Thanks for this. Had never heard of doing this before for security updates. Knew about the -f but never quite knew when or how to use it during boot when I did my initial install and ended up not needing it. Will look up a guide for it. I would have just tried the MultiBeast reinstall of drivers unless I found out a new kext was needed for the update.
Hack has been running so well I got complacent. This will smarten me up... for a while.
lucky777s
Been there as well - now have a Tee shirt etc....
In General I don't apply any updates after 10.6.8, cant see the logic -
In general OSX is very safe from attacks based upon the fact that Windows Dominates the computer world.
Which is why hackers attack it - OSX is such a small populations of computers that its not worth the time to invest monies to get a virus or malware made that will cause havoc w OSX.
Why I don't apply updates is that I don't go to those locations (sites) that have such payloads that could hit the OS.
I have a window box for that.
The use of the -f switch has always a pet peeve switch for me !
And lots of articles have mentioned this setting in the Snow Leo days and referenced it; but its lost its luster w Lion and Mount Lion.
When I did my first one it was three weeks of work for it to be functional.
Below are some links that were important to me during my build:
Here are some old links I keep in a text document .... AKA Oldies but Goodies.
You Tube Videos on Multibeast & iBoot & Best Practice.
His vid on Best Practice -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZl1Gv3J7bg
His vid on Basic Overview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIOJB3EVHaw
His vid on Bootloader flags
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDw3RhLWAjE
From the Legacy Site - we have the listing of the boot options supported by chameleon - Org.chameleon.boot.plist
http://legacy.tonymacx86.com/wiki/index.php/Org.chameleon.Boot.plist
Something usefull about command line switchs one needs to know !
http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/05/bootloader-acpi-flags-while-darwin-bootloader/
This is from 2008 some of these have changed but it still a good read,
http://news.metaparadigma.de/osx86-flags-and-parameters-for-darwin-bootloader-104/
More on boot options and cache
http://apple2pc.blogspot.com/2008/02/darwin-boot-options.html