Progress Bar Stuck on 100% on boot High Sierra

I have the same problem.

My Mac Mini (Late 2014) was originally unable to upgrade High Sierra because of the "cannot unmount disk" error, brought it to Genius Bar and did a fresh install and it was able to boot for a few times.

I then recovered my data from a Time Machine backup and in turn starts up Docker and Virtual Box, it is where it gets unstable and the VM is crashing. So I went ahead for a soft reboot, it is when it stuck at 100% on boot.

My gut feeling is that APFS is not that HDD friendly and refuse to mount every now and then.

I have the same problem. I’ve reinstalled from Time Machine and all has been fine for a couple of days - with several restarts, but now it’s happened again.

PLEASE Apple, can someone respond to tell us what’s happening?

Had this same problem after doing my usual update procedure once High Sierra had hit .2. I wipe the drive, do a clean install, then do a migrate from a Time Machine backup to bring my stuff back. Hasn't failed...until now.

Even booting Safe Mode didn't work (would still hang). Finally ended up reinstalling High Sierra again over this newly-upgraded installation, which did the trick.

I'm having similar problems. It started happening after beta 4 install (for 10.13.2). After installing beta 4 the next reboot resulting in a continue reboot cycle after entering the password to decrypt the startup disk. It didn't matter if I booted to the recovery partition and ran check disk or reset NVRAM. Same problem with beta 5,6 & the release version. I submitted a bug report ~ several weeks ago I got no response. With the release of 10.13.2 it caused both of my 2013& 2014 rMBP to do the same thing. Even when I used the recovery partition to reinstall 10.13.2 it didn't make any difference. I ended up booting to safe mode to try & track the problem down. I have the sysdiag dumps & trying to track down what is happening. It appears something is loading at the point the disk is being decrypted that crashes the system. Strange that it started after beta 4. Apple changed something.

Just had the same issue. Was working fine, shut down, restarted and progress bar stuck at 100% and then went nowhere. I rebooted using my previous Sierra external drive, went to disk utilities, picked repair disk and it said found errors and after rebooted on internal drive and now OK again. Not sure how long this will last. I have 10.13.2.

And after a weekend leaving it in sleep mode, I returned to work, was able to type in my password... and nothing, just the password window and nothing happening. Finally re-booted in Safe Mode, ran Disk Utilities and supposedly it found an issue. I restarted normally and so far OK. We'll see. I've never had an upgrade go wrong. 10.13.1 seems to have glitches.

First of all, I changed the DNS of my router to 8.8.8.8 after that Internet Recover start working. Before it was not working. After internet start working I tried to clean install the High Sierra through Internet. But same problem happen again. Stucked at 35%. Then I again reboot to internet recovery and format my Hard drive completely and install again. This time I was successful. ALHAMD O LILLAH

I also have this problem. Started on December 17th (yesterday). I chatted and talked on the phone with Apple support and all the efforts didn’t resolve the problem. It took 4 hours to reinstall High Siera and it went back to the same progress bar. Left it on over night still no log in page. I don’t have the time back up so I don’t know what’s going to happen now. I have three years of art work on my hard drive. The only suspicious things I saw on my Mac in the last month or so was a warning about a virus. I restarted my computer and it was fine after. I paid it no mind because I was always told macs don’t get viruses. This is also my first Mac. I’m going to a Genius Bar soon and hope they have a solution. I can’t afford to get a new Mac so I need this fixed and hopefully I can get my art works back. I’m really upset about this.

Hey there.

i've did the steps and first aid, it loaded pretty fast and after that i did a reboot again.

Still the same issue not bring me to login screen.

If there anything else i need to do in recovery mode? I'm quite careful with doing anything at the moment just in case i mess up the system.

Awaiting for your prompt respond.

Try booting into single user mode, then mount your boot drive (commands to do so is shown), change to boot drive & run fsck. It may help.

i think a new description for this problem is needed “Apple Death Smile”😢

it certianly is causing major problems😠😠 for those afflicted

I went to an Apple Store and they could not save my files. They restored it to its original OS and then I had to bring it home an install the new OS. Its a two day process, upgrading to High Sierra takes about 19 hours. My computer has been working like the day I bought it. Only thing is I lost all my files that were on my desktop. So now I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to retrieve those files. The tech at the store said there's a way to get them but I would have to go to another tech place. Also, The Apple Store didn't charge me anything because OS related issues are free of charge.

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.

I encountered something similar after a system update on 10.12.6 (Sierra, not High Sierra). The symptoms were the same, however, booting to 100% progress bar, then never completing.

I had two backups, one Time Machine and the other a SuperDuper clone.

After booting into Recovery and re-installing the OS but with the same problem, I then ERASED the boot disk entirely and reinstalled a fresh, clean OS. I then, on first boot, migrated everything from the Time Machine backup. The problem returned!

I then theorized that some kext or some other installed extension had caused the problem, so I had maybe just migrated the problem back to the new clean system.

I then repeated the erase and fresh install, but this time on first initial boot, I skipped EVERYTHING except to create one admin user account, nothing else. Then I applied all available system updates, including the one that led to the problem. Rebooting after that worked fine. I thus had a plain vanilla system with one admin user, no user files, and nothing installed except Apple original software.

Then I used Migration Assistant to migrate ONLY user accounts and user files, no settings and no applications. Then I proceeded to reinstall only some applications from scratch, such as MS-Office, Adobe Lightroom, TurboTax, and a few others, but not everything from before. After a week or so, everything seems ok.

Not sure this will resolve your issue in High Sierra, but if it is caused by something installed or a bad kext or some similar thing, the clean install followed by Migration of only user accounts and user files prevents that corruption from being brought over. The downside is reinstalling all one's software, but I found that to be fairly straightforward and not very time consuming in fact.

In short, I’m having the SAME EXACT PROBLEM.

Exact same problem with my mac OS (high sierra). no safe mode.. don't know how to fix it.