![]() Once in macOS Recovery, if you don't have a TimeMachine backup (eg this is an old Mac that has been out of commission for some time), you'll want to "Reinstall macOS ". ![]() So then you need to power off, then follow the procedure for booting to macOS Recovery, per.Once you do that you won't have any internal drives that your Mac can boot to, and when you reboot it it will (eventually) show you the Question Mark screen per.On a Mac that doesn't have Apple Silicon or a T2 chip plus macOS Monterey (where there is a new System Preferences > Erase All Contents and Settings) you might decide to delete the boot volume if you want to securely erase your (FileVaulted) boot drive.This is more of an FYI in case it helps someone else, since I wasn't able to find anything directly on this issue and had to sweat a bit to work through it.
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