This is after 3 days of banging my head on the desk trying to figure out a way around it. I sh*t you not.a couple hours after posting this, my 2017 MacBook Pro 15 (A1707) booted up just fine, and the touchbar was working again. Again, your system will reboot as Apple has updated the system firmware a few times depending which macOS you are installing. Now before doing anything else apply all of the needed updates. In a few hours your system should have finished the OS install. Now exit Disk Utility and start the OS installer letting it do its thing! Your system will reboot a few times and the screen will also go dark so don’t panic!!

Once started go to the menu and select Disk Utility and then delete all of the partitions, then reformat the drive as one GUID APFS partition. Restart your system then using the Option key to enter into the Startup Manager select the USB-C installer drive.

How to create a bootable macOS Catalina installer drive.

How to create a bootable macOS Mojave installer drive.

Next create a bootable OS installer using another Mac system, I personally would stick with Mojave for now as Catalina is still a bit buggy! In any case here’s how to create both: Do you think replacing the touchbar unit will solve the problem?Īt this point you need to wipe the drive and re-install your OS from an external OS installer drive.įirst backup anything important off your drive (TimeMachine) The internet says it has to do something with touchbar unit, but I didn’t have any issues before. I can also use my mac booting from portable usb windows drive but again touchbar, keyboard backlight and sound does not work (everything used to work from the same usb drive before the critical software thing happed). However, I am able to use my mac from safe boot mode but touchbar, keyboard backlight and sound does not work from safe mode. I also tried factory OS install (shift option command R) but fails after downloading OS. I have also tried the clean install with and empty disk (command + R) but shows same screen. I’ve tried updating with wifi, personal hotspot and with LAN adapter but I get same screen.

When I turn on it says a critical update is required but keeps saying that an error occurred when I try to install. This happened to me after few days of using the new macOS Catalina.

Macbook pro os update 2016