Manually disabling dm verity in the boot img While it is often the case that dm-verity can be disabled via an Android Kitchen, such as SuperRs, occasionally this process can fail if the filenames / formats are not what is expected. In such cases we have to perform this operation manually. In this post I will describe now to manually disable dm-verity using SuperRs kitchen to unpack the boot.img. Note that other unpacking options are available, such as bootimg-master. Unpack the boot.img In the Kitchen: 7) Boot/Recovery Tools 1) Unpack boot.img Option 4 is usually used to disable dm-verity, but if this does not work then we have to perform the change manually. Locate the fstab files 1. Inside the project folder, navigate to bootimg/ramdisk 2. There should be at least one file whose name starts with fstab 3. Change the permissions of these files in a Terminal sudo chmod 777 <filename> 4. Open the file(s) up in gedit and find lines which resemble the following: /dev/block/bootd...