Dear listers, I have 2 machines, a mini and a macbook, where the macbook won't boot any longer. I'm now writing on my mac mini, which has Mountain Lion. I'd rather not yet update this machine to Mavericks, because I'm waiting for Yosemite. My macbook is indeed running Mavericks already.
This afternoon, the Mavericks macbook somehow died. It won't boot. My wife tells me there's an infinite beach ball, and the system has been used so intensively, that I wanted to reinstall Mavericks anyway, and start anew. That is because my macbook had lion, mountain lion, and then I updated that to Mavericks, and the macbook deserves a fresh install. Unfortunately, the macbook won't boot anymore. I thought I would first restore my latest macbook time machine backup. This went, but failed before getting to 1 %. If I start up the macbook from its recovery partition and I then try to reinstall OS 10, it asks for my Apple ID, and it won't get passed that, even though there is a wifi connection according to my sighted wife. It keeps saying: signing in to the app store, for 15 minutes. Then I gave up on that. So now, I would like to create a Mavericks USB stick, and reinstall Mavericks from there. My macbook running Mavericks, won't boot, nor recover, so that machine is not an option to create the USB recovery drive with. I'll have to create a Mavericks USB recovery stick using my mac mini, which runs Mountain lion. >From what I discovered, I can indeed create a recovery USB drive, using my >mountain lion machine. I downloaded the Mavericks installer app, I downloaded >the diskmaker program, but when I run disk maker, it tells me that it can only >create a mountain lion USB recovery disk, and not one for Mavericks. This is >because disk maker detected mountain lion running on the system. So, is there any way you can think of, that I can use to create a Mavericks USB bootable installer drive for Mavericks, using my mountain lion machine? I could update this mountain lion machine and be out of trouble right away. However, I bumped into numerous Mavericks issues that don't occur on my current mountain lion installation. So, if possible, I'd like to keep using ML for a few more months, until we have Yosemite. I'm very interested to hear your solution if there is one. Regards, Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
