Questions tagged [startup]
Usually referring to the startup process of a device or computer from an initial "cold" state rather than sleep or hibernation.
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GPU problem - Boot Hangs on Grey Screen
I found this according to my problem in this thread:
Boot hangs on grey screen (even when booting from USB drive with fresh OS X install)
My MacBook Pro 15" Early 2011 with AMD Radeon HD 6750M ...
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OS volume shows as type 'FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF'
Yesterday, I have tried to delete an Ubuntu partition. Since, my Mac (13", MBPro mid-2014) doesn't boot. Now, I boot on Mac OS copy with an USB.
i follow different subject of this forum (like this : ...
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How do I make a bootable USB OS X installer on a Mac?
Does anyone have a Terminal command-line recipe for making a new bootable USB flash drive for one of the new MacBook Air's? Is there a way to dd copy the USB boot device that comes in the box and ...
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How to install Windows 10 into a 2011 iMac without using the Boot Camp Assistant, an optical (DVD) drive or third party tools?
Note the following regarding user TAbdiukov's question which has a links to this question.
This question is about installing Windows 10 on 2011 iMac to achieve a macOS High Sierra / Windows 10 dual ...
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Boot camp install of Windows issue, no bootable devices
So I have a 2010 15" macbook pro (MBP6,1) and I replaced the optical drive with a hard disk. I wanted to install windows 7 on the hard disk with boot camp with a USB and ISO image.
After searching I ...
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Creating A Bootable USB Of Windows 8.1 On OS X?
Reasons for wanting create such a usb include:
PC is unbootable and you want to prepare a bootable USB using the ISO file that you have on your external hard drive.
to install Windows 8.1 on Mac ...
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How do I create an OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) bootable USB drive using Windows?
My MBA 2012 with OS X 10.9.4 Mavericks won't boot anymore - it simply freezes after the initial jingle. I already tried resetting NVRAM and SMC, but to no avail. I don't have any time machine backups.
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How can I run/stop/relaunch an application automatically, at boot/login/some other time?
How do you make a script or app to run or stop running automatically when the system is booted, a user logs on, at a specific time, when a disk is attached, etc.?
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How can I disable Safe Boot or the Shift Key?
After a spill on the keyboard of my unibody MBP 17", the ⇧ key reports as always on.
Under Windows (BootCamp) and Linux (LiveDVD) I can easily get around the problem by using an external ...
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How to convert a drive from the GPT format to the hybrid GPT/MBR format when using High Sierra (macOS 10.13.2)
Previous versons of OS X and macOS automatically converted pure GPT drives to hybrid GPT/MBR format when the 2nd, 3rd, and/or 4th GPT partitions were formatted "MS DOS (FAT)" by the Disk Utility ...
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OS volume shows as type 'FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFF' after attempting to delete some Linux partitions—cannot log in
I was unable to just delete the partitions left by an old Linux Mint installation by pressing the '-' button in disk utility. I looked online and read that I could reformat them to a journaled format ...
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Lost my APFS partition after using EaseUS partition manager on Bootcamp
I used macOS mojave(APFS partition) and Windows10(Bootcamp). And I tried to expand Bootcamp partition with moving Windows OEM partition by EaseUS partition master in windows.
After this, I can’t find ...
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MacBook Air boots to strange screen showing Magic Mouse and TrackPad
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I left the MacBook to be idle for a while and its keyboard and trackpad became non-responsive. I shut it down and restart 3 times (using the power button), and the MacBook now goes to a ...
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Macbook Pro stuck after I enter my password
For last 2 days I am not able to login to my MacBook Pro. It was working fine and suddenly for no reason after I last shutdown my mac I am not able to login.
The mac starts up fine and goes to the ...
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How to make and use an USB stick with GParted that will boot on a Mac?
I want to create a USB stick with GParted on it that will be recognized by my Mac. Obviously, I want to create it on a Mac, also. This is not mentioned in the documentation here.
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