gp-se Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 How can I edit my com.apple.boot.plist located in the hidden EFI partition? I need to set a timeout in my bootloader. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203002-chameleon-efi-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
macusers Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 How can I edit my com.apple.boot.plist located in the hidden EFI partition?I need to set a timeout in my bootloader. you can get to it through Terminal, but sorry i don't know command line, you may have to look around in the forums for the command line or someone wrote a script to do that. Good luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203002-chameleon-efi-partition/#findComment-1364343 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gp-se Posted December 20, 2009 Author Share Posted December 20, 2009 thanks for the reply, I've been searching online, but can't figure it out. Some people say to just edit the com.apple.boot.plist in system->library->system preferences, but I tried to edit it, but chameleon ignores it, and uses the original one I put in the EFI partition. Is it posible to re-install chameleon, that way I can put the edited com.apple.boot.plist in the EFI partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203002-chameleon-efi-partition/#findComment-1364956 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSN Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 How can I edit my com.apple.boot.plist located in the hidden EFI partition?I need to set a timeout in my bootloader. In Terminal sudo su your password diskutil list wirte down the disk and partition number where your EFI drive is. It is the first partition of the Drive where you boot. Lets say its disk0s1 This to make the volume visible on your desktop with name EFI mkdir /Volumes/MyDrive mount_hfs /dev/disk0s1 /volumes/MyDrive Volume is now on the desktop. You have to bring the com.apple.boot.plist to the desktop and edit it then replace the one in the EFI volume. Good luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203002-chameleon-efi-partition/#findComment-1364969 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajas Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 do you have an Extra folder? if so, look in there for another com.apple.boot.plist file. you may have to edit that. and make sure you are using the proper syntax for your timeout.. and it is case sensitive. it might help if you post the contents of your com.apple.boot.plist file here for verification. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203002-chameleon-efi-partition/#findComment-1365020 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gp-se Posted December 21, 2009 Author Share Posted December 21, 2009 In Terminal sudo su your password diskutil list wirte down the disk and partition number where your EFI drive is. It is the first partition of the Drive where you boot. Lets say its disk0s1 This to make the volume visible on your desktop with name EFI mkdir /Volumes/MyDrive mount_hfs /dev/disk0s1 /volumes/MyDrive Volume is now on the desktop. You have to bring the com.apple.boot.plist to the desktop and edit it then replace the one in the EFI volume. Good luck. Sir THANK YOU SOO MUCH!!! this showed me the EFI partition so I can edit the file, thank you soo much! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203002-chameleon-efi-partition/#findComment-1365058 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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