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after i installed some wacom drivers my macbook (pro 2014) refuses to start. it goes to full progress bar but then gets stuck every time. safe mode and verbose mode do not work. i have accepted that i need to reinstall the os from recovery mode. every time i had to do this in the past (before using catalina) i was able to enter single user mode and make a backup of all the files. this time i can't! following these instructions: http://macsage.com/mounting-usb-drive-in-single-user-mode/ i try to create a sharepoint in the /Volumes directory and get the message that the system is read-only. i have already disabled SIP in recovery mode. started the prompt with the command sudo mount -uw / but it still refuses to change from read-only. isn't it incredibly dumb to make it impossible for users to backup their files once something goes wrong with the system? or to run fsck for that matter?! are all my files lost now? or is there another way to make a backup?

пaean
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  • Did you try just starting in Safe mode & removing the drivers? BTW, the entire idea of backups is that you make them before you need them, not after. – Tetsujin May 23 '20 at 16:54
  • @Tetsujin thanks for the tip but safe mode does not work (it gets stuck while booting) – пaean May 23 '20 at 16:55
  • If it gets stuck in safe mode then the Wacom drivers are not to blame. – Tetsujin May 23 '20 at 16:56
  • you may be right, although a google search showed me that this happened to others as well. their system was working fine, they did the installation, then it wont boot and they had to reinstall the os. perhaps just a coincidence. problem remains, i need to copy the files and am unable to reach them – пaean May 23 '20 at 16:59
  • see https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/388469/unable-to-mount-read-write-in-os-catalina-10-15-4-in-single-user-mode – Tetsujin May 23 '20 at 17:00
  • Do you have an external drive that you can connect to your Mac? If yes, you can boot to macOS Recovery and use Disk Utility to make a disk image of your e.g. Home folder, or whatever, to the external drive. – user3439894 May 23 '20 at 17:44

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