“ exit” : to go out of Terminal/command line mode and continue booting into GUI mode.Ĥ) Know your paths/locations – clearly this is important, or coupled with the commands above, you could potentially screw up your hackintosh even to the point of no redeem but a fresh re-install. “ s udo cp -R” : for copying whole directories or folders to a new location. “ sudo cp ” : for copying a file to a new directory or, in Mac parlance, location. Kexts, as I learned, are actually directories.
“ sudo rm -R ” : for deleting directories and whole folders. “ /sbin/fsck -fy” : for making modifications to the files in your OS X drive. “ sudo passwd root” : for enabling and creating a password for the root account (super user) Here are some basic commands I find myself using time and again: And OS X being Unix essentially underneath the glossy Aqua exteriors, that knowledge has proven to be indispensible. It’ll boot up the system in command line mode and this is the time when you need to…ģ) Know your Terminal commands – I’m a total noob when it comes to Mac OS X but I’ve been dabbling with Linux for quite sometime now, being weened on Mandrake Linux run computer labs in college (I studied in a state university, which, for a third world country, means no sufficient funds coming in from the government, hence the need to go open source), I’ve a fairly good amount of basic bash knowledge. “ -s” : single user mode – when all else fails, use this. “ -x“: safe boot mode – when the system refuses to boot properly and you wanna go in fix stuff but want to do so in GUI, this would be the way to go. Sometimes it happens that you’ve installed a kext alright but it isn’t recognized by the system, you just gotta make OS X to load it against its will. “ -f” : not exactly sure that this mode’s officially called but I use it to force OS X to load kexts. But with verbose mode, you only get text flashing across your screen – especially useful when you want to see what’s going on as OS X boots up for problem diagnosis. “ -v” : verbose mode – OS X normally uses graphical boot mode, so you get that screen with a grey apple and a spinning wheel at the bottom. During that time, hit any key on your keyboard and you’ll get to the boot prompt.Ģ) Know your flags! United Nations member countries not included – haha, so not funny and a desperate attempt at humor.
> by default, you’ve got a five second countdown before OS X actually starts booting up. Stuff that are most often taken for granted but are important nonetheless to survive hackintoshing:ġ) Know how to interrupt Darwin, the bootloader (as if you didn’t know it’s a bootloader, hey? Just wanted to clear out that that’s not my boyfriend’s name or something ))
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