My iMac is having some boot issues. But I keep getting error codes -2003F and -2106F on internet recovery. I can’t find what they mean, so can someone tell me?
They both mean connection problems to Apple's Servers, sometimes Ethernet will work instead of WiFi.
Might require someone near you putting an OSX installer ob a USB stick for you.
Ok I installed the new HDD and it’s working like a charm :) thanks
Gulp, might be failing/failed Hard Drive, I'd get another external drive to install to.
Ok update. I just retried to boot into the usb. It worked! It asked me to select my language and brought me to the recovery screen. I chose disk utility to see if I could repair the disk and save some stuff.
So for the about 3 hours it’s been saying “Loading disks” with the loading circle above it. I exited disk utility after the first 5 minutes and went to reinstall macOS. I got to the screen where it tells me to select a disk to install it one and only the usb, which is locked, showed up. Not my HDD(Macintosh HD) nor my Recovery partition. I went back to disk utility and it’s been loading ever since.
Hmmm, not sure why it needs any connection, been too long since I tried it.
How long did it freeze, might look that way for many minutes or more?
thanks I ordered one two days ago. I’ll install it and see if that’s the problem. :)
OK, do let us know the outcome please.
Great to hear, thanks for the report, take care my friend. :)
Ok. I created a bootable installer on my usb stick using Apple’s online instructions. I selected it on the disk selector and connected to my wifi(it won’t let me connect to Ethernet?). After a while, the Apple logo shows up and it starts loading slowly, but freezes at the end. I might be doing something wrong trying to boot into it. Is there a certain way to do it?
It stays with the logo and the full progress bar. I left it like that all night once and nothing happened. Here is the picture of what it looks like after I select the bootable usb.
(I’m not sure why the picture is upside down on my Screen)
it freezes for about 5 minutes here, then goes to the logo and progress bar.
OK, let us know how it's going please.
21.5 inch iMac mid-2011
