You’ve tried entering your password, but it doesn’t work. Should you try guessing? As that imposes increasing waiting times of up to 8 hours, maybe not. Try this instead.
Recovery Assistant
If you’re lucky, it should restart into Recovery Assistant. Otherwise advice on how to manage a boot loop or freeze, and how to disable 3rd party kernel extensions.
We’re running out of panaceas. Resetting NVRAM and SMC, repairing permissions, installing the Combo updater. or re-installing macOS, are vanishing fast. Is Recovery Assistant the new panacea?
An enhancement to Recovery intended to fix Macs that don’t start up correctly. Also available in Recovery mode.
