Can not disable SIP on my new Mac mini M1

vwlinkan Said:

"Can not disable SIP on my new Mac mini M1"

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Thank you for the follow-up.

Two Thoughts:

A. Manage the Drive:

In Recovery Mode, select Disk Utility. From there, select the disk. First, mount it, if need be, and, with the disk still selected, run First Aid. If an issue pops up, your Hard Drive may be failing.

Then...

B. Reinstalling the MacOS:

Elsewise, I'm not so certain other than reinstalling the macOS, as things may have become corrupted somehow. Nothing would be lost. It's just that corrupt system files will be replaced, and misplaced system files will be relocated to where and how they should be.

IMPORTANT: Prior to reinstalling the MacOS, create a Time Machine backup of your Mac. That way you have something to restore your Mac from, should anything go wrong with the reinstallation. Use a hard drive at least 1.5 time the size of the Mac's internal storage, for future backups.

vwlinkan:

"Can not disable SIP on my new Mac mini M1: [...]Others have been successful with this, why not me? Running Big Sur 11.1."

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Downgrade:

Big Sur is pretty picky with user's interactivity with SIP. So, I'm waiting a few and researching workarounds. In the meantime, I've downgraded back to Catalina.

vwlinkan Said:

"I doubt that the SSD should be an issue on a brand new Mac mini M1. But will test it anyway. I have a TM running and will also make a Carbon Copy Clone for extra security. Thanks for your advice!"

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You are welcome.

Rid of CCC:

You might want to stay away from Carbon Copy Cloner. Seems there are lots of issues with it, when it comes to its compatibility with Big Sur. View this Google Search Queue: "carbon copy cloner" "big sur" site:discussions.apple.com. Lots pops up for issues. All I use is Time Machine. So, I'm fine without it.

vwlinkan wrote:

.....Carbon Copy Clone for extra security.

Thanks for your advice!

At the current time for M1 Macs, Carbon Copy Cloner will only

clone the Data volume of you drive and will not be bootable.

For a bootable "semi-clone", You need to clone the Data volume

to a properly APFS formatted drive and then in Recovery, reinstall

macOS to that drive. The protected system volume will not

be cloned (according to Mike Bombich of CCC, the tool to

do this is still being worked on by Apple to get it working

on M1 Macs).

Also be aware that external macOS install and booting on M1

Macs is not quite "fully baked" and there can be numerous

issues with the type of drive used and how that drive is

connected to an M1 Mac.

To Confirm:

In Terminal, type this command:

csrutil status

What is the status shown? enabled? Or disabled?

Thank you! pls keep us updated, id also want to get Xtrafinder on my m1 MacBook Air!