OSX Yosemite 10.10.3 freeze during installation now won't start up help!

When updating to OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 the installation process freezed up with 1 min left. I waited few hours and decided to shutdown my Macbook Pro with the power button and waited 30 sec to power back on, but my Mac won't start up! You see the apple logo and a progress bar for 2 min and than a black screen with sometimes a spinner rotating and disappearing again showing the cursor back and forth. I turned it back off and need some advice from someone what to do next!
Please can someone help me with this!?

I solved the problem myself. This is what i did:
First i restart in safe mode:
Turn off you Mac wait 10 sec
Press on the on/off button
Keep the Shift-key pushed in when you hear the startup sound, not before that!
Let go of the shift-key when you see the Apple-logo on the screen
Next:
Wait until progress bar is done and the Mac starts up in safe mode.The system feels unstable, but ignore that for now.
Go into Apple Store and make sure that are no updates left to install if the are install them.
Then go into Disk-utility and check your Macintosh HD on faults.
If something turns up wrong with your HD close Disk-utility and shut down your mac (make sure any updates are done).
Now we going to repair HD:
Startup your mac
And directly keep pressing COMMAND + R keys until you see the Apple-logo appear then release them.
You will see some options and go into Disk-utility and select your Macintosh HD second one down and repair the disk and wait until done.
If everything is repaired correctly you can restart you mac, done..

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