So my 2018 Mac mini decided to act up this week. I thought I’d upgrade to Sonoma.
Big mistake. Unfortunately it got stuck in a loop trying to download then would crash.
I decided to reinstall from my Time Machine back up. That just lead to more issues. Ended up with Ventura (but not very stable). Tried to upgrade from there.
Yup you guessed it back to getting stuck in the loop.
So I erased my SSD to see if that would help. Still not able to get running.
Lastly I created an installer for Ventura which I did on my work Mac.
Pretty sure that is all good (on an SD card created with Disk creator).
However when I start using option and select the drive it tries to download Mojave from the internet and gets stuck in the loop.
Pretty sure I have the T2 chip preventing it from booting from an external. But I can no longer change that setting as I have no installed user.
Any suggestions for the next steps to try?
Big mistake. Unfortunately it got stuck in a loop trying to download then would crash.
I decided to reinstall from my Time Machine back up. That just lead to more issues. Ended up with Ventura (but not very stable). Tried to upgrade from there.
Yup you guessed it back to getting stuck in the loop.
So I erased my SSD to see if that would help. Still not able to get running.
Lastly I created an installer for Ventura which I did on my work Mac.
Pretty sure that is all good (on an SD card created with Disk creator).
However when I start using option and select the drive it tries to download Mojave from the internet and gets stuck in the loop.
Pretty sure I have the T2 chip preventing it from booting from an external. But I can no longer change that setting as I have no installed user.
Any suggestions for the next steps to try?