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sir pball

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5. Try booting in "verbose mode"

Reply to cquintero (Reply #4)

Tue Dec 2, 2014, 10:43 PM

Dec 2014

Hold Command-V at boot. It forces the system to actually display every single step it's taking in the boot process, by paying attention or even pointing a camera at the screen you can find out at least exactly where it's hanging, oftentimes you can get your fix sorted out as well.

In a real last-ditch scenario, I've heard the official Apple internal-only diagnostic CDs can be found on bittorent, but I've honestly never needed them so I've never looked

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