Hi, Sounds like File Vault is enabled. The beep sound is waiting for you to enter your username. It is expecting textual input. So, if you entered Cameron Strife as your user, then enter cameronstrife, all lower case, no spaces as the username, then press return. You will then hear two beeps, enter your password at this point then press return. You should then hear three beeps. It will take a minute or so, then your Desktop will appear and it's ready to go as usual.
Why did this happen you ask? In the High Sierra installer, there is a dialog that, by default, has File Vault checked or enabled. You need to pay attention to this part of the installer and uncheck that box if you do not want File Vault enabled. We get used to cruising through these installers, but it sometimes ends up throwing us a curve ball, or maybe it's a spit ball :). Later... Tim Kilburn Apple Teacher Fort McMurray, AB Canada On May 17, 2018, at 07:58, Cameron Strife <came...@cameronstrife.com> wrote: Hi everyone. Hopefully someone has a fix for this? I bought a second hand mac book air recently. The previous owner had not wiped their drive so as I always do with a new machine, I wiped the drive after booting into recovery. I reinstalled high sierra after doing that while still in utilities. The install seemed to go fine and I setup high sierra and installed my apps etc. After rebooting the machine however, all i get after the mac chime is a single beep. voiceover will not load and I can't seem to read anything on the screen using the seeing AI iPhone app. so, i wiped the drive again and this time, installed high sierra via a bootable flash drive I created on my iMac using disk maker x. Again the install went fine, I setup everything after high sierra loaded and all seemed fine. I signed into iCloud and I get the notification on my other devices that I'm signed into facetime and iMessage on a new mac. I restarted the machine and just as before, once the chime sounded, I got a single beep and then nothing. I powered down the machine and reset the pram. Once it restarted again, the exact same thing happened. When I boot into mac utilities again, I can see the macintosh partition in startup disk but it says it can't access it. I haven't come across this before. Would anybody out there have any ideas? The machine does not have apple care so I can't call them about it. Thanks, Cameron. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
