After I installed Ventura 13.1, I lost internet. All other machines in the house get wifi fine.
I'm trying to reinstall Catalina in order to get internet.
When I try Command + Option + Shift + R reboot, it starts Internet Recovery.
First time I get a -2100F error. OK, try again.
Second time I try to restore from backup, but no backups can be found on my external SSD (it's half full of backups that are usable on my M2 MacBook, so the SSD is fine).
So instead I try to reinstall Catalina. "Select the disc where you want to reinstall MacOS"... but there is no disk visible to choose.
On to Disk Utility. I try to partition the disk... I read somewhere that may make it visible for the reinstall. "This container has 525 GB used space. Its minimum size is 1 TB. This container can't be split, because one or more of its volumes is not mounted."
Can't quit Disk Utility because of a hung password creation popup for the impossible partition. The pride of these Apple developers!
So I jump over to Startup Disk to restart in Recovery mode.
What do I do next? Erase the entire disk in Disk Utility? Will I be able to reinstall Catalina then?
I'm trying to reinstall Catalina in order to get internet.
When I try Command + Option + Shift + R reboot, it starts Internet Recovery.
First time I get a -2100F error. OK, try again.
Second time I try to restore from backup, but no backups can be found on my external SSD (it's half full of backups that are usable on my M2 MacBook, so the SSD is fine).
So instead I try to reinstall Catalina. "Select the disc where you want to reinstall MacOS"... but there is no disk visible to choose.
On to Disk Utility. I try to partition the disk... I read somewhere that may make it visible for the reinstall. "This container has 525 GB used space. Its minimum size is 1 TB. This container can't be split, because one or more of its volumes is not mounted."
Can't quit Disk Utility because of a hung password creation popup for the impossible partition. The pride of these Apple developers!
So I jump over to Startup Disk to restart in Recovery mode.
What do I do next? Erase the entire disk in Disk Utility? Will I be able to reinstall Catalina then?