Starting up Mac OS into Recovery Mode allows for various important troubleshooting and recovery features, including the ability to reinstall MacOS, repair a hard drive with Disk Utility, erase a boot disk, restore a Mac from a Time Machine backup, adjusting and setting Firmware passwords, as well as some other more advanced functionalities. With the basic services running and boot.efi located and (where necessary) approved, the Mac then loads it, and enters the EFI phase proper, which I will describe in the next article. References Apple’s Kernel Programming Guide, covers macOS up to about 10.7. A Mac that uses EFI to boot. It is helpful, but not essential, to have OS X still installed. Two USB sticks, with at least 2GB capacity. One is for the OS X recovery disk, the other is for the Ubuntu installer.
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According to WIkipedia, “On Apple–Intel architecture Macintosh computers, the EFI partition is initially blank and not used for booting. However, the EFI partition is used as a staging area for firmware updates.” When people look to create non-standard boot environments or attempt to build a hackintosh, the first step is often mounting and modifying the EFI boot partition. Before you read any further, take note: altering your EFI boot partition is not supported by Apple and The Mac Admin takes no responsibility if you render your computer(s) unbootable by mounting and modifying this partition.
If your Mac is using a firmware password, you're prompted to enter the password. Option-Command-P-R: Reset NVRAM or PRAM. If your Mac is using a firmware password, it ignores this key combination or starts up from macOS Recovery. Shift (⇧): Start up in safe mode. Disabled when using a firmware password. D: Start up to the Apple Diagnostics. UEFI OS Windows Boot Manager Ubuntu Select your Hard Drive with UEFI Prefix so that the Clover boots first. Go to Save & Exit Tab and Save the changes and exit the UEFI. Step 10: Restart your System! After restarting your PC, it will boot to Clover Welcome screen automatically. You can choose between which OS to Boot either Windows, Ubuntu.
To mount an EFI boot partition, follow these steps:
1. Discover the volume identifier for your EFI boot partition.
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Run this command:
The output should look something like this:
In this case, the volume identifier of the EFI partition is disk0s1
2. Create a mount point.
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A mount point is a directory where a non-booted volume is mounted. On Mac OS X, mount points are typically created in /Volumes. We can create a directory called efi within /Volumes by running the following command:
3. Mount the EFI partition at the efi mount point.
Run the command:
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That’s it. Your EFI volume will be mounted. Modify it at your own risk.