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1. Turn off mac
2. Turn on and hold down command, option, p and r
3. Hold until it reboots
4. Let go when it chimes and let it load
Hopefully that will resolve it.
In any case, the first thing you need to do is boot up without FV and do a full backup if you can.
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I would boot into recovery mode and run permissions repair, verify disk etc and try rebooting again with FV on and go from there.
cheers will try that permissions thing
tim
You might have a permissions error on your drive, or your drive is about to die on you.
Also, fixing permissions using Disk Utility can be a bit hit and miss. Much better to do it from within terminal.
did the other stuff.
rebooted
activated FV
rebooted - prob was back - unresponsive keyboard so can't log in.
after a while option to power cycle in to a login issues screen comes up
do that
subsequent screen asks for password to disable FV
type it in
says pw is wrong (it isn't - try many many times being super careful with typing)
stuck I in a loop of the 6 lines above :-(
boot cycles now seem to take an age between chime and apple logo
Also got a 'partition size error kit prevent boot' message running no first aid in the disk this time.
fix seems to be to change partition size then change it back, but I couldn't do this in safe mode for some reason (just errors and stopped the process)
was as about to give up and do fresh OS X install but re-did the pram reset for no particular reason. This time it booted normally - wtf.
filevault now reports encrypting the drive. Few mins remaining. The next reboot will be the important one...
(looks around empty office)
:-/