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      Troubleshooting Startups Will Work Differently in Apple Silicon Macs

   Josh Centers

   For decades, the go-to fix for many Mac problems was to reset
   PRAM/NVRAM and the SMC by holding down special keyboard combinations at
   startup. In more recent years, we've tried to remember all the
   [1]startup key combinations for macOS Recovery, Single User Mode,
   Target Disk Mode, and more. [2]Jason Snell at Six Colors reports that's
   all about to go away in new Apple Silicon Macs. Similar to how iPhones
   work, simply holding the Power button at boot will take you into a new
   Recovery screen with all of those options and more.

   But wait, there's more! Sadly, Target Disk Mode is going away, but
   Apple is replacing it with a new Mac Sharing Mode that turns your Mac
   into an SMB file server. Transfer speeds will likely be slower over the
   network than with Thunderbolt, but in theory, any computer with an SMB
   client will be able to grab files from that Mac. It might also be an
   easy way to turn an old Mac into a dedicated file server. See Jason's
   article for more helpful details.

   [3]Read original article

References

   1. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201255
   2. https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/06/macs-with-apple-silicon-will-get-new-refined-boot-and-recovery-mode/
   3. https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/06/macs-with-apple-silicon-will-get-new-refined-boot-and-recovery-mode/

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