
“Installer information on the recovery server is damaged” is an error you may see displayed on your screen when trying to reinstall macOS. Specifics if macOS Sierra 10.12.4 (or later) has never been installed on your Mac:.Installer information on the recovery server is damaged fix.

This will take you into the boot manager where you can select the USB drive as the boot volume. When you get the installer created, simply put it into a USB slot, and hold the ⌥ Option key while booting.

Holding the C key tells the Mac to boot from the CD/DVD drive. I have tried holding down the C-key on startup. Yes, you can "brick" things but that's usually a firmware issue or in Apple's case, a security "thing" that you couldn't either unlock the firmware or the FileVault encryption. Of course you can, there's no Mac (or any computer for that matter) that has been irreparably limited to never running it's native operating system ever again. Can I reinstall macOS on my Mac after it's been turned into a Linux box?
