Wonted to clean install Catalina instead of Monterey, its seems laggy for my Air 2015. Please help me to resolve it, tried almost everything include deleting keychain files...
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I updated laptop, desktop, phone, tablet and even my watch and I got that error message.
I just typed in whatever it asked of me.
If you want to o a clean install then follow this.
I just typed in whatever it asked of me.
If you want to o a clean install then follow this.
Create a bootable installer for macOS - Apple Support
You can use a USB flash drive or other secondary volume as a startup disk from which to install the Mac operating system. These steps are primarily for system administrators and other experienced users.
support.apple.com
That's a feature that drove my 80 year-old mother to tears. Her memory was slipping, and she would write the passwords down, and then either misplace it, or grab the wrong one, and lock her account. All they want to know, for whatever reason, is 'Are you this person'. Seems rather needless, but you had better enter the right password...
That doesn't do anything but ask for it again. I've been getting the same thing on my Mac.
Ok, guys forget about it, sometimes Apple does so strange things, starting reinstall Monterey…
Had this on Macs running Monterey, Big Sur and High Sierra, also iPhones. The only thing that helped was to click continue and wait.
Enter the password and wait. Wait a little longer.
Restart the machine and repeat, it can take some time for it to update.
I had the same problem on my dosdude-patched Mac mini 2010 on Catalina. I repeatedly clicked continue and restarted and eventually it worked. Since then there’s no such problem on my machine. I thought it was just a bug on my patched machine, but apparently there are more people who experience this problem. With catalina you have to be patient I guess 
Use Disk Utility to erase an Intel-based Mac - Apple Support
How to erase (format) the built-in startup disk of an Intel-based Mac.
support.apple.com
When you erase, it should show macOS Catalina. If you want to downgrade to the earliest version, press shift command r. If you want to install Monterey, press option command r.