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Q: Can't start boot recovery on iMac

Greetings!

I have some issues on my iMac 27' (late 2009). Issues started when I've decided to delete OS X El Capitan and install factory OS X Lion from Recovery partition. My actions:

- restarted iMac

- pressed Command + Option + R

- selected Disk Utility

- successfully erased 2 partitions with OS X Extended format. Failed to merge these partitions to one whole disk. Maybe unmounted these partitions (not sure).

- restarted iMac

Note: I have Recovery partition and Clover EFI boot loader.

As result I see EFI loader with some options and "Boot Recovery from Recovery HD" option which doesn't work. If I choose this option the black screen appears and after 3-5 min iMac is going to restart. Command + R doesn't working anymore (neither Command + Option + R).

Please help me to solve this issue. How can I to install factory OS now?

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)

Posted on Sep 9, 2016 7:17 PM

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