A fix for the OS X Black Screen of Doom
I have just been through a week of heel with OS X and I think I’ve found an answer to a problem that many OS X users have experienced: OS X 10.11.1 (“El Capitan”) boots to a black screen with the mouse pointer located in the upper left hand corner and that’s it. I found I was able to boot into “safe” mode but, on a 5K iMac, that’s like trying to run a Ferrari on lighter fluid.
This all started when we left to visit relatives over Thanksgiving week. On the day before leaving I got paranoid and decided to disable automatic login on on my iMac so that if my house was broken into and my machine was stolen, the bad guys would be slowed down and, because it seemed like a good idea at the time, I selected “Use iCloud password.”
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