iMac stucks on 100% in boot
Hello everyone,
I have in the moment a serious problem with my 2017 iMac running MacOS Catalina BETA. After a normal reboot the iMac loaded until the bar reached 100%. Then for hours nothing happens, it just stays at 100%.
The things I tried:
- Boot in Safemode - still hangs on 100%, can’t access Safemode
- Reset NVRAM/PRAM - nothing happened
- Reset SMC - nothing happened
- Run First Aid on all disks - helped and discovered nothing
- Uninstalled Google Chrome update in terminal - nothing happened
- Tried to reinstall MacOS Catalina - not enough space on my disk
- Tried these commands: cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/var/db/caches/opendirectory and mv ./mbr_cache ./mbr_cache-old - “no such file or directory”
- Tried to boot in startup manager - still hung on 100%
- Tried to run the Apple diagnostics - it said everything is fine
- Single user mode with commands like mount-uw / - command not found
- Let the iMac sit for a couple days - still hangs on 100%
And so on...
So, as you can see, I tried many things and nothing helped. Do you have a good solution or a advice/suggestion without erasing the disk? I would REALLY appreciate a good and quick answer!
Thank you and I love to hear from you,
Aaron
iMac 27" 5K, macOS 10.13