It was also unclear if the system upgrade itself had failed or was still in progress, as when I would login it would act as if the upgrade was going, would show me a progress bar, and then at the end would loop back to the install screen. Because I used FileVault (never again?) on the drive, this meant that when the system was trying to access the Macintosh HD - Data partition using the passed in credentials from booting from Macintosh HD, the drive wouldn’t properly mount and hence I couldn’t boot the OS. The best I can divine about what happened is that, while doing its usual multiple restarts as a new OS is installed, somehow my drive permissions fell out of sync with my normal OpenDirectory login permissions. I had a real bitch of a bug recently when trying to update my laptop from High Sierra to Big Sur. MacOS Big Sur Upgrade from High Sierra Failing Due to Mismatched FileVault (+ Fix)
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