Monterey Installing on a second INTERNAL drive Mac Pro 2019

I have a Mac Pro 2019 w/ T2 Security chip . I'm running Monterey 12.7.3 on my drive. I have a second 2TB data drive - says storage but it's empty and I want to install a copy of Monterey on that drive as well so I can boot from either drive.


Now,

DO I use APFS or Mac Journaled to format the second drive?


and


In the Start Up security section do I leave it the same OR do I change anything???


About Startup Security Utility on a Mac with the Apple T2 Security Chip - Apple Support


I'm guessing I should leave it as is???

Posted on Feb 25, 2024 9:23 AM

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Feb 25, 2024 11:35 AM in response to dagwaremedia

Monterey requires APFS.


Allow the bottom choice.


Allowed Boot Media

Disallow booting from external or removable media


Restricts the ability to boot from any device not protected by the T2 such as USB and

Thunderbolt drives or internally connected Pcie or SATA drives.


Allow booting from external or removable media

Does not restrict the ability to boot from any devices.

Feb 25, 2024 12:01 PM in response to BDAqua

Perfect timing, I just finished doing a fresh install of Monterey on the second drive, went thru all the steps it looked fine. Then I shut down and made sure I selected the second drive as the boot drive and the unit quit, tried twice same thing, so I booted using Option and the original boot drive


The Allow option for boot or external media is ticked in Security


so I re booted in Start Up disk, chose the newly created drive and I got the window that says t"That Disk Is Encrypted, to unlock use password. I put password in and clicked waited for about 5 minutes nothing changes.


Crash report in next post



Feb 26, 2024 6:45 AM in response to BDAqua

Solved my other problems but this remains as I was trying again to install an OS on the separate drive. You write, "Did you encrypt the drive?"

I formatted using APFS but when the install was finished and I rebooted the start up quit.

In Recovery it asks me to select the drive I want to open and then says drive is encrypted and to put in password


What Am I doing wrong in Disk Utility that is encrypting the drive when I format it??


I know if I remove file vault it will not ask me for password, so lets say I try this again, format the drive the way I did

APFS?


When do I go into terminal to paste the file vault command?




Thanks for all the help so far



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