

Using only device drivers that are stored on your Mac's firmware chip, the firmware will scan all of your SATA, PCI, USB, and Thunderbolt busses for hard drive devices, then read those hard drive volume headers to determine if a macOS system is available on each volume. When you boot your Mac while holding down the Option key, the Mac Startup Manager will display a list of available startup devices. Sometimes the Mac's firmware cannot detect your backup device
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If that does not produce a bootable volume, and if you have exhausted the Firmware Discoverability Troubleshooting steps below, then we recommend that you install macOS onto the backup. When you make a backup of a Big Sur startup disk with CCC 5.1.23 or later, CCC will automatically use Apple's proprietary APFS replication utility (ASR) to make an exact copy of the source. This volume is cryptographically sealed, and that seal can only be applied by Apple ordinary copies of the System volume are non-bootable without Apple's seal. Starting in macOS Big Sur, the system now resides on a "Signed System Volume". MacOS 11, "Big Sur" bootability troubleshooting Apple Kbase #HT204350: Move your content to a new Mac.
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Before you ask for help, please try the troubleshooting steps below.

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