My MacPro starts up, the apple logo appears, and the spinning wheel just keeps on spinning with no further activity or connection to login page. Please help, thanks, KB
Shut down your Mac. Use the power button if you need to. Now start it with the Shift key held down. This will start it into Safe Mode, with all extensions turned off. Safe Mode is slow to start, so give it time, it's checking a bunch of tasks. If it works OK in Safe Mode, restart normally. If it works now, you're done.
If the problem returns after restart, you might have an extension conflict. Turn off all extensions via System Preferences. To isolate which extension is at fault, turn on one extension at a time, restarting in between, until you find the bad one.
The Apple logo is loaded by the ROM loader as part of the initial blob of software. It then starts to initialize things including the File System. Then it attempt to Mount the boot drive to get files off int to continue startup. The typical complaint includes a progress bar that persists for five minutes.
My MacPro starts up, the apple logo appears, the spinning wheel just keeps spinning with no further activity past this point
