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fsck good but won't boot

  1. G

    Start Up Issues

    Hi, My macbook pro has been acting up. It will allow me to log in, but will fail and shut down halfway through logging in. Single user mode (trying to use fsck -fy) showed that "The volume Macintosh HD could not be verified completely. Disk utility & disk verification is being a tad vague. It...
  2. beachball doom

    mac won't boot! :-( no warning given. fsck good so what's up?

    Help! 2011 macbook crashed suddenly. No warning signs. It went into a reboot loop. Since then I have spent a whole lot of hours trying to diagnose the problem and going nowhere. Can't get to safe mode. Can't get to OSX recovery. Can't get to diagnostics. These options lead to a boring grey...