Re: Broken EFI after Mojave upgrade

2018-10-13 Thread Jonathan Cohn
aurice: >> >> 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 US

Re: Broken EFI after Mojave upgrade

2018-10-11 Thread Maurice Mines
' via MacVisionaries wrote: 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 s

Re: Broken EFI after Mojave upgrade

2018-10-11 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
i and I'm confident it's the problem boot.efi because it's date corresponds to my upgrade from High Sierra to Mojave. I don't see yet how to edit it, or any of its preference settings. It reports as a binary file: CoreServices#file boot.efi boot.efi: PE32+ executable (EFI a

Re: Broken EFI after Mojave upgrade

2018-10-11 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
oot.efi because it's date corresponds to my upgrade from High Sierra to Mojave. I don't see yet how to edit it, or any of its preference settings. It reports as a binary file: CoreServices#file boot.efi boot.efi: PE32+ executable (EFI application) x86-64 (stripped to external PDB), for MS Win

Re: Broken EFI after Mojave upgrade

2018-10-10 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
i, > > 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 Sys

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 bles

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) h

Re: Broken EFI after Mojave upgrade

2018-10-10 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Murray, AB Canada On Oct 10, 2018, at 12:12, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote: 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 la

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 install

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

Re: Broken EFI after Mojave upgrade

2018-10-10 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
, 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) seem

Re: Broken EFI after Mojave upgrade

2018-10-10 Thread Jonathan Cohn
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 boo

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

Re: EFI

2013-01-13 Thread John Panarese
Thee is no way to customize the Mountain Lion install through the setup. The only choice you get is to pick a destination for the install. It is not like previous versions of the OS where there were other options. No, the EFI is not technically a partition, though it will appear as

Re: EFI

2013-01-13 Thread Hayri Tulumcu
i can not see the custom button in the mountain lion setup screen! i can see the efi in the disk utility when i type diskutil list in the terminal i will not remove the efi. - Original Message - From: Christopher-Mark Gilland To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday

Re: EFI

2013-01-13 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
First of all, the EFI isn't a partition. Think of the EFI as the equivalent of the bios on a windows based pc. I'm honestly not sure that it can be modified nor why in the first place you'd wanna do that. I know on older Power PC based macs, there was a utility called Ope

EFI

2013-01-13 Thread Hayri Tulumcu
it is possible to remove the EFI partition? and can i make a EFI partition again? and how can i customize the mountain lion installer? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macv

Re: Deleted EFI Partition

2011-12-12 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
amazed you've managed to do >> it within windows 7. oh well... these things happen. >> >> this is however a case for a system recovery job. Either via supplied DVD >> media or if your machine was recent and did not come with the DVD media, >> it's a

Re: Deleted EFI Partition

2011-12-12 Thread Gavin
nd did not come with the DVD media, it's > a connect to the internet from EFI firmware. > > to do this, try Command R. this should load lion recovery. if it doesn't then > it should load internet recovery. if not, then it sounds like all you have is > a windows boot v

Re: Deleted EFI Partition

2011-12-11 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
s a connect to the internet from EFI firmware. to do this, try Command R. this should load lion recovery. if it doesn't then it should load internet recovery. if not, then it sounds like all you have is a windows boot volume. If you have your recovery CD's to hand, it is time to start

Deleted EFI Partition

2011-12-11 Thread Gavin
> Hi guys, I'm in a bit of a pickle. Somehow, I've managed to delete my EFI system partition from within Windows 7, and now I can't boot from any of the volumes on my hard disk, including the recovery partition. I currently don't have access to another Mac, so Target

Re: SMC and EFI Updates

2011-11-13 Thread Mike Arrigo
Yes, definitely, if software update lists these as updates, install them. On Nov 13, 2011, at 7:27 AM, Gavin wrote: > Hi Guys, > > When checking for software updates, I'm told that I have an SMC as well as an > EFI update. I only got this MacBook Pro about a month ago, and I&#x

RE: SMC and EFI Updates

2011-11-13 Thread Daniel Miller
ies@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gavin Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 7:28 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: SMC and EFI Updates Hi Guys, When checking for software updates, I'm told that I have an SMC as well as an EFI update. I only got this MacB

SMC and EFI Updates

2011-11-13 Thread Gavin
Hi Guys, When checking for software updates, I'm told that I have an SMC as well as an EFI update. I only got this MacBook Pro about a month ago, and I've updated these twice since then. Should I download every single EFI and SMC update that becomes available? I'm a little bi

Re: EFI Mac Mini Firmware update

2009-09-09 Thread Mike Arrigo
This is kind of like what the bios is on a PC, if this update is for your mac mini model, go ahead and install it. On Sep 9, 2009, at 5:20 PM, Rich Ring wrote: > Does anyone know what this is? > Haven't got a clue. > > > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received t

Re: EFI Mac Mini Firmware update

2009-09-09 Thread Rich Ring
Thanks. I did read the instructions, and I did get a strange little beep. All seems well though. On Sep 9, 2009, at 6:07 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote: > > Hi Rich, > > The simplest comparrison to make as a new switcher is to think of it > as a bios update, efi is pretty

Re: EFI Mac Mini Firmware update

2009-09-09 Thread matthew Dyer
It appears to be a fermware to the hardware internal of some kind. I did install it and it seems to be. Matthew On Sep 9, 2009, at 6:20 PM, Rich Ring wrote: > Does anyone know what this is? > Haven't got a clue. > > > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received t

Re: EFI Mac Mini Firmware update

2009-09-09 Thread Scott Chesworth
Hi Rich, The simplest comparrison to make as a new switcher is to think of it as a bios update, efi is pretty much the mac's equivillent. Downloading them usually means good news. Just be sure to take care to read the update instructions that come up before it restarts, because they us

EFI Mac Mini Firmware update

2009-09-09 Thread Rich Ring
Does anyone know what this is? Haven't got a clue. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this