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Big Sur -Public Beta
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Maybe a damaged download
Find it and toss it. Redownload the installer. and run it.
You are installing this onto a APFS volume with good amount of free space. The 12 GB expands quite a bit for this install that I read. It was also mentioned you should have been at 10.15.6 to update.
I've had it pop up on every beta, and I've just deleted it each time, after looking at it.
Nope, that's how it is now.
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I experienced it about 12 times. I'd hit ok, it would recheck for updates, show the Big Sur update, I'd click Upgrade Now, and the download would resume from where it left off.
I can only assume it's caused by high network traffic on their end combined with a bunch of active devices on your network.
I installed the beta on an external volume with about 450GB free space. It has now been about three hours at “Transferring Your Information” “Starting up...” with a furiously bouncing progress indicator and no estimate of remaining time. Is this possibly the way it’s supposed to be?
Any ideas?
keeps failing with the same error.
So far I’ve done an internet recovery back to a base 10.15.6 install, and tried the download twice at different times.
Laptop is a 2018 MacBook Air - 8Gb RAM 128Gb SSD.
Just trying to do an upgrade over Catalina.
keeps failing with the same error.
So far I’ve done an internet recovery back to a base 10.15.6 install, and tried the download twice at different times.
Laptop is a 2018 MacBook Air - 8Gb RAM 128Gb SSD.
Just trying to do an upgrade over Catalina.
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I've seen some earlier issues with the Big Sur beta (temporarily) bricking a Mac. Has the latest beta corrected that? Any idea what the culprit was?
And if I wanted to do this safely on my MBP, would the best way be to partition the drive, install Big Sur to that partition, and use it without logging into my iCloud account so there's no interaction between the beta and my iCloud stuff?
And yes, I know with AFPS you can just create a new volume. But this would be a temporary partition anyway that I'll delete once I'm ready to migrate my main volume to Big Sur and I'd like it to have a completely dedicated space to run in, not sharing space with my main boot volume at all.
And if I wanted to do this safely on my MBP, would the best way be to partition the drive, install Big Sur to that partition, and use it without logging into my iCloud account so there's no interaction between the beta and my iCloud stuff?
And yes, I know with AFPS you can just create a new volume. But this would be a temporary partition anyway that I'll delete once I'm ready to migrate my main volume to Big Sur and I'd like it to have a completely dedicated space to run in, not sharing space with my main boot volume at all.
Just an FYI: Animations are a bit choppy MBP16 and MBP15 when running on integrated GPU.
When plugging external monitor - I suppose discrete GPU is forced and everything is smooth.
I am sure it will iron and smooth out by the time of the release.
When plugging external monitor - I suppose discrete GPU is forced and everything is smooth.
I am sure it will iron and smooth out by the time of the release.
Already happens for me on the current live software.. for some reason the UHD 630 can't handle the 16" resolution lol
All you have to do is go to System Preferences>Dock & Menubar and on the Sidebar under Other Modules click on Battery and check "Show Percentage" and it will show. Hope this helps!!
So far, everything seems perfect, so far: Turbo boost switcher, photoshop 2020, office 2016, whastapp, microsoft edge, transmission, all work well.
I am now running Public Beta 1 successfully. What did the trick was following the suggestion from elsewhere to put this into the boot flags:
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devices.mac_hw_model="MacBookPro14,3"
devices.smbios.board_id="Mac-****************"