Q: Both Mavericks and Yosemite stall at "One Second Remaining"
This has been a very disappointing experience and I am surprised that it came from Apple. My wife's old Macbook Pro's HDD completely died and so I am replacing it, reinstalling OSX and then putting back what files we could salvage.
I have now tried to create a USB installer for OS X Mavericks and Yosemite. When I tried the Yosemite installer the error log said it could not find a keychain related file and a decent hour after it said that only a second was remaining, the OS never installed.
Now I am trying Mavericks and the log gives many "Could not find package ref" errors and I am coming into an hour of waiting for "one second remaining" to finish and the install to work.
Seriously Apple? This one of the worst and most frustrating installations I have ever done - and that's been a wide range of operating systems in the past. The install program gives no human friendly error, no indication of what to do, no indication it will ever work. Most posts seem to say "just wait" ...
Just wait? How long is a user expected to wait for "about a second remaining" to last anyway?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2)
Posted on Mar 16, 2015 10:44 PM