So, my MacBook Pro just died and it appears to be the standard known issue with the graphics card. There seems to be a possible fix by moving some system files around.
However, to do this, I have to disable SIP protection.
To disable SIP, i have to boot up in recovery mode.
MacBook won't boot up in recovery mode – grey screen of death
MacBook can boot up in single user mode however.
There are tales that you can boot in single user recovery mode by holding down command-R-S on boot, but that did not work for me.
What can i do?
Best Answer
You can't, and that's by design. If an attacker could disable system protection while the OS was booted it'd be pointless. If you find something, please file a radar because this is an important security component. Single user mode is the same as normal OSX just stopped a bit before a bunch of niceties load, so no dice there. You'll have to get into recovery mode somehow and if you can't even boot to single user recovery you might have a bigger issue than just GPUs.
You could, potentially, boot using an eGPU if I understand the issue. Issue is an eGPU is hard to find and more expensive to buy than just fixing your laptop.