JGKC9AYC Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 Got an MSI motherboard w/an i5 2500k, 5850 video card, dedicated mac hard drive, dedicated windows hard drive, dedicated storage drive. I was successfully dual-booting using chimera between Yosemite & Win 7. Then I got the wild idea to update to El Capitan. After creating a thumb drive (caused an automatic reboot), then finding the OSX install option after installing Clover, that caused a reboot after what I thought was going to be a successful install (25 minutes). When I got to the Clover screen again, I had a choice between OSX & OSX recovery. I chose OSX & it rebooted after a short time on the Mac logo screen w/progress bar. I read somewhere on another site about booting into recovery, wiping the current partition (Yosemite), then installing El Capitan on top of that. I tried that, then I got a message about OSX needing internet access (which I have via network cable). Now, when I reboot, I get an error about no boot device (or something along those lines). Can anyone help? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/314607-i-think-i-screwed-up-big-time/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigben1 Posted August 27, 2016 Share Posted August 27, 2016 do you have el capitan installer usb ??? boot your hdd with installer usb thumb drive , see if you can boot into your elcapita hdd. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/314607-i-think-i-screwed-up-big-time/#findComment-2270355 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGKC9AYC Posted August 27, 2016 Author Share Posted August 27, 2016 do you have el capitan installer usb ??? boot your hdd with installer usb thumb drive , see if you can boot into your elcapita hdd. I put in an Ubuntu Live cd & it is still showing the drive that Yosemite was formally on, but now empty. I did create a thumbdrive with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url], but it seems my bios doesn't offer a thumbdrive boot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/314607-i-think-i-screwed-up-big-time/#findComment-2270361 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGKC9AYC Posted August 27, 2016 Author Share Posted August 27, 2016 Can anyone help? I took the Windows drive out & left the Mac drive in. I used the thumbdrive I created & was able to select it as a choice to boot from, but got the error message that reads: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/314607-i-think-i-screwed-up-big-time/#findComment-2270680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cecekpawon Posted August 28, 2016 Share Posted August 28, 2016 Change secure boot to "other os" in BIOS? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/314607-i-think-i-screwed-up-big-time/#findComment-2270911 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGKC9AYC Posted August 28, 2016 Author Share Posted August 28, 2016 I don't have many options for boot, unless I put my windows hdd back in. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/314607-i-think-i-screwed-up-big-time/#findComment-2270917 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGKC9AYC Posted August 28, 2016 Author Share Posted August 28, 2016 I just downloaded a .zip file of El Capitan, copied it onto a thumb drive, put it in an old PowerBook G4 (all I got), copied it onto the desktop, then extracted. I then copied it into applications, put in another thumb drive, opened disk utility, named it "Untitled", set it to Mac OS X Extended Journaled & hit erase. I then typed in the following command: sudo /Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app --nointeraction. Terminal asked me for my password, then displayed "sudo: /Applications/Install: command not found". Ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/314607-i-think-i-screwed-up-big-time/#findComment-2270943 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronxteck Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 tried using a back slash since Install OS has a space? like this Install\ OS instead Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/314607-i-think-i-screwed-up-big-time/#findComment-2271420 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorisValkov Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 the correct command looks like this: sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/USB --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app --nointeraction Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/314607-i-think-i-screwed-up-big-time/#findComment-2273931 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronxteck Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 he is trying to install el cap not yosemite. the correct commands are on apple's site https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/314607-i-think-i-screwed-up-big-time/#findComment-2274073 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorisValkov Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 That is why I said LOOKS not IS, Mr. Obvious... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/314607-i-think-i-screwed-up-big-time/#findComment-2275024 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronxteck Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 i am glad your over your ego trip. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/314607-i-think-i-screwed-up-big-time/#findComment-2275464 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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