Grey screen and ? after updating any answers please?
Grey screen and ? after updating my Mac Book Air?
What next please?
Anyone else had this problem?
Something appears to have gone wrong while running the updater. Use the MacBook Air's original thumbdrive or the recovery partition(if it's running 10.7 or newer) to repair the internal drive or install a new OS.
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