

Luckily there is another way to connect, via apple’s boot menu. If instead your MacBook lets you select a Wi-Fi network during this process, you’re in the clear and can skip the next paragraph.

This tends to be because the Mac assumes it is already connected to Wi-Fi (when its not) and gives an error after it fails to connect to apple servers. There is a bit of a catch: if you do this straight away, there is a good chance that the Mac will get stuck here and throw up an error – error -3001F in my personal experience. The way forward is to use the built-in “internet recovery” which, on startup, can be triggered via pressing “cmd + R”. It may seem like you just bricked your MacBook, but luckily there is a remedy. If you’re anything like me, you will (or already have) accidentally wiped your Macbook’s ssd.
