I’m sorry to hear about the issue you are having with what I imagine you expected to be a straightforward install; that’s always frustrating. I’m sure we can help you out, but before we dive in it may be good to establish what we are working with:
Aug 12, 2013 right ok - so i am now getting a bit lost as the more i read the more it seems that the USB issues are geared towards USB3 in 10.11 however my board only has USB2 ports. I have tried the installer, using 2 different known good sticks, into EVERY port i have during the install and the result is the same 'Still waiting for root device'. Feb 10, 2017 OSX El Capitan Notebook Latitude E6430 Hi, have this PC: CPu: i5 3320 2.60Ghz Ram: 8Gb Graphics: Intel Graphics HD 4000 SSD: 256 GB. Ive tried to install OSX El Capitan, Yosemite and Maverick. Without result. With generic error: still waiting for root device. Oct 01, 2015 10 thoughts on “ How to overcome OS X 10.11 El Capitan not installing ” hydrovacing October 2, 2015 at 7:30 am. Anyone know know another way to download EL Captain. I have had on of my Mac’s trying to download it since it came out. It is now at this moment at 4.81 GB.
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1. Were you able to successfully copy your files to the external hard drive as you noted? Do you have any other full or incremental backups of your system from prior to the install, like in Time Machine?
2. What are you seeing when you try to reinstall from Recovery? Is it giving you an error, or is it just hanging/failing? If you are seeing an error, what does it say specifically?
3. Similarly, what are you seeing when you try to verify/repair the disk? Is it saying that the disk is fine, is it finding repairable errors, or is it failing because it cannot repair the disk?
Again, I’m sorry to hear that this happened, but we should be able to get you pointed on the right track.
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Oct 1, 2015 3:01 PM
As with prior versions of OS X, the new version 10.11 “El Capitan” is available as a free purchase from the App Store, and should then download and run to allow you to upgrade your system. If all goes well, you should see the OS X installation window that instructs you to begin the upgrade process, but there may be instances where this does not appear, or does not work when you attempt the install.
First, the OS X installer should run automatically, but if not then you can try running it manually:
- Go to the Applications folder
- Open the program called “Install OS X El Capitan”
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
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If this program is missing or will not run, then move it to the trash and empty the trash, followed by re-downloading it from the App Store.An alternative approach is to create a dedicated installation drive from the El Capitan installer, and use that to install the upgrade. For this, you will need a spare external drive (USB drive, or hard drive) that is at least 8GB in size, and then perform the following steps:
- Attach the drive to your Mac
- Use Disk Utility to format it to HFS+ with a GUID partition scheme, naming it INSTALLER
- Open the OS X Terminal and run the following command (copy and paste all 5 lines):
Press Enter to run the pasted command, and supply your password when prompted (it will not show when typed). Note that if you get any errors, be sure your USB drive is formatted and named “INSTALLER” so the command will properly target it. You will also need to have first downloaded the OS X El Capitan installer from the App Store, and have this present in your Applications folder.
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The Terminal may take a while to complete this step, but when done you can reboot your Mac and hold the Option key to show the boot menu, and then select the El Capitan installation drive you just created to run the installer and upgrade your Mac’s internal hard drive.
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If the procedure still fails with an error, then hopefully you have a full system backup ready, which you can restore to your Mac using the option to restore from a Time Machine backup in the OS X Recovery partition, or whatever cloning software you use. When done, attempt the above procedures to try again.