I have had two 14-inch M1 MacBook Pros run into issues applying minor updates. One was going from 13.5.2 to 13.6 and the other was 12.6.9 to 12.7.1. The Ventura machine never made it to 13.6, but the Monterey machine did manage to finish updating to 12.7.1. The authenticated restart allowed it to even check-in/inventory with Jamf.
In both cases it appears that something went wrong and the result is that video doesn't work. The video cuts out as soon as your try to go past the initial startup chime and Apple logo. Holding the power key down displays the messages to get into startup options, but loading startup options is the last thing you see before it disappears. It seems like there is something wrong with the iBoot, but I am not sure what I can do about that.
The only thing that works is to DFU revive the machine and go directly into recovery. If you select the SSD as a startup disk the issue returns and you have to DFU all over again. At that point you share the disk and get their data off.
Has anyone else run into this? Is anyone aware of what we can do about this apart from rolling the dice?
I have deferred the October updates with a management profile for 30-days, but in the meantime I am hoping there is something I can do to prevent it or at least fix it after it happens. The DFU revive seems to fill in where Internet Recovery and Target Disk Mode used to be with Intel, since it can get around some of the more local issues and at least mount the disk to get data off. Disk First Aid didn't solve the problem, so I am just wondering if I am missing some terminal command that might bail out the video issue.