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fatespawn

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Feb 22, 2009
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I need a little time-critical help. I'm at a friends for the weekend and they have an old 2011MBP and I need to delete a particular kext file (AMDRadeonX3000.kext)

There are a couple of difficulties:

1. There is no Recovery Partition on his drive
2. I can boot to single user mode, but am unable to disable SIP (operation not permitted)

Is there an easy way to delete a kext file from the GUI?

The root problem is that his Radeon HD 6750M is dead and the computer needs to only use the integrated graphics. I managed to get it to boot and now don't want to shut down until I can get rid of that particular kext file.

Thanks
 
As I remember, you can’t delete system kexts with SIP enabled.
There are some solutions to create/re-create the Recovery partition
https://gist.github.com/davidjb/48204e370810407d6faeba48f1f414f1
https://gist.github.com/jonathantneal/f20e6f3e03d5637f983f8543df70cef5
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-to-create-recovery-partition-post-install.2161426/
but it might be easier to make a bootable installer, use it to boot and delete the kext from its Terminal
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372
 
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