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Dell Mini 10v Mac OS X Discussion Discussion dedicated to installing and setting up Mac OS X on the Dell Mini 1011
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| Junior Member Posts: 5 Join Date: Jun 2010 |  Updated 10v Hackintosh, now stuck in reboot loop -
07-11-2011, 01:22 AM
Hi guys, My wife mistakenly did a full update of her Mini 10v through Software Update. Now when the machine starts, it's stuck in a reboot loop. Safe Mode doesn't work. We have a Time Machine backup. Any ideas on how I can boot up and apply NBI, or is there a better method? |
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| Senior Member  Posts: 229 Join Date: May 2010 |
07-11-2011, 02:06 AM
Press and hold shift on booting, when on the chameleon boot screen, type: recovery=y and hit enter. |
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| Junior Member Posts: 5 Join Date: Jun 2010 |
07-11-2011, 07:34 PM
When I press and hold shift, the system beeps, then again enters the reboot loop. |
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| Junior Member  Posts: 26 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: SF Bay Area, USA |
07-11-2011, 11:16 PM
Look at this thread..it worked for me 10.6.8 ... ruh roh. |
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| Junior Member Posts: 5 Join Date: Jun 2010 |
07-12-2011, 02:03 PM
Thanks. Out of curiosity, how do I install the item if I can't boot into the system? |
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| Senior Member Posts: 229 Join Date: May 2010 |
07-12-2011, 04:50 PM
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| Junior Member Posts: 5 Join Date: Jun 2010 |
07-13-2011, 12:08 AM
I can hold down shift, and I get the boot screen. I can type Recovery=y, but then the system reboots and again goes into the boot loop. I wonder if it's just time to reformat and reinstall? |
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| Senior Member Posts: 131 Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: USA | 
07-13-2011, 06:23 PM
Hhmm... Well, let's see.... It's been a long time since I used recovery=y, so I was stumped myself. 1. Hold shift. [at the boot screen or immediately after the screen with the Dell logo] 2. On the screen with your hard drive name, type: recovery=y & hit enter 3. Wait for OSX to load. I did it on a Mini 9. (Hopefully it works all the same on a 10v.) Anyway, the system took a while to load, so I typed recovery=y again, but it had already worked the 1st time. OSX loaded, & I was in there. Thank goodness. :-) ________________________________________ Please DON'T DO the following as it will not work! What I was doing wrong before: Getting to the screen with my hard drive name on it, pressing the down arrow, selecting boot, typing recovery=y & getting stuck in the reboot loop.... DUH! XD  |
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| Junior Member  Posts: 6 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Houston, Texas   |
07-18-2011, 04:59 AM
I was stuck in a loop too, I tried everything I could think of, couldn't get into safe mode and could not get the computer to boot up from the SD card that had my OSX install on it until I pressed F12 at the Dell logo screen, that let me open up the SD card, and I was finally able to re-install OSX, rebooted the computer and everything was back to normal. Hope that helps.  |
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| Junior Member Posts: 22 Join Date: Jul 2011 |
08-27-2011, 04:57 PM
I am stuck in boot loop as well with my Dell Mini 10V (1011) but holding shift does nothing. Everything was working fine and completely updated to 10.6.8 when on a normal restart I am stuck in boot loop. Any ideas how I can get back into OS X and fix boot issue? |
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