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Jeez I see what you mean!
It occurred to me that I might well have some kexts that could cause problems in Big Sur, especially as I'd upgraded direct from Mojave, as that's what I had on my secondary SSD. Stuff like the Little Snitch firewall, where I'd not yet been able to upgrade to the latest versions with Big Sur support, due to not yet being on Catalina.
So I booted in safe mode, intent on uninstalling such kexts and then trying a normal reboot.
It booted in safe mode fine, and then asked me to create a new account. Bit weird I thought, but I did it. At which point I found that all of /Applications was empty, all the kexts were gone from /Library/Extensions, and the system appeared to have been basically wiped clean.
My normal user folder still exists in /Users, but it didn't prompt to login is as that user, and aside from that it's more or less like a new install!
So I'll wipe that disk and forget about Big Sur for now. I was only trying it to double check the network worked fine, and to get a feel for whether everything else would work. I'll go back to my original plan and wait for Big Sur to be gold, maybe even until 11.0.1 or .2 is gold, and then try again upgrading, but this time from 10.15.7.
It occurred to me that I might well have some kexts that could cause problems in Big Sur, especially as I'd upgraded direct from Mojave, as that's what I had on my secondary SSD. Stuff like the Little Snitch firewall, where I'd not yet been able to upgrade to the latest versions with Big Sur support, due to not yet being on Catalina.
So I booted in safe mode, intent on uninstalling such kexts and then trying a normal reboot.
It booted in safe mode fine, and then asked me to create a new account. Bit weird I thought, but I did it. At which point I found that all of /Applications was empty, all the kexts were gone from /Library/Extensions, and the system appeared to have been basically wiped clean.
My normal user folder still exists in /Users, but it didn't prompt to login is as that user, and aside from that it's more or less like a new install!
So I'll wipe that disk and forget about Big Sur for now. I was only trying it to double check the network worked fine, and to get a feel for whether everything else would work. I'll go back to my original plan and wait for Big Sur to be gold, maybe even until 11.0.1 or .2 is gold, and then try again upgrading, but this time from 10.15.7.