How can I mount the root Data volume as writable on macOS 10.15 Beta 1 when booted into Single User Mode?
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I need to reset my admin password (https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/61932/17533) . Can't boot into Recovery Volume, so I need to boot into Single User Mode and modify the Data volume.
When booting into Single User Mode, the system shows the following help:
To mount the root device as read-write:
$ /bin/mount -X /
However, that leads to an error message:
mount: illegal option -- X
I also tried the old
mount -uw -
, but that leads to some *firmlink* related messages, and afterwards I still have no writeable Data area.
mount
shows that the Data volume is already mounted at /System/Volumes/Data
as read-only. Trying to unmount it with umount
leads to an "Operation not permitted" error.
mount -uw /dev/disk1s1
(which is the Data partition as shown by mount
) leads to the error "Found 2 volumes in group ... Failed to stat file //AppleInternal, error No such file or directory".
Asked by Thomas Tempelmann
(1972 rep)
Jun 9, 2019, 04:00 PM
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