Q: Macbook air won't boot in safemode
Hello,
I have a MacBook air 2015 and my disk got full and now I cannot login with my user. The progress bar get stuck at 100% and the system won't let me login. I read that I must boot into safemode but I cannot do that. My MacBook does not make the startup sound and even if I press the shift key the system does not take me to safemode. The only thing that I can do is to go to Recovery mode.
Can someone please point me into the right direction.
MacBook Air, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)
Posted on Jun 24, 2016 9:02 AM
Thank you for your quick answer! I don't have a second mac or a cable to connect to one so this path was quite difficult for me.
What I managed to do was the following:
1. Enter in Recovery mode
2. From command line set up the flag to always start in safe mode
nvram boot-args="-x"
3. Restart
4. Wait for a lot of time, maybe around 2 hours, I was in Safe mode
5. Entering in Safe mode deleted my tmp files, this was the problem in my case
6. Enter back in Recovery mode and remove the flag to start normally
nvram boot-args=""
7. Restart
After all this I got my system back with no issues, just a lesson learned to read the warnings
Posted on Jun 27, 2016 8:25 AM