Who am I to write this? I’m the Director of Engineering for a startup transitioning from a small to a medium-sized business, and we’ve grown to a fair number of employees while not forming any sort of IT department. Note: The startosinstall command used was the one in the copy of the Install macOS High Sierra.app application bundle that I copied to the macOS USB Installer after it was created, not the one that gets written to the macOS USB Installer when it's created.After the amount of responses my last blog post on the mysterious “ too many corpses” error on macOS Sierra and High Sierra, I realized there was a need to do an ultimate guide on recovering macOS, going step by step through the different ways to do so from easiest and least risky to the hardest and last resort options. Here is an example of the command I used on one of my systems when booted from a macOS USB Installer with a separate copy of the Install macOS High Sierra.app application bundle on it: /path/to/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall -agreetolicense -volume /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD' Note: The Arguments shown above I believe are when the -usage was done when running macOS normally, not from Recovery HD, so there may be some additional Arguments shown when run from the Recovery HD. installpackage, the path of a package to install after the OS installation is complete this option can be specified multiple times.Įxample: startosinstall -converttoapfs YES converttoapfs, specify either YES or NO on if you wish to convert to APFS. To bypass "rebootdelay" send SIGUSR1 back to startosinstall. pidtosignal, Specify a PID to which to send SIGUSR1 upon completion of the prepare phase. This delay is in seconds and has a maximum of 300 (5 minutes). rebootdelay, how long to delay the reboot at the end of preparing. agreetolicense, agree to license the license you printed with -license. license, prints the user license agreement only. applicationpath, a path to copy of the OS installer application to start the install with. Install macOS High Sierra.app application bundle is what you need to use: $ /path/to/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall -usage The startosinstall command that is within the e.g. Have a look at: How to create a bootable installer for macOS If you already have the Install macOS High Sierra.app application bundle, then the easiest way to install macOS is to create a macOS USB Installer and boot the Mac with it and install from there.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
December 2022
Categories |