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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help
Date: 15 Oct 2015 19:06:31 GMT
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On 2015-10-15, Juan I  Cahis <jicahis.SINBASURA@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Jolly & friends:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I've heard of one or two people having this type of issue.
>> 
>> If it were me, I would boot from the USB stick, use Disk Utility to erase
>> the drive, install El Capitan fresh, and when prompted migrate the data
>> from the backup disk. Clean and simple.
>> 
> I think that I will do what you say.
>
> I also tried to boot from the USB stick and upgrade to El Capitan from
> there, but with the same result. Resetting the NVRAM and the SMC didn't
> improve the situation. 

Yep, I'd do an erase, clean install, and migration in your situation.
Good luck - I'm sure everything will be fine though. : )

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