Tag Archives: Dual_Boot

Mac – El Capitan – SIP and EFI booting with rEFInd

Posted on August 16, 2016 by

A great article about using rEFInd with El Capitan which now includes SIP is at: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/sip.html

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Mac – Un-mount Windows partition from Startup Items

Posted on January 25, 2016 by

See: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14231-how-to-unmount-windows-partition-on-startup/

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BootCamp – Imaging windows with winclone

Posted on July 31, 2012 by

Using a lab windows image on a dual boot mac — Prepare a base windows image in Dell hardware and sysprep Take an image with KACE/Ghost but don’t allow drive to boot after With ghost you need to uncheck “Reboot” … Continue reading →

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Mac – Mounting a volume from the command line

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

To mount a volume from the mac command line … 1) find the device with the command: # diskutil list 2) create a mount point (if it doesn’t exist) with the command: # mkdir /Volumes/Windows 3) mount the device with: … Continue reading →

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Bootcamp – Setting boot volume from windows command line

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

Sometimes it is necessary to set the boot volume via the command line. # “c:\Program Files\Boot Camp\BootCamp.exe” -StartupDisk “Windows” (Replace “Windows” with “Macintosh HD” to boot to the Mac side …) See this reference from Apple … http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3802

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Mac – Set boot volume from mac comand line

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

Sometimes, particularly on dual-boot macs, it is important to be able to set the boot volume from the mac command line. (Think Apple Remote Desktop!) The command to do this as root is: /usr/sbin/bless –device /dev/disk0s3 –setBoot –legacy For details … Continue reading →

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