Hello. I bought a used 2017 13 inch macbook pro, I tried formatting it and waited 6 hours for it to install macOS high Sierra just to get a black screenat the end, when I boot into recovery and try to wipe the disk again, I get all these volumes i don't understand. Btw i chose afps encrypted the first time. Can you help please?
Also recovery takes 20 minutes to load!
You need to format it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). The High Sierra installer has problems with APFS drives.
It will convert the drive to APFS during the install, but it seems to choke on an already formatted APFS drive.
I am actually worried there is something wrong with the ssd, but before formatting it worked just fine. It is still stuck and won't budge in the installation btw.
Doesn't that Disk Image have to do anything with all of this?
Doesn't that Disk Image have to do anything with all of this?
That should be the installer. I think OS Base System is the Recovery OS that displays the Utilities.
yes I did
Hope it goes well for you. It's bedtime, here. I'll check back in the morning.
Okay thank you for helping through this, I really appreciate it, I will post the progress tomorrow
That's great news.
I'd be frustrated, too. I worry that there might be something wrong with the SSD. Hopefully, this install will be successful.
Since it is installing Sierra (a byproduct of Internet Recovery), it won't convert the drive to APFS. If you Upgrade to High Sierra, it will convert the drive to APFS. Here is what OS gets installed from Internet Recovery: How to reinstall macOS - Apple Support
In your case, I think the failed install and erasing the disk completely caused it to boot into Internet Recovery and is installing Sierra (the shipping OS for that model).
APFS will create four Volumes on the drive. You saw three of them in your screen shot. The fourth is VM where the swap disk is maintained.
APFS creates "Containers" instead of Partitions. But, a Container can have multiple divisions called Volumes. All of those volumes share the space of the Container. When you create a Volume in a Container, you can set quotas for the maximum amount of space it can use. I don't know if Apple sets quotas on any of the other three partitions. It certainly could for PreBoot and Recovery.
Did a factory reset, took 6 hours to install, black screen.
