No need. So if you have created the usb bootable installer using the /Application/install etc command and the creation has completed successfully which you can tel as it's got the completed successfully at the end of the terminal window line.
I think from memorynow that the start up disk isn't seen if it's an installer USB drive. Try starting the machine from shutdown and hold down the option key until it has started and then sorry to say with no voiceover at this point use tab to find the correct installer disk and start the installation that way. Or if you have a network connection either wifi or Ethernet, Use Command R to go into the recovery console and you can use disk utility to eraise the current hd Don't what ever you do partition the drive as you lose your recovery partition and the install wont happen. If you just eraise it will install the OS from the apple installation server over the internet Hope that makes sense -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anders Holmberg Sent: Saturday, 2 April 2016 5:06 AM To: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Subject: Startup disk not working. Hi! I am about to do a reinstall of El Capitan and i have created a bootable USB drive which i done from the command line. So i go to startup disk in system prefs and there’s only one disk to boot from and thats my mac mini disk and its dimmed. I can not seem to find the bootable osx installation disk. So now i am stumped. I tried to boot it from the recovery partition and select startup disk from there but no go. The usb stick is an 8 gb sandisk cruzer ultrablade. Maybe i should try a bigger one. /A -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
