Hello all, I appreciate this information so much! I did what one person from here suggested, held down the option key as the computer was booting, played the “let’s guess which drive the Mac will boot from” game, and landed on my bootable drive! I waited a bit, started Voiceover, and it did allow me to install Yosemite. Added to that, the restoration from a Time machine backup, and things seem to be working nicely! Thank you again for all your help and advice. One thing I did read is you can press C when the Mac boots up to force it to start from any external bootable media. That would’ve been my next plan if the option and right arrow course of action hadn’t of worked. Rachel. > On Apr 22, 2015, at 12:25 PM, Erik Heil <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > Do you wireless information is stored within NV RAM. As such, if you have > previously entered security of mission for wireless networks, it is > automatically entered. It will automatically connect to a wireless network if > it has previously associated it with your iCloud account. For more > information, if you view the deed it with a and B RAM, you'll see network > he's related to the wireless networks if you have any. Of course, this > information is encrypted, but like I said before, it is see with them in the > room. If you actually were to clear and we ramp settings, disinformation > would not be available, and as such, some system values which are stored > within and be ram will be restored to their factory defaults. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Apr 22, 2015, at 1:59 PM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Yes, it does use the Internet to connect to Apple’s servers. Info on this >> is found here... >> >> https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201314 >> >> I haven’t tried it, but, I’m guessing that the initial place where you need >> to select a wireless network probably isn’t accessible since there’s been no >> real base System to load VO from. If you live in a place where there’s no >> other WiFi networks visible, then you should be able to enter your WiFi >> password and move on. If there are many WiFi networks close by, this may be >> difficult without sighted assistance. I guess a person could arrow down >> once, press return then enter your WiFi password, then wait five or so >> minutes to see if the base System is downloaded to your machine, then move >> on if that doesn’t work by trying two down arrows and so on. This could >> take you quite a while and be very frustrating, but it may be your only >> option if you don’t have access to sighted assistance. >> >> Sorry. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On Apr 22, 2015, at 11:48, Rachel Feinberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Tim, >> >> thanks for this tip! In trying it I haven't had luck so far, however, just >> wondering if this contacts Apple's servers, does this require internet >> connectivity? And if nothing is installed, it'd make connecting difficult. >> If, in fact, that's what's needed. >>> On 4/22/2015 10:37 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Yes, you likely have affected the Recovery Partition. Try starting with >>> cmd-option-r which should start up from Apple’s servers. It may take a >>> little longer to boot up, but you should be able to install from there. >>> >>> Later... >>> >>> Tim Kilburn >>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >>> >>> On Apr 22, 2015, at 11:30, Rachel Feinberg <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> A quick question on clean installing OS X. I wanted to clean install before >>> putting Yosemite on my Macbook Air. I made a bootable drive, booted into >>> the recovery partition by holding down command+R then pressing command+F5 >>> until Voiceover started up and I could format the Macintosh HD. I clicked >>> on the size, (128 GB Apple SSD), and chose to erase it. Could it be >>> possible that I've inadvertently erased the recovery partition? >>> As I then went back to the utilities table, chose to re-install OS X, which >>> turned out to be Mavericks. As I didn't wish to install this version, I >>> shut down the computer, restarted it and attempted to get back into >>> recovery mode, but no dice this time. I'm unable to get VO to start, and >>> even accessing the boot menyu with the option key and pressing right arrow >>> once or twice and pressing enter to boot from the external media is a no-go. >>> I've read several archives from this list that say to wait different >>> amounts of time before attempting to start Voiceover in the recovery >>> partition, and none have worked. I understand this partition is hidden, but >>> I wonder if by clicking on, and erasing the size of the drive, instead of >>> the Macintosh HD partition, I've slipped out of the grasp of the recovery >>> partition's help? >>> Any advice, or pointers on things I might have missed would be greatly >>> appreciated. >>> Thanks! >>> Rachel. >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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