tonymacx86's Haswell mATX: GA-Z87MX-D3H - i7-4770K - HD 4600

[Biverson]

For now with the power off disconnect the other drives and test boot. The secondary drive is? and third a Time Machine back up?

Still gets stuck.

 

[wildwillow]

Still gets stuck.

Ok. Boot in safe mode (-x) to reach the desktop. Open Applications>Utilities>Terminal
Type

sudo rm -r /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches

then

sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions

then

sudo kextcache -update-volume /

Restart and test boot.

 

[Biverson]

Ok. Boot in safe mode (-x) to reach the desktop. Open Applications>Utilities>Terminal
Type

sudo rm -r /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches

then

sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions

then

sudo kextcache -update-volume /

Restart and test boot.

Still hanging. Here's what I got after running the code
View attachment 139945

 

[wildwillow]

Still hanging. Here's what I got after running the code
View attachment 139945

Invalid attachment/picture. Upload another.

 

[Biverson]

Invalid attachment/picture. Upload another.

 

[wildwillow]

Boot with -f -v, if it stalls post a picture of where it stalls. Running out of ideas.

 

[Biverson]

Boot with -f -v, if it stalls post a picture of where it stalls. Running out of ideas.

That worked. Only this is I don't have any sound. I can't even select an output from the settings, as I usually have to do. Is there anything I should do now? Repair permissions, run multi, restart?

 

[wildwillow]

That worked. Only this is I don't have any sound. I can't even select an output from the settings, as I usually have to do. Is there anything I should do now? Repair permissions, run multi, restart?

Download Kext Utility run it until it completes. Restart and test. Fingers crossed.

 

[Biverson]

Download Kext Utility run it until it completes. Restart and test. Fingers crossed.

That didnt solve it. Looks like I'll be booting with -f -v till I can maybe figure it out. Is there a way to clear any installed kexts and reinstall or does MB do that each time its ran?

 

[wildwillow]

That didnt solve it. Looks like I'll be booting with -f -v till I can maybe figure it out. Is there a way to clear any installed kexts and reinstall or does MB do that each time its ran?

You could boot with -f only but this doesn't solve your boot issue. Even with a cache rebuild your system isn't booting on its own. Something I don't know what, has corrupted your install drive. Clearing the cache and letting it rebuild should repair it allowing it to boot but this isn't working. In my experience, back up all the data you want to keep. Clean install using your recovery disk 3. You will be back up in an hour. Sorry I couldn't be more of help. You could always continue to use search. Best of luck.