
If everything is OK, the machine can boot normally. Not even being able to boot onto a USB drive without a kernel panic is throwing me through a loop. MacBook Pro/Air/iMac Won’t Boot Past Apple Logo When you start your MacBook Pro/Air/iMac, the machine will begin to check and verify the hardware connections including the RAM, CPU, hard drive, GPU, etc. I may have seen just one or two kernel panics before during the ~9 year lifetime of this machine. I have not installed any new software within the past month. I get an immediate kernel panic when I select the drive to boot with. Internet recovery does let me select a network but hangs afterward.įinally, I have tried to use a bootable installer with macOS Catalina on it. I have also tried booting into: 1) safe mode, 2) recovery mode, and 3) internet recovery mode. It finished with no issues found (code ADP000). Release them once the computer starts booting. To boot into single-user mode, all you have to do is to press the command and S keys and turn on the computer. This type of booting is helpful when the Mac computer is stuck at the progress bar at 100. I let it kernel panic in a loop enough times this morning that I eventually saw a prohibitory symbol (🚫). The process is the same for all Mac computers. To resolve this issue, follow steps in this article.


If you don’t see this screen, keep holding Shift key at the boot time. When you try to open a PowerPoint for Mac presentation or application, it either hangs with spinning wheel or does not open at all. When you boot your system, just stop at the Grub screen like the one below.

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I sat down at my iMac (which had been asleep for maybe a week and a half) only to see it kernel panic as soon as the screen turned on.Įvery time I turn on/restart the computer it will kernel panic. Without further delay, let’s see how to fix this problem. I’m hoping I may be able to find a solution to a problem that started this morning.
