Unhalfbricking Air
Further to yesterday's post, the MacBook Air has - as far as Mac OS, Apple and its online recovery process are concerned - no hard drive (well SSD in reality). This is demonstrably not true, and booting the thing up in Linux from USB shows the Apple-formatted drive - albeit unreadable to Linux - in situ. Obviously, the failed Monterey install has screwed up the boot sector of the thing, rendering it invisible to Apple's Disk Tools. I could make the effort and mess around trying to hack the thing back into visibility, but to be honest, as all my stuff's on iCloud anyway, I'm going to install Linux on the bugger and call it quits. I've got this old MacBook Pro to stick with the Apple ecosystem anyway, and I might just buy something more up to date at some point anyway, so there we are. That's all for now as it's been a long day starting the long process of sorting out a deceased relative's house...
Postscript: Here I am on a newly Linux (Mint) enabled MacBook Air, posting this, well postscript - ta-da!
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