Can't get into BIOS or boot

[211oakland]

I had some trouble with some Adobe products and their Application Manager crashed.

I went to restart, and I get past the Gigabyte info and the tonymac splash screen, then gray with Apple and spinning gear, and then a circle with a slash appears over the apple logo.

I keep trying to get into the BIOS, as I have a clone drive installed, but pressing del or f12 or anything else seems to do nothing; using a USB wired keyboard [edit: got there with a PC keyboard, but saw nothing obvious with BIOS].

Suggestions?

Using GB 87x UD5H motherboard, 4770, Samsung SSD, 10.9.4.

Rob

 

[P1LGRIM]

I had some trouble with some Adobe products and their Application Manager crashed.

I went to restart, and I get past the Gigabyte info and the tonymac splash screen, then gray with Apple and spinning gear, and then a circle with a slash appears over the apple logo.

I keep trying to get into the BIOS, as I have a clone drive installed, but pressing del or f12 or anything else seems to do nothing; using a USB wired keyboard.

Suggestions?

Using GB 87x UD5H motherboard, 4770, Samsung SSD, 10.9.4.

Please put your system specs in your profile/sig as per the Rules - It will help others to help you.

Thanks in anticipation.

Try your keyboard in a different port.

Remove your power lead - Hold in the on button for 30 secs - Release the button - Plug your power lead in and switch on.

If that doesn't work,

Clear your CMOS settings by removing the chrome coin battery from your motherboard for a short while after first disconnecting your power lead.


Good Luck

 

[211oakland]

OK. Used my USB Multibeast stick; finally found out it had to go into a USB 2 slot, not 3. Gave me the option to boot into my clone, which went fine (SOO SLOWWW). SSD volume seems fine, permissions, volume info, etc. Can't figure why it won't boot.

 

[211oakland]

Sorry 'bout the profile; it was there but I didn't realize the "other" info didn't show up. It had been entered a long time ago.

Still getting no boot. Ran Multibeast again and installed the same stuff as before. Didn't work.

Ran in verbose mode; stopped at USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): [then number strings], then "waiting for root device"

Tried safe mode, got the progress bar then a black screen. Then -F, but now I keep getting the black screen.

Suggestions?

 

[211oakland]

Must have been a system problem. I restored and it works. Frakking Adobe had me delete some stuff and it crashed it super hard. Never had software bork a whole volume like that before. Wish I had a utility that would just delete every Adobe addition....

Anyway, for future instances like this I have a question or two.

First, I restore from my USB Unibeast stick. I got a couple of kernal panics and went and jiggered some settings back and forth in the BIOS. Does it have a cache or something? I thought I had changed and then reverted to exactly the same settings that didn't work, but then they did, which might indicate I flushed a cache.

Second, I restored from the USB stick. It worked. But it got me to wondering if there's any way to access the Mac created EFI partition for restoring.

Finally, I have some drives that are the same type. And on a volume on one is a clone of my system. I couldn't figure out how to select it and boot from it in the BIOS. Given it's a volume on a partition, that may not be possible. But is there a way to do that? If I want to get to it now I boot from the USB stick.