Mac OS X recovery issues

[technano11]

Sorry if this is not in right sub-forum

I have a 2012 MacBook Pro. Whenever I try to boot from my bootable USB( OS X Lion), it displays a stop sign.

Also, I have wiped off the HDD, and whenever it turns on, it shows a folder with ?.

Solutions? Thanks

 

[CoastalOR]

A 2012 MBP shipped with OS 10.8 Mountain Lion, so OS 10.7 Lion is not supported.

You could restore to OS 10.8 using Internet Recovery (hold keys command+option+r at startup).

 

[chrfr]

Sorry if this is not in right sub-forum

I have a 2012 MacBook Pro. Whenever I try to boot from my bootable USB( OS X Lion), it displays a stop sign.

Also, I have wiped off the HDD, and whenever it turns on, it shows a folder with ?.

Solutions? Thanks

Which version of 2012 MacBook Pro do you have? The non-retina models, and the 15" retina, will start up from 10.7.5, but the 13" Retina (late 2012) requires 10.8.1.
As suggested in the above post, try internet recovery.

 

[technano11]

I tried internet recovery, however it comes to an error saying " request time out"

 

[chrfr]

I tried internet recovery, however it comes to an error saying " request time out"

Do you have a Retina MacBook Pro? If so, is it 13" or 15"?

 

[technano11]

It's a non retina MacBook Pro 2012. Thanks

 

[chrfr]

It's a non retina MacBook Pro 2012. Thanks

In that case, there's probably something wrong with your USB installer. How did you create it?

 

[technano11]

In that case, there's probably something wrong with your USB installer. How did you create it?

I used this USB lion to install before on another mac and it works. But i don't know why it doesn't works on this. I'm starting to think it's the hard disk that's faulty. Also I have the issue whereby whenever I used internet recovery to download reinstall OS X, it says request time out.

 

[technano11]

Thanks everyone for chipping in. I found the solution after a call to Apple. Apparently, I got to create another partition, and this is done so within disk utility. Seems strange to me when I thought it's possible to just install on it after erasing the whole HDD. Thanks