View source for Hackintosh Single User Mode


Very useful when things break, a lifeline with root shell access.
From here you can change root password, use visudo, or anything else
requiring root access.

Hackintosh
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### Reboot hackintosh
## navigate across OS installations until you are over the OSX
## install you are going to modify
## push down
## choose 'single-user-mode' (or if you are using boot flags, it is -s)
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Mac
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- Reboot Max while holding down Command + S
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Mount filesystem in single-user mode
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/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -wu /
/bin/chmod 1775 /
/bin/sync
launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.opendirectoryd.plist 
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