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Q: Trying to restore to Mavericks factory settings, it downloads Yosemite

Hi everybody,

I am having a problem in restoring my Macbook Pro to factory settings.

 

I currently have Mavericks installed, I have followed the standard procedure to do a factory settings reset. I have erased my HD first, but when I click on reinstall OSX, it downloads Yosemite instead of Mavericks (and that is a problem for me, since part of the software I use still don't work on Yosemite).

 

I signed up to the Yosemite beta program, I tested it just one day then I had to go back to Mavericks using Time Machine for that reason.

Maybe that's the problem? There is no way to reinstall Mavericks instead of Yosemite?

 

Thanks for your precious help,

Emanuele

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Sep 11, 2014 1:43 AM

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Q: Trying to restore to Mavericks factory settings, it downloads Yosemite

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  • by Kingoftypos,

    Kingoftypos Kingoftypos Oct 16, 2014 8:30 AM in response to Csound1
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    Oct 16, 2014 8:30 AM in response to Csound1

    I have Yosemite installed on a 2012 Mac Mini. If I were to do Internet Recovery, it will downgrade me back to what was original installed, which was 10.8 Mt Lion.

     

    If I do the regular recovery, it reinstalls Yosemite.

     

    The rules are outlined in this article. Just below the graph. OS X: About OS X Recovery

     

    KOT

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Oct 16, 2014 8:48 AM in response to Ghost_Rider
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    Oct 16, 2014 8:48 AM in response to Ghost_Rider

    That machine may not even have Internet Recovery abilities. Machines that shipped with Lion were the first (some 10.6.7 machines may have had a retrograde firmware update to add it)

     

    But if you keep getting Yose then I'll assume that you don't have IR and are seeing the (expected) standard Recovery partition.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Oct 16, 2014 8:35 AM in response to Kingoftypos
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    Oct 16, 2014 8:35 AM in response to Kingoftypos

    Thanks, already got the rules.

  • by Ghost_Rider,

    Ghost_Rider Ghost_Rider Oct 16, 2014 8:39 AM in response to Loner T
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    Oct 16, 2014 8:39 AM in response to Loner T

    Hi Loner T. Yes my MacBook Pro is in the list and already had the MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 2.5 applied years ago.

  • by Ghost_Rider,

    Ghost_Rider Ghost_Rider Oct 16, 2014 8:41 AM in response to Csound1
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    Oct 16, 2014 8:41 AM in response to Csound1

    Hi Csound1. Yes my MacBook Pro already had the MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 2.5 applied years ago. I do get the real Internet Recovery if I want it. You know, the spinning globe and the download before you get to the recovery screen.

  • by Kingoftypos,

    Kingoftypos Kingoftypos Oct 16, 2014 8:42 AM in response to Csound1
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    Oct 16, 2014 8:42 AM in response to Csound1

    Oh sorry, I purposely posted to your name because I was going to write it as if I was agreeing with you with the above. But when I read it, it didn't seem like I was. So I deleted the quote from one of your posts and forgot that the website was pointing to your name.

     

    To ghost_rider, here's a link to a list of Macs that can accept a firmware like update to do Internet Recovery. Computers that can be upgraded to use OS X Internet Recovery

     

    Now what does that mean for it wanting to install Yosemite? You've got me on that one.

     

    KOT

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Oct 16, 2014 8:46 AM in response to Ghost_Rider
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    Oct 16, 2014 8:46 AM in response to Ghost_Rider

    Ghost_Rider wrote:

     

    Hi Csound1. Yes my MacBook Pro already had the MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 2.5 applied years ago. I do get the real Internet Recovery if I want it. You know, the spinning globe and the download before you get to the recovery screen.

    And when you use Internet Recovery you get Yosemite?

  • by Ghost_Rider,

    Ghost_Rider Ghost_Rider Oct 16, 2014 8:57 AM in response to Csound1
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    Oct 16, 2014 8:57 AM in response to Csound1

    Yup

  • by Ghost_Rider,

    Ghost_Rider Ghost_Rider Oct 16, 2014 9:28 AM in response to Csound1
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    Oct 16, 2014 9:28 AM in response to Csound1

    CSound1, FWIW my MacBook Pro is an oldie but goodie. Purchased October 20, 2010. It even has gray hair like its owner.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Oct 16, 2014 9:31 AM in response to Ghost_Rider
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    Oct 16, 2014 9:31 AM in response to Ghost_Rider

    How odd, and how undocumented is that. I have no Mac of that particular vintage (execpt for a MacBook) so I can't test, but I have not seen that before (and as Yose is prerelease) I am very surprised.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Oct 16, 2014 9:32 AM in response to Ghost_Rider
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    Oct 16, 2014 9:32 AM in response to Ghost_Rider

    That suggests that the hair has remained in place, small mercies

  • by Ghost_Rider,

    Ghost_Rider Ghost_Rider Oct 16, 2014 9:39 AM in response to Csound1
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    Oct 16, 2014 9:39 AM in response to Csound1

    I have a white MacBook running Leopard (10.5.8). Should I give it a try? heheheheh

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Oct 16, 2014 9:46 AM in response to Ghost_Rider
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    Oct 16, 2014 9:46 AM in response to Ghost_Rider

    Mine is a 2010 MB, white, now with 16GB of Ram and a 500GB SSD, it's running that OS that we are all waiting for

     

    It came with Snow Leopard (10.6.4) and lived in its box from new until last October (a gift never given) turned out to be quite a machine

     

    My daily driver is an 09 MBP which fits well so I use it in preference to any of the newer machines I have (and that is a lot) but they all have jobs already.

  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Oct 16, 2014 5:21 PM in response to Ghost_Rider
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    Oct 16, 2014 5:21 PM in response to Ghost_Rider

    Ghost_Rider wrote:

     

    My machine originally shipped with 10.6.3. Perhaps that would explain this behavior?

    If it shipped with 10.6.3, and you upgraded the firmware to allow Internet Recovery, then it has some weird behavior which I don’t fully understand.

    I’ve heard that you can no longer boot from the original install DVD. However, I don’t know what gets installed during Internet Recovery. It didn’t ship with Lion, but that would be the logical choice. It may just install what is on the Recovery partition. I don’t know what it will do if your put in a blank hard drive.

     

    I realize that probably created more confusion, but if you have the ability to answer some of those questions, it might be interesting trivia, and helpful to some others in your same situation.

  • by Justice7,

    Justice7 Justice7 Oct 19, 2014 2:06 PM in response to Loner T
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    Oct 19, 2014 2:06 PM in response to Loner T

    LonerT,

    thanks for the reply. Interestingly enough, i never had Yosemite installed. I had erased my drive to do a clean reinstall of Mavericks OS which is what i had installed, since this was a few days before Yosemite release. When I went to do internet recovery, it tried to install Yosemite....

    Finally, i ended up doing a reinstall off my time capsule from about a year ago (just how far i chose to go back because i had a smaller backup back then).

    This actually put me back to Mountain Lion. Once reinstalled, i erased the drive again. Also, i partitioned the drive to 2 partitions, the smallest partition being around 36 GB(couldn't get it smaller than that). I did internet recovery again and this time it again installed Yosemite. Yosemite actually installed correctly this time without the error "temporarily unavailable". Drive is clean and Yosemite installed and working great.

    This was my initial goal to begin with. But, if anyone has the same issue, this method worked for me.

    ** I did NOT have a USB or other external drive to use for the "preferred method".

    Justice7

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