Why is Internet Recovery stuck at Wifi selection?
I have a Snow Leopard MBP that I upgraded to Lion. There was a problem with my hard disk and my computer stopped starting up, so I erased my drive and then entered Recovery HD. I purchased a copy of Mountain Lion and tried to Reinstall OS X from the Recovery HD through the Internet. It seemed to be working. I left for an hour and a half, and when I returned, I was back at the Utility page (where it lists Time Machine, Reinstall, Disk Utiliy etc.) and it looked like nothing was installed. I force shut-down my computer and restarted, and when I did, I could no longer reach the Recovery HD. Instead, I can only reach Internet Recovery. However, Internet Recovery is stuck with a rotating globe and Wifi selection. I have my Wifi selected, but there doesn't seem to be anything else happening. It's just a rotating globe with my Wifi selected underneath. I will try to use a faster Internet connection tomorrow, but at this point, I am stuck. I may just have a damaged hard drive and will need to replace it, but please inform me if I can do anything else to reinstall my OS.
Thanks.
I think you timed out on either a slow connection or a data cap, some reason like that.
When you try again on a faster connection preferably with Ethernet cable, I think things will bode better for you, if not then it's likely bad hard drive.
As you should know IR will only do Lion, not Mountain Lion.
Once Mountain Lion is installed, it can be reinstalled via Recovery HD, but Lion is installed via IR, this way one can revert the machine back to the OS that came with it.
Obviously the machine came with 10.6, so that's what your supposed to revert it back to before selling, but Apple likely will cut 10.6 off in a firmware update and stop selling disks, thus 10.7 is what one reverts back too, thus why IR does 10.7 and not 10.8
Does it make sense?
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1398
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If you do not see the network you would like to join, you may be attempting to connect to a hidden network. Learn how to join a hidden network.
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