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MacBook Air mid 2013 eligible to run Big Sur.

Recovery partition is present but it is impossible to start into local recovery mode, it automatically goes into internet recovery mode.

What to do to restart into local recovery mode?

MacBook Air

Posted on Jan 16, 2023 8:48 PM

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Posted on Mar 3, 2023 2:58 AM

APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk1s1 (System)

| Name: Macintosh SSD SM512E (Case-insensitive)

| Mount Point: Not Mounted

| Capacity Consumed: 15322492928 B (15.3 GB)

| ➡️ Sealed: Broken. ⬅️

| FileVault: No

| |

| Snapshot: FE3CDC00-366A-40B2-B303-937576810C25

| Snapshot Disk: disk1s1s1

| Snapshot Mount Point: /

| Snapshot Sealed: Yes



The Operating System resides in a Sealed and Read Only Volume that can not be opened by the User nor by Third Party Applications.


The only Entity that can open and modify or alter this Volume is Apple.


That would occur when a update or UpGrade is performed.


The above would indicate to me, whatever and how ever the Operating System was installed a fresh that something is Not Right


For the Sealed and Encrypted Volume to Unsealed - is the tip off and IMHO the source of this issue

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Mar 3, 2023 2:58 AM in response to Lance.scs

APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk1s1 (System)

| Name: Macintosh SSD SM512E (Case-insensitive)

| Mount Point: Not Mounted

| Capacity Consumed: 15322492928 B (15.3 GB)

| ➡️ Sealed: Broken. ⬅️

| FileVault: No

| |

| Snapshot: FE3CDC00-366A-40B2-B303-937576810C25

| Snapshot Disk: disk1s1s1

| Snapshot Mount Point: /

| Snapshot Sealed: Yes



The Operating System resides in a Sealed and Read Only Volume that can not be opened by the User nor by Third Party Applications.


The only Entity that can open and modify or alter this Volume is Apple.


That would occur when a update or UpGrade is performed.


The above would indicate to me, whatever and how ever the Operating System was installed a fresh that something is Not Right


For the Sealed and Encrypted Volume to Unsealed - is the tip off and IMHO the source of this issue

Mar 3, 2023 2:05 AM in response to PRP_53

Thanks for the reply,

I have reinstalled macOS as a clean-install and copied the data from the time machine.

Still it is an odd behavior. The machine runs fine but I can't boot into local recovery and internet recovery behaves like I described before. I even tried before copying the data and it is the same.

I am lost. I guess that I have to use it like it is.

Later I will contact Apple, as you suggested.

Mar 3, 2023 2:51 AM in response to PRP_53

Last login: Fri Mar 3 17:41:30 on ttys000

(base) andre@andre-server ~ % diskutil apfs list

APFS Container (1 found)

|

+-- Container disk1 E64045CA-FFFF-4167-B9E6-564861B55E9E

====================================================

APFS Container Reference: disk1

Size (Capacity Ceiling): 500068036608 B (500.1 GB)

Capacity In Use By Volumes: 185788944384 B (185.8 GB) (37.2% used)

Capacity Not Allocated: 314279092224 B (314.3 GB) (62.8% free)

|

+-< Physical Store disk0s2 7448DAC2-E758-4596-8223-756A3F3F33C2

| -----------------------------------------------------------

| APFS Physical Store Disk: disk0s2

| Size: 500068036608 B (500.1 GB)

|

+-> Volume disk1s1 E17B2E28-0637-4CE7-A4A5-9809D8BF178C

| ---------------------------------------------------

| APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk1s1 (System)

| Name: Macintosh SSD SM512E (Case-insensitive)

| Mount Point: Not Mounted

| Capacity Consumed: 15322492928 B (15.3 GB)

| Sealed: Broken

| FileVault: No

| |

| Snapshot: FE3CDC00-366A-40B2-B303-937576810C25

| Snapshot Disk: disk1s1s1

| Snapshot Mount Point: /

| Snapshot Sealed: Yes

|

+-> Volume disk1s2 F62ABAF3-A4BE-4317-8D32-7161BCA6BDA9

| ---------------------------------------------------

| APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk1s2 (Data)

| Name: Macintosh disk - Data (Case-insensitive)

| Mount Point: /System/Volumes/Data

| Capacity Consumed: 167591530496 B (167.6 GB)

| Sealed: No

| FileVault: No

|

+-> Volume disk1s3 8D57D981-2696-4D14-8E9D-57375A030E52

| ---------------------------------------------------

| APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk1s3 (Preboot)

| Name: Preboot (Case-insensitive)

| Mount Point: /System/Volumes/Preboot

| Capacity Consumed: 993976320 B (994.0 MB)

| Sealed: No

| FileVault: No

|

+-> Volume disk1s4 18E9FFB4-E9F1-4623-AC28-8C18BA7C83CB

| ---------------------------------------------------

| APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk1s4 (Recovery)

| Name: Recovery (Case-insensitive)

| Mount Point: Not Mounted

| Capacity Consumed: 623243264 B (623.2 MB)

| Sealed: No

| FileVault: No

|

+-> Volume disk1s5 C1131EB5-342D-492F-94DC-3C5108AD7039

---------------------------------------------------

APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk1s5 (VM)

Name: VM (Case-insensitive)

Mount Point: /System/Volumes/VM

Capacity Consumed: 1074810880 B (1.1 GB)

Sealed: No

FileVault: No

(base) andre@andre-server ~ %


Mar 14, 2023 5:47 PM in response to Lance.scs

Thx for the reply.

I have seen the 'Broken' report but dunno what to do with it.

I have done a clean reinstallation and the report was the same.

The machine works well, SIP is enabled, no problems with the performance.

BUT, I am still unable to boot into Recovery.

I have asked Apple but no answer yet.

For the time being, the little machine works well and is in use at this time.

PS, just to make sure, I checked my MBP and I see the same 'Broken' in the report. And this machine works perfect with MS Office, Acrobat and Acad. I guess that this occurred after installing Big Sur.

MacBook Air mid 2013 eligible to run Big Sur.

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