I’m trying to update a late 2013 MBA 6,2 from Big Sur. On trying to update to Sequoia, I got a message amounting to ”your machine cannot run this,” so I went for Monterey and the update eventually succeeded. I got greedy and tried to upgrade Monterey to Sonoma. Everything seemed to be fine. I had the Sonoma installer on a USB drive. At the reboot stage, I did not get the screen that the OCLP directions said I should get, although I was holding down the option key. Instead, I got the little gray box on the screen asking if I wanted to reboot, so I clicked yes. Now all I have is a black screen that briefly shows me a circle with a slash and directs me to apple startup help. Despite numerous tries at getting into Recovery (holding down the off/on button for 10 seconds to turn it off, then holding down the button to get into Recovery), I get nothing but the circle with a slash. In case it’s not obvious, I have no idea what I’m doing, so please be kind and explain like you would to a kindergartener. Is there anything I can do? I don’t care if I lose everything on the computer — I’d actually prefer that, because I’m trying to get it ready to give to a friend. Thanks for your kind consideration!
Edited to add, in case it makes any difference: I saw the messages telling people with 2013 MBAs and 4GB RAM to stick to Monterey or Ventura, but I have 8GB RAM.
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