<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mar 8, 2017, at 2:28 AM, Stephan Budach <<a href="mailto:stephan.budach@jvm.de" class="">stephan.budach@jvm.de</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Can you elaborate on that a little more as of what exactly you did to the loader? I am guessing that you modified the kernel boot arguments, but unfortuanetly, I am unfamiliar with the new loader.<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><div class="">Screenshots being inlined...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Step 1: Say hello to the new Loader menu:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="70C16F6A-358C-4150-9F6C-186BC976A774" src="cid:851499E3-6007-4DEA-844C-0EFD54096887" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">note that on the new ISO, there will be no "Select Boot Environment" option. Nonetheless, we don't want that. We want to modify the boot options (#5 or the 'O' key):</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Step 2: Say hello to the Boot Options menu:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="71130461-7DE2-42A7-A6EE-891846EA1603" src="cid:D322C788-827E-4917-BFDF-28DD90115D44" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To boot under kmdb (the kernel debugger) AND have the kmdb prompt occur immediately you now simply enable kmdb with 'm' or with '7', and debug with 'd' or '8'. After pressing both keys, things should look like this:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="180ABAA5-3B7B-4BDB-954F-9E8F43EABAF8" src="cid:30EDE45C-246D-47ED-B142-79D437F82077" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Step 3: Press RETURN to boot, and get to the kmdb prompt and fix apix_enable.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You will get to the kmdb prompt now. I've typed in three commands: "apix_enable/X" to show its current value, "apix_enable/W0" to set it to 0, and "apix_enable/X" again to show it is indeed 0. Pardon the noise on one part... using arrows for history on kmdb prints extra characters:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="EB93C23C-E161-4872-8527-2328C31B0B0B" src="cid:8BB03F2F-1A72-4A0D-A373-BBEEA252F58E" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Step 4: Proceed with boot.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Enter ":c" into kmdb and the kernel will boot.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="A3E5EA84-D7D8-48CE-9E6A-B3F1A41AC862" src="cid:C6525086-AA4C-4423-9681-D5DDAFA4B85A" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you do that trick on the installer ISO, you'll jump immediately to the installation menu.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Once booted, if it's an installed system, you can login and edit /etc/system to add: "set apix_enable=0" on a line by itself. If it's the installer ISO, do the installation, THEN enter the shell and edit /mnt/etc/system. The new installer keeps the newly-installed BE mounted on /mnt so people can post-process it after installation. We MAY exploit this to enhance the installation menu and installation experience.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hope this helps!</div><div class="">Dan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>