Q: iMac Won't Boot
Hi everyone,
I’m having big problems with my iMac.
My hard drive space began to slowly disappear. I downloaded OmniDiskSweeper, which identified a few log files that were enormous. I deleted those files, and the hard drive space went back to where it was supposed to be.
I decided to restart, but now it won’t boot all the way. It gets to the screen with the Apple logo and progress bar, but the progress bar stops at about 75%. I’ve let it sit there for several hours, just to see what would happen, but it doesn’t advance.
I’ve tried restarting in safe mode, but the same thing happens. I’ve tried resetting the PRAM. I’ve tried fsck. I’ve used target disk mode to verify that everything on the hard drive is present and backed up.
I’ve started in recovery mode, which gives me the option of restoring from a time machine backup, reinstalling Mac OS, getting help online, and disk utility. Disk utility doesn’t find any problems with the drive. When I try to reinstall El Capistan, the installer gets as far as “downloading additional components,” but the time remaining just increases. When I open the installer log, it appears to have gotten stuck on “.LastResort” is used instead. After two hours of no progress, I don’t know what else to do.
Thanks in advance for your help.
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)
Posted on Jun 2, 2016 11:48 AM