standard Version 2.0.3.2

by the way the only way i can remove macFuse is by using a "Trash It" once Time Machine done ill reboot and check.

sorry amgot

I tried, no solution

In my case, I've made clean install of El Capitan and my Imac (2011) fixed the problem of hanging up on progress bar but now keep restarting in a loop, boot on Recovery Mode but could find EltimaAsync.kext on /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/System/Library/Extensions/ or anywhere on my system on Terminal.

Now i'm triying removing aditional RAM (keeping the "Lifetime" branded) and reinstalling all over to see if worked, will let you know.

Didn't work, same problem keep restarting in a loop

Thank you so much Carlos!

touch /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/System/Library/Extensions worked for me too!

Aargh, same problem again at next reboot.

Same solution worked worked again - hope I don't have to do this every time I reboot.

I also had removed EltimaAsync.kert using

sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/EltimaAsync.kext

This must be the culprit!

Hi amgott

since I removed this entry EltimaAsync.kext my system starts o.k.

Thanks to everybody for their work and tips.

Jules

I've finally make it work, i did:

• Erase everything Recovery Mode
• Downgrade to Yosemite
• Upgrade to El Capitán from App Store

Now i have a little glitch with the graphics...at least works...

A little, you say?

Already fixed, didn't notice that it was booting on Safe Mode allways, changed from command line on terminal....it worked...after two weeks i can finally say that i'm running OSX El Capitan without any issues...

Guys, I had this exact problem. It is because the security in EC is different than in previous versions and the kext files from older apps are not allowing it to boot. I spent about 20 minutes online with Max (********@gmail.com) and he wrote a script to isolate the offending kext files. I think he may be charging a small fee but it worked flawlessly and I have had no issues since.

Bada$$, Carlos! Thanks!