MacOS Update Fiasco
Hi. I recently purchased a 2016 MacBook Pro. It came with MacOS Catalina installed. When I tried to upgrade to Mavericks, the install/download failed twice after loading for about 12 hours (very annoying). After the second fail it now wanted me to download and install Big Sur first however after 13 hours of downloading I was told that my Mac needed a firmware update. After some research I found that this was due to the file system being AFPS. When booting into recovery mode I was told that I needed a password to modify the existing drive so I just said f it and deleted the volume and did an OS install through recovery mode. I left the Mac alone for 1 day and when I cam back to it I had a black screen with a circle that has a line through it. I just rebooted the mac to online recovery again (it's still loading) but just wanted to see if I'm having something else going on here or if this is all pretty normal behavior. Thanks!
MacBook Pro Retina