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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: 17 Oct 2015 17:16:02 GMT
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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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