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MacBook Pro - when reinstalling OS X, it comes up with OS X Mountain Lion and wants to select dis but Install icon remains grey. How do you select disk?
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.14
NB>> NO working disks are required for proper operation of Internet Recovery. Your Mac creates more than 25 RAM disks to use temporarily.
In Internet Recovery, these low negative thousands error messages indicate that your provided Wi-Fi Network is inadequate in some fashion, and cannot be used (for this purpose) in its current state.
Common problems include:
Hidden Network-name
required use of a proxy server to get Internet access
required use of a login page to get Internet access
Use of a login server or certificate to get Internet access
Use of PPPoE in the Mac to get Internet access (typically only applies to DSL)
Use of Fixed IP address rather than good old DHCP
Variance of the time by more than five minutes
Failure of Router to provide workable DNS server addresses, or providing 0.0.0.0 [may produce -2002f]
If you have an Ethernet port, you may in some cases be able to move your Mac close to the Router and connect to the Router using Ethernet.
The higher the number, the more obscure the problem.
If your battery was completely depleted, the Date&Time could have reverted to the default, which will not work. There is a terminal command to reset to current Internet Date&Time -- post back for assistance.
If your Mac starts up to error -1008F
NB>> NO working disks are required for proper operation of Internet Recovery. Your Mac creates more than 25 RAM disks to use temporarily.
In Internet Recovery, these low negative thousands error messages indicate that your provided Wi-Fi Network is inadequate in some fashion, and cannot be used (for this purpose) in its current state.
Common problems include:
Hidden Network-name
required use of a proxy server to get Internet access
required use of a login page to get Internet access
Use of a login server or certificate to get Internet access
Use of PPPoE in the Mac to get Internet access (typically only applies to DSL)
Use of Fixed IP address rather than good old DHCP
Variance of the time by more than five minutes
Failure of Router to provide workable DNS server addresses, or providing 0.0.0.0 [may produce -2002f]
If you have an Ethernet port, you may in some cases be able to move your Mac close to the Router and connect to the Router using Ethernet.
The higher the number, the more obscure the problem.
If your battery was completely depleted, the Date&Time could have reverted to the default, which will not work. There is a terminal command to reset to current Internet Date&Time -- post back for assistance.
If your Mac starts up to error -1008F
You click on one of the disk(s) it shows you that are candidates for install.
If a disk is shown, but it has an Attention Exclamation point, click on that for the reason it is not suitable.
If none of the disks displayed are suitable for install, or no disks are shown, you need to provide a working disk before you can install.
internal recovery came back with apple.com/support -2100F message
no disk option was shown
If none of the disks displayed are suitable for install, or no disks are shown, you need to provide a working disk before you can install.
progress bar gets stuck while trying to reinstall. When starting in internal recovery -
