I checked a few more things while I was in recovery, and took screenshots of all this stuff I'm mentioning. The first aid operations were "successful". I also ran first aid on my HDD while I was there. It said "first aid found corruption that needs to be repaired" and that I had to do that from recovery (restart, hold command+R), so I did that. I didn't/don't know what to do, so I tried first aid on the "AppleAPFSMedia" to see what I could see. AppleAPFSMedia (with a drop down containing four items Macintosh SSD, Preboot (greyed out), Recovery (greyed out), and VM (greyed out). Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB Media) - I think this one might have used to say "Macintosh SSD"?, and 3. Hitachi HTSblahblah Media (with drop down containing Macintosh HDD), 2. When I looked at disk utility I was really confused at what I see there now, 1. I restarted and optioned to boot into HDD, where I wanted to check disk utility or something. It booted into it again, but didn't seem smooth again - at the desktop loading part. I think I booted to the SSD again, just to see if that odd failed restart messed anything up. I waited some time (2-4 minutes maybe?) and it stayed that way, so I shutdown using the power button. I could still see and move my cursor around the black screen. I chose restart, and as the computer went to restart (after that countdown where you re-select "restart") it kinda hiccuped again, and the screen went black. I went to startup settings and set the SSD as the boot drive. Upon booting to the SSD with clean 10.13.6 install, I noticed a kind of.short hiccup as the desktop loaded, hard to describe. Then exited disk utility, and went to "install mac os", and installed High Sierra onto the SSD. Note: I chose APFS, whenever that option was there - previously this SSD was MacOSX Extended Journaled. Either way, same as videos show I think.). First I used disk utility to erase the SSD (I can't remember if the top, or if there was one under the drop down arrow in the hierarchy tree. I had my HDD, my SSD, and another one (the thumb drive) now named properly as "Install macOS High Sierra", but the icon was slightly different it was just plain orange (no arrow(s) on it), and again no image/picture. Then, after the chime for the PRAM reset, I held Option key and waited to see what the options were. ![]() I restarted the mbp, and before the chime I held the key combo to reset PRAM (for no reason). I used a different usb thumb drive an 8GB lexar usb 2.0 drive. I did the whole operation of making the bootable usb installer through terminal over again. So, I didn't try to use that thumb drive after. But it appeared to have the image of the high sierra installer." The icon that said "EFI Boot" did not have the macOS high sierra image, it just had the orange "drive" symbol with the arrow(s) on it.Īnd please, if I'm being too wordy, or not specific enough (or using terms that are way off) - let me know. Above where I said " I restarted the mac, holding down option, and what came up for the usb was something titled "EFI Boot", or similar. What should I do? Try and create the bootable installer over again? Should I re-download the os again before? Or is this.normal?Įdit: Just searching "EFI boot" with other terms like macos, etc., I came across thread like this: some of the posts scared me a little (use find command to look for efi boot), talking about white screens, and failures, etc. I'm scared to select it though, because shouldn't it say "Install macOS High Sierra" or something to that effect? ![]() But it appeared to have the image of the high sierra installer. I restarted the mac, holding down option, and what came up for the usb was something titled "EFI Boot", or similar. I'm just giving as much detail as I can think of.) The thumbdrive icon on the desktop is now called "Install macOS High Sierra" (as opposed to the MyVolume it was prior. It launched the installer, I chose quit installer. I successfully used terminal and the commands from apple site to actually create the bootable usb. I prepared the usb drive following the instructions (chose macos extended journaled, etc.). It's 5.42GB in "get info" it seems to be the full file. Then it opened in the app store and downloaded it). I successfully downloaded a copy of High Sierra 10.13.6 via the apple site's link (it wouldn't work until I used safari to navigate there and download it.
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