Cannot boot Recovery HD volume

[inglesworth]

I attempted to update to 10.2.2. I am now getting the black screen caused by the fact that my mac is set to 6,1. I cloned my system to another drive and can boot from there on 10.2.1, but I just purchased some software that requires the update to 10.2.2 to run.

I attempted to run the fix for it, but received a message that I had to disable the SIP - side question - I assume the osX update reenables this by default? I definitely did not reenable it myself.

So I went to boot the recovery hd so i could run the terminal command to disable SIP, but it will not boot. It gets the apple logo and the loading bar goes up to maybe about 2/3 of the way and then just freezes and does nothing. Once it gets to about half way up, it starts to move extremely slow before stalling out.

I also attempted to boot from my usb boot stick and got the same exact result. Then i even tried to recreate the boot stick from scratch using unibeast just to see if that might have cleared something up, but no luck.

Any insight is greatly appreciated!

 

[BreBo]

To disable or enable SIP add/edit the settings on your config.plist.

Clover Configurator > Rt Variables > BooterConfig and CsrActiveConfig

Relevant user options for SIP are as follows:
csr-active-config 0x0 = SIP Enabled (Default)
csr-active-config 0x3 = SIP Partially Disabled (Loads unsigned kexts)
csr-active-config 0x67 = SIP Disabled completely

<key>RtVariables</key>
    <dict>
        <key>CsrActiveConfig</key>
        <string>0x3</string>
        <key>BooterConfig</key>
        <string>0x28</string>
    </dict>

 

[inglesworth]

Thank you! That part worked great and I was able to fix my black screen.

But I am still wondering if there is a way to fix the recovery volume so it actually boots? It might come in handy in the future.

 

[Darkleopard]

Thank you! That part worked great and I was able to fix my black screen.

But I am still wondering if there is a way to fix the recovery volume so it actually boots? It might come in handy in the future.

If you're using Sierra, put fakesmc.kext into 10.12 folder in EFI.

 

[BreBo]

In order to boot into the recovery partition you must put FakeSMC.kext into your /EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other folder on your EFI partition.

You probably also need to boot with Set Nvidia to VESA (nv_disable=1) selected in Clover Boot Options.