Os X Could Not Be Installed No Packages

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I did not partition my new drive, I erased and formatted in MAC OS Extended (Journaled) only. I still could not get the original disk that came with the macbook Air to install. Thanks for the key to eject the disk. The Snow Leopard 10.6 disk installed properly, I've just completed the Time Machine restore and I think everything is good. Because one package cannot be installed, no packages are installed and the update fails. The following techniques can provide more information about why the ubjavavm-incorporation package cannot be installed: Use -v options. For example, use -v or -vv to receive more verbose output. Specify a package to update. Easy solution for / OS X could not be installed on your computer.No packages were elegible for install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance. There are a number of things you can do to fix your Mac when you see the message: “macOS could not be installed on your computer.” If the problem is that you don’t have enough space, you can use CleanMyMac X to get rid of files you don’t need. Otherwise, go through the above steps one at a time until you’re able to install a new.

Installing El Capiton on an old Mac Book Pro today, I received the error:

OS X could not be installed on your computer

No packages were eligible for install. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.

Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again.

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I checked Apple’s support Matrix (it is a very old macbook pro) at https://support.apple.com/kb/SP728?locale=en_GB and it was listed as supported.

After lots of Googling and investigation, I discovered that the date and time were not set to current, the macbook thought it was year 2000.

You can easily reset the time and date by following the steps below:

  • Click Utilities on the menu bar
  • Select Terminal
  • Type date
  • Confirm the date is wrong
  • Type date 062112422016 (example: June 21st 12:42 2016)
  • Exit terminal
  • Click Restart

Once the Date and time are configured you will be able to install OS X.

Easy fix, for a ridiculous error!


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Os X Could Not Be Installed No Packages Were Eligible

Introduction

Now that the final version of macOS 10.14 Mojave, has been released, many people have installed the new OS on their Hackintosh.

Several users, however, have reported the following error during installation.

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“macOS could not be installed on your computer. The installer resources were not found. Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again.”

This happens regardless of whether you’re performing an upgrade or a clean install, and whether the drive you’re installing to is formatted as APFS or HFS+.

So, what’s the solution?

If you’re installing to a SATA drive

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After some investigation, and some trial and error, the only solution seems to be to physically disconnect all the drives in your computer, apart from the drive onto which you’re actually installing the new OS. Physically disconnecting the SATA cables from all additional drives before running the installer allows the install to proceed.

In my case, I had a total of four SATA drives connected internally – two SSD’s and two HDD’s. With the drives connected, I got the error message to the left, every time, without fail, after the first reboot.

Os X Could Not Be Installed No Packages Were Eligible

After disconnecting the drives and leaving only the single SSD where the OS was being installed connected, the installation went through without problems.

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Once the OS has been installed, you can safely reconnected all of the SATA cables.

If you’re installing to an NVMe drive

Os X Cannot Be Installed

If you’re attempting to install Mojave to a NVMe drive, like the Samsung 960 EVO or the Samsung 970 EVO, the error seems to occur regardless of whether additional drives are connected or not.

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In this case, your only solution is to physically remove the NVMe drive, install Mojave to a SATA drive and then use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the SATA drive to the NVMe drive after installation.

There may well be a better solution in the future, but for the time being, at least, this seems to be the only way to get past the error.