Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
For whatever reason while I was formatting the old Data and reinstalling MacOS, recovery mode dumped itself and I can only network install.
When I Network install i get a –1008F error. I think I get this error is because the HDD (not actually a HDD) is MacOS journaled and it wants AFPS. I'd love to reformat the internal storage as AFPS, but I can’t because recovery mode doesn‘t work.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.2
If you had "Find My Mac" enabled, this can be a cause of your issue.
If your Mac starts up to error -1008F - Apple Support
Follow the section "Or disable Activation lock" with the second set of instructions since you obviously cannot log in.
As far as the format, the network installer will format the drive to what ever format required for it.
If you had "Find My Mac" enabled, this can be a cause of your issue.
If your Mac starts up to error -1008F - Apple Support
Follow the section "Or disable Activation lock" with the second set of instructions since you obviously cannot log in.
As far as the format, the network installer will format the drive to what ever format required for it.
You can also install the OS from a bootable flash drive. Of course that requires a working Mac to create but maybe you have a buddy with a Mac who can help you out.
I use app Install Disk Creator. It's free and safe and takes maybe 15 minutes to create the bootable flash drive.
I thought that would be an option, but I first tried to create a drive like that on windows via external software. That worked, but when I hold the option key after rebooting to switch to the Flash Drive it goes straight into network install. Which then fails with the -1008F error…
There seems to be no way around network install, but network install fails and I can’t remove the SSD and format it in a different Mac, as it’s soldered. I’m not going to desolder, reball and reinstall storage on my Mac.
What wonders me is how changing the format of storage (from AFPS to journaled) accidentally completely breaks Recovery mode…
I did that, didn’t work. I then removed the device entirely from my Apple ID, it still shows the same error.
I just tired network install a bunch of times, luckily on the 6th try it worked. The Mac is up and running!
Thanks to you 2 for helping out!
Can‘t network install, but I know why, just won’t let me fix it
