Can't get El Capitán to Finish the Install

[Pndrgnsvc]

On a mid 2010 i7 iMac, going from 10.10.5 to 10.11 (with all peripherals disconnected).

I can't get El Capitán to finish the install--

Twice this has happened, with identical results: once on an internal volume and once on an external FW volume.

Short History:

All seems to be going well, the DL was uneventful as was most of the install. But then, during the second restart, the installer stalls (hangs?) with about 7 minutes estimated time remaining.

Two hours later, no progress or change.

I manually restarted, but that always reverts to the same previously stalled window.

From a different volume, I could see that System Preferences identified the startup disk with El Capitán on it, but I still can’t get the install to complete.

I tried repairing the El Capitán volume with Disk Warrior, but that did no good.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Wheelie4]

I experience the exact same thing yesterday. I had to force shutdown three different times (waited about 15 minutes after each restart before I shut it down again) and start up again before it finally brought me to the desktop. Haven't experienced any problems so far due to this.

 

[Pndrgnsvc]

Many thanks, Wheelie4. Unless some other great insight develops, I'll give your idea a go; can't hurt. And then, tomorrow, post back of my success (or not).

 

[Wheelie4]

Many thanks, Wheelie4. Unless some other great insight develops, I'll give your idea a go; can't hurt. And then, tomorrow, post back of my success (or not).

I hope all works out for you well. Best of luck.

 

[Pndrgnsvc]

I booted in to Safe Boot mode and then installed from there. After that, easy-peasy.

But now AOL/Mail won't accept my PW. I know I am using the correct PW and have even cut & pasted it.

Any suggestions?

P.S. Problem solved. I merely deleted the problem account from Mail, and then recreated it.

Thanks again for the hand-holding.

 

[Wheelie4]

Glad to hear you got it all sorted out.