Issue: After installing latest updates, laptop won’t complete boot, but requests continual restarts
Overview
Instructions for how to rescue a MacOS computer from a continual restart cycle. Symptoms could be a completely black screen or requests continual restarts, or the hard drive is locked after updates.
Steps
- Boot the computer into Recovery mode by pressing (cmd+r)
- Select Disk Utility and run first-aid
- In recovery mode, select the startup disk and unlock it.
- Requires elevated privileges
- Restart your machine