Can't boot into recovery

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dt_VMs
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Can't boot into recovery

Post by dt_VMs »

After installing Catalina I can no longer boot into EFI (By holding F2) which used to be my workaround to get into recovery mode to disable SIP.

Any ways to do this?
scottgus1
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Re: Can't boot into recovery

Post by scottgus1 »

Start the guest from full normal shutdown, not save-state. Run until you see the problem happen, then shut down the guest from within the guest OS if possible. If not possible, close the Virtualbox window for the guest with the Power Off option set.

Right-click the guest in the main Virtualbox window's guest list, choose Show Log. Save the far left tab's log, zip it, and post the zip file, using the forum's Upload Attachment tab.
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