single user mode

Trying to use Disk First Aid on a MacPro 5.1 SSD boot drive, I noticed that single user mode has stopped working. After pressing cmd-s the boot is slower than usual, stopping halfway but completing the progress bar after a few minutes. Thereafter, the bar remains stationary. In normal mode, the...

Hi to everyone! Firstly I need to tell you that i know about gpu's problem on this 2011's macbook and that i solved it this way that worked perfectly for me: https://gist.github.com/cdleon/d1eff7246a25193304284ecec40445b0 But now on my brother's mac this process cant work anymore after an...

I have looked this up but the definitions for the both seem to be the same. Verbose and Single User modes are like superusers. But what exactly is the difference between the two?

after i installed some wacom drivers my macbook (pro 2014) refuses to start. it goes to full progress bar but then gets stuck every time. safe mode and verbose mode do not work. i have accepted that i need to reinstall the os from recovery mode. every time i had to do this in the past (before...

Let's say you've fixed up a classic Mac Pro, and it's going to a new home. You've installed a new GPU and upgraded the OS to Mojave, maybe preloaded some useful apps like Macs Fan Control, or given the NVMe boot drive a better looking Finder icon. You don't want to completely reinstall macOS...

A few days ago I left an external hard drive connected to my MacBook. MacBook's battery drained and therefore the drive was "not properly disconnected". Ever since I can't have access to my drive anymore. I've been trying to mount it or verify it with Terminal as well as Single User Mode fsck...

Hello Everybody, I am new to the Forum...think ist will be fun... So my Problem: I had windows 10 on an Bootcamp Partition...working Fine no Problems...but recently I decided to remove it since I wasn't really using it. So I tried removing it with Bootcamp Assistant...but the Assistant have me...

I was using my mid 2013 Macbook Air 13inch yesterday and it died while using (at full battery). Plugged her in and she came back to life, had 98% battery. She then up and died again 10 minutes later, straight to black screen, no light on apple logo on clamshell. Pushing the power button does...