I've not had this problem exactly but by any chance did you partition the drive and therefore wipe the recovery partition as well taking away any chance of voiceover possibly being there?
I would create an installer USB drive and use that to start up your new installation. For this you need the latest OSX installer file from apple and a USB drive at least 8GB in size. Then the terminal command is really easy. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mika Pyyhkala Sent: Saturday, 12 March 2016 5:57 AM To: macvisionaries <[email protected]> Subject: Lost VoiceOver in Recovery Manager Not Sure If MacBook Air Is Doing a Cold Reboot from Scratch Hi, Normally after booting up with Command+R you can press Command+F5 as usual to activate VoiceOver. Recently on a 2014 MacBook Air 11, I booted up in this way and used disk utility to erase the hard drive. I was then going to use the OS Install Utility, but due to most likely restrictions on my work Wi-Fi network, it was not able to contact the app store. Now when I boot up with Command+R and do Command+F5 it will not activate VoiceOver. This is the first time I've seen a Mac where VoiceOver would not activate in this way. Several times I've held the power button down for 10 seconds, and rebooted, but VoiceOver will still not activate. I've taken a picture of the screen using the KNFB Reader, and it appears that is is booting up to the choose network screen. I even tried to follow the instructions to do an SMC reset, but still when I boot up, I cannot do Command+F5 to activate VoiceOver. I even tried plugging in a headset, but it still does not work. Has anyone encountered this situation where it appears VoiceOver somehow gets disabled in the recovery manager? Is there any other reset procedure I can try? It sseems odd that it is coming up to the network choice instead of the normal choices where you choose disk utility, OS reinstall utility, etc. So I'm wondering if it really has done a cold shut down & reboot? Best, Mika Pyyhkala @pyyhkala -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
