How to remove installer on write locked SSD and boot normal ?

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Is there anything I can do to prevent booting into the installer?

My OWC Aurora SSD is "write locked" and macOS High Sierra upgrade cannot proceed despite multiple restarts. Same problem if boot from a macOS High Sierra USB flash drive.

I tried booting to single user mode and deleting the installer without success.

fsck -fy
rm -rf Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra
exit​

The fsck command returns disk OK. However Disk Utility Repair reports disk errors and must be reformatted.

Sierra was booting fine until I tried to update to High Sierra. I am stuck in an installer loop and cannot update and cannot go back to running Sierra.

Any tips or suggestions are appreciate?

( And yes I did back it up. )

 

[BLUEDOG314]

Well first you have to mount the file system to do anything to it. You want to type "mount -uw /" first.
If there are errors that disk utility cannot fix you many need something like DiskWarrior. I would say its probably time to back up your information and just do a clean install.