Monterey mess up.

[streza lenys]

Hello, I have a basic 2018 Intel MBP 13” 128gb SSD with macOS High Sierra, after installing Mojave in 2019 and wanting to upgrade to a newer macOS but short of SSD space I finally cleared out a load of stuff that left me with a capacity of 60GB so I went ahead & tried to install Monterey when I initiated the install it soon informed me it couldn’t continue with the install and I ended up getting stuck on the ‘checking null’ issue which got resolved by a forced restart only to find myself back with the original out of the box High Sierra macos. My question is can I upgrade to Monterey and if so can it be done in one install or do I have to get to Mojave & Catalina first? I realise this post was convoluted but I wanted to be as specific as possible & I would needless to say be so grateful for any input anyone would care to provide and thank you very much for reading.

 

[kitKAC]

Yep, you can go straight to Monterey! (Although I'm confused at how you ended up back on High Sierra if you'd already upgraded to Mojave).

 

[streza lenys]

Yep, you can go straight to Monterey! (Although I'm confused at how you ended up back on High Sierra if you'd already upgraded to Mojave).

I suspect it may have been something to do with the forced restart I committed to after being stuck/frozen on “checking null” it was infuriating.

 

[kitKAC]

A forced restart wouldn't do that... unless you started Internet Recovery to bring down the OS that was originally installed on the machine?

 

[streza lenys]

A forced restart wouldn't do that... unless you started Internet Recovery to bring down the OS that was originally installed on the machine?

Funny you should mention that! If I remember rightly I’m sure I used the combo ‘Option+Shift+Command+R’ you’re obviously schooled in this, whereas I just as obviously am not and although I can’t remember what option/s I clicked on to get into such a mess, I reckon you nailed it by mentioning “internet recovery” it seems obvious now. Anyway thanks for the help it was badly needed.

 

[George Dawes]

Tbh if you're not upgrading due to security issues stay on Mojave , it's much more stable than monterey and no memory leak problems

Wish I had on my iMac late 2015....