Cannot get iMac mid-2011 to reinstall OSX after erasing drives
Please help and provide your solutions if you can. It would be greatly appreciated.
I have seen and read about this same issue over the internet, but I cannot find a fix to my problem that works for me. I erased the hard drives of my mid-2011 iMac 27" to do a clean install of the OSX and reset it to factory settings. I don't have a bootable DVD for OSX Lion, so I was forced to do the internet recovery process to install a new OS. With this process, I am getting the "do not have components..." error message and so OSX Lion will not install. I have done the online research and tried change the date with Terminal with no luck there. I have another iMac 27", late 2012 which is my primary computer and so I made a bootable external drive with an old LaCie rugged drive I had around. I was able to install OSX Mojave on it. I tested it on the late 2012 iMac, doing the reboot and holding down the option key. Process works fine and I can choose to start up from the OSX on the external LaCie drive. However, this process does NOT work on the mid-2011 iMac that I am trying to get back to working. At this point I am stuck with an iMac paperweight.
Again, any advice or solutions would greatly appreciated. Thank you to anyone who responds.
Cheers,
rung11
iMac 27″, OS X 10.10
