My friend did something stupid while I wasn't there and somehow enetered my mac os x utilities mode. Now I can't use my computer like normal, the only choices i have is to erase and reinstall, disk repair etc, and restart from another disk. When i choose to restart from mac os x, it just brings me back to utilities! How can i fix this? Thanks
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How to exit mac os x utilities mode?
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Hold down option during boot before the apple icon appears. Preferably right around the time the gray screen appears.
i did and i choose my normal startup disk, and it just keeps opening recovery... D:
Can you verify the OS partition is still there through the Disk Utility in recovery? If so, did you run Verify Disk to make sure the hard drive didn't die? What exactly did your friend do on your computer? Surely he must have told you something.
Proceed to enter the Recovery Mode. From the menu bar choose Utilities-->Terminal. Run the following command (exactly as shown here - write it down or take a picture with another device so you aren't missing a symbol when typing into the Terminal window):
What it does:
In the event that the system is set to switch to the partition picker it disables this behaviour followed by booting from your startup volume as opposed to booting into the Recovery Mode.
Bash:
nvraminfo=$(nvram -p | grep -Ei 'manufacturing-enter-picker.*true'); if [ -n "$nvraminfo" ] ; then nvram -d manufacturing-enter-picker ; fi ; nvram -d recovery-boot-mode ; rebootWhat it does:
In the event that the system is set to switch to the partition picker it disables this behaviour followed by booting from your startup volume as opposed to booting into the Recovery Mode.