When trying to reinstall macOS High Sierra, the error says the recovery server could not be contacted. What do I do?
When trying to reinstall macOS High Sierra, the error says the recovery server could not be contacted. What do I do?
MacBook
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When trying to reinstall macOS High Sierra, the error says the recovery server could not be contacted. What do I do?
MacBook
https://recoverit.wondershare.com/mac-tips/the-recovery-server-could-not-be-contacted.html
I was trying to reinstall High Sierra on an older MacBook Air using internet recovery and I kept on getting an error message when trying to reinstall High Sierra.
The recovery server could not be contacted
It appears that this has to do with the time on the machine not being synchronized, so when the MacBook tries to reach out to the recovery server the certificates do not validate and we get this useless error message.
To fix this.
ntpdate -u time.apple.com
https://gist.github.com/levlaz/16b63384bd5e1bee3593be0d91aedbd7
https://recoverit.wondershare.com/mac-tips/the-recovery-server-could-not-be-contacted.html
I was trying to reinstall High Sierra on an older MacBook Air using internet recovery and I kept on getting an error message when trying to reinstall High Sierra.
The recovery server could not be contacted
It appears that this has to do with the time on the machine not being synchronized, so when the MacBook tries to reach out to the recovery server the certificates do not validate and we get this useless error message.
To fix this.
ntpdate -u time.apple.com
https://gist.github.com/levlaz/16b63384bd5e1bee3593be0d91aedbd7
I got it!
Great news, take care my friend!
Try setting DNS Servers in Terminal..
sudo networksetup -setdnsservers AirPort 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4
I got it, the problem was the internet but thank you!
When trying to reinstall macOS High Sierra, the error says the recovery server could not be contacted. What do I do?