Please, apple help me solve the problem. Instal Sierra "error 110". Bought macbook Pro 2011.

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Please, apple help me solve the problem. Instal Sierra "error 110". Bought macbook Pro 2011.

Hello, I bought an used macbook Pro 8, 1 @ 2,4 Ghz (x4), 4096 MB RAM (2011) OS Build: Mac OS X 10.12.6 (16G29).

Problem is that I bought it while seller runned reinstalling MacOS. But in the end of installation (100%) complete coming next error message:

"An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again."

I tried to run it around 10-20 times with same and different configurations. But nothing helps.

In the end of installation when Installer log says its 1.000000 = 100%

Installer log giving next messages about error.

"Couldn't mount base system dmg! (error code 110)

IAtool: Failed to mount outer dmg

Unable to setup bles on disk

What can I do about it ? Can You help me solve the problem ?

Under log you can find full log text file.

Installer log.



Jan  4 11:43:12 MacBook-Pro osinstallersetupd[539]: Skipping preflighting firmware since we're booted into the Recovery OS
Jan  4 11:43:12 MacBook-Pro osinstallersetupd[539]: Operation queue succeeded
Jan  4 11:43:12 MacBook-Pro powerd[152]: Assertion Released. Type:NoIdleSleepAssertion Name:'OSInstaller Setup' Id:0x100008005 Process:osinstallersetupd [System: DeclUser kDisp]
Jan  4 11:43:12 MacBook-Pro InstallAssistant[536]: Finished operation queue
Jan  4 11:43:12 MacBook-Pro osishelperd[549]: Wrote prev-lang:kbd=en:3
Jan  4 11:43:12 MacBook-Pro osishelperd[549]: Current phase is: OS Installer
Jan  4 11:43:13 MacBook-Pro osishelperd[549]: mountDiskImageWithPath: /Volumes/Instal/macOS Install Data/InstallESD.dmg
Jan  4 11:43:14 MacBook-Pro osishelperd[549]: Couldn't mount base system dmg! (error code 110)
Jan  4 11:43:14 MacBook-Pro osishelperd[549]: IATOOL: Failed to mount outer dmg
Jan  4 11:43:14 MacBook-Pro osinstallersetupd[539]: Unable to setup bless on disk.
Jan  4 11:54:26 MacBook-Pro powerd[152]: Assertion TimedOut. Type:UserIsActive Name:'com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle.4294968094.11' Id:0x900008002 Process:hidd [System: DeclUser kDisp]
Jan  4 11:54:27 MacBook-Pro powerd[152]: Display is turned off
Jan  4 11:54:27 MacBook-Pro powerd[152]: Assertion Summary. Type:ExternalMedia Name:'com.apple.powermanagement.externalmediamounted' Id:0x800008000 Process:powerd [System: No Assertions]

Installer log.

MacBook Pro

Posted on Jan 4, 2023 12:34 PM

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ersaxp

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Jan 8, 2023 6:55 PM in response to ersaxp

It would be helpful to understand what error 110 represents.

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ersaxp

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Jan 8, 2023 6:54 PM in response to Immortal_Daddy

I'm running into the same issue, using Internet installer approach. Looking for guidance. I did not build a USB installer - using macOS Recovery tools on the existing system.

I erased the drive to make sure it was clean and tried the installation again. No change in condition. Log file is identical to the entry above.

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BDAqua

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Jan 15, 2023 9:16 AM in response to ersaxp

Bob is mostly rught,but...

Error 5101...

So, according to the articles, I have an incompatible Boot ROM version (or commonly known as BIOS). (To check it, go to the Apple logo - About My Mac- System Report - Hardware and see the number of Boot ROM version)

And that was right! I have two other MBPs and the Boot ROM versions were 428 for the 2014 and 424 for the 2015. The problem one was still at 192. My speculation is macOS has something similar to a compatibility mode so it could run on older BIOS versions but couldn’t boot from the Recovery Partition, especially Big Sur. I bought this Mac with no SSD and put in an SSD with Catalina pre installed, so the BIOS was probably not updated.

So how I solved this was pretty time consuming, but it worked! I used Shift Cmd Opt R to get Yosemite back on the SSD. Then I went to App Store and updated to Big Sur. After a longer than usual update and many more restarts that took about 3 hours total, my Boot ROM version was updated to 424 and the problem was solved.

EDIT: I got another one with ver. 180 firmware and when I trigger IR it doesn’t error out anymore, but the latest OS it could go up by IR is Catalina. From there I could manually update to Big Sur 11.1 but the firmware version stays the same. And of course, no access to Recovery partition. They fixed it in a half-assed way.

https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookrepair/comments/kab0an/error_5101f_on_macbook_pro_2015_and_how_i_solved/

Try this, I was also getting the same 5101F error..

pressing Option+Command+R doesn’t work so I reinstalled the earlier OS by pressing Shift+Option+Command+R and then Start button.

It takes nearly 30-40 minutes to reinstall the earlier version of Mac OS. In my case I had Catalina installed by earlier version of Sierra installed.

This will definitely work..

5101F error - Apple Community

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