I tried rebooting and status bar quickly went to 100% and again stuck...
tried to turn on verbose mode (all the ctrl keys and w, Apple key and v or l) and got nothing...
That's where I am too. It's been probably about 5 hours now.stuck on the “Black background, white apple logo & progress bar” now for about 4 hours with no discernible progress bar movement.
Left it overnight, no progress
Rebooted and tried again for an entire day, no progress
Booted into Safe Mode (hold down shift on startup before the Apple logo), it seemed to finish the update
Booted into Normal Mode, still stuck
Went into Safe Mode and disabled File Vault
Booted into Normal Mode, still stuck
I have had exactly same issue with it stalling at about 33%. Same as others, was able to boot in safe mode which progressed me through setting up my macbook as a new machine. Since going through all that drama, I can still only boot in safe mode - normal mode still gets stuck on the logo screen with status bar at 33%.I've tried disk repair. I've tried re-installing big sur. Any other tips Apple? Why are you leaving all your loyal customers in the lurch?
Same here. Shut down computer as was away for a couple of days, when turning the computer on the progress bar stuck at 50%, that was 7 days ago, have tried everything, reinstalling Big Sur gets to 90% then it freezes!
same here except mine gets stuck at 14% at the installer i installed catlilina after my hard drive had removed my full macOS partition so i wanted to dual boot my mac and this issue hasn't been resolved
Same is happening to my mac. Is there any solution to it yet. Please help.
Did you find a solution? Mine’s been stuck for 9 hours. I’ve tried to do the Option power up and selected Hard Drive and it still gets stuck.