• Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mass Deployment

    Hacking Around in Lion's Recovery Mode

    Boot holding down the R key and you are placed into Lion’s Recovery Mode. From inside Recovery Mode, you can select a number of options. Many are helpful, especially for road warriors. But in a centralized environment, not everyone should be able to perform potentially dangerous operations. One way to eliminate such an option is to just wipe the Recovery Mode, but what if you actually wanted to leave Recovery Mode… To see the Recovery Partition, check out this article. Once you are in the Recovery Partition, there are lots of nifty little toys. For example, to see the menu of options shown in Recovery Mode, run Mac OS X…