mrcool Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Recently used Refit- seems working fine. I have only two OS installed in my MAC but when restart the machine it comes up with three option. MAC - apple hardware test -Windows. I do not know how to remove that middle one. any idea ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrcool Posted November 19, 2007 Author Share Posted November 19, 2007 Recently used Refit- seems working fine. I have only two OS installed in my MAC but when restart the machine it comes up with three option. MAC - apple hardware test -Windows. I do not know how to remove that middle one. any idea ? Just to let you know that my problem has resolved by manipulating retif config file. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yonohoho Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 MrCool, How did you disable it? I tried manipulating the config file every way I could try and I cannot remove Apple Hardware test from the boot menu. Please tell us specifically how you did it. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grecomac Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 You must erase the Leopard OS on your imac hard disk and install the retail OS Leopard. The Apple Hardware Test Software is built-in the imac DVD installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yonohoho Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 That doesn't explain how MrCool did it by editing the config file. Also, if what you are saying is true, then I should still be able to disable it without re-installing the entire OS from a non machine specific install DVD. I guess the next question is - how and where does the stock iMac DVD install this software and how can I manipulate it to disable it/remove it? Or, back to my original question for MrCool - how do we edit the refit config fiile to remove the icon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christoph Pfisterer Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 You cannot disable the Hardware Test icon by editing refit.conf. You can only remove the icon by removing the Hardware Test software. Reinstalling a retail OS apparently works. Finding the hidden folder and removing that works as well. You probably don't want to do either. Hardware Test used to be included on Mac install DVDs only. After several reports / questions came in, I've realized that Apple has started installing it on the hard disk as well. That actually makes a lot of sense -- unless it's your hard disk drive that's broken, you can run the diagnostics without spending half an hour to dig up that install DVD in your basement. So instead of telling people how to remove the Hardware Test software, or adding a special option to refit.conf to hide it, I'm going to change rEFIt's detection routines to make booting Hardware Test an option in the submenu (hit '+' or F2 to get it), like single user and verbose boot modes today. I don't have an ETA for when the new release will be made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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