Progress Bar Stuck on 100% on boot High Sierra

This is so upsetting. I can feel your pain... I have yet to try to transfer my files to an external HD and not even sure if that’s a possibility. Unfortunately, I don’t have an Apple store nearby either. This is such a hassle for something we cannot Control.

Both external SSD drives with clean-installed High Sierra (MacOS 10.13.2; installed with USB installer which was created on Jan 10, 2018) boot fine as external drives in my MBP13 (early 2011). But it seems to take forever to shutdown.

After one of this bootable SSD drives was input as an internal drive, the progress bar stuck on 100% on booting, and login window never shows. With the external-drive booted, run First Aid at Disk Utility for the internal volume, resulting to be OK, and as mounted when exit the Disk Utility. But, the internal disk does not show at Startup Disk of System Preferences.

What could be wrong? Any suggestions or clues will be appreciated

This post now has more than 8K views. Another post about slow booting in High Sierra has more than 15K. Do we seriously have no guidance yet from Apple on this problem?

For me this has been an intermittent problem for perhaps two months. I am about ready to throw my 2012 Mini through a window if it doesn't stop sticking on the boot progress bar (sometimes at 100%, other times less). I have to force shutdown because of this several times a week. Usually, on the second try it succeeds. In a variation of this glitch, I will notice the mouse pointer flickering in the upper left corner of the black screen, telling me the boot actually is done. I move the mouse and voilà, the login screen appears.

Yes, I have booted into recovery mode and run first aid a number of times. Never seems to find anything wrong.

P.S. another stellar example of why I *will not* give up my Power Mac G5 (dual core 2.0), on which this post was written and sent.

I can't believe that Apple isn't addressing this issue properly.

I recently had problems with my Macbook Pro running slowly so Apple Support told me to update my OS to Sierra. It worked for a short while then went slow. I contacted Apple Support for some advice and we ran through a few steps. It didn't seem to make a difference. Then I went to start up one day and it wouldn't start. Same situation as others here. Progress bar taking ages to progress to 100% and then nothing further happening, even when left overnight.

My major issue is that I had just downloaded pictures of my newborn son, and had not had a chance to back them up, so I absolutely don't want to lose the data.

After numerous dialogues on Apple chat. I have:

• Run Disk Utility in Recovery Mode - nothing found
• Tried to boot in safe mode (it won't - producing too many corpses)
• Checked the file system
• Reset the NVRAM
• Reset the SMC
• Used Target Disk Mode (HD not detected)
• Reinstalled macOS Sierra from Disk Utility

NONE of these steps have worked!!!

I find it hard to believe that the laptop can just stop working like this and Apple can't offer a solution. It's not what you expect from simply using the product as advised.

If anyone has any helpful advice or managed to get it to work please let me know!

Thanks

Been on Apple Support again.

They took me through an attempt to reinstall OS using Internet Recovery. As the OS available on Internet Recovery was Lion, it wouldn't do it as a newer OS was installed. Good job it didn't work too, as I have now learnt that despite the advisor confirming to me three times that there would be no data loss, it actually would have completely wiped all data.

Apple needs to get a grip on this - it's absolutely no way to treat customers.

Just happened to me :(

And i haven’t back up my portfolios yet

Most of methods mentioned here are not working

I was working on my latest porfolio and i’m not ready to lose my files especially my portfolios, layouts, and everything😭

Really need help!

Please apple do something!

Dear Apple, please say something.

My only hope now is that this is indeed an OS build issue, and will be fixed in next version (10.13.3), by that time I could make a Internet Recovery Installation to install the new version.

Same here on Mac mini (Late 2014).

In my case, fortunately, the recovery mode and first aid on Macintosh HD did solve the problem.

but High Sierra and its filesystem must have some problems on old Macs with HDD storages.

NEED SOME RESPONSE FROM APPLE

I did the same thing, since nothing seems to fix the problem. Now everything is working and I have a Time Machine backup in case something goes wrong. But I hope Apple fix this, before it happens to someone else.

My MBP situation seems more complicated. The computer was upgraded to High Sierra in early December 2017, and worked well for a few weeks before freeze. Now, clean install of High Sierra can be done smoothly for external SSD drive, but can not internally for the same drive. After the externally installed drive is swapped inside, it can not boot or get dead pinwheel for any movement if luckily booted. It seems the drive cable could be a problem. Then I replaced the old cable with a new one, and can not get any improvement. When a SSD with Mac OS X Lion (10.7.5) is input as interval drive, the computer behaves normally - as fast as before crash, which indicates the drive cable should be fine. I also tried to reversely format the drive to HFS+ and clean install Sierra. The Sierra installation internally took overnight, and the result is the same as High Sierra - can not boot. The computer is MacBook Pro 13 (early 2011; A1278) with the following features:

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: MacBook Pro

Model Identifier: MacBookPro8,1

Processor Name: Intel Core i5

Processor Speed: 2.3 GHz

Number of Processors: 1

Total Number of Cores: 2

L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

L3 Cache: 3 MB

Memory: 8 GB

Boot ROM Version: MBP81.004D.B00

SMC Version (system): 1.68f99

At the moment, I do not know what to blame for the problems - hardware or software, or both?

Any suggestions or clues, please!

I somehow got my macbook back to Sierra. I quadrupled the ram. I think I got to it hard internet wired, via recovery. Sierra is fine. If you google the difference there's barely any between Sierra and High Sierra from a users standpoint. They improved siri which I never use on the laptop. And there's a new file system but the advantage is only seen on a fixed hard drive.

it's working great now and I ain't changing to High Sierra! why?

Am still having this problem after going into recovery mode and reinstalling High Sierra have to shutdown when it freezes takes 2 times to start my imac up whats going on? beyond a joke now this has been going on for weeks

I am starting to seriously consider retreating to Sierra as well. After updating to 10.13.3 yesterday, this morning the Mini (2012) stalled on the progress bar again. My hope that the update would help was obviously vain. Decided it was time for the occasional visit to Disk Utility via recovery mode. As usual, First Aid found nothing wrong in any of my three partitions. The Mini managed to restart after that, but it was excruciatingly slow. This stupid problem is becoming quite intolerable.

Hello all I am in the same boat as many here have a 2010 Mac book pro and after the High Sierra update it is stuck on the progress bar and have tried pretty much all the first aid fix it’s, reinstalls, reboots etc here and spoke to Apple today who suggested I thunderbolt it to another Mac here and copy data over and reinstall. There is one thing I would like to try before that it is the kext file issue but I am totally thick with Terminal window in recovery mode when I type what some people have suggested on here to bring up the non-Apple kext files it does not recognise what I have inputted. I am guessing I am doing the whole thing wrong. If anyone knows of a total idiots guide to using Terminal in RMode and getting it to list the non-Appls kextList.txt file let me know. I have a Genius Bar appointment tomorrow not holding out much hope than having to buy an external hard drive .......😕

Obviously the machine is not too old, or I wouldn't have been able to install High Sierra.

High Sierra was an OS update meant to focus on improving performance and fixing bugs. These machines had no problems running Sierra.

Too old is only an excuse that salesmen use to upsell. Unless in fact there is a failing hardware problem like memory or hard disk. Still, with many people experiencing this problem due to an OS upgrade, it seems likely there are just some bugs that Apple needs to iron out. This stuff happens. I have a Computer Science degree and used to build computers from scratch, I think I can evaluate if a machine is just TOO OLD.