I’m making an attempt to revive my outdated 2012 MacBook Air (Mannequin A1465) to make use of an older model of MacOS for a program that would solely run on MacOS Excessive Sierra or earlier. Fortunately the Mac comes with a reinstallation course of for putting in Mac OS X Lion, which is completely fantastic. See the issue that I’ve is that even when I attempted putting in Excessive Sierra, I could not as a result of I’ve an M1 Mac, so on the app retailer its inaccessible. Even when I received Excessive Sierra downloaded the createinstallmedia command given by apple wont work as a result of zsh: killed sudo –volume /Volumes/MyVolume as a result of Apple is just too silly to know that some folks wish to create an outdated boot for an outdated laptop.
When making an attempt to reinstall Lion on my outdated Mac by way of the web it tries to, after which finally ends up being a failure saying that it could not set up it. I seemed it up and a few folks mentioned one thing about altering the date as a result of the certificates expired on Apple’s finish however it nonetheless did not work.
Subsequently my final resort was to making a bootable usb drive. I managed to obtain the Lion dmg file supplied by Apple, and ultimately discovered this information to manually create a boot with out utilizing createinstallmedia: How do I create El Capitan installer on a Catalina (or post-El Capitan) put in Mac to be used on USB boot installer?
I adopted all of the steps as was mentioned, no errors (apart from the asr error however as he mentioned it may very well be ignored, until if I ought to strive doing the choice). It had MacOS X Lion on the thumb drive and able to go. I eject it, put it into my 2012 MacBook air (word that the laptop computer is totally wiped so no OS or something on there, has the file with a query mark icon seem in the event you do not go into restoration mode), and switch it on. I then discover an issue, it activates, however the display screen simply stays white for abnormally lengthy. When you took it out it might resume as regular, however if you put it again in issues froze up. I attempted it once more and this time it did not do the freezing factor as a lot, however it might gradual issues approach the heck down. It took 3 instances as lengthy for the file with ? mark to look or for web restoration to look (word it by no means confirmed the choice of which drive in addition from). After this level it sort of simply ignored the drive fully
No concept what to do and Im working out of choices from what I can inform. Any assist can be appreciated, Thanks
