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I can confirm that's exactly what happened to me. However, when I rebooted the computer with v3.0 in place after installing El Capitan 10.11.1, the App Store offered me (without asking again) to download El Capitan 10.11.1. The only thing is that it wouldn't work, because my original installer had been created using an "Install OS X El Capitan.app" (10.11.0) originally downloaded on one of my sons' supported Mac using his Apple ID. It would appear that such an Apple ID is stored somewhere on one's hard drive, because when I tried to re-download El Capitan 10.11.1 from the App Store, it prompted me for the password of my son's Apple ID, which I don't know, so I couldn't proceed any further.
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Fails boot...
imageboot-setup-now: container image url is file:///Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg
hfs-ValidateHFSPlusVolumeHeader: unknown Vilume Signature : 44b9
output attached
edit: addition of said build into USB-based createinstallmedia successful, for whatever reason (I do not know (I have changed only boot.efi x3 in both of these installers))....
I need to rebuild all my installers from scratch before I test (and clog the board), any more ;/
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Boot into El Capitan and try to mount that image. Does that work?
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1.) Open Main.cpp
2.) Comment out lines 362 and 363.
3.) Comment out the lines 554-574 (whole block).
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Download of ElCap from within 10.10.5 starts the download of ElCap GM Candidate?!?
see attached
I'll still have to open a VM to download the latest, for now (later).
Attachments
Odd . . . InstallESD.dmg will not mount (no mountable file systems), and says it was modified, yesterday, at 8:53 PM, and weighs-in at 5.34GiB (the original ///ElCap.app/C/SS/InstallESD.dmg weighs-in at 6.08GiB)
No idea, whatsoever could cause such a mod... it's like something extracted a BaseSystem.dmg-sized chunk, and left without leaving a calling card...
Replaced old, with fresh:
'DSMOS has Arrived...' . . . boots into 'To set up the installation...'
Go figure ;/
Thanks for the suggestion on where to look, Pike. . .don't want to clog the thread with cruft.
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I'm working on getting a build environment set up, to help streamline the kextpatcher testing. Didn't realize that all the needed tools are free: VirtualBox, MS VM image for testing IE, and Visual Studio Community. Hopefully I'll be up and running with it soon.
I already have a copy of 10.11.0 installed, and ready to test the kextpatcher by installing the 10.11.1 update, once we reach that point.
splifingate, I keep having to refresh my USB installer, because it keeps getting corrupted just by booting the installer from it! It seems strange, as it ought only need to be mounted read-only. So anyway, it's not just you.
I already have a copy of 10.11.0 installed, and ready to test the kextpatcher by installing the 10.11.1 update, once we reach that point.
splifingate, I keep having to refresh my USB installer, because it keeps getting corrupted just by booting the installer from it! It seems strange, as it ought only need to be mounted read-only. So anyway, it's not just you.
Code:
splifingatesPro:~ splifingate$ sudo defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL
2015-10-25 10:14:33.279 defaults[834:11300]
The domain/default pair of (/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate, CatalogURL) does not exist
splifingatesPro:~ splifingate$ sudo /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --set-catalog
https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz
softwareupdate: Changed catalog to https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gzStill get the spinner, and no d/l, but this is Correct, and I want it to (continue to) be this way. thx
That sounds fantastic. Download links?
Edit: I installed VirtualBox v5.0.8 r103449 and I think that you are talking about https://dev.modern.ie/tools/vms/mac/
@PeterHolbrook,
What are you using?
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Professional running in Windows 8.1 on a VMware Fusion 8.0.1 VM running in El Capitan 10.11.1 running on a Mac Pro 1,1->2,1 masquerading as a Mac Pro 3,1 thanks to version 3.0 of your boot.efi!
Thanks. One problem. I have only 2GB space left. Need new hardware first.
Edit: Didn't even know that I had so little free space left. Removed some projects and now I have 15GB free. Good to go.
Edit-2: This setup should be added to the project Wiki
Edit-3: I need to install some kind of tools, but I don't know how to do that. Anyone here?
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Tools? I don't suppose you're talking about VMware Tools or Parallels Tools, are you? If you are, you should go (in the case of VMware Fusion) to the Virtual Machine menu and select Install VMware Tools. It should be done automatically. It probably requires that you restart your virtual machine. Afterwards integration between the Windows guest and the OS X host improves significantly.
No. Install Visual C++ 2015 Tool for Windows Desktop. I can't seem to locate the Visual Studio Setup app.
Edit: My mistake. I chose "Typical" during the installation, instead of "Custom" so now I had to go into Control Panel and select uninstall. This launched setup and there I could select the missing toolset.
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I installed em by going in Control panel -> add/remove programs, select VS2015 and then enable VC++ components, they should include all the tools and the compilers needed (apart from nasm).
I wouldn't know. I don't recall getting any missing components when I installed VS 2013. The 2015 version might be different, though. Have you tried a full install?
Yup. That's what I did.
Edit: Now it can't find nasm. I installed 2.11.08 and it's there in C:\Users\IEUser\AppData\Local\nasm but Visual Studio 2015 can't find it. Need to copy the file... Done.
I also had to upgrade the solution files (boot/rijndael) by right clicking on them and selecting update (or something like that).
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Hmm. Have the solution files been upgraded in the repository? If so, I suppose I should be updating VS to 2015. Otherwise, I imagine VS 2013 might fail to read them now. What is your advice?
Edit: Or do you want to do all the compiling yourself from now on?
No. I did not update the solution files in the repo, and no I rather want someone else to compile the files. This however gives more people a chance to compile the source code.
Edit: Oops. I need to setup a channel here for our German guests. Some of them want to watch: "Formel 1 Das Rennen/Siegerehrung und Highlights" on RTL. Yummy.
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I'm not sure if I did something wrong, but the boot.efi output when I upgraded so it would compile with 2015 didn't work for me, and I didn't have time to try again yet with 2013.
Make sure you compile it as "Release/Win32". Notice that the size of the boot.efi created in VS 2015 will probably be different from the one created in VS 2013. In any case, either should work fine.