Gray Screen with apple logo and progress bar
I'm working on an iMac running High Sierra 10.13.4 that won't boot. It goes to a gray screen with the Apple logo and a progress bar underneath. The progress bar reaches the end after about 20-30 minutes of booting, but then freezes there indefinitely. I've looked online for some solutions and here's what I've found:
- Reset NVRAM
- Reset PRAM
- Reset SMC (several times)
- Ran hardware diagnostics - No issues found
- Booted into single user mode & ran /sbin/fsck -fy command - first run found & fixed drive errors, second run said it was OK
- Tried to restore from Time Machine - unable to find any restore points.
- Ran a reinstall of the OS over internet and from USB drive - it seems to have reinstalled OK each time, but after a reboot I get the gray screen with the progress bar again.
- Tried booting from a USB stick but it keeps saying it is unable to load the OS. Reformatted the USB stick & tried again 3 times with the same result.
I'd appreciate any help. Thanks.
Update (06/07/2018)
Thanks for the input! As it turned out, the issue appeared to be a corrupt OS. I completely formatted my USB drive via the Disk Utility on my other Mac:
https://www.howtogeek.com/255251/how-to-...
I then downloaded the High Sierra OS from the app store. When that was done, I copied it over and made my USB drive bootable using the command:
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app
...where "untitled" was the default name given to my USB drive after formatting it.
When I tried to do the reinstall from the USB before, I used a 3rd party utility to format & install the OS installation files on the USB drive. Obviously, it didn't work properly.
The reinstall I performed appeared to just fix the OS; it didn't format the HD & reinstall a fresh copy. Now, I just got a call from the customer again today saying it's doing the same thing as before. He's only had it a couple days. I may have to do a full wipe & reload.
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