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My Macbook Pro has suddenly stopped booting. When booting normally, it just shows the gray screen with Apple logo and a spinning wheel, and hangs like this. When booting in Safe Mode (Shift key), it shows the progress bar, fills it up to about 25%, then the progress bar disappears, the spinning wheel shows up and it hangs.

In Single User Mode it boots OK and gives me a command prompt. As far as I can tell, the directory structure and user files are intact.

In verbose mode, the last message I see before it hangs is

Created virtif 0xXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX p2p0

In Recovery mode it shows me Apple utilities. When I run the Disk Utility verifying and repairing the drives gives no errors.

Any suggestions what could be the issue? Any diagnostics I could run in Single User mode or in Repair mode from the command prompt?

Thanks in advance

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  • create new user in single user mode and try with that.
    – Ruskes
    Commented May 1, 2014 at 23:39
  • I believe p2p0 is AirDrop. If you disable Wi-Fi, it might keep AirDrop from coming up. So try booting into Safe Mode, disabling Wi-Fi, and then see if your boot process gets any farther. If you can't disable Wi-Fi via the GUI in Safe Mode, you could boot into Single-User Mode by holding Cmd-S at boot, then follow the on-screen instructions to mount the boot drive read/write, then run networksetup -setairportpower en1 off (assuming your Wi-Fi is en1; if you're on a Retina MacBook Pro, it'll be en0; in some other cases, it may be a higher number)
    – Spiff
    Commented May 2, 2014 at 1:29

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created virtif 0xXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX p2p0

Airport

create virtual interface ........point to point

I do not know what p2p set up you have but try to Enable that p2p or remove it in your settings.

That should allow the Verbose mode to continue.

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I faced the same issue, and did all the steps, provided in apple support site, but to no avail. Then I boot with other installation and go to the /Volumes/OSX/Library/Extensions

(OSX is my faulty volume that holds my faulty OS.) And there was a newly installed driver for huawei modems, which I delete, and reboot again, and it works. Hope it will help someone.

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Here is how I get my MBP to boot.

  1. Boot to safe mode
  2. Start networking - when it prompts to mount HD, I accept
  3. Resume Boot

Occasionally it hangs starting the network (step 2) - but usually it doesn't. 99% success rate for me about.

I have nVidia drivers installed and working.

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Samething happened to my 2013 retina Mac book pro. Thank god I had apple care on it. I took my Mac to apple and repair cost would have been around 1,200 Dollars. The problem was from the GPU. A logo booted up and with the spinning wheel, almost same with safe mode. They replaced the whole motherboard on my Mac.

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    This does not actually answer the author's question. All this tell us is you had a problem, and you solved it, by taking it to Apple.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Oct 2, 2014 at 11:12

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