macbook air won't boot up after upgrading to macOS Catalina

[Ahmedelgohary94]

guys i need help

with a compatible MacBook Air '13 early 2015

after upgrading to macOS Catalina it breaks it down

after it rebooted it didn't boot up showing a black screen with folder icon with a question mark symbol with means there are no bootable media that the EFI bootloader can handle. the backlit Apple logo didn't light up as i press the power button it takes around 1 or 1.5 min.

I've tried

command+option+p+r (not working)

command+r (not working)

option+command+r (not working)

shift+option+command+r (not working)

option (not working)

so I've made a bootable macOS usb installer from another mac and i put it in the macbook air it's not booting into the installer even if I've been waiting for an entire day for it it's not working and when i remove it the folder icon with a question mark symbol appears again

how can i solve this

note there're no apple stores nearby me

[Electronics Wizardy]

If you boot from a usb drive does the disk show up? Might be a bad ssd.

 

Can you restore backups?

[Ahmedelgohary94]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

If you boot from a usb drive does the disk show up? Might be a bad ssd.

 

Can you restore backups?

it shows a black blank screen with the usb on it doesn't boot to anything if i removed the usb bootable drive it shows the folder icon again

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, Ahmedelgohary94 said:

it shows a black blank screen with the usb on it doesn't boot to anything if i removed the usb bootable drive it shows the folder icon again

What os is on the usb?

 

Hold option when booting to see the boot menu

 

[Ahmedelgohary94]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

What os is on the usb?

 

Hold option when booting to see the boot menu

 

catalina

i hold option key for more than 2 min it doesn't show anything

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Ahmedelgohary94 said:

catalina

i hold option key for more than 2 min it doesn't show anything

Try a linux live usb.

 

How did you make the bootable usb?

 

 

[Ahmedelgohary94]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Try a linux live usb.

 

How did you make the bootable usb?

 

 

i've used software but it failed then using macOS terminal and it failed too

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 minutes ago, Ahmedelgohary94 said:

i've used software but it failed then using macOS terminal and it failed too

How did it fail making it

 

Did you try a linux live disk? Do that. If it doesn't show the boot menu, try a smc restet

[Ahmedelgohary94]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

How did it fail making it

 

Did you try a linux live disk? Do that. If it doesn't show the boot menu, try a smc restet

hot to do smc rest

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Ahmedelgohary94 said:

hot to do smc rest

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295

 

 

[Ahmedelgohary94]

11 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295

 

 

even resting smc didn't solve it

can i create abootable linux unstaller on windows that works on mac?

[DrMacintosh]

You need to create a bootable macOS installer USB and boot to it by holding down option on boot. From there you can format your SSD and install macOS again and or restore from a backup. You can't boot into recovery because your recovery partition was corrupted. 

[Ahmedelgohary94]

9 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

You need to create a bootable macOS installer USB and boot to it by holding down option on boot. From there you can format your SSD and install macOS again and or restore from a backup. You can't boot into recovery because your recovery partition was corrupted. 

i've a hold the option key for 7 min with the bootable macOS installer on ths usb port and it didn't show any thing blank screen

[DrMacintosh]

3 minutes ago, Ahmedelgohary94 said:

i've a hold the option key for 7 min with the bootable macOS installer on ths usb port and it didn't show any thing blank screen

Then the bootable USB was not created properly. 

 

Format the USB again and create an installer for Mojave, not Catalina. 

[Ahmedelgohary94]

Just now, DrMacintosh said:

Then the bootable USB was not created properly. 

 

Format the USB again and create an installer for Mojave, not Catalina. 

i don't have mohave

can ubuntu linux get the work done?

[DrMacintosh]

1 minute ago, Ahmedelgohary94 said:

i don't have mohave

can ubuntu linux get the work done?

No. In order to reinstall macOS, you need a macOS bootable USB. 

 

You can create a Mojave bootable USB here:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210190

 

[Ahmedelgohary94]

13 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

No. In order to reinstall macOS, you need a macOS bootable USB. 

 

You can create a Mojave bootable USB here:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210190

 

i don't have a mac right now only the broken macbook air, i've created a vm macOS on virtualbox i used it to recreate a cataline installer that was on my external hard drive

can i use windows to create a linux or from the vm mac