After install, Mac won't boot.
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#105 After install, Mac won't boot.
I installed AJ1.6 on my MacMini Server running 10.6.8 with internal drives configured as Raid.
After running AppleJack, the computer will not boot. It restarts and I get the RAM gong, the screen turns solid grey, the Apple comes up and then you get the windmill spinning below it but it never moves from there.
It will not boot in safe mode - I get to the grey screen, then get the universal "do not" symbol ( a circle with a diagonal line) and the windmill but nothing further.
I ran AppleJack 1.6 on 10.11 (El Capitan) to clear caches and repair the drive. Afterwards I could not boot up either normally nor safe mode. Booting up in visual mode (hold Cmd-V) revealed that the FIPS test failed. That was the end as I didn't want to go through the hoops of disabling FIPS. I booted up from the Recovery drive and re-installed the OS and all was fine again.