A great article about using rEFInd with El Capitan which now includes SIP is at:
Tag Archives: Dual_Boot
Mac – Un-mount Windows partition from Startup Items
BootCamp – Imaging windows with winclone
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” in the Misc Options before starting to take image
- Physically remove hard drive from dell hardware and put it in a Mac Pro Tower but don’t let it boot yet
- Use an external disk that has winclone loded on it to boot the mac
- Take a winclone image
- Before taking winclone image, set perferences to use the “special” format that is not mountable but is smaller and restores faster.
This image should then be restorable to any bootcamp windows partition using the external mac boot disk and winclone as above. After restore you’ll need to boot to the windows volume, letting sysprep complete and then run the bootcamp drivers disk for that mac model.
Add any additional software/settings, re-sysprep, and then take an image of the windows volume with DeployStudio.
Mac – Mounting a volume from the command line
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:
mount -t ntfs /dev/disk0s3 /Volumes/Windows
Bootcamp – Setting boot volume from windows command line
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 …
Mac – Set boot volume from mac comand line
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 see:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110601220925705