Updating to Mac OS from Big Sur causes infinite loading

DaVonk wrote:

Hello.

Recently, I decided to do update my MacBook as it had been really laggy and bad while I was using Big Sur to the newest version. After the updating was completed, I found out that every time the white bar would become full and it would ask me to click on my hard-drive, I was sent back to the beginning of the loading thing and so it would repeat itself.

I tried doing Alt/Opt and clicking on Untitled brought me to a 🚫 sign that I could only get rid of by powering off my computer. Clicking EFI Boot brought me back to the original hard-drive selection and repeated the cycle. I even tried doing the Command + R command and there was no option to check for any damage for my hard-drive, there were no saved spaces in my Time Machine and I don’t want to go to all the way back to Mavericks.

if anyone has a solution, that would be great. Thanks.

Boot into Internet Recovery (Option Command R) and from the dropdown menu: Utilities>  Disk Utility> run the First Aid on your Macintosh HD, Conatiner (and the "Macintosh HD-Data" volume as well) If errors are found and repaired, run again until no errors reported.

ref: How to repair a Mac disk with Disk Utility - Apple Support

Disk Utility>View>Show All Devices —

Parent drive —I would start here

Container level

Volume level

Also try booting into Safe Mode to see if that makes any difference.

Try running the Apple Diagnostics to see if any hardware issues are detected.

DaVonk wrote:

Clicking EFI Boot brought me back to the original hard-drive selection and repeated the cycle.

What do you mean by "clicking EFI Boot"?