Mac OS – Requests continual restarts

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 

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