macOS Big Sur booting to Recovery screen

[Danie10]

Expected behaviour

Boots to a login screen

Describe the your expected behaviour.

Actual behaviour

Boots to OSrecovery GUI

Describe the actual behaviour.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

1. Installed quickemu from AUR on Manjaro
2. Did quickget for macOS big-sur and gave no fatal errors
3. Booted it with 'quickemu --vm macos-big-sur.conf'
4. Went through lots of boot up text but did not see any countdown for DVD or anything prompting me.
5. It showed recovery screen and the reinstall macOS Big Sur option did not work as disc was protected.

Outline the step to reproduce the issue you've encountered.

Quickemu output

quickemu --vm macos-big-sur.conf
Quickemu 2.2.5 starting macos-big-sur.conf

• QEMU: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 v6.1.0
• BOOT: EFI (macos)
• CPU: 1 Socket(s), 4 Core(s), 2 Thread(s), 8G RAM
• Disk: macos-big-sur/disk.qcow2 (64G)
  Looks unused, booting from macos-big-sur/RecoveryImage.img
• Recovery: macos-big-sur/RecoveryImage.img
• Display: SDL, qxl, GL (on), VirGL (off)
• ssh: On host: ssh user@localhost -p 22220
• SPICE: On host: spicy --title "macos-big-sur" --port 5930
• 9P: On guest: sudo mount_9p Public-danie
• 9P: On host: chmod 777 /home/danie/Public
  Required for macOS integration 👆
• smbd: On guest: smb://10.0.2.4/qemu
• Process: On host: killall macos-big-sur (if a forced kill is required)

Run quickemu or quickget and paste the output here.

Linux Distribution & Kernel

Manjaro KDE 64-Bit Kernel 5.14.10-1

Run the following and paste the output.

lsb_release --all
uname -a

LSB Version: n/a
Distributor ID: ManjaroLinux
Description: Manjaro Linux
Release: 21.1.6
Codename: Pahvo

Linux danie-desktop 5.14.10-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 7 06:43:34 UTC 2021 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[Danie10]

OK seems like I came right. I somehow missed some install instructions somewhere. Realised I needed to use that Disk Utility on Recovery to first erase and prep the virtual drive, then run the reinstall of OS. So that is on the go now and looks like it is actually installing the OS.