Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help
Date	2015-10-17 17:16 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2015-10-17, Juan I  Cahis <jicahis.SINBASURA@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I did it. I booted from the USB stick, used Disk Utility to erase the
> drive, installed El Capitan fresh, and when prompted migrate data from the
> backup disk, I did it. After 20 hours, the computer started to work very
> well with the new operating system. 
>
> Problem solved? Not at all!!!
>
> I did the normal shutdown at the end of the day, but the computer was
> unable to start anymore. When I pressed the power button, the "gong"
> sounded, the Apple sign appeared, the empty thermometer appeared too, but
> nothing happened for hours and hours. 

Very interesting. It probably would have been somewhat enlightening to
boot it up in verbose mode to see where the stall is happening.

Was the startup volume FileVault encrypted?

> Again a complete disaster!!!
>
> So, I was really bored of this situation. I booted to the USB stick again,
> used the Disk Utility to erase the drive, and without trying to install
> anything, I restored the Time Machine backup I had taken just before to try
> to install El Capitan. 
>
> And the computer is happily using Yosemite again. I have restarted it a
> couple of times without any problem. 

I've been holding off upgrading to El Capitan at home.

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A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Juan I. Cahis <jicahis.SINBASURA@gmail.com> - 2015-10-15 10:40 -0300
  Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-15 16:12 +0000
    Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Juan I. Cahis <jicahis.SINBASURA@gmail.com> - 2015-10-15 15:45 -0300
      Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-15 19:06 +0000
        Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Juan I. Cahis <jicahis.SIN.BASURA@gmail.com> - 2015-10-16 11:41 -0300
      Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-15 15:24 -0400
        Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-15 19:53 +0000
          Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-15 23:17 +0000
            Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-16 00:43 -0400
              Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-16 09:51 +0000
                Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-16 15:22 -0400
                Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-10-16 19:22 -0400
                Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-17 03:57 +0000
                Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-17 04:02 +0000
                Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-10-17 17:11 +1300
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      Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Juan I. Cahis <jicahis.SINBASURA@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 14:11 -0300
        Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-17 17:16 +0000
          Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Juan I. Cahis <jicahis.SINBASURA@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 14:58 -0300
            Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-17 20:41 +0000
              Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-17 17:49 -0400
                Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-18 01:26 +0000
                Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-17 21:49 -0400
                Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-18 02:43 +0000
                Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-18 03:13 +0000
                Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Wolffan <AKWolffan@gmail.com> - 2015-10-18 12:11 -0400
                Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-18 16:59 +0000
                Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Wolffan <AKWolffan@gmail.com> - 2015-10-19 08:42 -0400
                Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-18 14:38 -0400
                Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Wolffan <AKWolffan@gmail.com> - 2015-10-19 08:42 -0400
                Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-19 14:50 +0000
          Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-17 17:49 -0400
          Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-10-18 14:07 -0600
            Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Juan I. Cahis <jicahis.SINBASURA@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 10:04 -0300
              Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-20 09:08 -0400
              Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-10-20 13:31 -0600
  Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2015-10-15 12:14 -0400
  Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-15 23:14 +0000
  Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help befr@eaglesoft.de (Bernd Fröhlich) - 2015-10-16 09:50 +0200
    Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2015-10-16 04:23 -0400
      Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help befr@eaglesoft.de (Bernd Fröhlich) - 2015-10-16 10:36 +0200
    Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Juan I. Cahis <jicahis.SIN.BASURA@gmail.com> - 2015-10-16 11:45 -0300
      Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2015-10-16 14:11 -0400
        Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-16 15:30 -0400
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            Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-17 14:29 +0000
              Re: A disastrous attempt to install El Capitan, please help Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-17 20:39 +0000
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