When you’re booting your Mac from the recovery partition and are planning to reinstall OS X, you might be met by the following message:
Reset PRAM/NVRAM Bill Roberson/Digital Trends Your Mac’s PRAM and NVRAM are small sections of memory that store certain settings that need to be accessed quickly by the computer. Nov 18, 2019 The steps needed to reset the parameter RAM are the same, regardless of whether your Mac uses NVRAM or PRAM. Shut down your Mac. Turn your Mac back on. Immediately press and hold the following keys: command + option + P + R. Oct 28, 2017 Models that Support PRAM Reset: Well apparently all the Macintosh models do support PRAM reset. All the Macintosh computers start following the same sequence, and the reset method are all same. Although in the older models of Macintosh computers the resetting process could be little slow, but eventually one should have a Mac with a fresh PRAM.
An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running again
Now, if you haven’t used your Mac for a while, the error might be caused by an incorrect system date setting. You can check this by going to utilities and opening the terminal. Once in the terminal enter the following command and hit return/enter:
The result of this command will be the date that the system currently has been set to. For some reason, it might have been reset to 2001, in which case we need to set it to the right date. To do this, we enter a new command. This command will be entered as follows:
Every bracket should be replaced with a two-digit number based on UTC time. Below you see what the command should be for your current time and date – . To avoid trouble with timezones, we will use UTC time instead (). Which means, you can just enter it exactly like this:
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Enter the command and hit return. You can then check if it was set correctly by running the first command again. If the date was wrong, it was likely that which caused the error, and after you quit the terminal it should be able to install OS X just fine.
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