

Installation will continue, or you will boot into the OS or get the Recovery Utilities menu (where macOS can be reinstalled from or Disk Utilities run). This is usually demonstrated as a boot screen that is stuck on the Apple logo, sometimes with or without a wait cursor that spins endlessly.
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Then, enter your account password to access the macOS recovery menu. Though it is an unusual occurrence, a Mac may encounter a broken or damaged EFI partition which typically prevents the Mac from booting and the Mac OS system software from loading.
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Choose the Install macOS Monterey boot option. Start your Mac while holding down the Option key. If the recovery partition isn’t present and valid, these instructions won’t work.Ĭlick the 2nd entry, you should see (and then click): Macs with Intel processors (both with and without the T2 chip) Make sure the USB drive with macOS Monterey is connected to your Mac. If the 2nd partition isn’t the recovery partition, look under the paths in the list to see if one of them is it. The second PCI path is probably to the recovery partition, the one you need to boot from.

The first PCI path in the list is probably the boot partition that doesn’t contain bootable firmware.

The machine refuses to boot in safe mode. update 2 - I held the power button, restarted and held shift. update 1 - I’ve tried booting in recovery mode and running the first aid operation in disk utility. You should see two entries in a list (they are cryptic looking PCI bus paths). This is on a MacBook Pro running Mac OS Mojave. Select Boot Maintenance Manager and click. The operating system may have been released a while ago Novemto be exact but some issues stick. You’ll be brought into an EFI text-mode GUI. If macOS 11 Big Sur problems are still popping up for you, you’re not alone. I was able to fix the UEFI problems as follows ( credit to techrechard website):
