Various partition issues with latest MBP

[nickeynamp]

Hello guys,

We have been using Google Restor very often recently. It's very useful and making our lives so much happier. However we are running on some errors just on certain machines. Do you know why this is the case?

• ASR failed with exit code: 1.Potential Errors:Could not find APFS container disk for target - /dev/disk2s2
• ASR failed with exit code: 1.Potential Errors:Couldn't set up partitions on target device - error 49165
• ASR failed with exit code: 1.Potential Errors:Couldn't set up partitions on target device - Operation timed out
• ASR failed with exit code: 1.Potential Errors:Couldn't set up partitions on target device - error 49182

Nick

[nickeynamp]

There was one thing we tried that got it working again tho. Not sure if it would be the ultimate solution tho.
*Start up in Recovery Mode,
*Open Disk Uitility,
*Erase the drive
*Partition the Drive into MacOS extended
*Reboot in Target Disk mode again to use with Restor

[tburgin]

10.14.4 seems to have added some new protections to T2 TDM macs. If the machine has a user, it seems it can't be erased over TDM. Booting into Recovery to erase the disk seems to be the solution.

[nickeynamp]

Huhm in that case, it seems like we are already doing that. Thanks Tom. Could Google Restor recognize this and work around it?

[tburgin]

As far as I am aware, nope.