New M1 macbook air won't let me use internet recovery

[Chaos Network]

So i removed my apple id from my account on my mac and now theres no users on it. it will not let me reinstall macos big sur because there are no users on it. Data does not matter. Need this up and running without an apple id as its a work computer.

 

Its an M1 MacBook air.

 

pic attached of the error it gives me

[Kilrah]

Why would you need to reinstall, removing your apple id should have been enough?

[Chaos Network]

2 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Why would you need to reinstall, removing your apple id should have been enough?

removing my appleid killed my user account and now i cant get into mac os. boots to recovery every time. data does not matter to me.

[Kilrah]

What happens when you boot in recovery with Command-R? Maybe trying to create another account from there could help...

 

If that doesn't help I guess you'll need to create an usb installer with another mac.

 

 

[Flannelist]

How did you remove the Apple ID? Just signing it out? That shouldn't have done anything to corrupt or remove your user account. But it sounds like the user account is damaged and since there's no detectable user account, macos isn't going to allow a reinstall since it can't reconstruct a user account it doesn't think exists.

If the data isn't necessary, I would just erase the disk in disk utility and reinstall MacOS on the blank disk.

If you need data, you can see if your files are accessible in target disk mode connected to another mac with a thunderbolt cable.

[NelizMastr]

On 2/23/2021 at 2:56 PM, Flannelist said:

How did you remove the Apple ID? Just signing it out? That shouldn't have done anything to corrupt or remove your user account. But it sounds like the user account is damaged and since there's no detectable user account, macos isn't going to allow a reinstall since it can't reconstruct a user account it doesn't think exists.

If the data isn't necessary, I would just erase the disk in disk utility and reinstall MacOS on the blank disk.

If you need data, you can see if your files are accessible in target disk mode connected to another mac with a thunderbolt cable.

I'd like to note here that there's been a lot of changes to restore and reinstall procedures over the Intel Macs.

 

Holding Option on these won't bring up the boot picker for instance, you need to hold power instead.

Removing all partitions on the boot disk will corrupt the Mac, making it impossible to reinstall without

external media, and so on and soforth.

 

Erasing the Macintosh HD partition (NOT DELETING!) and then doing a reinstall should be the way to go here