Timeline for Macbook Pro Won't Boot off of USB Flash Drive
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| Dec 30, 2018 at 10:02 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
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| Sep 1, 2018 at 16:30 | answer | added | Sherwood Botsford | timeline score: 1 | |
| S Sep 1, 2018 at 16:00 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
| S Sep 1, 2018 at 16:00 | history | notice removed | CommunityBot | ||
| Aug 28, 2018 at 5:58 | comment | added | Ruskes | did you try to run checksum on the usb ? | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 12:41 | comment | added | Sherwood Botsford | No, I suspect that computer is infected with malware. I want to erase the recovery partition before proceeding. IR will not allow me to replace with Yosemite as it is capable of High Sierra. But High Sierra doesn't run Aperture. | |
| Aug 25, 2018 at 16:27 | comment | added | kouwei32 | If you want to install macOS from scratch, you could try to install via Internet Recovery Mode, since it doesn't require a operating system. Go ahead and press Command+R on startup and select a WiFi Network or plug in an Ethernet cable, and it should load the Recovery OS after some loading. You should to be able to install macOS from there. | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 17:10 | comment | added | David Anderson | Also, if you download Yosemite again you will get the last released version instead of 10.10.3. This might make a difference. | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 17:06 | comment | added | David Anderson | Have you tried installing an older version of OS X and then upgrading to Yosemite using the application instead of a USB drive? | |
| Aug 24, 2018 at 14:49 | comment | added | user7886229 | does same occur when booting from usb but on a diff Mac? | |
| S Aug 24, 2018 at 14:46 | history | bounty started | Sherwood Botsford | ||
| S Aug 24, 2018 at 14:46 | history | notice added | Sherwood Botsford | Draw attention | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 18:55 | history | edited | Sherwood Botsford | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
explained lack of sudo, added note about superdrive
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| Aug 20, 2018 at 12:44 | answer | added | bret7600 | timeline score: -1 | |
| Aug 20, 2018 at 12:25 | history | edited | Sherwood Botsford | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added command used to create the jump drive.
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| Aug 20, 2018 at 0:44 | history | edited | Sherwood Botsford | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added last message from verbose boot.
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| Aug 19, 2018 at 13:19 | history | edited | Sherwood Botsford | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Corrected OS #
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| Aug 18, 2018 at 22:27 | history | asked | Sherwood Botsford | CC BY-SA 4.0 |