Passing Command-R to the booting OSX guest

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23Ro
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Re: Passing Command-R to the booting OSX guest

Post by 23Ro »

Sry for bringing up this topic again but currently this keeps me from working properly with my VM.

@DDS: Your suggestion is basically doing the same as the manual way, and I have the same result via the hand-on-dirty method, as well as with booting via the mounted iso file.

My Problem is that the boot process into the recovery console crashes/comes to a halt situation without any error message at the point after imageboot_mount_image...
More precisely it stops doing anything and just says VM Swap Subsystem is ON.

Does anyone experience a similar problem? I have no idea how to solve this and I need to deactivate SIP on the VM.

Any hint, idea or solution is super highly appreciated.

Thank you.
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Re: Passing Command-R to the booting OSX guest

Post by socratis »

You'd need to explain in detail the steps that you're taking, what's the "manual way", what's the "hand-on-dirty-method" and most importantly post a VBox.log (zipped) after you've encountered the crash. Right-click on the VM, Show Log, save it, zip it, attach it.
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23Ro
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Re: Passing Command-R to the booting OSX guest

Post by 23Ro »

By manual/dirty method I was referring to the F12 --> Boot Manager --> boot.efi load way which is basically the same as rEFInd, just done by hand --> thus hands on dirty :D

However, I managed to find a way without disabling the SIP for my task. Still it would be nice to be able to boot through to the recovery and disable it.


I will post a logfile later as the machine is currently running and in use for xcode project simulation.

Thank you a lot :)
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