I think I am having a weird issue updating to Beta 8.

[jasoncarle]

I am currently on Beta 7 (21A5522h) and the daemon NRDUpdated has been running since yesterday afternoon. This Daemon is allegedly there to update the recovery partition. When updating to Beta 7 from beta 6, I noticed that this happened before the update and that then went smoothly. Last time it took only a half hour or so, however long it was it sure wasn't an entire day. Right now NRDUpdated has been using ~100% CPU on my M1 mini for more than 24 hours.

Any ideas?

 

[jasoncarle]

well, my M1 mini is currently a brick. I am typing this from my Linux machine. I don't know what happened. I then tried a system restore, that put two OSs on my machine... So then I tried to do a clean install, and there it sits, dead.

 

[Mike Boreham]

well, my M1 mini is currently a brick. I am typing this from my Linux machine. I don't know what happened. I then tried a system restore, that put two OSs on my machine... So then I tried to do a clean install, and there it sits, dead.

I doubt it really put two OSes on!
Many people in the early days of M1 "bricked" their M1s by doing a clean install and wiping the 1TR from the internal drive. If this is what has happened you will need to use Apple Configurator 2. Or take it to an Apple place.
https://mrmacintosh.com/how-to-rein...pple-silicon-mac-everything-you-need-to-know/ gives details.

 

[jasoncarle]

I doubt it really put two OSes on!
Many people in the early days of M1 "bricked" their M1s by doing a clean install and wiping the 1TR from the internal drive. If this is what has happened you will need to use Apple Configurator 2. Or take it to an Apple place.
https://mrmacintosh.com/how-to-rein...pple-silicon-mac-everything-you-need-to-know/ gives details.

So, will I be able to reinstall from a USB? Once I go buy a wired USB keyboard that is...

 

[jasoncarle]

When I checked in Disk Utility, there were two Macintosh HDs on the drive. One mounted and the other grayed out.

 

[jasoncarle]

ok, WTF is this now?

 

[jasoncarle]

In order, this is all the "volumes" on my disk. The last one is my latest attempt at a "clean" ha, install of the Beta... How do I know? Because I remember choosing APFS Case Sensitive...

 

[jasoncarle]

how do I get rid of the "extras" and just have one installation of Mac OS on my mini?

 

[PsykX]

I doubt it really put two OSes on!
Many people in the early days of M1 "bricked" their M1s by doing a clean install and wiping the 1TR from the internal drive. If this is what has happened you will need to use Apple Configurator 2. Or take it to an Apple place.
https://mrmacintosh.com/how-to-rein...pple-silicon-mac-everything-you-need-to-know/ gives details.

Yup. I almost bricked someone else's Mac Mini last year because of this. Luckily I had another Mac at home and could install Configurator.