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> Don’t ever format a drive of M1 Macs from recovery mode > Because Apple doesn’t put a warning alerting that it doesn’t really format a drive and Big Sur inst
by Maxious 6y ago
> Don’t ever format a drive of M1 Macs from recovery mode
> Because Apple doesn’t put a warning alerting that it doesn’t really format a drive and Big Sur installer is stupid and it doesn’t see it as a “clean” drive but it see the “Data” Volume and it tries to find a user to authorize the installation, but since the drive has no users, it fails.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26177263 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26177263
- xenadu02 6y agoWhile the bug is unfortunate it is also easily avoided: always delete a volume group together. Don't leave some volumes from the group laying around.