If you have access to a second Mac, you can restore macOS even after a complete disk wipe, no recovery partition needed:

> Will this break my machine? How safe is it?

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> Apple Silicon machines are almost completely unbrickable: you can boot them in a special burned-in recovery mode and recover them, using another machine connected via a USB cable. For those who don’t have another macOS machine to act as a host, we have open source tools that work on Windows and Linux too.

https://asahilinux.org/2022/03/asahi-linux-alpha-release/

https://support.apple.com/guide/apple-configurator-mac/reviv...

Yep, Apple Configurator 2. Been there done that with an unfixable partitioning. Eventually I learned about AC2 and a clean install solved all of my partitioning problems.

Super handy for resetting other Apple devices in weird states too. I've picked up "bricked" HomePod Minis from eBay, reset them with AC2, and ended up with 100% functional HomePods for a fraction of the price of a new one.

You can just run OSX beside Asahi. You don't need to uninstall OSX if you don't want to.

The other responses are answering everything but the actual question: You can NOT remove the recovery partition when installing Asahi. It's required to boot Asahi.

In regards to the comment about not needing to uninstall OSX (actually macOS 13 at this point) if you don't want to: you almost definitely do want a side-by-side install. macOS is the only way to get firmware updates right now and there are certain scenarios you could run into on the Asahi side that may require you to install macOS to be able to fix them. If you really really wanted, it is technically correct that you could uninstall the non-recovery macOS though.