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They made a lot of changes under the hood, especially to bolster security, and to accommodate M1. It's far more involved than just prettier icons.

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For a while I'd always unplug all external drives before starting any OS upgrades, but with Catalina that problem seems to have been resolved, but I remain wary.Д«ig Sur is a much bigger upgrade than we think. I've also had cases where my Late 2012 iMac would try to boot from a TB attached Time Machine backup drive during upgrades or after invoking PRAM resets. That's the reason I abandoned the workaround of booting my HDD Mac Mini from an external SSD and went the internal Fusion/SSD direction. I have reported it to Apple Support but wonder if. I can downgrade to Catalina but the firmware is not downgraded and the problem remains.

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Following update to Big Sur, which also updates the firmware, my MacBook Pro 15 late 2013 will not boot if the Thunderbolt Display is connected. I also know from personal experience that macOS upgrades change the designated boot disk on the fly and ignore the settings you've established in the OS or via the previous Option key boot selection. MacOS Big Sur, MacBook Pro 15 Late 2013, Thunderbolt Display. I'm with Elijahg in thinking that the black screen issues that some people are seeing may be due to firmware updates being slipstreamed into the Big Sur installation. I'm still amazed that a sub $20 board and a $100 SSD turned what was a tortuous machine to use into one that is a pleasure to use and very stable. No problems with this machine since its conversion to Fusion. My concerns turned out to be unnecessary, at least after waiting a couple of days for the initial Big Sur kerfuffle to dissipate. On my Late 2014 Mac Mini HDD-only machine that I converted to Fusion using a third party M.2 NVMe adapter card and 512 GB SSD, I skipped the betas entirely because I was somewhat concerned about the non-standard setup causing a problem.

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The only minor annoyance is that it decided to download all of my Photos to the machine when the release version landed on the machine, which I had not previously downloaded because they consume so much disk space. A later beta worked fine and all subsequent betas worked fine, as did the release version.

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I had to do a full internet recovery to Catalina and waited until a later beta to give it a second try.

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I had a similar problem when I tried to install Big Sur Beta 1 on my Late 2013 MacBook Pro 13' Retina. Of course if Apple didn't obscure the update process under a black screen people would have a better idea of what's going on when it fails. I suspect the broken Macs still have the ability to boot silently to an EFI image over USB, so Apple may push a fix that can be installed to a USB memory stick. Let's hope Apple does the Right Thing here and fixes those Macs where the update failed without charge, since it's not the customer's fault whatsoever. Obviously that is no longer an option for most people, so newer Macs are supposed to self-recover.

It used to be the case you could put a CD in with the EFI (firmware) on, and the Mac would boot from it and self-recover. It used to be the case that FW updates were installed manually by holding the Mac's power button, and they were very rare because they were (apparently still are) relatively risky.

Of course if Apple didn't obscure the update process under a black screen people would have a better idea of what's going on when it fails.The macOS updates now often include a firmware update as part of the update process, I suspect this is breaking and would explain why it's specific models. The macOS updates now often include a firmware update as part of the update process, I suspect this is breaking and would explain why it's specific models.