El Capitan no packages eligible to install. Stuck in that loop. Aluminium late 2008 mb. Data all there didn't back up zapped pram. Can't figure ou redownload. How do I back up from here? How do I just back out? How do I make this work?
Macbook core duo, Mac OS X (10.4.10), 2gb ram
The computer at the bottom is not what I'm on. I'm on late 2008 aluminum Macbok with 8 gb of ram
Use OS X Recovery to check and repair the startup disk if necessary then restore OS X then try upgrading to El Capitan.
El Captain requires approximately 6GB's of storage space.
IT says I can. I checked that before I started.
Ok. good. Please re read my previous post. I had to edit it 🙂
my options are restore from time machine reinstall OS X get help online and disk utility.
All the stuff says use recovery nothin is called that.
I also had the exact same issue. I have the Late 2008 Aluminum MacBook with 4GB memory. I ended up having to restore my entire drive from Time Machine. I'm wondering if I should try again or if it's an issue with this model.
I Booted off of my out of date back up And replaced my photos and music. I guess I'm ready to restore from that. I'm thinking about doing a clean install. So my fear of losing data is gone.
Glad to know you were able to work around this issue by restoring from your old backup. I experienced the same issue on my late 2008 MacBook, when trying to install El Capitan. Was stuck in the same loop you described. Tried installing at least 3 times and got the same error message each time.
Eventually, in a moment of desperation (because, at the time, I thought Time Machine hadn't backed up my data successfully since June), I inserted a thumb drive that had a clean installation of OSX Mavericks on it. I wasn't able to boot up from that thumb drive, but somehow after inserting it and seeing in Disk First Aid that the thumb drive was mounted, the El Capitan installation proceeded successfully.
I have no idea if there's any correlation between inserting a thumb drive and El Capitan's successful installation, but that did appear to be a coincidence in my case if nothing else. A happy coincidence.
El Capitan no packages eligible to install. Stuck in that loop. Aluminium late 2008 mb
