Can not access Terminal from Recovery mode.

If you see the macOS installer when booting into Recovery Mode, then just quit the installer app which will take you to the traditional recovery mode screen. I thought this only occurred with M-series Macs.

AspirationI wrote:

I fixed it by booting up on the other partition and then you can delete whatever you like, but I would like to know if this a new Apple "feature" or something is causing it to bypass the 4 option Recovery mode I am used to. Bob

Thanks for providing your solution. I didn't know that you had your Mac's system drive configured with multiple partitions. I was assuming that you had the "default" APFS configuration, with a single partition with a single APFS container with multiple volumes. As such, I can verify that I can access these options on my Intel Mac with either Monterey or Ventura.

It would help if you can provide us with what led up to this current issue. You mention that you need to disable SIP to remove some old extension ... but that doesn't tell us what exactly what they are and how you went about doing so. For example, have you been using OCLP with this Mac, and now want to remove any kernel extensions that it installed?

According to Apple

After starting up from macOS Recovery, if you didn't reset your password using your Apple ID information or recovery key, you should see the utilities window. It shows options such as restoring from Time Machine, reinstalling macOS, and using Disk Utility.

1. > >>>>> From the Utilities menu in the menu bar, choose Terminal. <<<<<<