Cannot upgrade to Monterey with non-apple SSD.

but my question is why would apple for any reason really do this they have to know that people upgrade right . so make no since as to why they would do it anyone confirmed withe apple support at all? curious at to what they would say.

Did the same thing. I've updated my Mac with the original SSD drive. Installed macOS Monterey on this drive to get the EFI firmware update and after that placed my Samsung SSD and installed macOS Monterey. Works great!

Would this also account for ridiculous slow boot times on a

iMac Retina 5K 27 inch 2019

3,6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9

48 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

Radeon Pro 580X 8 GB

3 TB Fusion Drive

booting from an external SanDisk Extreme SSD 1TB (over Thunderbolt) ?

Does the iMac also need an EFI update?

My system worked smooth under Big Sur, and the external SSD has proven a smoother and faster experience than the internal Fusion Drive (until Monterey came along and booting now takes about 30 minutes on average).

Encountered issue where apple ssd showed but is grayed out when about to install monterey and a message says that i cannot use it because its encrypted or something. I really dont remember the exact message, sorry

yes It should but i believe you would have to install the prior OS on it first then do the upgrade on it from there , once done you should be able to update your other SSD with out issues. i still say this is a big mess up on apple and maybe someone should be calling and talking to them, otherwise this is going to turn into a big Issue for lots of customers. As why would you need a original apple ssd to update a firmware on the mainboard it's not the firmware on the ssd thats being updated, its the firmware on the board. and why it needs the original SSD installed to do this is messed up. As all the computers i have built over the years and thats allot none ever needed a original ssd installed to do any sort of update. This is bizarre behavior.

Could you share part number of your genuine Apple SSD?

I do not have one and am considering buying one second hand.

But would like to know original Mac Pro Late 2013 part number of a SSD.

There are a lot available but most of them come out of MacBook's. Compatible? Don't know..... ;-)

MacTracker did not show me much sadly.

But I found two part numbers, MZ-JPV256O/0A4 and MZ-JPU256T/0A1.

I hope these work. Just had a call with Apple Support and they were not aware of the problem.

For now I was advised to try ALT+CMD+R option, but I do not have high hopes for that.

I found out that my EFI version is way old anywayz, 132.0.0.0.0. So the BigSur successful installation did not update the EFI firmware version. So Monterey installer could be fixed to not care about the failing update but for now it does care about updating.........

The explanation of having a non-Apple SSD is the reason for the problem might not be 100% accurate.

Mine is a MacBook 12-inch early 2015. It has the exact same issue for installing the Monterey either from inside and with a USB.

But my System Information shows the internal storage is an: APPLE SSD AP0512H.

Therefore, try a genuine APPLE SSD might not be the correct solution. It might require newer APPLE SSD than certain models

OK, here is an update/edit to my original post.

Turns out, for MackBook 12-inch, there is no SSD, the storage is a chip soldered to the board.

So I guess, if you cannot install Monterey for this case. It is fatal and final... :(

SSD is the type of storage. It is not relevant if it is soldered or not, except that in your case it is surely the original from Apple. The real question in your case is: is your mac model supported in Monterey? What year is it?

@lllaass

I did the same thing with my MP2013, although I saved my Apple SSD in an enclosure and can attach it via USB. If I do this and make that the boot disk, will it accept the firmware update that way?

Alternatively, what about trying a recovery restart and install it that way?

Thank you!

What I have read here is that the Apple SSD has to be installed internally.

lisaroser wrote

Alternatively, what about trying a recovery restart and install it that way?

That will not work. I tried that on my 2013 MP and it was a no go.

My macbook is a Early 2015 Retina.

I upgraded to Monterey on my older 120 GB Macbook SSD and now the macbook no longer recognises my Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB.

I have now the strong feeling the new update has flashed some hard components.

Anyone who had success in the process with the same hardware?

Did you try changing the startup disk?

With my MacPro I replaced the genuine Apple SSD with the Samsung EVO (with BigSur still installed) and system would not start from it. But in recovery menu I could choose to select startup disk and there it did see the Evo.

Btw. at first I seemed to have not properly secured the SSD in its socket, so startup only provided a big question mark...

It should work i have mac os monterey installed on my 1tb external boot drive, in a thunderbolt enclosure, i did the update first on my internal drive 500gb drive, then the update on my external all went well. once updated you should not have a issue installing it on your evo.