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USB Key Labelled EFI Boot

If you have created a Mac OS X bootable USB Key and it shows up as EFI Boot when you are at the boot selection menu then you can rectify this via the following Terminal command

sudo bless --folder /Volumes/VOLUMENAME/System/Library/CoreServices --bootefi

replace VOLUMENAME with the name of your USB Volume, so I named my 10.8 Key ‘Mountain’, so my command would be

sudo bless --folder /Volumes/Mountain/System/Library/CoreServices --bootefi

then enter your admin password and reboot

Hold down ALT to get back to the boot selection menu and you should now have the VOLUMENAME displayed under the USB Device, rather than EFI Boot

Matlab – Warning: Name is nonexistent or not a directory

If you have experienced the error mentioned above, particularly when using a shared computer then the chances are that the directories listed relate to a user account or area of the filesystem that you don’t have access to, or they have been deleted.

To resolve the problem, it is very simple, follow the instructions listed below

Start Matlab

Once initialised, type the following

edit pathdef.m

and hit enter, this will open the editor and enable you to remove the directories that are causing the error.

save the file and restart matlab, you will notice that you no longer have the error