Resolved APFS Container Scheme

[guac898]

I formatted my SSD and it looks like Macintosh HD was assigned to disk1s5 instead of disk1s1. Is this normal? If not, how can I fix it?

 

[DeltaMac]

Is the system (or the SSD) giving you any kind of problem?
Yours looks pretty routine for an APFS format drive.

 

[guac898]

Is the system (or the SSD) giving you any kind of problem?
Yours looks pretty routine for an APFS format drive.

Yes, I am unable to reinstall macOS currently, and puts me in a loop telling me to restart my computer to try installing again.
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Yes, I am unable to reinstall macOS currently, and puts me in a loop telling me to restart my computer to try installing again.

 

[DeltaMac]

You're trying to install macOS High Sierra, from an external drive, is that correct?
How did you prepare that external drive to be bootable? Looks like it was not made on a Mac (?) (Fdisk?)

 

[guac898]

You're trying to install macOS High Sierra, from an external drive, is that correct?
How did you prepare that external drive to be bootable? Looks like it was not made on a Mac (?) (Fdisk?)

Update: I redid the bootable external USB, and formatted the SSD again. Now it looks a little different, but still gives me the same error.

 

[chabig]

What is that 2GB disk image? I think you just have two drives connected, an internal SSD and an external USB drive.

 

[guac898]

What is that 2GB disk image? I think you just have two drives connected, an internal SSD and an external USB drive.

You are correct, I just have the internal SSD and bootable USB with High Sierra on it. I’m not sure where that came from. How do I get rid of it?

 

[chabig]

Did you follow Apple’s instructions to create your bootable installer?

Create a bootable installer for macOS - Apple Support

You can use a USB flash drive or other secondary volume as a startup disk from which to install the Mac operating system. These steps are primarily for system administrators and other experienced users.

support.apple.com

 

[guac898]

Did you follow Apple’s instructions to create your bootable installer?

Create a bootable installer for macOS - Apple Support

You can use a USB flash drive or other secondary volume as a startup disk from which to install the Mac operating system. These steps are primarily for system administrators and other experienced users.

support.apple.com

Yes, I followed those instructions.

 

[lagisibuk]

From my experience by last morning

1. go to disk utility
2. merge all your ssd partition (if any)
3. click your partition/disk, then click "RESTORE" and select "GUID SCHEME ..." >>
4. wait until progress done

aftert that, still on disk utility
1. select your disk
2. click ERASA
3. select type of format that you want (APFS/Journaled)
4. wait until progress done.

Enjoy

 

[DeltaMac]

I think you should post the exact error message that you get...

Another thing to try is to boot to the installer, then open Terminal (from the Utilities menu)
Type the command

date 1116211618

press return to run that command.
Quit the terminal after running that command, which should return you to the menu screen, where you can then try to install the macOS system. The command changes your system date, and will sometimes allow the installer to run successfully. (Yes, it could be that simple!)

 

[guac898]

I think you should post the exact error message that you get...

Another thing to try is to boot to the installer, then open Terminal (from the Utilities menu)
Type the command

date 1116211618

press return to run that command.
Quit the terminal after running that command, which should return you to the menu screen, where you can then try to install the macOS system. The command changes your system date, and will sometimes allow the installer to run successfully. (Yes, it could be that simple!)

I’ve successfully got my laptop working after I restored from a time machine backup!