pstein Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 For an installation I need to temporarily disable System Integrity Protection of OS X El Capitan. Therefore I have to boot at startup into Recovery OS (mode). Problem:: When I start (from Win 7 hostOS) the Vmware OS X guestOS and press the usual [cmd] + "R" then I got the BootManager (see attached snapshot). Why? Does OS X guest OS have no Recovery OS mode? Is there a workaround? Can I somehow disable System Integrity Protection otherwies (e.g. in *.vmx config file)? Peter Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/314198-how-to-boot-into-recovery-os-in-vmware-os-x-guestos/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kosakgroove Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 You could probably use nvram arguments, that is, if NVRAM works in VMWare Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/314198-how-to-boot-into-recovery-os-in-vmware-os-x-guestos/#findComment-2265062 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pstein Posted August 15, 2016 Author Share Posted August 15, 2016 You could probably use nvram arguments, that is, if NVRAM works in VMWare Ok, what does that mean "use nvram arguments"? Do you mean parameters in *.vmx file? What should nvram argument look like? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/314198-how-to-boot-into-recovery-os-in-vmware-os-x-guestos/#findComment-2265817 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuXs Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 or just boot either from usb or a bootable vmware os x dmg/iso file into recovery mode if you still have the files laying around. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/314198-how-to-boot-into-recovery-os-in-vmware-os-x-guestos/#findComment-2266331 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donk Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Start the guest with the VM menu using "Power on to BIOS" option. Select the "EFI Internal Shell (Unsupported option)" entry Run the following command from the EFI Shell prompt: fs2:\com.apple.recovery.boot\boot.efi I have been looking at how to do this without booting to recovery mode by altering the VMware guest's nvram file used to store the EFI firmware settings. Early days but it is possible to do, but will need some coding to make robust. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/314198-how-to-boot-into-recovery-os-in-vmware-os-x-guestos/#findComment-2266477 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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