Hey, I'm looking for some ideas with installing ElCap. I have a 2014 iMac 27" Retina running Yosemite. Decided to finally update to ElCap, and am running into issues.
When running the installer from within Applications, I get through the initial info, the iMac reboots, counts down to 25 min. remaining, and the screen turns gray and progress bar disappears. Cursor is available, but there's nothing to click on. I've left the iMac like this for over an hour, and no change. Power cycle returns me to the Yosemite desktop just fine.
Made a USB installer, booted from that, and neither the installer or disk utility does see the internal SSD. I've tried the following:
Reset PRAM
Removed 3rd party RAM
Verify/Repair disk permissions when booted from SSD, no issues found
Removed all external/USB drives
As soon as I power cycle, Yosemite comes right back up, no issues at all. So it seems I can't even format the SSD to do a clean install now when booting from USB. I'm at a total loss. The iMac otherwise functions perfectly normally.
When running the installer from within Applications, I get through the initial info, the iMac reboots, counts down to 25 min. remaining, and the screen turns gray and progress bar disappears. Cursor is available, but there's nothing to click on. I've left the iMac like this for over an hour, and no change. Power cycle returns me to the Yosemite desktop just fine.
Made a USB installer, booted from that, and neither the installer or disk utility does see the internal SSD. I've tried the following:
Reset PRAM
Removed 3rd party RAM
Verify/Repair disk permissions when booted from SSD, no issues found
Removed all external/USB drives
As soon as I power cycle, Yosemite comes right back up, no issues at all. So it seems I can't even format the SSD to do a clean install now when booting from USB. I'm at a total loss. The iMac otherwise functions perfectly normally.