Ventura beta 4 fails to update to beta 5

Hypothesis: I noted on going back to booting Monterey that the security policy had ALWAYS been set back to defaults on the Monterey System disk. I normally keep it in relaxed security to enable Developer Signed Extensions. This leads me to believe the installer sets the main disk security policy for install instead of the target disk. I might try disabling all security on that disk and attempt to update,

Same behavior here on an M1 Mac mini w/Ventura Beta 4 failing to upgrade to Ventura Beta 5 on an external Thunderbolt SSD. Great thought on the security policy—I'm turning off FileVault on the external drive here too. (3 hour estimate—will report back.)

Save your time. File Encryption turned off, security reduced to the minimum. Same behavior. Will try switching to the public beta later today.

It’s looking promising on my machine after turning off FileVault. Previously, installation would stop after 30 seconds and return me to the login window of beta 4. I’m now looking at an installation progress bar with a “10 minutes remaining” prompt.

No dice—still stuck on beta 4. I’ll update if I have any success.

Are all of us having the issue using an external drive?

Same upgrade from ßeta 4 to ßeta 5 issue here on a M1 Mac mini external TB SSD drive. Even trying to update the external TB SSD using the full ßeta 5 installer from my internal SSD ended in failure. I guess unless Apple releases an updated ßeta 5 installer we can only hope the issue is fixed in ßeta 6. I did submit a Feedback report.

I have a Mac Studio with Ventura Beta 4 on an external Thunderbolt SSD. It will not update to Beta 5.

I tried about 20 times. Removed the beta proline and put it back

I'm stuck at beta 3 - it didn't upgrade to 4 and now it's not upgrading to 5. MacBook Air M1, external Samsung boot drive. Betas 1,2,3 installed no problem (SuperDuper! copy internal disk to external, boot from that, install beta).

Filed feedback, looks like a bug in the upgrader setting up the install volume.

any new news on this?

I have same problem on my M1 iMac. There was no such upgrade problem on my Intel iMac. I tried the upgrade from Beta 4 to Beta 5 many times. But I have never succeeded the upgrade on my M1 iMac.

Any update on the new Beta 6? I don't want to waste my time.

I have the same problem on a Macbook Air M1, on an external drive. I can't install version 5. Now I am giving feedback to Apple.

Since version seven of iOS has been released. I imagine beta six will be out soon.