![]() I'll reckon that there WILL be ways to erase the entire drive, but they won't be easy. Although he'll probably get them solved in time. Hence, the problems reported by Mike Bombich of CarbonCop圜loner. With the recovery partition, you can reinstall the OS, but you CAN'T "erase" the internal drive itself (only the partition that the OS is going onto). It seems like this ability no longer is going to exist with the m1 Macs and Big Sur. Or "clone over" a backup to the "empty" drive. Like past versions of macOS, upgrading to. Go to the macOS Catalina page to learn more about what’s new. Just like each macOS update in the past, Apple has created Catalina with more features and optimizations to improve your Mac experience. With internet recovery (as distinguished from "the recovery partition"), one can boot a Mac via the net, and then COMPLETELY ERASE the internal drive and start over again. Released on October 7th, 2019, macOS 10.15 Catalina is the latest version of the Mac operating system. The only difference I see between this and Intel machines is that the Intel machines will boot over the internet, while the M1 Macs apparently have the macOS recovery code built in." We know that M1 Macs have macOS Recovery built in, and one of the apps in macOS Recovery reinstalls Big Sur over the internet. Complete "recovery" on m1 Macs seems to have been made deliberately difficult or perhaps even impossible (at least impossible without 3rd party hacks that will eventually appear). Instead, you get the "last version" of internet recovery that was possible - Catalina - because apparently the "upgrade" to Big Sur just "leaves in place" the volume/container (or whatever it is) that enabled internet recovery on older versions of the OS.īut again, I sense that Big Sur (whether Intel or m1 version) by itself has NO "internet recovery" abilities built into it.īut it looks to me that Apple's vision for the "future of the Mac OS" DOES NOT WANT the concept of "internet recovery" to be available to the user. And of course, they require Big Sur.īut even on intel Macs (as you have documented), a Big Sur installation will not permit internet recovery (at least an "internet recovery" that will reinstall Big Sur). We KNOW that the m1 Macs will no longer do internet recovery, that Apple seems to have deliberately removed such capability. I suspect this is some kind of temporary glitch that Apple will work out." Chabig wrote: "As to your hypothesis, I don't know how there could not be an internet recovery for machines that ship with Big Sur. ![]()
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