I've got the same problem during update from Big Sur 11.0.1 to 11.1. What finally helped is installing Big Sur from App Store when in safe mode (holding Shift on switch on to enter it). Neither restoring Big Sur from recovery mode nor wiping out NVRAM helped in my case.
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