OS X El Capitan / Sierra / High Sierra Hanging on Boot [FIXED]

Thank you very much for detailed explanation.You saved my week.:))

Hi am having the same problem but unfortunately am not good at using terminal commands. Can you please send me step by step terminal commands on how to do what you have recommended Thanks

Hi Justin sorry am being a bother but I have tried all the commands but unfortunately not making any head way. I just run cmd+v and the last line I get is Unexpected payload found for message 9 datalen 0 Standing by on what to do next ???

Thanks Justin, you are a frickin' genius!!!! I had tried everything, and went to dozens of sites looking for answers, but you were the only site I found that had clear, easy-follow directions. Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!

Thanks for your help . It was very helpful . However , as a result it seems I am unable to mount any external hard drive .

Hi Justin, Thanks for your prompt response. However, there was one more thing I forgot to mention that the whenever I reboot/restart I get the same problem and have to do all the steps you mentioned everytime. Is that an issue you get. Do you recommend I download the Update again after backing up my data ? Thanks again for your help.

Thanks for that! Really good input, helped at once. Br, /Pawel

Hi -- Could someone have a look at my kext - list - Which ones might not be compatible with El Capitain.. or how do i find out ? [shell] ACS6x.kext ATTOCelerityFC8.kext ATTOExpressSASHBA2.kext ATTOExpressSASRAID2.kext ArcMSR.kext CalDigitHDProDrv.kext DisplayLinkDriver.kext DisplayLinkEthernetDriver.kext HDSPMADI.kext HighPointIOP.kext HighPointRR.kext PromiseSTEX.kext SoftRAID.kext Unsupported find: Library/Application Support/Apple/ParentalControls/Users: Permission denied Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/Blackmagic DeckLink/Unsigned Extensions/Blackmagic_Multibridge_Driver.kext Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/Blackmagic DeckLink/Unsigned Extensions/BlackmagicIO.kext Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/Blackmagic DeckLink/Unsigned Extensions/BlackmagicUsbIO.kext Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/Blackmagic DeckLink/Unsigned Extensions/DeckLink_Driver.kext Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/Blackmagic DeckLink/Unsigned Extensions/DeckLink_Driver.kext/Contents/PlugIns/DeckLink_File.kext Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/Blackmagic DeckLink/Unsigned Extensions/DeckLinkFrameBufferDriver.kext Library/Application Support/IPNetRouterX/HelperTools/IPNetRouter_TNKE.kext Library/Application Support/IPVanish-OpenVPNHelper/bin/tap.kext Library/Application Support/IPVanish-OpenVPNHelper/bin/tun.kext Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/VBoxDrv.kext Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/VBoxNetAdp.kext Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/VBoxNetFlt.kext Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/VBoxUSB.kext Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/fusefs.kext Library/Filesystems/fusefs_txantfs.fs/Contents/Resources/Support/10.4/tufs/tufsfs.kext Library/Filesystems/fusefs_txantfs.fs/Contents/Resources/Support/10.5/tufs/tufsfs.kext Library/Filesystems/fusefs_txantfs.fs/Contents/Resources/Support/10.9/tufs/tufsfs.kext Library/Filesystems/osxfusefs.fs/Support/osxfusefs.kext Library/Filesystems/prlufs.fs/Support/prlufs.kext System/Library/Extensions/3Dconnexion.kext/Contents System/Library/Extensions/AlesisFirewire.kext/Contents System/Library/Extensions/AuthenticationSupport.plugin/Contents System/Library/Extensions/AuthenticationSupportEnabler.plugin/Contents System/Library/Extensions/EyeTVAfaTechHidBlock.kext/Contents System/Library/Extensions/EyeTVCinergy450AudioBlock.kext/Contents System/Library/Extensions/EyeTVCinergyXSAudioBlock.kext/Contents System/Library/Extensions/EyeTVEmpiaAudioBlock.kext/Contents System/Library/Extensions/EyeTVVoyagerAudioBlock.kext/Contents System/Library/Extensions/IOAudioFamily.kext.bak/.DS_Store System/Library/Extensions/IOAudioFamily.kext.bak/Contents System/Library/Extensions/OSCulatorIOKit.kext/Contents System/Library/Extensions/PACESupportFamily.kext/Contents [/shell]

Thank You! Have been lurking around on apple support forums and found almost same info, but less informative, here it's very useful! BUT I have a bit different situation, maybe you can help me on that, or give a better advice? MBP retina 15 2012(mid) , updated - then stuck, but(!) had something like that before , with Yosemite and prev. OSX ver. I dunno what exactly could it be but things got worsen for me during Yosemite, I upgraded with problems but uprgraded, then - I forgot (completely) my password and had to overran a system ( reinstall or smth like that) do not remember exactly >< Soo, well the plus is i'm writing that from Windows 10 Pro (which is AWEEESOME and FLAWLESS after El Captain) in Boot Camp, trying to sort out the things with Kext.. Any advice? Suggestions??

Hi, This workaround works perfect, thanks for posting that. However there is still an issue. After rebooting and starting the system deleted libraries comes back. How you got any idea how to remove them permanently?

Which text editor is this in those images?

Thank you so much for this post. After consulting two times the Apple Care hotline, - they gave up, - after 20 hours, -- and recommended I should visit a local service point to reinstall my hard drive. Thrn I found your post, and the easy to handle instructions how to remove the incompatible .kext files. (In my case it were two outdated HP printer driver files, and two files named klif.kext and klnke.kext). I only moved these 4 files, as all others were those in your list not causing problems. Reboot. El Capitan finished installation and started! Super!

Hey justin, i have the same problem, but it's unclear to me because the only valid command is the mount -rw working, the rest of the command are invalid, can you help me out? Can i skype you? I'm dj amd producer amd my hole life is in there, and saturday i'm gig'n, i really need to fix this, please get back to me!

Your set of musings/instructions is really first rate, an excellent examplar of how to troubleshoot. Against my better judgement, and in a hurry, I updated my son's MBP (mid 2012) from 10.8.5 to 10.11.2. Natch, it didn't work...nor go into safe-boot. So, into Recovery I went, and moved only those extensions to Unsupported that you hadn't ultimately (and successfully) moved back in your description above. BUT, still no luck, indeed, the bar went less far than it had done. Fortunately, you still provided the key (to me and anyone who reads closely)...I went to Logs, found the latest crash report, and lo and behold it turns out that an extension I'd stuck in Unsupported was needed...so I moved it back, and am looking proudly at El Capitan now. Many thanks, you've made a friend and supporter/promoter.

FINALLY! i tried everything i found on google and forums your solution works perfect! i did it on Single User Mode Thanks so much!

well done and thank you

Man you made my day, thank you very much.

Hey Justin, this is just great! I have tried so many things, to get it allive but nothing worked for me. Except your instructions :-) Thank you so much! Greeting from Germany

OMG!!! It worked!!! Thank you. It was those *.kext that kept me up 36 hours after upgrading from Mavericks to El Capitan. I hope I can rest in peace now. Justin.....u r the best!!

Thanks Justin! I've been stuck for days trying to solve this. Did everything there was on internet (reset PRAM, SMC, Re-install, internet install, disk repair, decrypt the disk using filevault, etc...). This was the only solution that worked!! Thanks a lot!

Thank Justin, saved me too. MBP 15" Retina. After time machine recovery of El Capitan when upgrading from a Macbook Air which I'd sold, I needed to install El Capitan again over the recovery prior to removing HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext.

I just installed El Capitan and after a day I experienced the gray screen. After hours on the phone with Apple and a visit to the Apple store, I found that there was an on going issue with the video card of my MACBOOK PRO (17-INCH, LATE 2011). Apple is repairing it for free.

Yes actually I got it to work now. My slootiun was:Make sure USB drive partition is Active after you format to FAT32Go to CMD.exe in windows and run these commandsDISKPARTlist disk (to find the disk number of the USB drive)select disk n (n is your USB drive's disk number)select partition 1ACTIVEit should now say your partition is active. Now run ddmac and prep the USB drive per Guillaume's instructions.Once prepped, plug the drive in to you Wind U90. Power on, but go to your BIOS Go to Advanced tab, then down to USB settings. Find the USB drive that you have plugged in, and set it to USB Hard Disk (mine was FDD Disk as default). Save & Exit, and then boot to the USB drive when it restarts. Mine started booting at this point, no errors.

Thanks Justin you've helped me a lot! You rock!!!

Very interesting post. I'm having the same problem and trying to find the faulty kext file. Unfortunately I could not find any culprit, all kext files seem to be genuine Apple kext. Is it safe to put all kext file in a temporary folder just to see if the OS can boot? Thanks.

Justin Silver thank you so much. after expending 5 hours searching and trying different methods none of them work. You fix worked like a charm. quick question do I need to move those files back to it original directory? my computer seen to be working fine. maybe a little slow but I shut it off and back on and it booted up fine.

Hi, I dont seem to have the "Macintosh" folder inside "Volumes". What I do have is only a folder called "OS X Base System". How can I continue from that?

Thank you very much Justin! I'm not the type of person to comment in forums, but you helped me so much, I cannot thank you enough! I've been reinstalling and migrating my system about 9 times in the past week and talked to Apple support some 8 hours+ You were the only one with the solution. All the best to you!

At first this didn't work for me. I found that my drive was locked and encrypted so was having some difficulty navigating to the correct volume. After searching around, I followed this instruction (http://superuser.com/questions/834993/unlocking-filevault-encrypted-drive-from-terminal-to-allow-pasting-password) and then re-tried Justin's advice and worked perfectly. Thanks a lot :)

I had the same symptoms and your procedure helped me find the faulty extension (Little Snitch). I learned how to use the command line on the way, which I actually find fun and rewarding. Thank you so much for a precious help Justin !

Hi Justin, I have the same issue. I believe I could solve it according to your instructions (as the rest of the people), though I get a "No such file or directory" when I enter "cd/Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/Extensions/". I have tried many combinations, also checked - "Macintosh HD" - mounted, unlocked and encrypted. I have no idea how to overcome it. Maybe you would have any suggestions? As it is so pitty I can not move forward with your solution...

Thank you very much for your post. This solve me my startup problem. Only I move the *.kext files from Target mode on other computer. Everything is working now.

Thanks a lot Justin, your help was precious. Everything works now!!!

Thanks very much for your very informative post, saved me a lot of time not having to do another fresh install and backup recovery. I left my Macbook on for months out of fear I might have to restart :-) Great to post all your .kext files, so I could move all .kext files back that you show in your list (excluding the Logitech ones). And voila, I was able to reboot as well! In my case the culprit was a printer related .kext file from 2010 from an Epson A3 printer. So I downloaded the newest, reinstalled the printer and all OK. Now all .kext files are back again in my /Extensions, but this time it all works. From my experience with this fix: - the final Terminal command "reboot" did nothing visible, so I rebooted myself, which worked as well - I dragged the correct .kext files from /Unsupported to /Extensions and got weird error messages. Then I realised I was not moving them back, but copying them. Holding the Command-key solved that. Trawling around the web looking for possibly suspect .kext files I stumbled across thes following .kext files reported by other people: Virtualbox Evernote EltimaSync JMicronATA LivescribeSmartpen SSuddriv Videoglide Airparrotdriver LogitechHIDDdDevices Logimgrdriver Logitechunifying EPSONUSBPrintclass I also have a question: there are also .kext files in System/Library/Extensions. Could they also cause startup problems?

Fantastic! Finally after problems with every update since 10.11 I'm up and running 10.11.4 Thank you for your guide.

Hi, I have a this problem: I try reinstall OS X El Capitan in my macbook pro: 1- format hard drive and try install OS X 2- Select hard drive and continue 3- Sign in to download from de app store 4- ERROR: An unexpected error occurred while signing in. AMD-Action:authenticate:SP Help please!!!

I appreciate your post so much, but my MacBook still won't boot after performing your fix. I only had 1 kext file that was not on your list (an HP file), which I moved to Unsupported, but no luck. The interesting part is that my MacBook "crashed" literally right before I was to run Migration Assistant and transfer files to a new MacBook over wifi. The new MacBook does not have any ports (except USB-c). I bought a new MacBook b/c my old one was dreadfully slow and low on memory. Could that be the problem? I saw one line on my terminal that read "cache too full for physical memory" (or something like that). You'll have to forgive me. I'm tech savvy but definitely not as computer-gifted as you! I would greatly appreciate any advice you have.

Oh maaan, thank you so much for this Justin. Literally spent days trying to fix this. Turns out it was HP printer kext that was causing the issue for me. Sweet relief.

Hi Justin! I could figure out which kexts files are wrong although when I try to create the new directory it shows "read-only file system". I alreadylookend and it isn't encrypted by FileVault. Do you have any idea of what it's may happening and what should I do? Thanks a lot for the help!

Justin Silver, you are a Mac genius and my hero for the night!! After a week of messing around with everything imaginable short of sending it half way around the world to the nearest Apple store, I tried your Terminal lines and the Mac finally booted after the update. Genius I say!!

Hi Justin Thank you so much for the tutorial, first of all. I successfuly installed El Capitan just now (version 10.11.4, I believe), but after typing my password in to login, the progress bar seemed to stop moving after it reached 100%. Talked to some guys in Apple Support and they all wanted to do a clean install. I tried your suggestion, but it came out like this: [shell] -bash-3.2# mount -rw /dev/disk1s1 on / (hfs, local) devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse) /dev/disk2 on /private/var/log (hfs, local, union, nobrowse) /dev/disk3 on /Volumes (hfs, local, union, nobrowse) /dev/disk4 on /private/var/tmp (hfs, local, union, nobrowse) /dev/disk5 on /private/var/run (hfs, local, union, nobrowse) /dev/disk6 on /System/Installation (hfs, local, union, nobrowse) /dev/disk7 on /private/var/db (hfs, local, union, nobrowse) /dev/disk8 on /private/var/folders (hfs, local, union, nobrowse) /dev/disk9 on /private/var/root/Library (hfs, local, union, nobrowse) /dev/disk11 on /Library/Preferences (hfs, local, union, nobrowse) /dev/disk12 on /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration (hfs, local, union, nobrowse) /dev/disk13 on /Library/Keychains (hfs, local, union, nobrowse) /dev/disk14 on /private/var/tmp/RecoveryTemp (hfs, local, union, nobrowse) /dev/disk0s3 on /Volumes/Image Volume (hfs, local, journaled) /dev/disk15 on /Volumes/Macintosh HD (hfs, local, journaled) -bash-3.2# cd /Volumes/Macintosh \HD/Library/Extensions -bash: cd: /Volumes/Macintosh: No such file or directory -bash-3.2# cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/Extensions -bash-3.2# mkdir Unsupported mkdir: Unsupported: File exists -bash-3.2# mv *.kext Unsupported mv: rename *.kext to Unsupported/*.kext: No such file or directory [/shell] You see, "No such file or directory" showed up when I tried to move the .kext files to Unsupported. I was wondering if you can help me to go about this? My Macintosh HD is now unlocked, and after an error of running First Aid, now it's all fixed. Thank you!

Hi Justin 10/10 ! Brilliant fix. I moved all the .kext files into "Unsupported" and my macbook air boots after installing 10.11.4 Many thanks cheers Peter

Justin, I'd like to thank you very much. This worked for me. I find it amazing that people such as yourselves willingly spend time and energy putting pages together such as this to aid the world - why Apple hasn't done something similar or fixed this known issue is beyond me. Really appreciate that you took the time to spell out in simple terms the way to fix this issue. Thank you.

You just saved my day!!!! Thank you SO much!

Hi Justin, Kindly assist. The only .kext file I have is this one: SoftRAID.kext Whenever I move it into Unsupported & reboot my Mac, it laods then shows a black screen(switches off). Thanks in advance, Thando

You are a life saving. I spent 8+ hours trying to figure out why new laptop with El Capitan stopped working after I installed Java SE 6 and the USB modem software from Huawei. Your fix is what finally did the trick - with all files saved. Thank you SO SO much for posting this solution.

Hey Justin, I have been having the same issues with the booting. And I tried your suggestion and it let me input the mount -rw / command. However whenever I try the " cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/Extensions/ it says no such file or directory. Could you possible help me out. I really need to get into my laptop asap, bc all my notes for my final exams are on it.

Hello Justin, I am glad I found your post and I see others have benefited from you. However I am quite new at this and I think I have messed up the steps . This is what I see after I try to write the commands please note that my hard drive name is MacBook Pro HD Mount -rw Cd /Volumes/MacBook Pro HD\ HD/Library/Extensions/ Cd: /Volumes/MacBook: No such file or directory Mkdir Unsupported Mv *.kext Unsupported Mv: rename *. kext to Unsupported/: No such file or directory Please where did I go wrong and what is the way forward. Thanks

It works for me ! Thanks a lot.

Hello Justin, words cannot express my gratitude for your immense assistance in these difficult times. May the good lord bless you. Thanks you for putting a smile on my face again.

Hello Justin, I'm french and I want to congratulate you for this paper... It helped me because my MacBook was unable to boot and I didn't know why... A little remark: The first time i booted after applying your solution, the mac had restarted (the first boot was not complete) but after a second boot it was OK. Thank you very much....

I had the same problem with the 10.11.4 update. I tried everything. I didn't get to try this method yet, but I was able to get in. Just by holding the shift and and letting go whenever the apple logo appeared! Also, please make sure to unplug all device connected to the Mac first. Good luck to everyone! Neil iMac/2011/10.11.4 update

You just saved from a few more hours of pulling my hair out.!! Thank you sir.

I have an early 2009 mac mini with 2Gb ram. I'm having problems with OS X 10.11.4 randomly hanging at boot up. It was working fine with 10.11.3. Here is a list of the .kext files on my system. 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Thanks so much Justin. I had the same problem after updating to 10.11.4. I spent 2 days trying to resolve the issue to no avail. Your fix worked. I did however have some issues which I'll mention here in case others have had the same. First, typing the script didn't seem to work despite writing it exactly as instructed. I kept getting invalid command errors or directory not found errors. To resolve this I ran safari in recovery mode and copied the script off this website right into terminal. This worked for me. Second, I discover that Little Snitch was the likely cause of my grief. After successfully running the script and booting I installed the latest version of Snitch and I am now able to boot without issue. Hopefully the system remains stable but if not I can just run the script again. Thanks again, you're a legend.

Just had the same problem on a brand new MBP mid 2015, 2 months old. It was freezing on boot or right after entering my login. I had no problem until yesterday, the I did the last update on my mac (not sure on what I updated, just clicked yes...) and after it was just a nightmare. I tried justin solution without success (and every single solution on google !). I ended erasing the whole disk and reinstalling a brand new OSX 10.11.4 : no success, it was still freezing while booting or just after login. What solve the problem : restart on recovery mode, on disk utility, do a S.O.S (log showed no problems). Reboot. Et voilà, my MBP is working again. (spent my day reinstalling stuff...) NB : I have tried this (SOS) before formatting without success. Good luck and thanks for this thread. It helped me during that long night :)

Hi Justin, My iMac just suddenly stopped working and a few searches lead me here. I can't even get into recovery mode ( tried all the steps you said). I just get the grey "no entry" sign. Occasionally it will cycle between the "no entry" sign and the apple logo. But ultimately goes nowhere. Any ideas?

Finally a problem solved ! Thanks for your help.Made my day, Heck made my week!!!

No second Mac I'm afraid. I left it unplugged over night after losing my mind with it last night. Today I am met with the flashing question mark on a folder icon. I try the Cmd+r restart and just brings me back around full circle? Does that tell you anything? Cheers for your time replying, it's appreciated. This sounds like it might get expensive? Or is it a relatively simple fix for someone who both knows what they are doing and has the right tools? In this case, another mac?? Cheers again,

No second Mac I'm afraid. I left it unplugged over night after losing my mind with it last night. Today I am met with the flashing question mark on a folder icon. I try the Cmd+r restart and just brings me back around full circle? Does that tell you anything? Cheers for your time replying, it's appreciated. This sounds like it might get expensive? Or is it a relatively simple fix for someone who both knows what they are doing and has the right tools? In this case, another mac?? Cheers again,

I had the same issue today and thanks to your article I was able to resolve it. What really bothers me are two things: 1) why is the safe mode not exactl doing this? Ignoring all non Apple system kernel extensions and all library kernel extensions! I wasted a lot of time because the safe mode did not work and I assumed the problem is somewhere else 2) why are there no error messages in the verbose mode about extensions that block the starting process?

A MILLION TIMES THANK YOU!!! After hours and hours of Googling and much hair-tearing, my brand new MBP is happy and shuts down as it ought. (*whew!*)

Hi Justin, Many thanks after wasting three hours trying to.reboot into 10.11.4, I resorted to your advice. I movrf these two kexts 1) BJUSBLOAD.KEXT 2) CIJUSBLOAD.KEXT And then rebooted. The mbp booted fine. Thanks for your post Dharmesh shah Mumbai, India

Justin, thank you so much for sharing this - YOU SAVED MY DAY !!!! My problem was not with "El Capitan" but Mavericks (10.9.5). After a shutdown (for cleaning, normally machins keeps running) system wouldn't restart. Hung at "installing drivers" (CMD+V). With your help, I found a recently installed Kernel Extension from a CITRIX Receiver named "CitrixGUSB.kext". Moved this away (I have a recovery partition arranged which can access my normal boot partition - comes handy sometimes), and the problem was fixed (after all other popular tricks, like fsck, NVRAM reset, SMD reset, fix permissions on FS failed)

Thank you so much! It was of great help

Alas, no way could I even comprehend (let alone execute) the Terminal commands you invoked, but I think you DID solve my Reboot Refused mystery. I recently installed a Logitech mouse, so I wouldn't be surprised if Logitech didn't mess me up as well. Lacking your programming skills, I went Draconian and did an Erase and Restore via Time Machine. It worked, and happily, I didn't lose any files. But I'm saving your Terminal commands for future use!

Thank so much you for your article, which helped me to get my MacBook Pro (17', mid 2010) updated to El Capitan! After I got OS X 10.11.4 booted again with your instructions, as a final step, I had to reinstall OS X from recovery mode since graphics were terribly slow (especially with iTunes and Chrome). Maybe this addition may help other people with the same problem.

After hours of damn crappy apple forums! Problem solved. Huge thanks. I won't be updating again in a hurry. Must also make some proper backups now! Thanks

i updating mac os 70% download then stacked then power off the lap after os not booting give me any solution much impotent data there in same Lap

Absolutely fantastic! Thank you so much, you helped me save some very important stuff that I hadn't backuped yet! I was wondering about these kext files that seem to be default and unproblematic: [text] ACS6x.kext ArcMSR.kext ATTOCelerityFC8 07.08.53.kext ATTOCelerityFC8.kext ATTOExpressSASHBA2 07.08.53.kext ATTOExpressSASHBA2.kext ATTOExpressSASRAID2 07.08.53.kext ATTOExpressSASRAID2.kext CalDigitHDProDrv.kext HighPointIOP.kext HighPointRR.kext PromiseSTEX.kext SoftRAID.kext [/text] I've noticed that they are also in the System Library Folder, so perhaps they don't need to be in the Library folder as well? My problematic files were some surfstick drivers. The following don't seem to cause any problems, but do you happen to know what they might be from? [text] cdc_10_9.kext cdc_ecm_qmi_10_9.kext [/text] Ann

Thanks a lot I lost about 2 days trying to reset, reinstall, restore the backup, etc.without any luck, your solution to move the kext files to another place worked like a charm.

this post really saved my day

Absolutely amazing!!! My unit wasn't able to boot in 10.11. Fsck, diskwarrior etc didn't resolved my issue. One question only: Is it possible to create a script file and run it through a USB stick, while we are in Single User?

Dude, it worked! Thanks a million

Hi Justin, I'm really not good with computers and I just installed El Capitan and am having so much trouble. I tried terminal and all the commands just seem like a different language to me. Please help me out. I cannot use it and this is urgent as I need my computer for school.. :((

Justin, I am trying to follow everything you posted and believe to fouND the ext that might be causing the issue but I am getting the mkdir read only file system. The way I put the command : mount -rw / cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/Extensions/ mkdir unsupported Then it tells me read only file system I don't know what is the issue maybe you can shed some light on this I tried the above mentioned mount -uw also. Please help

Hey Justin, thanks for what you've done already. I can't get any of my text recognized in Terminal. Everything I type is "no such file..." Also, I can't turn off File Vault since I can't access System Preferences. Thoughts? I would just back up the computer to Time Machine and reinstall the OS, but I can't do that from Recovery Mode. Really struggling here. Thanks for your advice. Jarrett

My Macbook Pro (2009) couldn't boot up after the 10.11.5 update. I was able to log in as Guest but unable to access my account. I tried your fix but it didn't resolve the problem. I found the solution here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7376445?start=30&tstart=0 1. Login as guest 2. Open Terminal (cmd + space then search terminal) 3. enter su "your_account" 4. enter your password 5. sudo find /private/var/folders/ | grep com.apple.LaunchServices | grep castor 6. sudo rm /private/var/folders/cd/someLongRandomNameHere/someFolderNumberHere/com.apple.L aunchService-whatever.csstore

Hey Justin! I don't know how, but my last post didn't go through. Every time I enter the text it comes back "no such file..." How can't turn off FileVault from Recovery Mode, also. Can anyone help?

Thank you so so so much for this post and especially the specific text to put in the terminal window. It totally fixed my el capitan installation problems and saved me from resorting to the genius bar. I'm so grateful.

Justin, thank you so much. I was pulling my hair out on this until I found your fix.

I was having this problem of being not being able to boot my MacBook Pro past the gray apple loading screen. I followed your instructions for disabling extensions you had found incompatible such as old HP and Epson printer extensions. This allowed me to boot again but only for several days. I checked everything I could find other people having problems with on this thread and others I found from countless google searches. Finally I remembered that I had recently installed Apache OpenOffice 4 and that shortly afterwards it frooze up my MacBook while I was editing spreadsheets a couple times. As I remember, this was not long before the boot issues began. I booted into Safe Mode by pressing the Power button and before the screen lights up white or gray pressing and holding down the Shift key until the Apple logo and/or progress bar appears. After a few minutes it was able to boot in Safe Mode. Once in I uninstalled Open Office support files by opening Terminal, typing "open library", once it opened a Finder window in the Library folder I opened the Application Support folder in it and located the OpenOffice folder inside it and dragged it to the trash. Then after deleting those support files I opened my Applications folder and dragged the OpenOffice icon to the trash to uninstalled the program. Then I emptied the trash to delete everything permanently, and VOILA, I checked for and installed system updates, restarted, and I am happy to say it booted up quickly on the very first try and everything seems to be back to normal. Hope this helps anyone else who has been dealing with this issue for the last several weeks now like I have! My advice for anyone with this same problem, try installing Libre Office instead. It is also freeware compatible with MS Office file formats, and I haven't had any problems with it since I installed it on the bootable external hard drive I've been using the last few weeks while I've been working on this issue with my internal hard drive not booting up.

If you have Apache OpenOffice and removing old extensions didn't resolve your boot problems, or only resolved them temporarily try booting into Safe Mode by holding down the Shift button after you power on your Mac until the gray screen lights up. If you can boot into Safe Mode uninstall OpenOffice. Make sure there are no OpenOffice folder or files inside the Library/Application Support folder. This worked for me! Thank you Justin, for taking the time to help out those of us who know our way around computers, but aren't experts! You've saved a lot of frustrated people like me a lot of unnecessary frustration!

This is a brilliant fix. The later version which automatically shifts unsupported Keats solved my problem once I copied and pasted the text by accessing it in safari (tried typing it manually and must have got something wrong). Found an Epson USB print extension and an old HP extension were the issues Thanks so much Justin and no thanks to Apple!

Hi did not read all the comments but as I have not clue about terminal or better not much so did not see if someone mentioned it another way (if you have a second mac) to boot the non booting machine in target mode and then us the other computer to move the files just like you would be from a external hard drive. And it seemed to work for me. got it back up and booted now i have to find which of the kext file is the bad one

Aloha Justin, It is so encouraging to see all the posts of success stories. I am just tech savvy enough to follow your instructions. Otherwise I know nothing about Terminal commands. I feel like an idiot because I have no idea how to bring up this list everyone has of their .kext files. If you can share that command line with me I would like to see what comes up. I followed the steps in your article - first the 4 steps moving the kext files to Unsupported and rebooting which did not fix, then the steps to Disable kexts, and I still get the gray screen with the progress bar stuck at about 3/4 of the way. I have been working on this for 2 days as time permits, and do not have the money to pay the $300+ I will be charged to recover my data. I also tried someone's (was it yours?) suggestions for trying to back up my files to an external using Disk Utility, but the instructions were for maybe 10.7 not 10.11 so I may not have done it right - I had to guess on some steps. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Mahalo!

Hi Justin, Thanks so much!! You saved my macbook! Edwin

Thanks a lot Justin , you really made my week. My Nacbook has been in bootable for 5days until I read you fix. It greatly worked . However , how do I get the list of kext files , I mean what command do I type. Also the last post to disable the non default kext files seem a liitle confusing , is it possible to write it out again. Thanks alot, I really really appreciate you.

Hey Justin I've had the problem of El Capitan not booting so I went back to Mavericks. Do you think, I can move all the kext-files to a disabled folder before I do another system update? This way I wouldnt have to do all the Terminal things. What do you think? Best, Jorma.

Hi Justin I have got a Problem with 10.11.5 el capitan ,mac boots in safe mode when i use shift key then restarts in normal mode ,but after i shut down it wont boot again,its hard to get in safe boot cos not always it works ,is there an easy way to fix that kext files in normal mode? or using program script ? i can only put into sleep mode my mac :( please help :)

Hey Justin, After rebooting in recovery mode and selecting the language a menu pops up that titles " OS X Utilities" then subheadings of 'Restore From Time Machine Backup' , 'Reinstall OS X' , 'Get Help Online' , 'Disk Utility'. there is no Utilities or Terminal option do you have any advice?

Hi Justin (et al.), First of all thank you. Thank you, thank you. I've had your page open all day. Your work, knowledge, and presence are exemplary and critical to users like us finding solutions to Apple's wormhole-like unanticipated technical problems. Secondly: your fix ended up not being my fix. I did your thing and wrestled with my .kext files for hours. I'll get to my solution but first of all, when moving kext files back from the Unsupported folder, I did this step straight-up in my normal Mac OS, not in terminal during recovery mode. That is to say, I did your steps in Recovery Mode and rebooted and then from Finder moved all but the logitech drivers BACK into /Library/Extensions -- upon which I was greeted with both a permissions pop-up and, after providing my password, an error message. The kext files were in /Extensions but I'd then deleted the "originals" from /Extensions/Unsupported -- looks like the originals were not moved back to /Extensions, but copied. I'd emptied the trash and deleted the originals. OOOPS. I was still having rebooting hangup issues, so I continued to troubleshoot various things. At some point I re-did your initial steps on this page: in Recovery Mode, moved kext files from /Extensions to /Extensions/Unsupported. Then I followed the advice someone else here commented to press Command while dragging the kext files back -- no error messages. So right now I have copies of the kext files in my /Extensions folder ... At this point I'm still unable to restart. The one workaround I found was to go to the Login Window (by clicking my username in the upper right) and restarting from there. It asks you to provide user/pass for whoever's still logged in, but it will restart. What I think fixed the restart hangup was related but different. Related because it's to do with outdated driver conflict. Different because it was solved, ironically, from within the easy-to-use Mac OS System Preferences pane. As others have noted, old Wacom drivers will sometimes remain on the system after apparently full Wacom uninstall. I went to System Preferences --> Users & Groups --> Login Items and noticed that a "Bamboo" helper app was still opening automatically upon login. This means that this invisible, conflicting app was hanging up my OS whenever I was trying to restart or shut down. At least, I think it does? Things seem to be working now. I may have used your advice to ultimately just delete my original .kext files, but nothing so far has fallen apart. Thanks again and I hope my advice can help someone who's unable to solve their problem with your post. Anthony

This guy is good. Thanks and yes it worked a treat. In my case it was an Epsilon printer kernel extension. My procedure for solving a hanging boot: 1. iDefrag .. I thought a core file had been corrupted. Zero. 2. Checked the logs ... Zero. 3. Repaired file permissions. Zero. 4. PRAM reset .. and single user mode. A DSMOS error appeared, so .kext error suspected, 5. Removed my graphics .kext files in /System/Library ... not very clever at all. Later I returned them and had to delve into a backup for the one I deleted. 6. I followed the instructions here to remove /Library/Extensions/ .kext ... Bingo! I placed all the non-suspect files back to the Extensions dir, except the Epsilon file, which was the last "alien" file to be downloaded before the hanging job error occurred.

My macbook successfully installed El Capitan and can only be booted up by pressing the SHIFT key upon boot. If I try to reboot normally the OSX Install screen pops up and then ultimately fails and the log pops up on the screen. Reboot and it falls into the same loop. How can I get it out of the loop and just start up normally?

Hello Justin, Thanks for this post, i wish i had gotten to your post well before i did other things that i am afraid may have worsened the issue on my MBP, i followed through the steps as you kindly spelt out, but once it reboots, it gets to the usual screen and at about 60-70% whilst booting, it goes off. Any advice would be much appreciated.

Hi Justin, I'm glad I came across your page on this issue. However, the troubleshooting steps didn't work in my case. I have a early 2011 MBP 17" w/512GB SSD and 2.3GHz i7 & 8 GB RAM. About two months before I decided to upgrade from Snow Lepoard to El Capiton my MBP was acting sluggish. I'd get the death spiral from time to time. About two weeks after the upgrade was the first time my MBP EVER crashed. This would occur several more times before it would have problems booting up. Now months later it won't boot at all. I tried your suggestions, Safe, Recovery & Verbose. In Verbose, it go thru the logs and then a black screen and then white screen. I videoed the screen in hope of reading it, but there is too much glare to read it. When I tried to boot from my backup drive it would show the white screen after about 3/4 progress. Any advice you can share would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards Ivory

How can i move all kext Files back to their place from Unsupported Folder? Thx

Justin. I've read all these threads and I can't seem to find a solution to my perculiar problem. I made a bootable usb thumb drive with OS X El Capitan on it. Using the sudo in terminal. But when I open the disk by holding the option key when booting, I have access to the drive and then the apple sign shows up and it skips and goes back to OS X utilities without allowing me to install the new OS X on my brand new SSD . Please help! Skype: nana.osei.bartels

Justin, thank you so much, this is exactly what I needed! I tried so many re-installs and restores trying to find the culprit... Virtual Box and LittleSnitch! Great explanation, easy to follow terminal commands. Life saver!

Hi Justin. Your post here solved my problem some months ago, when I upgraded to El Capitan. Great - Thanks. I was totally lost for a while, but fortunately I had a bootable system on another disk, and from there I opened "my main disk"/Library/Extensions and moved/deleted all kext files in my system. Eventually the programs I used afterwards pretty much pointed me to which kext files I needed, and all other files stayed out of the Extensions folder. That solved my problem then. Now, however, as I narrowed the obnoxious extensions down to being one of four printer extensions [BJUSBLoad.kext, CIJUSBLoad.kext, EPSONUSBPrintClass.kext, hp_io_enabler_compound.kext], I have to be cautious every time I update OS X as these files are a part of every update I'm offered. Eventually I will find out which of them is causing havoc on my computer. I don't know if anybody else have trouble with these specific files or if there is a randomness to these issues. Anyway I just wanted to share my way to obtaining the desired goal. Suggestion: If you have another Mac available you can boot one of them in target mode (Hold down "T" when booting the machine) and connect the two machines via Thunderbolt or FireWire. From there you just have to navigate to the System/Extensions folder on the machine that fails booting and extract the kext files to new folder ie. "Bad Extensions". Keep in mind that moving the files to another folder does not delete them within the Extensions folder - you have to do this after copying them.....! Best Vibes, Mo'.

Thank you very much. Removing the kext and booting ok Thanks

Justin - you bow to no one! You kind of saved my digital life. :)

Hi Justin. I seem to have everything the same 360controller issue and my MacBook hangs on startup. Can you give each me a step by step on how to shutdown and use the safe mode and terminal to fix it? Thanks. (using latest version of El Capitan)

Hello Justin, It turns out my hard drive was bad, luckily i was able to recover all the data I had on it. I have gotten a new hard drive, and i intend to re-install El-Capitan on the new hard drive. A guide on how to do this, would be most appreciated. Thanks

Thank you very much, your page helped repair our mac after the latest captain update. I booted into recover mode and opened a terminal. Checked the Extensions directory with "ls -lart" to sort them with oldest first, this is an older mbp from 2009. I took the kext extensions dated back from 2009 and 2010 and moved them into another directory. My mbp is now booting again. I removed some old hp printer driver extensions and EyeTv extensions. 3 days ago the mbp crashed with hardware fault and blue stripes and could no longer boot. I disassambled it and used a heat gun on the motherboard to try and repair any bad solderings. I put it back togheter and the the hardware fault was gone and I was soo happy that I managed to repair our 7 years old mbp. Then I updated the software and ran into this new problem not certain if it was hardware related or a new software fault. The factory had done a really poor job with the cooling paste on the chips, I was very surprised at the poor workmanship. I am a supply chain manager and have overseen electronics assembly at factories before and this was by far the worst I have seen including other devices that I have disabled in the past. The cooling paste only covered half the cpu and gpu chips. There was about 10 times too much paste on the side of the chips as if they had added a thick layer and scraped it off, not removing it but just scraping it down the side of the chips. I have never seen factory assembling handling cooling paste in such manner, normally they should add a framed when adding it. This mbp has always been noisy and quick to ramp up the fan speeds. Now it is silent and keeping the chips cool when wathing netflix, before it would allmost max the fans when watching Netflix.

You are a hero! Thanks thanks thanks for writing the Script to Disable Non-Default Kext Files My Macbook pro is back!

People like you is why this earth is still spinning. Thank you !

Thank you Justin. I was about to do a clean install and this saved me the potential headaches with a customer's system. It worked like a charm. Cheers to you!

For me the problem was in /System/Library/Extensions/ - moving 12 old kernel extensions out of there fixed my problem. I didn't go back to check which one was actually at fault because I didn't need any of them. Thanks for sharing, this saved me a lot of trouble!

Hi Justin, The number of people you have been able to help on this issue is astounding. I do hope I can get some success also. I have exhausted several searches online but nothing works. My MacBook was operating fine prior; I have el capitan installed been using for months now. I launched a new app, that I recently installed , and I got a blue screen, with no other option but to power off. Since then, when I boot, I am able to enter password but then my progress bar boots up half way then stops. - I have a grey screen whenever I try to go to safe boot. This I suspect is because filevault is enabled on my hard drive, which makes it encrypted. - Whenever I also try to launch in internet recovery mode. It loads the process completely with the globe, but afterwards a quick flash of a black screen then permanent grey screen. - I cannot get into Recovery mode, when I hold down Option it does not show my recovery partition, therefore I cannot get to a Terminal via the method you described. I can however get to single-mode but what can I do once I am there? Do the steps you have listed still apply based on my scenario? Any advice would be extremely helpful. Thank you!

Congratulations Justin You deserve a medal for documenting a solution that so many other experts failed to propose. I even think that what you propose is applicable to more than just El Capitan upgrade stalls, and that there might be a way to simplify the fix without having to use terminal and cmd-R I was facing a stalled boot (stuck at end of apple bar) on MBP 13 and 15 running El Capitan but also Yosemite. I tried all the classical SMC, PR NVRAM, single, re-install, … with absolute no success So I ended up re-installing clean, migrating and it worked but only for a while :( Your solution fixed it for good on Yosemite and El Capitan. May I suggest to all those struggling with such problems, to use a mobile hard drive on which you clone (using Super Duper or CCC) various partitions (of the same size as your hard drive): a clean partition right after a minimum re-install (faster to re-install than the full re-install processes, fits on 19G stick for El Capitan, you just need to overwrite MacintoshHD partition with your saved partition) your working partition at various stages of its life so that you always can re-install a) and then migrate from b) more interestingly, it will also be much easier to apply Justin’s fix without having to use terminal nor scripts nor cmd-R: you simply boot from the clean partition (cmd+pwr), then open the MacintoshHD disk in finder and analyse/move all the kext files directly in finder. This also allows to run all sorts of utility programs that you keep on that clean partition. Have fun

Massive thank you Justin, you really saved my butt after Wacom drivers caused this exact issue. Fixed using the recovery mode terminal to move the kext files. You're a legend!

Your solution worked like a charm. Thanks a lot. My questions is what happens to the problematic kexts. You I delete them ? how can I move the non-problematic ones back to where they were moved from ? Note: I am a newbie when it comes to terminal

Thank you very much. Worked fine for me.

I needed to reset SNC and rerun the install after this (both of which I had previously tried twice), but afterwards it worked fine. Thank you so much.

Hi Justin, I'm running 10.11.6 on a late 2013 Mac pro. I followed your steps and successfully moved all the .kext files from the extensions folder to the unsupported folder. The computer rebooted successfully from the terminal, but would not reboot after that. I have to do a hard shutdown to reboot. I then tried your second set of instructions, and moved all the .kext files to the ExtensionsDisabled folder within Library, but the same problem happened. It reboots successfully from the terminal once, but then will not reboot again after that, it just hangs. Any thoughts? Thanks for your help.

Thank you Justin, you were very helpful. Just a warn to everyone, every update of the system keep installing EPSONUSBPrintClass.kext, which creates a new crash on starting up, so I have to remove manually from time to time.

Hi, I have a question or a problem with my 2015 Macbook pro, ive had it since present but once i updated my mac too el capitan the computer quit on me and stopped working, once i reinstalled el capitan it booted perfectly the laptop, but then if i try too login it takes super long with a circle processing logo on the cursor and it takes forever without no login boot. hope you can help me on this one havnt got too use my laptop for 1month

A lot of thanks for your help. Four days working and fithing with this trouble without computer and your post save me. In my case the problem start with the last update of Capitan of this month.

You saved my girlfriend's macbook! Genius!

Thank you VERY VERY VERY much! I was forced to upgrade (need latest Xcode) and bam, stuck. Happend before & restore from timeMachine took 6 hours. Your kext thing did the trick. Now I have to find out what extensions are default and should be restored, but I at least feel empowered to manage this.

Hi mate, i keep having to do it over and over... Every second day my computer shits itself and the i have to repeat your process to start it up... Any advice? Thanks alot you are a true hero for putting this out there! 👍

My case is not OS El Capitan but Yosemite, I did everything that I know. - Safe Mode and Utility Disk - Reset PRAM - Reset SMC - Reiinstal OS Yosemite - Finaly your way with disable Kext files But still no progress, My MBP still stuck 50% on Apple Logo. Or im doing wrong with the terminal code ....

An absolute Godsend! I couldn't find this information anywhere, and your step by step explanations are just fantastic! I had problems upgrading to Sierra, and your post got me up and running again.

Hi Justin, wondering if you can help me, just trying these steps to hopefully fix the problem. I put the code in at the top and after the reboot, the Mac wont load anything, including the Recovery mode. Any ideas?

Many thanks Justin, it worked like a charm! My only problem was that I've renamed my Macintosh HD and it took me a wile to realise this issue, if you could update your amazing article and add a note about it, that would help more people in the future! Once again many many thanks!

Thanks Justin, your tips saved my day.

One more thank you! :)

Boss you saved my life !!!!!!!! Seriously u did !

Hello Justin! Hoping you can advise?? I have a similar issue converting to a new iMac from a Mac Mini using Migration Assistant... The iMac stalls on booting. I have tried PRAM SMC time machine and cloning... Thing is, my existing mac mini seems fine but when transferring the whole system to my iMac the mac fails to boot but will boot to safe mode. I am on to Apple support but they are only telling me to try what I have already done! Gonna try your suggestion....fingers crossed! Thx

Thanks for the great article! SAVED MY DAY!

Yes I agree, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS! I spent hours trying to figure out how to fix this with no avail ... until I came across your post. I even created my own with specifics on my issues to help spread the word so hopefully I can help someone else out as much as you helped me! Thanks again dude you made my day! ... not like those LG kernel extensions that ruined my day lol Here's my blog post: https://smyl.es/how-to-fix-mac-osx-stuckhanging-on-progress-bar-will-not-boot/

Worked like magic. Was about to buy a new hard drive as I had tried every other ooption but to no avail. Thank you so much. You're a life saver

Am about to try this fix after trying everything else. Just one question - how do you move files back to the original location if they are not the cause of the problem- sorry, not used to using Terminal. Thanks

Hey Justin, I know you get a lot of replies and other stuff, but I am still somehow struggling with the terminal commands. I am doing everything correctly, but it always pops up with "no such file could be found". Please help, and thank you!

Thanks Justin, you are a genius and a lifesaver. Win 7 in bootcamp worked fine with Option + Power to boot up. Mine was an Epson printer kext that during a system update caused El Capitan to hang on the update, waited forever. Tried everything reset SMC and PRAM, first aid on disks, could not boot in Safe Mode. Was about to launch the mid 2012 MBP non retina out the window when I found this post on my phone and thought I would give it a go. Fixed straight away. I do not know how to thank you enough but I hope these thanks go some small way to saying how much time, grief and money you have saved me. Cheers.

Hi Justin, I have the same problem, my Mac few weeks after updating to OS Sierra stopped working, I've done the Hard Disk Utility which said that there are no errors, I don't have access to the recovery mode at all, the loading screen stops at 50% and I have to restart the computer. I tried to gain access through single user mode, but even after changing the user to ROOT I couldn't change anything in the code, I didn't have permission to write. When i tried to change anything, that line: PCI:Pause:SDXC would pop up and I couldn't do anything else.

i love you, really saved this college students life

Any idea why i cant mount the volume at all? Says "illegal option". I have mac sierra, is that the issue?

I mean, i cant mount it as read/write

Great Thank you very much

Thanks Justin, my MBP got stuck while I was on an overseas trip and I tried all you mentioned before the KEXT files trick. It worked a charm.

Thank you so much Justin, thank you, thank you a million times!!!!! You can not imagine how much you helped me!!! God bless you man!!! :-)))

a faulty kext file, in my case for ftdi drivers. thx for figuring this out. sabed me an awful lot of time and grief!

Thank you for saving an entire week's worth of work!!! So clear, and did the trick immediately.

Thank you so much for saving me from reinstall the OS! I updated to 10.12.14 Sierra today, and stuck at the looping startup screen. Reset the PRAM and SMC, but no help. My bro found this site and we follow the instruction, problem solved :-D The kext of my old printer failed.

Thank you so much. My update to 10.11.6 failed. Found your page in the internet and here I am again ! :-)

First, I would just like to say thank you, you wonderful wizard! Your script saved my MBP after I upgraded to Sierra 10.12.3. Second, I have no idea what any of these kexts things are, so I am terrified to shut down my computer and reboot now in fear it will happen again. How do I find the offending kexts and the apps connected to them? If you can, I will need super N00b instructions. Third, before I found your instructions page, I tried rebooting from my TimeMachine, but that was hanging up upon booting, too. Does that mean the problem is in my TimeMachine, also? Can I even fix that? Thanks again for saving this poor doctoral student from having to sell an organ for a new computer!

Justin, you're a marvel! This advice saved my sanity. However, here's a mystery. The offending kext file reports in my library after every reboot. Thus every time I reboot the machine (e.g. after an upgrade) I have to go this whole process again. Have tried everything -- Apple support couldn't offer any suggestions. Any ideas how I might track down where the offending kext might be coming from?

Hi Guys, I am also running an MBP upgraded to El Capitan from Sierra. I have had the problem of kext files maybe more than thrice and each time i come here help you different advices have never disappointed me. This time i have to create a separate Unsupported1 directory to move the hp_io*.kext file which was stubbornly refusing to be copied to the Unsupported dir. And this worked for me. Many thanks and keep up the excellent help. Thanks

Thank you so much Justin, in my case it was also a problem related to Vodafone Broadband App that was inserted directly in the \Library folder. Regards! Carlo

Thanks Justin, your post worked. Would I need to move the kext files back. And how do I go about it. Am I ok just letting it be.

Thanks Justin. This solved my problems. Strangely my Logitech kexts were in /System/Library/Extensions (as well as others like EyeTV, EpsonUSB, HuaweiDataCard, etc. - am I the only one who thinks those do not belong there?). After removing them, my computer was back to normal.

Thank you!!!! Only fix that worked. Was a KEXT issue.Seems associated with Canon Printer software.

I can't thank you enough for this post. Easy foolproof solution to a problem that I spent best part of a day trying to fix.

Thanks so much. This fix worked right away after a day of frustration.

Thank you very, very, very much. You saved my life after a day and a half of struggle! :)

Thank you very much. you safe my A..... The nasty Kernel ext ws little snitch. It sucks. Days of frustrations are past now. Thanks al lot

Thank you for this, was a lifesaver!

Thanks for writing this up, you rock!

You just saved my @$$.

Happened to me today with High Sierra public beta 3. This fix worked. Thank you!

Thank you, you helped me get aging MacBookAir working again. I owe you and adult beverage (or six) should we meet :)

I line up to say thank you so much! Probably spent 1–2 days on this and might soon have ended up at the local Apple dealer's if it weren't for your swift solution!

Thank you, this saved me!

Thank you, this was very useful. My issue appeared after installing a brand new Epson XP-645 printer. Using ls -lrtc in the Extensions folder, I could quickly see that the last added kext was EPSONUSBPrintClass.kext After moving it to the Unsupported folder, the next reboot was a breeze!

Thank you so much!!!!

Thank you so very much! Worked perfectly!

This is has just saved my life, and about 20 hours of work, thanks!

You, Sir, are a hero! After 4 days of despair you saved me. I've got Sierra running on my MacBook Pro.

Hi Justin, First of all, thank you for your help! Secondly, I would like to ask you to make a walkthrough video of the whole process, I've tried it repeatedly but I can't get it fixed, I think I may be doing something wrong but I'm not sure. Thank you again!

Thank you so much sir!! you saved my life :') I performed the Script to Disable Non-Default Kext Files section and I was able to boot my mac...

You are the best!!! saved my life...thank you so much :)

On vacation...I brought my mac along for work. You saved my life....cant say GENIUS enough!

Thank you SOOOOOOO much. I was stuck in Sierra Install Hell for two days and after reading this just booted from an El Capitan drive, moved all the old kext files, re-booted Sierra and it worked. Can't thank you enough.

Many thanks Justin, brilliant! Greetings from french alps

Bro ill give it a try

Thank you so much Mr Silver, the internet is full of semi helpful advice but yours really worked and this is something I would have never figured out myself!

You Are a Genius!! just fixed now using your script...thank you mate!!

Just spent the last 4 days totally stressed out after Sierra 10.12.6 update failed. After deleting the older kext files problem solved. Thanks :)

Hey Justin, First off, I appreciate the very thorough explanation you've written out for everyone :) I am running into some problems though, my fiancée's macbook pro is stuck at a black screen with the apple logo and a progress bar(gets to 100% but stays forever) It was working fine last night, and she went to restart it (just for an occasional refresh/reboot) and instead of booting it went to the black screen with the apple logo and progress bar. I am unable to access recovery mode or any of the utilities. All I can access is single user mode or verbose mode. I figured I would try your script in single user mode (since I cannot access terminal) however the layout is a bit different and I am a bit unsure if I would cause any problems trying it in single user mode. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Genius! - after trying all other things - PRAM; Safe Mode; reinstall OS X; Disk repair... nothing seemed to work...until this fix. Thank you so much!

Hi Justin, Can you please also share the script to remove file older than 2016 from System/Library/Extensions? I have tried a few ways but it seems to not working at all Thanks

Hi Justin, I'm having the same issue after installing the last Sierra update. I'm not used to use the terminal, so I don't get how write commands exacty, could you please write me down from the very beginning how to do? Thank you so much in advance.

Hi Justin, I'm so grateful for this guide every time I update. This time going to Sierra I had to play with files in /System/Library/Extensions and I just *could not* remove kexts from there. Ended up booting from a linux USB and deleting from there but it was a saga for a noob. Did you have the same problem? If so, would you consider adding some pointers to the guide (for future noobs like me) on how to delete stubborn System files?

You are a life saver .. Thanks a million

Excellent post

Hey Justin, after putting everything into terminal it tells me ... is busy updating; waiting for lock Is this an error or normal? Thanks, Frank

Thanks a lot Justin. Your trick has helped me for the last couple of years, but as I forgot the procedure I had to come back here today. I’ve narrowed this boot problem down to being the printer extensions from either Epson or HP causing havoc, as every time I delete them, my macbook pro late 2011 boots w.o. problems. The problem reoccurs when I - or rather apple updater installs the printer drivers included in an OSX software update. Thus I’m very aware not to install these printer updates when I go near the app store, but apparently accepting “Later” when prompted by mac updater is equal to accept installing these - that’s the only way I can explain why I suddenly find my mac not booting and them in my extensions folder. Does it really work like that? For those of you who have access to a second mac, here’s another way of reclaiming your mac’s bootability. I usually boot my problem mac up in target mode (holding down T at bootup) after connecting it via firewire or thunderbolt to the other well functioning mac. From the “good one” I can open the problem mac’s harddrive, locate the library/extensions folder and delete the Epson and HP kext files. This way I don’t have to deal with terminal. - Mo’.

Hi Justin Thanks a lot for the fix. Used it before. Please help: Section: "Script to Disable Non-Default Kext Files" Something must be missing in line 8 and line 13? I am new to Terminal commands. Thanks Asger

Justin, after trying various things I think I have the same issue but I'm running into some trouble. I'm not sure if my version of terminal is outdated (Version 2.5.3 (343.7)) but it starts every line with "-bash-3.2#" if that means anything to you. A "mount -rw /" command has no effect, so when I paste your script, after "mkdir /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/ExtensionsDisabled" it tells me "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Library: No such file or directory". It seems like a slightly different Terminal from yours; any idea what I should do here? Thanks for any help you can provide!

First of all, thank-you for this guide. I've been struggling with a loading screen stuck at 100% after updating to High Sierra. It was good for two boots and by the third, right after I installed Paragon Driver, I have been stuck at with a loading bar at 100%. Listing my System Library .kext files does not reveal there to be anything from older than a year ago, they only go back to last July. Problematically, I can't even seem to delete (though I can copy) them even using rm -rf. It also doesn't recognize sudo as a command. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks.

Thanks a lot.

Thank Justin you my friend are a life saver just managed to boot again only after I tried the internet recovery mode... moved all the kext files to unsupported. What I want to know now is which kext files should I return to the Extensions folder

Many, many thanks! I've spent hours dealing with this as I desperately needed this machine for work. You're a life-saver! One issue that I experienced, which I thought I'd share, was that I couldn't even get into recovery mode if the machine had been sitting in its "hung" state for a while. The only cure was to turn it of for a long period of time. After that point, it was possible to fire it up and it would respond to the boot keys again. Macbook Pro 13" 2010 model.

You're a legend, thanks! Saved all my files, currently backing up as I was kicking myself for not doing before.

You just saved my bacon, thanks Justin.

Hello, Can this be made into a script so it will just run every time you shut down? there are two canon extensions that keep the machine from booting when we restart, every time we delete them they reappear. I tried putting your code into script editor but it gives me an error: # mount the drive as read/write mount -rw / # create a directory for "disabled" extensions mkdir /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/ExtensionsDisabled # view files that exist in your Extensions folder but not the recovery partition kexts=`comm -23 <(ls /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/Extensions|sort) <(ls /Library/Extensions|sort)` echo $kexts # move "extra" kext files to the "disabled" directory for kext in $kexts; do mv /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/Extensions/$kext /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/ExtensionsDisabled/$kext; done exit

Good Day, Mr Silver: Big problems with my iMac with progress bar frozen ar 100% after taking 20 minutes to get there. Apple care people have taken me through umpteen attempts to work through problem which seems identical to the one for which you have found a much praised solution. I have never written code and find it almost impossible to summon the courage and confidence to start now. But, is there anyone out there living near Barnet in north London that you know of whom I could hire to come and fix things for me? My machine is late 2009 model and recently upgraded to High Sierra. This took four hours last weekend and it seemed to work well at first. The problems started when I tried to log on last Monday and I’m now desperate as to next step. Many thanks for your attention. - Peter Shrubb

Hi, Justin. When I try with the text: create a directory for "disabled" extensions mkdir /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/ExtensionsDisabled Terminal doesnt recognize it. Do you think what could be wrong? Thank you very much.

Hail to the King! Thank you so much, I was already preparing for the worst. I don't understand how the Logitech developers continue to distribute the utility that hanging the system. Greetings from Russia and many thanks, again.

Thank you very much.You saved my day

Hiya! Thanks for the hard work. This may be a simple/silly question, but I need to ask it. This is all caused by stuff that's kept when you install an OS version upgrade right (at this point in time it is going from Sierra to High Sierra)? If you boot into recovery mode and wipe the disk first, and then clean install, will it fix the problem? I'm having this issue with my MacBook Pro, and all my files, photos, etc. on it are back up (not Time Machine, but manually to an external disk), so I'm not worried about losing anything. Thank you.

Hi, Mac itself started going to High Sierra from Sierra at December 3rd. And it stuck, now when i turn notebook on and enter password, it goes near 70% and then goes to black screen with a ball progress icon. I did what you said here, but still can't enter. And most strange part, i don't see directories ExstansionsDisabled and etc at that folders, it must be gone with all that kext... Could you help somehow?

Thank you so much Mr. Silver, you're a life-saver!

Hi All, Thanks for all the replies and suggestions, its indeed super helpful in saving the macbook without reinstalling. I just want to add on some details incase some of you have the same issues as me. The primary issue is indeed a malfunctioning Kext file. To resolve is to simply move the files to another folder and try starting up. Moving non-familiar kext to the system is sufficient. Now here comes the tricky part. For some of us , our logical volumes are encrypted and for some of us like me , we will be stuck on trying to find out which kext files as non-familiar on a volume that is the recovery volume. What we need to do is to mount our logical volume. To ascertain if you need to do that , start system in recovery as per instructions : 1. command + R while powering up to reach recovering mode. 2. Login as per normal and start Terminal 3. at the bash command prompt type : diskutil list 4. you should see the a list of /dev/disk. if you have an offline disk which is listed as encrypted . That will be your logical volume. 5. type in diskutil corestorage list 6. a list of corestorage logical volume group will be shown. 7. Look for the information Logical Volume with a string of UUID (e.g., Logical Volume 43E6C312-24EA-4987-AA65-FB517AA966AD ) 8. highlight and copy the UUID : 43E6C312-24EA-4987-AA65-FB517AA966AD 9. next unlock the volume and it will mount : diskutil corestorage unlockVolume UUID -stdinpassphrase ----( replace UUID with yours in this example its the 43E6C312-24EA-4987-AA65-FB517AA966AD) 10. System will prompt you for the passphrase to unlock your volume, Key in your password and the drive will mount. 11. Once mounted. you can follow the instruction to move the unsupported kext to a folder and restart it. for me the issue was some LG 360 camera usb kext and the Huawei data card kext. for the benefit of those who is wondering what I am talking about : 1. cd /Volumes/#your Macintosh volume id/Library/Extensions 2. ls -lat or ls -lrtc 3. mkdir /Volumes/#your Macintosh volume id/Library/backup 4. mv /Volumes/#your Macintosh volume id/Library/Extensions/*unfamiliarext.kext /Volumes/#your Macintosh Volume id/Library/backup/ 5. move all the unsupported kext over and you can type : reboot. if everything goes well. you will boot back into your system! hope it helps some one!!! cheers

Hi Thank you for this great article, I had the same problem after an update that was downloaded and probably installed against my will! (I never accepted to do it...) But sadly the solutions you provided didn't work for me, or anything else I found on the web. I ended up doing a clean install.... I'm very angry against Apple and I don't know where to turn to complain but thank you again for this article, I felt a bit less alone!

Thank you! Deleting the kexts (kernel extensions) unblocked my upgrade from El Capitan to High Sierra.

Thanx, I moved the newly installed epson driver according to your help and now its good. Thanx again.

Thanks a tonne Justin! I am glad i found your post.This really saved my life. I had no back up in place. So here's the story and I hope it help someone else. I am running High Sierra 10.13.2, on a Macbook Pro Mid 2012. I use a Audio Interface/Recorder Zoom R24 to connect to my recording software Ableton Live Suite. High Sierra seems to have some inherent problem with Ableton. There is a constant hiss/whitenoise no matter how much you adjust the gain, levels and recording volumes. Everything was fine otherwise. I guessed there was a problem with my Zoom driver. I upgraded from V 1.6 (working fine) to V 2.1.0. . Installation done and i hit reboot. Reboot status was 100% but nothing after that. "YOU SHALL NOT PASS". I did the usual NVRAM reset, First Aid Partition check in recovery mode, SMC reset and so on. Then I had to research more, I did not want to risk a Recovery via internet or a re-install. Finally your solution came to my rescue. I moved the kext files and rebooted. It worked. Finally,strange as it may seem, i was not able to boot to Safe Mode at all. Could you comment on that?

Thank you so much :-) My iMac wouldn't start after installing Logitech Gaming software, so I moved three logitech kext files, and after that everything has been working. The logitech software even works without the kext files.

Hi there, how are you? Can someone please take a look and comment at this topic of mine? I can't recover from this... I deleted a kext and the Mac won't boot now. https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/hackintosh-wont-start-after-deleting-appleahciport-kext-screenshots-attached.240769/#post-1653769 Best regards.

you just saved my life. thank you.

Dear Justin, Thank you so much for giving such detailed and well researched instructions, you have clearly helped a great number of people. I am attempting to restore an image of Time Machine back to my mac, as I need all my IMAP folders and emails back, the server does not have them. Once I have the emails i can re-upload them to a new server. Using Migration Assistant and V3 folder restore do not work as in both instances it attempts to rebuild these folders and the nature of GMAIL is that the subfolders are merely linked by a relationship to the All Mail folder and as such appear empty when restored this way. The only solution is a 1:1 image restore via Time Machine through CMD+R at startup. When I restore this image via CMD+R it runs the GUI successfully, then tells me 'system must reboot' then I get the Apple logo and the progress bar hangs once it gets to the very end. I have run all of your scripts in terminal to no avail, the same issue. My HD is called Macintosh HD. I have tried both copying and pasting and typing out the commands being careful to add a '\' next to 'Macintosh'. The image is based on El Capitan. I did also wipe Macintosh HD via Disk Utility before the restore. This is my third, unsuccessful attempt. Do you have any suggestions? Kind Regards, Tom

Brilliant, big thx!

That fixed it after a year of trying everything!!! Thanks

Hi, it’s crazy with all letters... my Mac no turn on.. help me please

Justin, thank you so much! I ran into this exact problem after approving third party kernel extensions in System Preferences > Security & Privacy per this article: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/technotes/tn2459/_index.html The two KEXT files that I authorised were for VirtualBox and Logitech. Common culprits, it seems. *facepalm* Double whammy. Thank you for unbricking my Mac! Really appreciated.

Just wanted to warn anyone that this issue is still persistent and I was able to replicate this problem several times after installing Logitech Gaming Software (Mac) version 8.96.38. After I bought my G502 and wanted to install the software in my Mac, it would constantly lock up my laptop during it boot sequence.

Hey, thanks for the continually updated post! I'm definitely still getting this issue, though. How did you know which System kext files to move? I don't seem to have any before 2017 on mine, but I'm still getting the hang up after trying these steps. I'm thinking I should just back up my files and try a fresh install or take it into the shop. I'm getting the same pci: pause error as you on start up as well. I'm running the High Sierra update. I completely renamed the Extensions folder so there shouldn't be any kexts running outside of the system ones. Here's a list of them (not that I expect you to sort through them, I just have no idea which ones are needed for basic functioning). [shell collapse="true"] -bash-3.2# ls -lat /System/Library/Extensions/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 Jan 19 07:24 IONDRVSupport.kext drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 Jan 19 07:24 IOPCIFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 Jan 19 07:24 AppleBacklightExpert.kext drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 238 Jan 19 07:24 IOGraphicsFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 221 root wheel 7514 Jan 19 07:22 . drwxr-xr-x 38 root wheel 1292 Jan 19 07:22 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:20 AppleKeyStore.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:20 AppleFDEKeyStore.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:19 AppleEffaceableStorage.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:19 AppleEffaceableNOR.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:18 AppleTopCase.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:18 AppleGraphicsPowerManagement.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:18 AppleIntelPCHPMC.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:18 AppleLPC.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:18 AppleTyMCEDriver.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:17 AppleHIDMouse.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:17 AppleHIDKeyboard.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:17 AppleBluetoothMultitouch.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:17 AppleStorageDrivers.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:16 AppleWWANAutoEject.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:16 IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:15 IOBluetoothHIDDriver.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:15 IOBluetoothFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:15 AppleUSBNetworking.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:15 AppleUSBEthernet.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:15 AppleUSBCDC.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:15 AppleUSBECM.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:15 AppleUSBNCM.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:15 AppleUSBACM.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:15 AppleUSBDMM.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:15 AppleUSBWCM.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:15 IOUSBAttachedSCSI.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:15 IOUSBMassStorageClass.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:15 AppleUSBEEM.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:15 AppleOSXUSBNCM.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:15 IOUSBFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:15 IOSerialFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:14 AppleCredentialManager.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:14 AppleUSBAudio.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:13 AppleUSBFTDI.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:13 AppleUSBMultitouch.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:13 CellPhoneHelper.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:13 AppleUSBTopCase.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:13 IOUSBMassStorageDriver.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:13 AppleIRController.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:13 AppleUSBDisplays.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:12 IOAVBFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:11 AppleACPIPlatform.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:11 AppleMikeyHIDDriver.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:11 IOUSBHostFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:11 AppleHSSPIHIDDriver.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:11 AppleHSSPISupport.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:11 IOTimeSyncFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 9 00:10 IOHIDFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 2 00:23 smbfs.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 21 01:33 AMDRadeonX5000HWServices.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 21 01:33 AMD10000Controller.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 21 01:33 AMD5000Controller.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 21 01:33 AMD6000Controller.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 21 01:33 AMD7000Controller.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 21 01:33 AMD8000Controller.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 21 01:33 AMD9000Controller.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 21 01:33 AMD9300Controller.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 21 01:33 AMD9500Controller.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 21 01:33 AMD9510Controller.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 21 01:33 AMD9515Controller.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 21 01:33 AMD9520Controller.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 21 01:33 AMDFramebuffer.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 21 01:33 AMDSupport.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 21 01:33 AMD2400Controller.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 21 01:33 AMD2600Controller.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 21 01:33 AMD3800Controller.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 21 01:33 AMD4600Controller.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 21 01:33 AMD4800Controller.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 21 01:33 AMDLegacyFramebuffer.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 21 01:33 AMDLegacySupport.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 20 05:09 AppleIntelKBLGraphicsFramebuffer.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 20 05:09 AppleIntelBDWGraphicsFramebuffer.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 20 05:09 AppleIntelFramebufferAzul.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 20 05:09 AppleIntelFramebufferCapri.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 20 05:09 AppleIntelSKLGraphicsFramebuffer.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 18:00 acfsctl.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 18:00 acfs.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:51 apfs.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:42 AppleIntelHDGraphicsFB.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:42 AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:42 NVDANV50HalTesla.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:42 NVDAResmanTesla.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:39 AppleRAIDCard.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:39 AppleLSIFusionMPT.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:38 AppleHPM.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:37 AppleThunderboltUTDM.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:37 IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolTransport.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:37 IOSCSIParallelFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:37 Quarantine.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:37 AppleHDA.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:36 AppleIntelLpssSpiController.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:36 AppleIntelLpssDmac.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:36 AppleIntelLpssGspi.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:36 AppleIntelLpssI2CController.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:36 AppleIntelLpssI2C.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:36 AppleIntelLpssUARTCommon.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:36 AppleIntelLpssUARTv1.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:36 AppleIntelLpssUARTv0.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:36 AppleGraphicsControl.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:35 IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:35 IOAudioFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:34 Sandbox.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:34 IOAcceleratorFamily2.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:34 IONVMeFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:34 IOUserEthernet.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:34 AppleOnboardSerial.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:33 IOBDStorageFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:33 AppleSMCLMU.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:33 AppleBusPowerController.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:33 SMCMotionSensor.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:33 vecLib.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:33 AppleBacklight.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:33 AppleMCCSControl.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:33 AppleSEPManager.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:33 Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:32 AppleThunderboltEDMService.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:32 AppleCameraInterface.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:32 IONetworkingFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:32 Apple16X50Serial.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:31 IODVDStorageFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:31 cddafs.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:31 AppleThunderboltIP.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:31 IOFireWireIP.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:31 IOSkywalkFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:31 AppleSDXC.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:31 Apple_iSight.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:31 AppleSMC.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:31 NVSMU.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:31 IOATAFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:31 AppleAHCIPort.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:31 AppleSMBusController.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:31 AppleThunderboltPCIAdapters.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:31 AppleSMBusPCI.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:30 AppleMCP89RootPortPM.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:30 AppleThunderboltNHI.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:30 AppleAPIC.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:30 AppleOSXWatchdog.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:30 IOFireWireFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:30 AppleThunderboltDPAdapters.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:29 IOAHCIFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:29 IOHDIXController.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:29 AppleMobileFileIntegrity.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:29 CoreStorage.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:29 AppleFileSystemDriver.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:29 AppleRAID.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:29 IOCDStorageFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:28 AppleXsanScheme.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:28 IOVideoFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:28 AppleIntelSlowAdaptiveClocking.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:28 AppleEmbeddedOSSupportHost.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:28 AppleFIVRDriver.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:28 AppleHPET.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:28 AppleRTC.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:28 AppleSmartBatteryManager.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:27 Libm.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:27 EAP-KRB.ppp drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:27 HFS.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:27 EAP-TLS.ppp drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:27 HFSEncodings.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:27 pthread.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:27 udf.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:27 AppleSRP.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:27 AppleIntelMCEReporter.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:27 IOReportFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:27 webdav_fs.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:27 AppleMatch.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:27 corecrypto.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 mcxalr.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 autofs.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 ALF.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 triggers.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 IOBufferCopyEngineFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 corecapture.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 AppleHWSensor.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 OSvKernDSPLib.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 IOStorageFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 webcontentfilter.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 AppleInputDeviceSupport.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 IOSurface.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 AppleSMBIOS.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 IOACPIFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 IOSMBusFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 IOSlowAdaptiveClockingFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 TMSafetyNet.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 ntfs.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 BootCache.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 pmtelemetry.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 IOStreamFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 exfat.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 cd9660.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 msdosfs.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 AppleEFIRuntime.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 ApplePlatformEnabler.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Dec 17 17:26 AppleHV.kext drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 Dec 17 17:22 System.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Nov 15 00:49 AppleKextExcludeList.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Nov 10 00:35 AppleMultitouchDriver.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Nov 1 01:38 AppleVADriver.bundle drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Nov 1 01:19 IOAccelerator2D.plugin drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Oct 26 21:38 NVMeSMARTLib.plugin drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Oct 25 23:13 NVDAGF100Hal.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Oct 25 23:13 NVDAGK100Hal.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Oct 25 23:13 NVDAResman.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Oct 25 23:13 NVDAStartup.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Oct 23 18:52 IOThunderboltFamily.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Oct 11 00:06 EAP-RSA.ppp drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jul 15 2017 AppleFWAudio.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jul 15 2017 PPPSerial.ppp drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jul 15 2017 SMARTLib.plugin drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jul 15 2017 IOFireWireAVC.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jul 15 2017 IOFireWireSBP2.kext [/shell]

You're the man. I migrated from a Hackintosh to a Macbook Air, and apparently using Migration Assistant to migrate applications will copy kexts too. Thank you!

Justin, my name is Michalis from Greece. You saved me big time!!!! all my critical files were saved! i called Apple and couldnt do anything. they told me to format it. I didnt loose my hope and started researching again, until i saw your link. You are the best:)))

thank you!!!

This is fantastic. Thank you Justin , you saved me. I was about to reinstall my OS

Can i just add my appreciation for this fix. Thank you Justin. i was at my wits end after 24 hours in total researching a fix for my "stalling @ boot up" problem. booting up in recovery cmd +R then into terminal and inputing: mount -rw / cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/Extensions/ mkdir Unsupported mv *.kext Unsupported reboot it rebooted and everything is back to normal.

OMG! you wizard! :-) Ive been using with an old 3.1 and just installed bootcamp Win10. All was working fine until i decided to install an OWC PCIE SSD to run windows with dualboot. Windows was behaving fine, but when i rebooted to MAC, ta.ta.... and nothing! none of the standard things fixed it (Safe, Verbose, Single, PRAM, SMC flashing.etc..). i reinstalled IOS on a usb and while it was reinstalling, i saw your post. I rebooted to Recovery mode, went to terminal and found a OWCdualboot.kext. I promptly removed it....and i knew it was going to be fine. i entered the reboot command and......VOILA!!!!! :-) This step should be in EVERY manual or webpage for MAC reboot issues.... thx man!

This article was very useful, but when I navigate to my extensions, it won't let me make a directory. It reads back 'mkdir: Unsupported: Unknown Error: -32730.' Any help would be much appreciated.

You are a life saver!! Quite literally wasted days on this and I had invoices to send out. Thank you very much.

Hi Justin, I'm hoping you could help me out. When I'm using terminal in recovery mode it is telling me that cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Library/Extensions/ is not a directory. I am able to login to a backup admin account but not my main account and using terminal on the backup it tells me that it is a directory. I can't move forward with the guide at this stage and really need access to my main account! please help!!!

Thank you so much!!! You saved me :)

Hi, could you please help? I''m using this method to update from Yosemite to El Capitan. But it doesn't work 100% for me. My PC is bootlooping. PC Specs: Mobo H61 Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H Ram 16GB i5 Intel Processor 3.9Ghz HDD 2TB non SSD Ext VGA Geforce 730 What should I do now? Thanks!

Thank you so much! You saved me. I knew my problem was related to Logitech, as installing an update and (attempting) rebooting is what lead to my computer being bricked. But I wasn't sure how safe it was to start deleting every instance of Logitech in my already seemingly damaged OS. Your guide helped me do it safely and confidently. I'm eternally grateful. I had work that I would not have been able to retrieve through Target Disk Mode (xampp is weird) and you helped me get back all of my hard work!

Hey Justin, Thanks for this, I was suspecting a bad kext after I installed a new driver for a usb ethernet adapter. One thing I wanted to mention is I'm on High Sierra and the Macintosh HD for me wasn't initially mounted, so to mount it I first had to go into the Disk Utility where I could mount the Macintosh HD. I suspect this is due to password protection. Hope this helps someone else out there. Best and thanks!

Life saver, thank you so much! I came here because my Mojave was stuck in "Attempting system restart... MACH reboot". Hope this comment also helps others (Apple support included) find this post faster/easier in the sea of hackintosh posts that get in the way. Again, many thanks! BTW: mine was a kext related to HP printers.

Everytime i type anything it always be “no such file or directory”. I don’t use ane quotes, and why is your terminal looks blue and mine is white? Any part that I miss?

my mac pro had kernel panics and was endlessly restarting. just finished chatting with apple support and they said it was a hardware issue. I ran the script in recovery mode and that solved it! Awesome fix! Thank you!

Thank you so much for this solution!!!! My late 2015 model froze on reboot from installing Epson Printer drivers. Endless loop and wouldnt start, this fixed it. I have actually done a similar thing before when my older MacBooks GPU kicked it, thankfully they had dual graphics chips so in a similar fashion in Verbose mode i had to create a new folder manually and move GPU drivers to disable the faulty GPU on startup. Just like this script move the bad kexts. Fantastic, thank you so much! I thought i was going to have to bake my motherboard in the oven again.. lol ( actually a legit way to reflow dead GPUs ) but thankfully this wasnt hardware related.

Justin, let me just join the stream of comments here and say THANK YOU! I was starting to panic as I couldn't get my machine to boot. But after moving the kernel extensions to a separate folder as you suggested I can at last write this message from my laptop!

Hi Justin I also have a similar problem and I tried how you have explained above. I still get the AWDLPeermanager is restarting. I did everything you said using single user mode terminal but still not working. Anything I missed. Thanks a lot

Justin, YOU just ROCK! Thank you so much fot taking the time to share these lifesaving informations. Another desperate vintage Mac user.

Oh, I don't know how to thank you. You just saved my life. Your article and your code are SOOO helpful, I ran it, and now my computer is back to normal, I thought I lost everything. Thank you so much.

thank you for saving my hide! you're a legend. stupid drivers!

A massive thank you, thank you, thank you. After trying lots of stuff over several hours your "Script to Disable Non-Default Kext Files" worked great and the instructions were perfect.

Thaaaaaanks!!!!! lol

Thank you mate, you are great!

Thanks for the detailed guide, Justin! I was really struggling with my Mac hanging on boot for days, but your solution worked like a charm. I appreciate the step-by-step approach you provided. Keep up the great work!