08-10-2019
Hi Neo...
I am certainly getting a little cheesed off with Apple's attitude; their latest incarnation...
This has nailed the coffin lid on Apple for me now, I will not be buying another Apple item:
Apple locks new iPhone batteries to prevent third-party repair, report says | Ars Technica
This, along with, the hardware interface added between MOBO and HDD to make the FORCED? encrypted DRIVE impossible to read from or write to from an external live linux boot source.
This addition supposedly makes it _impossible_ to install another OS on an external drive, let alone the internal one.
Not quite true there is a back door and this current MBP with its builtin HW add-on I have been able to fool it.
I still can't read or write to the internal drive but I run this current full install Linux mint 19 on it without any problems from both USB stick and this current external HDD...
EDIT:
I have 2 MBPs, 1 iMac, and 1 iPad...
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
ift-extract
I2M19058(1) GNU Info I2M19058(1)
NAME
ift-extract.info - ift-extract.info
Built-in iSight firmware extractor and patcher
ift-extract extract the Built-in iSight firmware from Apple driver and patch it to avoid some bugs in it. The firmware is then ready to get
loaded into the chip using ift-load.
* Menu:
Finding the Apple driver: see "Driver"
Command line options: see "Options"
See also "Copying"
1 Finding the Apple driver
ift-extract extract Built-in iSight firmware from Apple iSight driver. This driver is located at
/System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBVideoSupport.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleUSBVideoSupport on your Mac OS X
root partition.
There is several version of this driver depending on driver version or host architecture (PowerPC or x86). Thus, ift-extract must determine
know the variant of the driver in order to properly extract the firmware.
Any AppleUSBVideoSupport file starting with those shipped with iMac G5 iSight must work. If not, please report unknown AppleUSBVideoSupport
at bugreport mail address with machine type and OS X version.
2 Command line options
`-a' `--apple-driver' Apple driver filename where to extract the firmware.
`-d' `--output-directory' The directory where to output the firmware. Defaults to /lib/firmware.
`-f' `--output-filename' The output firmware name. Defaults to isight.fw
`-?' `--help' Shows option help and quit.
Since ift-extract defaults to output the firmware to /lib/firmware/isight.fw, ensure you have the right to do so.
3 Copying
isight-firmware-tools is a project developped by A~Xtienne Bersac based on the work of Ronald S. Bultje, Johannes Berg and Ivan N. Zlatev.
This manual has been written by A~Xtienne Bersac.
Copyright (C) 2007 A~Xtienne Bersac <bersace@gmail.com>
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