I’d try to boot something like the ubuntu installer and use dd... My oldest macbook pro stopped taking macos updates, so it runs ubuntu now - but i forget which installer image used to do that.
M -- Matt Billenstein m...@vazor.com > On Jul 8, 2020, at 11:14 PM, Yury V. Zaytsev <y...@shurup.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Jul 2020, m...@vazor.com wrote: > >> Boot from a usb installer image and you can clear the disk and install to it. > > Of course, I've tried that already with an USB installer for Catalina (APFS > support) and El Capitan (pre-APFS) - both installers panic on boot while > probing local hardware because as soon as they find the disk and try to read > the partition table something goes kaboom. > > Internet Recovery leads to the same results, because basically it's just > another delivery way for the installer, but as soon as it starts booting > were're at square one. > > Is there some way to zero the first blocks of the drive from EFI :) ? Like in > the old good days when Sun still shined, I could enter OpenBoot by pressing > the magic "Stop-A" button and enter the Forth interpreter to do stuff like > that... > > -- > Sincerely yours, > Yury V. Zaytsev _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
