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As with prior versions of OS X, the new version 10.11 “El Capitan” is available as a free purchase from the App Store, and should then download and run to allow you to upgrade your system. If all goes well, you should see the OS X installation window that instructs you to begin the upgrade process, but there may be instances where this does not appear, or does not work when you attempt the install.
Oct 19, 2018 Hi, I got in a imac with black screen issue on boot, I tried disk recovery,found no issues so I'm thinking of doing a reinstall, things went smoothly until it prompted me for the apple id, put it in but now its asking for security code! This is a 12 yr olds machine, they sent a code to some other device. With OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Apple imposed a 15 USB port limit. To get around this we actually create a USB map to include ports we want and kick out extras we don't care about. For install, set Kernel - Quirks - XhciPortLimit - Enabled but for post install we recommend making a map as the port limit patch isn't guaranteed to work with future. Dec 01, 2012 then 'still waiting on root device' repeating over and over. This problem appears to be somewhat random (i.e. Restarting over and over, at some point it won't appear). Also I did just have good luck fixing this by removing 3 of 4 sticks of ram, perhaps good to try. 'Still waiting for root device' If the output from verbose mode specifically stops at a line saying 'Still waiting for root device', you probably have a hard drive or USB drive issue. This may happen if your motherboard's BIOS or UEFI isn't set to AHCI mode; double-check this, just in case your BIOS/UEFI was accidentally reset recently. I was able to install Mavericks with Unibeast, however running Multibeast with any options would cause the install to be unbootable (boots to a black screen, even with -x). I decided to try El Capitan with Unibeast (as that's what I had used with my old build), but the boot hangs at Still Waiting For Root Device and the prohibited sign. Oct 28, 2015 I have had this problem also, but after going into the Applications folder and initiating the install, it goes thru some gyrations, then restarts, but El Capitan is still not installed. Note: My MacBook Pro has Parallels installed to enable Windows programs, but it was not open during the install.
First, the OS X installer should run automatically, but if not then you can try running it manually:
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- Go to the Applications folder
- Open the program called “Install OS X El Capitan”
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
If this program is missing or will not run, then move it to the trash and empty the trash, followed by re-downloading it from the App Store.
An alternative approach is to create a dedicated installation drive from the El Capitan installer, and use that to install the upgrade. For this, you will need a spare external drive (USB drive, or hard drive) that is at least 8GB in size, and then perform the following steps:
- Attach the drive to your Mac
- Use Disk Utility to format it to HFS+ with a GUID partition scheme, naming it INSTALLER
- Open the OS X Terminal and run the following command (copy and paste all 5 lines):
Press Enter to run the pasted command, and supply your password when prompted (it will not show when typed). Note that if you get any errors, be sure your USB drive is formatted and named “INSTALLER” so the command will properly target it. You will also need to have first downloaded the OS X El Capitan installer from the App Store, and have this present in your Applications folder.
The Terminal may take a while to complete this step, but when done you can reboot your Mac and hold the Option key to show the boot menu, and then select the El Capitan installation drive you just created to run the installer and upgrade your Mac’s internal hard drive.
If the procedure still fails with an error, then hopefully you have a full system backup ready, which you can restore to your Mac using the option to restore from a Time Machine backup in the OS X Recovery partition, or whatever cloning software you use. When done, attempt the above procedures to try again.
I’m sorry to hear about the issue you are having with what I imagine you expected to be a straightforward install; that’s always frustrating. I’m sure we can help you out, but before we dive in it may be good to establish what we are working with:
1. Were you able to successfully copy your files to the external hard drive as you noted? Do you have any other full or incremental backups of your system from prior to the install, like in Time Machine?
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2. What are you seeing when you try to reinstall from Recovery? Is it giving you an error, or is it just hanging/failing? If you are seeing an error, what does it say specifically?
3. Similarly, what are you seeing when you try to verify/repair the disk? Is it saying that the disk is fine, is it finding repairable errors, or is it failing because it cannot repair the disk?
Again, I’m sorry to hear that this happened, but we should be able to get you pointed on the right track.
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Oct 1, 2015 3:01 PM