The status bar on the internet recovery is moving slowly, with an
apparent timer that is bouncing around between 8something and now 4:58,
which I guess is hours to download 4TB or something of OS N.N
--R
On 8/23/14 9:49 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes wrote:
I tried almost everything and couldn't get past spinning wheels. Right
now it appears to be doing an Internet Recovery cmd-alt-R on startup
which worked to get some response, I had to plug it into the router as
it was having problems connecting over wireless. It looks like it
might be downloading something (has a spinning globe and looks like a
download bar that is not moving), I'll see what it does, if this
doesn't work I'll probably have to take it into Apple store and see if
they will unscrew what their brokeass software did.
Apparently these things no longer ship with a recovery disk, you have
to do this internet recovery thing.
--R
On 8/23/14 6:46 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
I read in more detail and saw that you think you have OSX 10.8.
If that is is the case, then you should have a recovery volume on the
machine. reboot or start up while holding the "Command + R" keys
down. Don't let up on it until you see some nard drive icons show up
on the screen. These are volumes that are bootable. Once of them
should be the Recovery HD volume. Choose (click) on it and press
"Enter".
Dan
On Aug 23, 2014, at 6:37 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
First question: What version of OSX does it have on it?
MacDan
On Aug 23, 2014, at 12:30 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
My wife had this MBP sitting around she hadn't used for like 10
months (don't ask). Tonight I fired it up and was using it, it
kept annoying me to do a software update, 10.8 something I think.
So I did that, was like 2GB of something. Restarted and it just
freezes, gray screen, spinning wheel, or just gray screen.
Apparently this was a major issue from what I see, but none of the
suggested fixes do anything. She claims that it did not come with
a recovery disk, or doesn't have it, or something. So the question
is how do I get this thing working again?
I have an imac recovery disk but it won't boot into safe mode or
any of the other modes with the various key combinations at startup
to get at some sort of "boot off disk." I was able to get it to do
a "verbose" startup, shift command V or something, but that hung
too once it got so far after displaying lines of stuff.
Is this thing totally hosed? Do I need to take it to the mac store
and get them to try to fix it? It's their damn software that
killed it...
--R
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