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big sur open terminal from language chooser

  • July 15, 2020
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Up until Catalina I was able to open a root terminal from the Language Chooser on new Macs.
Does Big Sur removes this feature?
Wasn’t able to find it there.

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gabe2385
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  • July 15, 2020

If you mean using the command - Option - control - T in setup assistant, I was able to use it the other day in testing Big Sur Beta 1, I am going to test it on Beta 2 and let you know


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  • July 15, 2020

I mean in the language chooser window, one step before the setup assistant.
In setup assistant it does work, but only with the _mbsetupuser user, that is limited.


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  • July 15, 2020

related, but not this exact thing. Sometimes when I wipe computers they go straight to the country screen. Is there a way to get them back to the language screen if they are starting on the country screen?


gabe2385
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  • July 15, 2020

Looks like it is still working in Beta 2.


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  • July 16, 2020

@strayer You can touch a file called .RunLanguageChooserToo in /var/db
The same place you remove .AppleSetupDone.
I use this in my "imaging" process


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  • July 16, 2020

@gabe2385 In the language chooser?


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  • July 29, 2020

@strayer https://grahamrpugh.com/2020/02/21/resetting-dep-without-reinstalling.html this can help you


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  • November 10, 2020

Getting the same as @gurduv, I can't get the root terminal window at the language chooser either. I can get a terminal window at the country selection screen, but as mentioned, that brings up a less useful $ user prompt for the _mbsetupuser. I guess it's a security thing implemented by the Apple Security chiefs :-) oh well, back to full re-installs to reset dep... unless there's a new magic key combination someone's not sharing ;-)