BigSir has done things in a different way from all earlier os's. The main
system is a snapshot that is readonly and very hard protected. If you look at
Macintosh HD< you should see two volumes within it, one the system volume and
the other data. I expect you can only change the data one. Also, you might want
to temporarily turn off System Integrity Protection. Do some googling. Or you
might just want to create a new user if it is user settings that are causing
issues.
The other option I can think of is to use a USB or connected external drive
with a BigSir installer on it. I have actually been able to boot my a Macintosh
from a time machine drive to do major work, but that was with Catalina, so
things might have changed.
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
> On Dec 4, 2020, at 13:08, Robert Hill <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I installed Big Sur on my MacBook Pro when it first came out.
>
> I was having some issues that I was hoping to resolve by erasing my drive and
> starting over.
>
> When I went into disk utilities, I wasn't able to erase my drive, that option
> was dimmed out.
>
> So I went into recovery mode hoping to do the same thing.
> Same results.
>
> Where should I look to enable writing to the drive to try and get things
> straightened out.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bob Hill
>
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