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- 2017 15" MBP, 16gig ram, 1TB SSD, OS 10.15
At moment the mac pro is a brick...
In post #1 it was mentioned that you were able to boot the Mac Pro a couple times. If it's really a "brick" now...this is a MUCH different situation.
If this computer was working ok when you first got it...then I would suspect that the Yosemite update you did messed things up. When a computer is "hacked" like this...you can't mess with the OS (sometimes can't change ANYTHING)...even an update. The "hack" sometimes ONLY works with the specific OS version it was designed for. Even installing a small OS update is deviating from this.
When a computer has been upgraded/hacked like this...can't mess with the OS.
At this point in time I would like to install OS X Lion. I don't have any install disks. Can I buy something like this off ebay and get OS X Lion installed?
Lion was never distributed on disk. Lion was either distributed on a USB thumb drive or via download (first Mac OS that was distributed via download). VERY few folks did he USB thumb drive...because it was more than twice the price of the download method.
As far as what you saw on eBay. Most of what you see are "DIY" Lion USB thumb drive installers folks have made to try to make money. Most of these are NOT official Apple Lion USB install drives. They may work fine & they may not. Kind of a "try at your own risk" sort of thing.
- Nick