Disable SIP without a recovery partition

[matty1]

I have upgraded from Yosemite to El Capitan. Before running the installer, it warned me that the installer would be unable to create a recovery partition or install FileVault. Not sure why but I installed anyway. Now I need to temporarily disable SIP but because there is no recovery partition, when I reboot while holding Command-R, it takes me into internet recovery which takes about 10 minutes to load. I then launch Terminal and run "csrutil disable" and it doesn't work. How can I disable and re-enable SIP?

 

[vansmith]

This will be impossible as the csrutil can only be used when booted from your recovery partition.

You can boot from the internet recovery as disable/enable SIP.

 

[MacInWin]

And without that recovery partition, you are going to have a lot of problems down the road as you may need to check/repair the boot drive, fix other issues and upgrade/update your system. Did the install of ElCap say WHY it couldn't create the recovery partition?

 

[matty1]

How exactly do I do that? When I open the terminal window from the internet recovery console, it won't allow me to edit the csrutil status.

 

[vansmith]

When I open the terminal window from the internet recovery console, it won't allow me to edit the csrutil status.

Can you be more specific? What error message do you get?

 

[matty1]

It fails with error message "csrutil: command not found".

The installer just said that the recovery partition was not supported with this upgrade but I had a recovery partition with previous versions of OSX. I have tried creating one using Recovery Partition Creator 3.8 which allegedly supports El Capitan but that also fails with an unsupported OS error.