It's crazy how long it takes to boot off the burned disc! About 30 minutes from power-on to GUI loaded (mid-2012 Macbook Pro with 8GB of RAM and SSD)! I simply continued with the instructions and did not experience issues subsequently. I left it sitting for at least 8 hours with no apparent activity (I was watching Activity Monitor on-and-off). The step hdiutil eject /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/ "hung" indefinitely for me.
In particular, Option-clicking the Purchased section to see the Mavericks app! Subsequent attempts yielded the same result.Įven though the instructions described at (same Question as above, but different Answer) do not (for the most part) apply to Mavericks, the info was crucial for obtaining the Mavericks installer app (and therefore. Nor did installing a brand new hard drive (after resetting P-RAM).īefore I found this Gist, I tried the Mavericks-specific command to create a bootable USB drive at, and the process failed with no useful information while at the Terminal (after about 30 minutes and 50% through the process). This idea occurred to me having seen (Apple-branded instructions at ). All menus and options are disabled, aside from Restart/Shutdown.Ī couple of notes from my experience (in case anybody from some "Mac Museum" has interest in the future):
I receive an error once the UI loads, conveyed by way of a dialog (the only choice is OK): There was a problem installing Mac OS.
Unfortunately, even though I'm able to boot from the burned ISO, I can't install Mac OS once booted into the GUI. I was amazed to find that this procedure still "works" on an up-to-date Mavericks installation (and by "works", I mean to say, produces a bootable ISO image). My plan was to backup to a portable disk using Time Machine from within the existing OS installation, physically install the new (bare) drive, and Restore from Backup (Time Machine) once booted from the Install/Recovery environment (running from a bootable DVD). I had the need to upgrade the hard disk in a friend's Macbook Pro (mid-2012), which is still running Mavericks, and I wasn't going to have an Internet connection, so I trawled the Internet for hours trying to find this information and finally stumbled upon which in turn lead me to the comment at.
This enabled me to restore the OS on the new hard drive from a Time Machine backup that I captured before upgrading the hard drive. Ultimately, I ended-up waiting until I had Internet access and using the much simpler method of booting from Internet-based recovery, as described in (which references ).
UPDATE for anybody with authentic Mac hardware and a license for Mavericks, there is a much simpler method for upgrading the hard drive: