Major problem creating more problems, spiraling out of control endlessly: cannot install OS I started the day by receiving the following message, spontaneously:


  your computer restarted because of a problem. Press a key or wait a few minutes to continue starting up.


So I upgraded High Sierra. But the problem continued, I kept getting the message above.

So I uninstalled all my apps which came from outside the Apple store.  Throughout this process, the problem continued.

Finally, I thought I might as well just reinstall everything. After all, everything I have is in one cloud or another anyway. I started the computer in recovery mode and just wiped the main drive. Easy! And very possibly stupid. 

When I went to install High Sierra again, I got the error, though I tried twice in a row.


  could not create reboot volume ...


Yikes. So I started her up again, CMD R, and a little globe starts spinning. Eventually, I am given the option to install OS X Yosemite. Ok, fine, better than nothing.... but then when it says select the disk you want, there are no options... just the external USB drive...

When I go to disk utility, I see “500.28 GB APPLE SSD...” with a little grey “disk0s2” beneath it.



What should I do now? I feel WAAAY over my head here...
Having a bunch of kernel panics is not normal. While it can be a software problem, it often is a hardware problem.

First, run Apple Diagnostics or Apple Hardware Test. If no errors are reported, start from Internet Recovery, create a new partition on your SSD, and reinstall the OS.