Fresh install of macOS Monterey - Error code 1009

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Fresh install of macOS Monterey - Error code 1009

Hi Folks,

So the kids wanted their own laptop, so I thought I'd dust off my old early 2015 (MacBookPro12,1) for them.

I wiped the disk, reset the SMC + PRAM and made a bootable USB with Monterey which is the last version supported on this hardware.

The install starts fine, does a restart then counts down the time before the dreaded error saying it failed to install.

InstallLog

Any ideas how to get Monterey loaded ?

As far as I can tell, there seems to be a problem with this:

/Volumes/Shared Support/com_apple_MobileAsset_MacSoftwareUpdate/3a30a133b90552c8e80475e5d0d5462b521bd5d2.zip

I was able to see that zip there, and using the terminal was able to unzip it to another storage (USB stick) fine. So I don't believe the zip image is in fact corrupted. Not sure if I can install the this bundle manually.

MacBook Pro

Posted on Dec 2, 2022 08:16 PM

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Owl-53

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Dec 3, 2022 02:37 AM in response to TheExie

Question if I may

1 - Is the Internal Drive and Apple Original Drive ?

Reason is that somewhere after Big Sur, Apple has made it much more difficult to install Monterey on Qualifying computers with After Market Drives

There appears to be some Verification Process in Monterey and if it does not find an Original Apple Drive - presto and not go period.

It is because there is an EFI Boot ROM required to be installed to the Computer ( not the Drive ). Once that EFI requirements is satisfied, the installation should occur

You mentioned Wiped the Drive and than used the Bootable Installer of Monterey to install

Can I suggest ,

1 - Shutdown computer and disconnect all external drive Except the newly created Bootable Installer.

2- Restart and immediately hold the OPTION key until the Startup Manager appears and choose the USB Drive.

3 - It will present options >> Disk Utilities >> View >> View ALL attached Drives.

4 - Choose the Upper Most Drive ( not the volumes indented and list below ).

5 - The drive normally is called Apple Media or Apple SSD - that is the drive to Erase and format as APFS with the GUID Partition Map.

6 - Once that is done >> backup out of Disk Utilities and choose install macOS.

7 - Follow the prompts and it may automatically reboot several time.

8 - Upon a final reboot - Setup Assist will present with the newer version of macOS.

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TheExie Author

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Dec 3, 2022 03:07 AM in response to Owl-53

Thankyou for the great explanation!

It is the original drive, identified as:

APPLE SSD SM0512G Media

I have erased as you described, and note that it has a layer for Container disk1 -> Macbook partition

I should note the machine did have bootcamp previously, and I had to mount the EFI and modify it to remove the boot option for it previously.

After all this, it installed the first stage and rebooted, I couldn't get a log from the macOS, but rebooted off the USB stick and got a terminal up. I found a file called ia.log which may provide some clues.

ia.log

The system diagnostics came back ok, but I'm starting to consider if the disk may be bad as I now have to different errors about unzipping files.

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Owl-53

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Dec 3, 2022 03:27 AM in response to TheExie

To be up front - looked at the ia.log file and not too good at reading and understand it 😔

Two things.

If the Drive is failing or failed - there are a couple of exceptional contributors on these Forums.

They may drop by and provide some additional insights on how to determined failed or failing of the Drive.

One specific goes by the handle of @HWTech

Last Resort outside of above ➡️

Have the computer evaluated by the Professionals who have the Special Hardware / Software and Expertise to diagnose the issue and offer possible solutions

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