FireWolf OS X PE V7 All-in-one Manual Version 1.0 Copyright © 2015 FireWolf @ FireWolf Pl. All Rights Reserved. https://www.firewolf.science Catalogue Chapter I. Introduction ➣ What’s FireWolf OS X PE? ➣ Is FireWolf OS X PE safe? ➣ Where can I download the FireWolf OS X PE? ➣ Which disk image should I download? Chapter II. Prepare to use FireWolf OS X PE ➣ How to restore FireWolf OS X PE into my disk? ➣ How to boot FireWolf OS X PE from my disk? ➣ Why can’t I boot the FireWolf OS X PE V7.0? Chapter III. Start to use FireWolf OS X PE ➣ Menu Bar Functions / Applications ➣ Main Window Functions / Applications ➣ System Maintenance Appendix. Using dd command to restore a disk image to a media under OS X Chapter I Introduction 1. What’s FireWolf OS X PE? FireWolf OS X PE is an enhanced OS X Recovery system, aka Mac PE. It will help you maintain your OS X system. FireWolf OS X PE supports both real Macs and Hackintosh builds. 2. Is FireWolf OS X PE safe? Yes, it is safe. It does not include any virus, malicious softwares, built- in advertisements and backdoors. 3. Where can I download the FireWolf OS X PE? All downloads are hosted on my website or official mirrors. Please visit the FireWolf OS X PE V7 Download Center. Always check the MD5 value of your downloaded disk image. MD5 information can be found on here. 4. Which disk image should I download? There are two disk images available to download. If you are a Mac user or Hackintosh user who use Clover as bootloader, please download the Boot.FireWolf.OS.X.PE.V7.0.ULT-Zlib.dmg If you are a Hackintosh user and do not have a Clover bootloader, you can download the Boot.FireWolf.OS.X.PE.V7.0.wClover.ULT-Zlib.dmg Chapter II Prepare to use FireWolf OS X PE 1. How to restore FireWolf OS X PE to my disk? (1) Restore FireWolf OS X PE under Windows. You need to download and install TransMac. After you finish installing TransMac, right click the shortcut on your desktop, choose “Run as Administrator” to open TransMac. Plug in your USB stick, right click the USB stick in the left column of TransMac, choose “Restore with Disk Image”, choose the disk image file of FireWolf OS X PE in the popup open dialog. (2) Restore FireWolf OS X PE under OS X. • If you want to restore the disk image without Clover bootloader, double click the disk image you have downloaded, open the Disk Utility.app, plugin your USB stick, click the volume name of the FireWolf OS X PE which is “Boot FireWolf OS X PE V7.0 Ultimate”, click the “Restore” tab, drag the partition of your USB stick into the “Destination” field, click the “Restore” button at the bottom to start. • If you want to restore the disk image with Clover bootloader, you need to use dd command to restore it to your media. • See Appendix: Use dd command to restore a disk image to a media. 2. How can I boot FireWolf OS X PE from my disk? If you are a real Mac user, plug in your USB stick, restart your Mac, and press the option key to enter the boot menu. Select Boot FireWolf OS X PE and press enter to boot. If you are a hackintosh user and have restored the FireWolf OS X PE without Clover disk image, first please make sure that you have placed essential 3rd-party kernel extensions in /EFI/Clover/ Kexts/10.10/ for your hackintosh build, and then plug in your USB stick, restart your computer to enter the Clover bootloader menu, use direction keys to select Boot Recovery from Boot FireWolf OS X PE V7.0 Ultimate, press the space key and select boot with injected kexts. If you are a hackintosh user and have restored the FireWolf OS X PE with Clover disk image, first make sure that you have placed the following stuff in the EFI partition of your USB stick. • essential 3rd-party kexts in /EFI/Clover/Kexts/10.10/. • proper Clover boot configuration file Config.plist for your build. • proper EFI drivers in /EFI/Clover/Drivers64UEFI/. • other essential stuff specific for your build. Then restart your computer and set your USB stick as the first boot device in your BIOS settings or quick boot menu. So now you will enter the Clover installed in your USB stick and use direction key to select Boot Recovery from Boot FireWolf OS X PE V7.0 Ultimate, press the space key and select boot with injected kexts. 3. Why can’t I boot the FireWolf OS X PE V7.0 from my disk? For real Mac users, please make sure that your disk image is not damaged. To check this, verify the MD5 value of your downloaded disk image and try to restore the disk image again. For Hackintosh users, if you get stuck during the verbose boot process such as kernel panic, try to disable the CPU power management, Nvidia discrete graphics card, etc. If you get stuck AFTER the verbose boot process and see a Apple logo with a progress bar, try to wait for a few seconds, or try to click your mouse and you will see the Language Chooser interface. Chapter III Start to use FireWolf OS X PE After choosing the preferred language, you will see the main OS X Utility window. Double click the FireWolf MultiApp Launcher to start. You CANNOT double click a file to open it under OS X PE. You need to first open the corresponding application and then use its “File” menu to open. For instance, if you want to edit a *.plist file, you have to first launch the PlistEdit Pro.app and then click the “File” menu and select “Open” to open the *.plist file. 1. Menu bar functions / applications (1) Shutdown This will shut down your computer immediately without any prompt. You will lose every data you haven’t saved or in the RAM disks. (2) Reboot This will restart your computer immediately without any prompt. You will lose every data you haven’t saved or in the RAM disks. (3) Reset Pass This will help you reset the account password on any OS X system partitions. (4) KCPM Utility This will launch the KCPM Utility. More detailed information can be found in Chapter III Module 3. See System Maintenance: Rebuilding Caches, Repairing Permissions, Installing Kexts. (5) Snip This will launch the Snip screen capture program. ⚠ Attention: During the first launch, please (and you have to) set up where to save the screen captures. You can either store them in a RAM disk or a local physical disk. (6) Terminal This will launch the OS X Terminal. (7) OSI Maker This will show a popup menu. Please read the descriptions carefully before launching the corresponding utility. Clicking the blue right arrow will launch the utility. The first two will launch the OSXIM.app while the last one will launch the DarwinSetup.app. Finder will be automatically killed for the safety before launching OSXIM.app or DarwinSetup.app. • OSXIM.app Subsection: ✏ Notes: - The OS X installer package should be downloaded from the Mac App Store. - If you have downloaded a disk image including the OS X installer package, please first use the Disk Utility.app to mount this image. However, it is highly recommended that you select an installer package directly stored in a local disk but not in a disk image, because it is too slow to read the installer from a disk image. - Just in case of an error, please try to manually eject any existing InstallESD.dmg and BaseSystem.dmg BEFORE creating an installer. Selecting the “Create a bootable installer” option will create a vanilla bootable installer. Note that this installer can ONLY be used to install OS X on a disk using GUID partition table. Selecting the “Create a custom bootable installer” option will enable the customization menu. Click the right arrow icon to access the detailed customization menu. Target disk path will not be required if you have selected the “Create a custom bootable installer image” option. However, you will be asked to select a place to save the installer image after you click the Execute button. • DarwinSetup.app Subsection: Click the El Capitan icon or binoculars icon to select an OS X El Capitan installer. Click the disk icon or binoculars icon to select a target volume on which you want to install OS X El Capitan. Click the eraser icon to erase the target volume with OS X Extended (Journaled) filesystem, aka HFSJ+. Note that you will lose every data on the target volume. Known issues: - Unattended Mode may not work properly, which means you may still be required to select a target volume after the reboot. (8) Clover Tools Click the blue right arrow to launch the corresponding utility. • Clover EFI Tools for PE Subsection: You can mount ESP (EFI system partition) and install Clover (for legacy BIOS / UEFI BIOS) rev3248 in Clover EFI Tools. Note that Clover EFI Tools will install the boot file by default. If your motherboard supports UEFI boot, you can delete the boot file in your EFI partition. • Install Clover from official package Subsection: You will be asked to select a Clover *.pkg file. You can use Maxthon to access the Internet and download the latest Clover official package from Sourceforge.net. Due to the limitations of OS X Recovery system, Clover will NOT be automatically installed to ESP.