install os x el capitan stuck on verifying

Apple machines are so durable (at least the old ones) this machine is 9 years old and it still works!.Open Terminal and set date using date 0101010116 command.

Boot to the USB drive on the target machine.

Now, I am waiting for the progress bar to complete. (After boot to the installer, you can locate Terminal in top bar > Utilities) Running date 0101010116 in the Terminal of the installer solved the problem. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading.Ĭonsulting this StackExchange question, it seemed to be the problem with date and time. This copy of the Install OS X El Capitan application can’t be verified.

But when I start the installing OS X El Capitan, there was this big error message: Use it with your own risk.) Wow, GGWP after this then! 😎Īfter creating a USB version of the installer (with the example in here), I can boot it up and start formatting all the partitions in the HDD. (Please understand that, this is so insecure. I ended up locating a user copy of the installation. And obviously, they don’t allow us to download the older version on the new version machine. But the installer was distributed by App Store. But how can I obtain that old image of OS X?Īfter browsing around, I learnt that the latest version that can be installed on the machine is OS X El Capitan. The only way I can think of is to have OS X on the USB drive. There is no Internet Recovery for this old machine ☹️ Let’s try the hard way Reset NVRAM and reinstall via Recovery (some random post on the internet told me that) - same as normally reinstall via Recovery.Format the whole HDD and reinstall via Recovery - stuck at “Cannot unmount” because we are running on Recovery which it rested in the drive.Reinstall via Recovery - stuck at “This item is temporary unavailable”.Now, reinstalling the OS X might be the best option. The machine had OS X Lion 10.7 installed and I can verify that there was nothing wrong with the hardware because I can boot up Windows via Boot Camp and it ran perfectly. So, she gave up and gave the laptop to me for wiping its data before trashing it.īut, no, no. She’s took it to the Authorized Service, but they didn’t take it in because of its 9 years old. Suddenly, she could not turn it on, stuck at OS loading with an Apple logo. My girlfriend used to own a MacBook Pro mid-2009 (A1278) which is now a series/movie machine for her mother.

Install os x el capitan stuck on verifying