macOS

How to Create a Bootable Linux Live USB on Your Mac
Found and tested by James He was able to use these instructions to create a Centos installation iso that will work on Scale Logic storage products How ...
Wed, 21 Dec, 2022 at 9:33 AM
Diagnosing and fixing XtendSan not auto-connecting on boot
The iscsid.log to see if the network is up before the daemon. You will see an entry like: WARNING: Unable to retrieve NetworkInterface in order to deter...
Mon, 4 Jan, 2021 at 5:41 PM
Mounting a network drive on Mac
Click “Go” at the top of the screen and select “Connect to Server”.   Enter the server’s IP and click “Connect”.   Select “Guest” and click “C...
Thu, 17 Feb, 2022 at 12:37 PM
Managing kexts in High Sierra and later via CLI
Introduction The preferred way for accepting 3rd party kernel extensions ("kexts" for short, and sometimes referred to as "system extensions...
Thu, 4 Feb, 2021 at 5:14 PM
Browsing with Finder in my SMB share is extremely slow
Apple is doing its best tweak performance in their Samba stack, and sometimes, it might turn into a disadvantage for non Apple Samba servers. Source: Ap...
Tue, 24 Nov, 2020 at 2:12 PM
Running virt-manager using XQuartz
Purpose: To manage certain aspects of the HyperFS VM on the SAN-in-a-box appliance, the GUI "virt-manager" application can be used. In order to d...
Thu, 18 Feb, 2021 at 5:00 PM
Keyboard changes to allow access to root console
In Preferences... go to the Profiles tab and under that, the Keyboard tab. At the bottom, check Use Option as Meta key. (BTW, for systems where I use ...
Tue, 22 Mar, 2022 at 8:34 AM
My shared volume mounted as "media-1" instead of "media" on my Mac desktop - how to fix?
Looks like a leftover mount point folder from previous mount attempts.  Open a macOS terminal run "sudo rmdir /Volumes/NAMEHERE". rmdir is saf...
Sun, 2 Apr, 2023 at 2:42 PM
Failed to Validate Certificate Java Mac
Comment out the line below in sudo vi /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/lib/security/java.security #jdk.certpath.disable...
Thu, 18 May, 2023 at 11:19 AM
ATTO Drivers Will Not Load After Reboot
If after a reboot, ATTO drivers will not stay loaded on a Mac, try the following for: 1. Go to the ATTO folder in Applications and click on the uninstall...
Fri, 19 May, 2023 at 12:07 PM