Cannot boot. Stuck at grey screen

plasticman55 · plasticman55 #1 (**permalink**)

03-10-2011, 05:35 PM

I am having problems booting my Macbook Pro 13 2010. It was working fine, but after I restarted it, it just hangs at the grey screen. I have tried safe mode and resetting the pram, both do not work. I have also done fsck -fy in single user mode, and I get no errors. In verbose mode It stops loading at the last two lines:

BootCacheControl: could not create temporary playlist file: invalid argument
BootCacheControl: could not write playlist

I do not think this is a hardware problem because I am writing this off my bootcamp partition.
I do not have an OSX disk to boot from. Is there anything I can do?

harryb2448 · harryb2448 #2 (**permalink**)

03-10-2011, 09:21 PM

Go and purchase the operating system disc and run Repair Disc. It is the best trouble shooting utility available.

plasticman55 · plasticman55 #3 (**permalink**)

03-10-2011, 10:44 PM

I there anything I can do without the install disk. I can post a picture of the verbose boot if needed.

plasticman55 #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 02, 2010 Posts: 10	03-10-2011, 05:35 PM I am having problems booting my Macbook Pro 13 2010. It was working fine, but after I restarted it, it just hangs at the grey screen. I have tried safe mode and resetting the pram, both do not work. I have also done fsck -fy in single user mode, and I get no errors. In verbose mode It stops loading at the last two lines: BootCacheControl: could not create temporary playlist file: invalid argument BootCacheControl: could not write playlist I do not think this is a hardware problem because I am writing this off my bootcamp partition. I do not have an OSX disk to boot from. Is there anything I can do? Last edited by plasticman55; 03-10-2011 at 06:07 PM.
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harryb2448 #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Nov 28, 2007 Location: Nambucca Heads Australia Posts: 14,265 Mac Specs: iMac i5 2.7GHz OS X.8.3	03-10-2011, 09:21 PM Go and purchase the operating system disc and run Repair Disc. It is the best trouble shooting utility available. *Hang on to those original install discs like grim death! Using OS X.7 or later make a bootable USB thumb drive before running Installer!*
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