My friend asked me to reset this old MBP to its original state so she could pass it on to her niece. The erase went ok. The re-install, not so much. It does the install, but then when the installer reboots, I get the attached error and it reboots itself. Then gets the same error and reboots, etc., etc., etc., until I have to shut it off lest it overheat. I am aware that there is an issue with the battery, however, it is plugged into the AC, so that should (IMHO) not be at issue, however, I'm stumped. As my personal MBP is much newer, I can't even create a boot USB for it as the machine can't run Big Sur and it's a ridiculous undertaking to make a Yosemite boot USB while running Big Sur. I've run a repair on all available disk drives, multiple times and attempted a reinstall multiple times. I'm seriously at a loss. Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated. (My personal opinion: send the dang thing in for recycling and buy her niece a lower cost iMac, but I don't think that's going to happen.)
Oh, and for the record: it would boot up and run just fine prior to my wiping it and doing the reinstall, so I'm not sure if I did something, or what I did uncovered a 'masked' problem that is only evident because I'm attempting to reinstall Yosemite.
Also, it had been upgraded to Catalina prior to the wipe/reinstall, so I'm not sure if that's causing an issue.
CTRL-OPTION-R did not allow me to boot from the internet (apparently the model is too old), so that's a no go. Neither did SHIFT-CTRL-OPTION-R. Turning it on and trying to run the Diagnostics didn't work either. (From what I read, hold the D after the chime until you see the progress bar...but this MBP doesn't 'chime' when you restart it, so it's a guessing game for me).
Again, any insight anyone can give me would be extremely helpful.