Brian,
You're more than welcome. Glad that we all could help.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Fischler" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: Help with rolling back to Yosemite as I am stuck
Hey Chris, No my drive was not encrypted so not sure what that was, but
after turning off the computer and booting it up while on FaceTime they were
able to help me get to the boot drive and I waited ten minutes and
thankfully VoiceOVer came back on and now the installer is running just
fine. Got to love modern technology. So it is funny while I am upset at
Apple for El Crapitan I am loving Apple for FaceTime and being able to
connect with a sighted person over it instead of having to wait for a
sighted person to come over. Now the fun of waiting through the install and
loading everything back on to the computer. Thanks all for the advice.
On Oct 16, 2015, at 9:06 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland
<[email protected]> wrote:
If nothing else, have them tell you what the screen shows, and let us
know.
Chris.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Fischler" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: Help with rolling back to Yosemite as I am stuck
Ok so tried this while on the iPhone and FaceTime as I restarted the
computer and the person told me I had the options of network or reinstall
OS Yosemite. They were able to see me arrow over to and highlight the
install OS Yosemite thumb drive then hit enter and they saw something
start, so now playing the waiting game for ten minutes or so and will try
to turn VO back on then and hopefully it will work. Ah fun.
On Oct 16, 2015, at 8:43 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland
<[email protected]> wrote:
Wow Mark, you're lucky. I normally have to wait about 15 minutes
minimum! before my USB drive boots. Or, are you talking about an
installer volume, not a full fledged OS image. Also, have you really had
success hitting the option key and releasing right after the chime? I'm
not in the least bit doubting you. It's just that I've normally had to
keep it held for about another 10 seconds after the chime finnished.
That might be slightly overkill, but I know it didn't happen instantly if
I released when the chime went away. Would like a little clarification
on this, if you don't mind.
Chris.
----- Original Message ----- From: "M. Taylor" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 8:05 PM
Subject: RE: Help with rolling back to Yosemite as I am stuck
Hello Brian,
I'm not Chris but, as I understand your dilemma, the problem is that you
have not yet successfully booted into your USB drive.
Normally, I recommend that a blind a low vision person, working alone,
use the Startup disk option located in the System Preferences, to
subsequently boot into the USB drive upon restart. However, it sounds as
though you have already erased the internal drive so this is not an
option.
Here's how it works:
You must successfully boot into your USB drive in order to enable
VoiceOver via the key combo Command+F5.
Do the following:
While the Mac is powered off, hold down the Option key and keep it held
down until you hear the startup chime; after which, you may release the
Option key. At this point, you will see a list of all of your bootable
devices, connected to the Mac. If, as you say, your internal drive has
been erased and is therefore not bootable, it will not be listed.
Understand that one cannot use VoiceOver in order to select the drive,
using this method. You may use the arrow keys to highlight any of the
items in the list but there is no VoiceOver feedback. Once you select
the drive you want, press the Enter key. It may take as long as 5
minutes for the computer to boot into the USB key. Once it does, you can
then enable VoiceOver via the key combo Command+F5.
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Fischler
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 4:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Help with rolling back to Yosemite as I am stuck
Chris,
Just wanted to make sure I have this correct. Start the computer while
holding down the option key, then hit tab and enter? Is there only one
thing I am tabbing to? When do I try and turn VO back on? Thanks,
On Oct 16, 2015, at 7:45 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland
<[email protected]> wrote:
Don't arrow. That's your problem. You wanna hit the tab key when in
the boot menu. Tab and shift tab. Don't arrow.
Chris.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Fischler"
<[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 7:29 PM
Subject: Help with rolling back to Yosemite as I am stuck
Hey all,
So I started my roll back to Yosemite and am stuck. I was able to erase
the El Crapitan from my hard drive but do not seem to get VO running
when I try and boot up with my bootable USB Install Yosemite drive.
Everything I have read says you have to restart your computer and hold
the option screen to get to the screen with your bootable thumb drive on
it. For some reason I am thinking this screen might not work with VO as
I waited over an hour and could not get VO to turn on. Does anyone
happen to know how to arrow without VO running to get your bootable disc
to launch? If not, is there anyway to boot in to your drive using disk
utility as I am back in disc utility but do not see anywhere I can do
this and selecting reinstall OS and hitting continue just gives me a you
are not connected to the internet error message. Thanks for any help.
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