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MacBook Pro 5,5 experiences Kernal Panic when booting to Recovery HD
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steve62388
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steve62388
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You don't have to disable SIP to upgrade to Sierra.
If you insist though, try rewriting the Recovery Partition. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-to-update-the-recovery-partition.2010607/
steve62388
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I can't give any advice on that. Although it would occur to me if it's unsupported that is probably why you're receiving kernel panics.
CoastalOR
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Have you ever been able to boot into the Recovery drive in El Capitan previously?
Try downloading the full El Capitan installer app (Install OS X El Capitan) and let it run to install a fresh copy of El Capitan in the internal drive and rebuild the Recovery partition. Hopefully that will get you a working Recovery drive.
Try downloading the full El Capitan installer app (Install OS X El Capitan) and let it run to install a fresh copy of El Capitan in the internal drive and rebuild the Recovery partition. Hopefully that will get you a working Recovery drive.
CoastalOR
macrumors 68040
Yes, if your referring to a bootable installer USB flash drive.
EDIT: It might be useful to run Disk Utility>First Aid to see if there are any drive errors also.
Talked to Apple. Ran First Aid, reset PRAM/NVRAM, reset SMC, nothing worked.
Apple is sending me a macOS Snow Leopard install DVD free of charge.