Re: Broken EFI after Mojave upgrade

2018-10-13 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I am surprised you are having issues with the Brilliant display. I often use my BrailleNote Apex within VMWare Fusion (8) with both Windows 7 and Windows 10. I would be interested in talking to you off line about a couple issues though. Take care, Jonathan Cohn Best wishes, J

Re: Broken EFI after Mojave upgrade

2018-10-11 Thread Maurice Mines
Hello, I’ve been doing some thinking, you might wish to do a clean install of OS X Mojave, especially if you have a fully backed up Lenox partition that you can reinstall after you do the clean mahogany install? That might actually solve your problem. Before doing that though I would strongly

Re: Broken EFI after Mojave upgrade

2018-10-11 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi Janina, My experience regarding downgrading to a previous system tells me that it would not necessarily be successful. Firmware upgrades tend to be permanent upgrades and are very difficult to retrofit. Apple doesn't even make firmware upgrades publicly accessible as they are accessed dire

Re: Broken EFI after Mojave upgrade

2018-10-11 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Thanks Tim, and also thanks to Jonathan for the 2T pointer. I've learned some useful, though minor facts now. I understand what used to be /boot is now at /System/Library/CoreServices/. That's where I'm finding an updated boot.efi and I'm confident it's the problem boot.efi because it's date corre

Re: Broken EFI after Mojave upgrade

2018-10-10 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Here is the article I was thinking of. I don’t believe this has to do with your system unless it’s very new one. But just in case: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208330 , Secure Boot offers three settings to make sure that your Mac always starts up from a legitimate, trusted Mac operating sy

Re: Broken EFI after Mojave upgrade

2018-10-10 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, This is a slightly different area than I usually dive into, so, I'm not confident in all aspects of these commands. With that in mind, I believe that you are correct in that you'll need to edit the boot.efi file in the given path to allow the use of System Prefs to properly bless thee EFI

Re: Broken EFI after Mojave upgrade

2018-10-10 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Thanks, Tim. I saw this post earlier today on a Google search. Here's the statement that confused me: UPDATE: probably a bug, placing efi shell to /usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi location and using system prefs to reboot into target volume (which will rebless the partition) helped to

Re: Broken EFI after Mojave upgrade

2018-10-10 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, The only thing I've found to help is here: http://netkas.org/?p=1472 There's chatter about this in the Apple Developer forums, but no real solution that I found, just a reference to the link above. Later... Tim Kilburn Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB C

Re: Broken EFI after Mojave upgrade

2018-10-10 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Hi, Maurice: Yes, I do indeed remember. Bill is still very much missed. My current problem appears to be the result of upgrading osx from High Sierra to Mojave. I'm able to execute an EFI launch, but OSX 10.14 seems unable to follow through. The USB 3.1 stick containing the Linux installation has

Re: Broken EFI after Mojave upgrade

2018-10-10 Thread Maurice Mines
Hello, I don’t know if you remember me from the Lenox days, and our late neutral friend Bill. I am wondering if I am reading this correctly you’re saying that not only is the Efi partition broken, but you’re also having flash drive issues with boot camp? Have you ever thought about possibly vi

Re: Broken EFI after Mojave upgrade

2018-10-10 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Thanks, Jonathan. You're referring to a level of Macintosh maintanance I've heard about, but never used before. Do you perhaps have a pointer to help guide my way? Thanks very much! Janina Jonathan Cohn writes: > I did read about features making it more difficult to boot non MacOs and > non-Win

Re: Broken EFI after Mojave upgrade

2018-10-10 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I did read about features making it more difficult to boot non MacOs and non-Windows operating systems in some Macintosh computers. I thought it was only for the touch bar Macbook Pro models but I might be mistaken. If this is what is getting in your way, you should be able to boot into the rec

Broken EFI after Mojave upgrade

2018-10-10 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Hi, All: The other day I upgraded my Airbook from High Sierra to Mojave. The upgrade concluded without issues, and almost everything seems to be working. * Everything on the Mac side seems OK * My Windows 10 (upgraded to 1803) seems OK via Bootcamp * My USB booting over EFI is n