Anyone else have the MacBook Pro stuck on a black screen. I have tried force restarting and then also holding Option. The only choice on the boot screen is MacOS Installer and it goes back to the black screen.
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During Install, stuck on Black Screen
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Having the same issue. Unable to boot with Macintosh HD.
Mine seems to be stuck too.
Had Big Sur RC installed on a separate volume, but now wanted to upgrade the main Catalina partition. Seing the progress bar on the black screen, but it's not moving. I can move my mouse (via BT) and wake up the computer, but it just seems not to progress. Or is it? Should I dare resetting or just wait. It's been 2 hours now.
Edit: Took the chance and rebooted the Mac. Started up in MacOS Big Sur ok, so no problems now.
Had Big Sur RC installed on a separate volume, but now wanted to upgrade the main Catalina partition. Seing the progress bar on the black screen, but it's not moving. I can move my mouse (via BT) and wake up the computer, but it just seems not to progress. Or is it? Should I dare resetting or just wait. It's been 2 hours now.
Edit: Took the chance and rebooted the Mac. Started up in MacOS Big Sur ok, so no problems now.
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My MBA (2018) is not yet stuck with the black screen but the fans are going Crazy?! I will stick to Catalina on my iMac 2020 for the time being.
During the installation, my MacBook Pro stuck on a blank black screen. I tried to boot from USB, boot recovery, reset NVRAM, SMC with no luck. Seems like the notebook is bricked. When I press the power button, only the screen turns on and the Apple logo on the lid back. no sound, no Apple logo at screen, nothing.
Similar problem, but on a 2019 iMac 27".
I've restarted a few times but I keep coming back to being stuck on the black screen for what seems like ages. I've resorted to putting a sticky note on the progress bar so I can tell whether or not it's actually moving. At the minute, it's not moving at all.
Edit: I've managed to start a restore from a time machine backup.
I've restarted a few times but I keep coming back to being stuck on the black screen for what seems like ages. I've resorted to putting a sticky note on the progress bar so I can tell whether or not it's actually moving. At the minute, it's not moving at all.
Edit: I've managed to start a restore from a time machine backup.
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Same here — my iMac has been stuck at around 95 % for over 2 hours now.. I tried to place the mouse cursor in such a way to measure progress. 😂
Yup I was just impatient I thought it was frozen , so I held down the power button for a few seconds and it restarted
Same thing happened to me on two separate tries on a late 2016 15" MacBook Pro. Had to force reboot into recovery mode and re-install Catalina... would love to know if anyone's found a fix, restarting didn't complete the install for me. Might just wait for the next version to be released before going Big Sur.
Yesterday, I had to zap my PRAM multiple times, restart multiple times, and then at one point the installer finally continued again and eventually it finished and Big Sur is installed on my Mid-2014 13" MacBook Pro
The install on my 2013 Air took around 3 hours. Install stalled on black screen around the 45% mark. Forced the reboot - got back to the same point again. Walked away for 30 minutes and it wrapped up slowly after I returned. So maybe not a stall so much as a really slow install?
Mine is in exactly the same place. None of the safe mode, recovery mode options work for me. It's been like this for around 12 hours no. Still no luck rebooting, Apple Support have suggested I take it for service... Not happy!
Exactly the same here - mid 2014 13” MBP. Seems completely bricked