sip disable

[dennis campbell]

am using external ssd for boot drive and want to disable sip. When command+r is used the recovery drive comes up for the internal drive, the internal drive is not being used except for storage, how do i get into terminal for the external drive to disable sip........Sierra 10.12 late 2015 21.5 imac

 

[keysofanxiety]

If you hold Alt on startup, there may be a recovery partition for your external drive which you can boot into. Any luck?

 

[Fishrrman]

OP:

I could be wrong, but I don't think it matters from which drive you boot to disable SIP.

Try this, and get back to us:
1. Power down, all the way off
2. Press the power on button and IMMEDIATELY hold down the option key and KEEP HOLDING IT DOWN until the startup manager appears
3. Do you see one recovery partition, or two?
4. Select one of them (or just the one, if that's all there is), and hit return.
5. You should boot to the recovery partition
6. Go to the Utilities menu and open Terminal
7. In terminal, enter the following:
csrutil disable
Write the above command down on paper. There is a space character between "csrutil" and "disable".

8. Now, quit terminal and reboot to your regular boot drive.

To check to see if SIP is really disabled:
1. Open terminal
2. Type this command:
csrutil status

What do you get?