Thank you so much sir this tutorial actually saved me when I tried removing asahi linux from my macbook the remove button in the partition manager was greyed out I started panicking but I believe there will be the ones out there that shares such content and you are the one!
Thanks @Wind_Explorer ! Asahi Linux is great! they will get around to an uninstaller or instructions soon. Until, then I was hoping this video would help someone 👍
This worked perfectly with a slight tweak, thank you! (FYI: in newer version of Asahi, there is an extra partition to remove "Linux Filesystem" usually 1.1 GB big and in my case named "disk0s5". Like you said, don't delete the first and don't delete the last partition, but this one is listed before the biggest Asahi partition and therefore standing out.)
Thank you soo much Mr. Macintosh. I just bought an M1 pro and decide to finish up my college assignment which should be done in Linux. I decided to download Asahi Linux because I thought it was user-friendly like VirtualBox. I nearly called Apple to return my mac after being stranded for days. I chanced upon this video when all hope was lost and your tutorials worked. You just earned yourself a lifelong subscriber!
@@Mr.Macintosh I can't see the partition in disk utility and also can't see anything about Asahi linux. I have only 149gb space, but the SSD is 256 and I can't see where the other 100gb is. It's like it ghosted out.....What is happening?
Thank you so much Mr. Macintosh. I initially downloaded asahi Linux thinking it would be user friendly and all and it kept up taking up all my space in my M1 Mac resulting it to preform slowly. Now I’m back on track!! ❤
I gave it a shot and like nah its just not comfortable, alone the Apple keyboard doesnt feel good. I'd rather just install a Linux distro on a normal laptop and use it there.
Also works fine in 2024 on MBP with M2. A tip from me: Before you make any changes and delete Asahi Linux, select the correct boot partition in the system settings (start volume). Restart macOS once and then continue deleting the partitions. Thank you for your helpful guide and best regards from Germany. Keep up your good work, cheers! PS: My only but biggest problem was not really to know, in which order the partitions would be safely deleted and merged.
Wooo thanks for this. That EFI data did not want to go away ! Lol. I accidentally enter the wrong amount of storage for asahi, so I’m going back but thanks a lot for this !
I followed your instructions on a 2020 M1 Macbook Pro with 16 GB RAM and 1TB SSD. The intension was to change the macbook with touchbar to a macbook without touchbar and install linux on it. Thanks.
You are a godsend ser, thanks so much for helping me uninstall this completely! Even though I didn't see this until I already factory reset my mac and lost all my data 😭 only to see that Asahi was still lurking in my disk partitions 😂 (no worries tho, was still a real fresh mac with not much or nothing really important on it haha)
For whatever reason the recovery prompt in the last step never appeared when I restarted my computer. Regardless, I cannot thank you enough for this tutorial! Cheers!
@@AlainEtSaCooperative Weird. After uninstalling Asahi Linux I installed Asahi Fedora - this time when I uninstalled it I also had an extra partition and this time had that prompt on reboot. =S
Thank you for your tutorials I love your content I'm actually looking between getting an m1 max mbp or a surface book 3 for school and gaming wich would you recommend?? (I'm looking for the most powerful option mainly)
@@Mr.Macintosh No, im going to explain what happened so it wont happen to other people. So I was following your video in the background whilst doing this and as soon as I hit the “partition” button everything seemed to be fine. However, after about 10 seconds my mac stopped responding to anything, but your video audio was still playing in the background. Then another 10 seconds go by and your video audio stops too. Now it’s completely stuck with the display still on, but frozen. I cannot do anything. I let it stay frozen for about an hour or so more and whilst it was frozen i was googling if it was safe to force my mac to shut down. The google results said it was okay to shut it down so I held the power button and it forced shut down. Now my MacBook is bricked and won’t turn on, it won’t even go into startup options. It just shows an exclamation mark and says I need to contact apple support. I’m honestly so stupid for force shutting the mac when it was partitioning but I trusted the google results. Thank you for your video though I’m sure it has helped a lot of people, it’s just unfortunate it didnt work to me :( I’m a university student and it’s finals season right now ahhhhh
@@mrsrhardy It's okay. I fixed the laptop by using my girlfriends MacBook to restore it through apple configurator 2. Revive didn't work but a restore did. I did a backup to my external hard drive right before I installed Asahi so everything is the same! All goods. :) How long should I have waited? I have the 2021 M1 Pro and my Mac was frozen for about an hour or so. I would expect the M1 pro SSD to marge quicker, or at least not be frozen. Thank you!
I have lost 90 GB of the SSD after deleting Asahi Linux from my M1 MacBook Air 256gb now it shows that the maximum storage capacity is only 156gb and not 256gb please help me out
I have to resize the existing partition which contains macOS to install asahi linux. But isn’t the resizing disadvantageous? I’m not experienced with this stuff, but for me it sounds bad. And will the deletion of asahi redo the resizing?
Hey! I did what you asked not to and thats because i couldnt do what you asked. i couldnt run the code with JHFS+ drive. It gave an error. "JHES+ does not appear to be a valid file system format" so I just went ahead and removed it from disk utility. Now, the minus (delete) button is greyed out. Apple support senior technicians are also unable to me after hours of being on call with them. I went back to terminal. and ran this command and it worked: diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ drive /dev/disk0s6 , but still disk utility wont let me delete that partition. What should i do. please help.
Great question! The good part about the M1 is that each boot volume has its own boot policy security. The boot security on the macOS volume was never touched, only the Asahi Linux one. So when we remove the volume & and EFI partition the macOS boot policy is still what it was before. 👍
Hi there, I watched your video by following the same actions and steps as you did. During the deletion of partitions mine got stuck at the "root tree" section, then I pressed and hold down the power button assuming that it will reboot and I could get back to recovery and boot up securely. However, instead, I got an ssd failure with an exclamation mark at the startup. I had a backup so my data is safe. I tried " CMD + SHIFT + R, CMD + SHIFT + OPTION + R, etc" None of them worked... and the whole ssd was gone... Since I had no any other mac's I was not able to revive or restore via Apple Configurator, so I had to take it to the apple store, apparently they were not able restore or revive it (at least that's what the "genius" bar specialist told me, I don't know what they actually did back there) and my poor MacBook flew to Houston TX last week (5 days ago). I just got it back a few hours ago, thankfully they were able to fix it and now I am back :) Of course I am not saying this for a bad review for you, but the thing is, I want people to know if this is their first time doing it which was mine, during the deletion of partition, it may get stuck. And if you shut down the system and thinking that it might reboot in the recovery, It does not! it fails your whole ssd which is very interesting... Please be aware of that. Other than that have fun
Kaan, I am very sorry to hear that this happened to you. I'm not sure why it got stuck at that part. It can take some time but should at least error out if Diskutil has any issues!!! The Apple store should have been able to fix this with a DFU revive or restore. Maybe they did not know how to do it? If you want to send me an email I can check what they did for you.
@@shndowalt it bricked the mac, I had to take it to an apple store, they could not restore it. they ended up replacing it with a brand new one. always get apple care+.
@@shndowalt eh life goes on. Apple Care+ got me a new Mac and I just bought a laptop to install Linux on and play with distros. I will leave the Mac as a Mac. I like Mac OS. Just be aware that it can happen on the M2. I dont have a m3 mac to test it on but when it does come out, I do NOT plan on testing it to find out. Just be careful with your Macs friend. Is it Apple's fault? Most likely, but I am not about to go and try again and again.
it does not work for me, when I type this: diskutil eraseVolume JHFS+ drive / dev/diskOs4, it says: The third parameter does not appear to be "bootable" or "nonbootable"
