My 2011/2012 MacBook is up to Catalina, FYI. I think I needed to copy the installation from another MacBook. Been working fine for a couple years. On Mar 24, 2023, at 2:09 PM, Bob Shuster via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote: Solved - Command-R did it! I had totally forgotten that was a thing. Now that it has Lion installed I can update it to whatever I like (up to High Sierra I think?) Thanks for the input everyone - most appreciated. Bob Shuster
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 15:51:35 -0400 From: Don Barber <don@dgb3.net> To: vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] OT: need help with 2011 MacBook Message-ID: <908bff3b-e0b7-3a73-5e05-cdd57a8f81b0@dgb3.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
You tried Shift-Option-Command-R?during startup? There should be a rom built in to reinstall on that model.
Don