If I forcibly shut down the machine at this point and reboot, I am greeted with a normal login menu - e.g. If I change the full and short names and try again, the same thing occurs. It asks me to try again - if I try to use the same short or full account name, it complains that the short or full name is in use and to select something else.
It eventually reports that creating the account failed, with no further information. No matter what information I enter here, the setup assistant freezes for 5-10 minutes. Reformatting done, I selected 'Reinstall macOS Big Sur.' This progressed normally, and I was eventually greeted with setup assistant, asking me to select a language.Įverything works normally, up until I reach the 'Create a computer account' dialog.
I booted into recovery mode and navigated to disk utility, click my Macintosh HD entry, erase, then erase volume group. I wanted to do a clean install on my shiny new M1 MacBook Pro, running macOS 11.1.
