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Upgrade to Monterey and failed to boot(MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019)

Yes, I have another linux partition on the hard disk, and no local recovery partition any more.


Last Friday, I started to the upgrade to Monterey. After a reboot, it displays a folder icon with question mark, and "support.apple.com/Mac/startup" under it.


I have tried to boot with Option key, Cmd+R, it went to internet recovery, obviously, it can't load the partition for macOS(a 800 g partition) and "First Aid" failed for that partition(disk0s2) and same(disk2s2) for target hard disk mode when connecting it to another MacBook Pro(with ThunderBolt 2 cable+3->2 adapter):


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Running First Aid on “” (disk2s2)


Checking file system and repairing if necessary and if possible.

Volume is already unmounted.

Performing fsck_hfs -fy -x /dev/rdisk2s2

File system check exit code is 8.

Restoring the original state found as unmounted.

File system verify or repair failed. : (-69845)


Operation failed…

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Any hope to load the partition to get some data back?


It's my first time to fail to upgrade macOS in the last 5-10 years... I should not be that confident with Apple.

MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Posted on Nov 2, 2021 6:29 AM

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Posted on Nov 7, 2021 2:42 PM

Woohoo! After a beer during night, I decided to have another try. After a bit google, I found pdisk and gdisk. And gdisk is really what I need, it has t function to "change a partition's type code", I change my partition from AF00 to AF0A, my partition is back!


* https://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/

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Nov 6, 2021 11:57 AM in response to qiliang1978

I think I know why fsck_hfs got called instead of fsck_apfs.


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sudo diskutil list /dev/disk2

/dev/disk2 (external):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         1.0 TB     disk2

   1:                        EFI ⁨EFI⁩                     314.6 MB   disk2s1

   2:                  Apple_HFS ⁨⁩                        749.0 GB   disk2s2

                    (free space)                         251.2 GB   -

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Nov 7, 2021 6:43 AM in response to qiliang1978

Thanks for Mike Boreham's suggestion.


I made a USB installer of Monterey. I can use it to boot into mbp 2019.


But it still considers that partition as a HFS partition instead of APFS containter. So not much difference with boot from Internet Recovery(Catalina).


* https://mrmacintosh.com/macos-12-monterey-full-installer-database-download-directly-from-apple/

* https://mrmacintosh.com/how-to-create-a-bootable-macos-12-beta-usb-drive-in-5-min/


BTW, This post synced with https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/upgrade-to-monterey-and-failed-to-boot-macbook-pro-16-inch-2019.2322174/

Upgrade to Monterey and failed to boot(MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019)

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