Laxman Posted July 27, 2017 Author Share Posted July 27, 2017 I want to keep the Sierra recovery but theres another recovery which doesn't seem to go even if I formatted all other partitions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted July 27, 2017 Administrators Share Posted July 27, 2017 try unhiding your osx volume files. i think its ALT shift period look at the root of the drive and see if you have files that start with .AI and delete them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laxman Posted July 28, 2017 Author Share Posted July 28, 2017 thanks my man. but no files starting with that. tried hiding special files with the showhidden files app and its gone now. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laxman Posted July 29, 2017 Author Share Posted July 29, 2017 The extra recovery drive comes again. I tried changing the options in the config file with cc and disabled kernel, legacy options but doesnt change anything, I even set a custom boot time of 3 seconds with default boot drive set but it doesnt work . any better option to remove the extra recovery drive? As you see in the pic, I wan to remove the recovery drive below my media drive. I formatted the media drive but that doesnt go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted July 29, 2017 Administrators Share Posted July 29, 2017 The recovery partition attached to a main installation partition is listed right below it. It's a dedicated partition on the disk so no bootloader option is going to make it go away, only merely hide it from you (Clover and Chameleon/Enoch do provide this facility, you can look that up). To remove it, apply the guidelines as detailed in this OS X Daily blog entry for instance: diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ Blank /dev/disk0sY --> where 'Y' is index of recovery partition diskutil mergePartitions <main partition name> disk0sX disk0sY --> where 'X' is index of main partition Remember: Google is your friend... In your particular case, rename your Media partition/drive to "Media_drive" (to remove the space) and type the following: diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ Blank /dev/disk0s4 diskutil mergePartitions HFS+ Media_drive disk0s3 disk0s4 You may then rename your partition to "Media drive" again. The 1st command reformats the recovery partition to HFS+ format and names it "Blank" (call it "Blaaaagh" if you wish). The 2nd command recovers the freed-up disk space and reassigns it to the main partition by merging the ex-recovery partition with the main one. If you need help with diskutil command, type: man diskutil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laxman Posted July 29, 2017 Author Share Posted July 29, 2017 Perfect. With you guys' help , my Mac os sierra is perfect. Cant thank you guys enough. Only little thing which isnt so important is, my screen flickers twice when its on the apple logo, I googled but mostly there are fixes for major flickerings. If you cld help me with that, my mac shall be 100%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted July 29, 2017 Administrators Share Posted July 29, 2017 Sounds like 2nd/final stage boot glitch. Fixed with the following IOGraphicsFamily kext patch: Find: 0100007525 Replace by: 010000EB25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laxman Posted July 29, 2017 Author Share Posted July 29, 2017 Herve my man, I ticked on the infolist patch option, rebuilded cache and all, but the garble just got worse with more black lines on screen. I also opened the config plist with na editor, tried find and replace the above items but after boot my graphics was messed up. I must be doing something wrong. I am new to this, bear with me please. ALso, I am trying to attach an ioreg file but it says i am not allowed to attach such files. How else can i see if my qe/ci is fully enabled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted July 29, 2017 Administrators Share Posted July 29, 2017 uncheck info plist patch "little blue box with checkmark" in photo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laxman Posted July 29, 2017 Author Share Posted July 29, 2017 It was unchecked before, no change whatsoever checked or unchecked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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