In the category of “tools that can save an ill Mac,” there are few that are more important than a bootable macOS installation USB stick. Whenever I go on a business trip, I make sure I have a couple of these packed in my carry-on luggage. On more than one occasion, this tool has saved the trip from disaster.
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Your Mac won’t boot? This tool is the first thing to try. You’ve done something by mistake, and your Mac is now unstable? This tool can fix it. (Yes, this did happen to me when I was on a business trip to Japan. I will spare you the gory details.)
It used to be rather challenging to create such a tool, but then a wonderful utility appeared: DiskMaker X. Developed by a lone programmer, Guillaume Gète, DiskMaker X quickly became (and continues to be) the best utility to create a bootable macOS installation USB stick. All you need is:
Run DiskMaker X on your Mac, point it to the macOS installation app and insert the USB stick. A few minutes later, you’ll have a bootable installation USB stick for that version of macOS.
Along the way, you’ll see progress notifications of “DiskMaker X 8 for macOS Mojave”
When you hear DiskMaker roar (No kidding! There actually is a roar at completion!), you’ll see macOS Mojave downloading.
Run into any problems? Just check the FAQ that Guillaume maintains or send him an email. It’s one of the best-supported shareware apps I have ever encountered.
If you had asked me last week if it was possible to create a bootable macOS installation USB stick on a Windows PC, I would have immediately answered no. However, in a feat of technical wizardry, this has been accomplished.
Mauro Huc details in Pureinfotech how to create a bootable macOS USB stick on a Windows 10 PC. The process is not as seamless as DiskMaker X, but that it’s possible at all is simply amazing.
This must be the week for creating a bootable macOS USB sticks on non-Apple devices, since a question just appeared on Quora asking if this can be done on an Ubuntu Linux PC. No answer to this question yet, so we will have to wait and see if someone knows how to do this.
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I am attempting to dual boot Manjaro Awesome with windows. I previously had an install working but things went south and I had to reinstall.
I am having issues creating a bootable USB with rufus. I have tried several of the other install flavors and each fails to boot. Rufus offers no options for creating an ISO image or DD image when going through the Rufus creation process. Rufus works and I can boot a fresh Arch Linux ISO. It appears that Rufus is currently only writing the boot partition to the USB.
I can not get far enough to open a TTY or anything to verify with fdisk, but I am confident this is the issue.Are there other tools/steps people have successfully used? I have also attempted the same with Etcher and had the same result for the Manjaro ISOs I downloaded. The Arch Linux ISO works for both tools, which makes it appear that this is an issue with recent ISOs or something else entirely. I have tried all of those steps. Communication systems haykin 4th pdf. Since I don't currently have a workable linux install I am stuck with Windows.
I was more interested in if anyone else has had this issue with Rufus. Since it is the only documented suggestion for creating an ISO from windows and following the rather small documentation does not produce a good result. I'm not sure if this is an issue with Rufus or what.I am guessing I am probably doing something wrong in formatting the USB from windows before creating the bootable image. At this point I am working on a quick arch install (wish me luck) since that ISO is successfully turned into a bootable USB. From there I will use dd to create the bootable USB since that is more or less fool proof.Thanks for the input. If I figure out the root cause of my problems I will post it.
Yes even using winwrite32 it only writes the FAT32 EFI boot partition to the USB, not copying anything else. Rufus gives me no options about burning an ISO image or a DD image. Etcher prompts for nothing and additionally only writes the FAT32 EFI boot partition.For context I opted to stick with the CLI when I originally did this for manjaro. I had used Windows to create a bootable Linux Mint USB when I originally moved from Mac OS X to Linux since I had windows available at the the time. But since I had a working Linux Mint install when I got tired of it and wanted to switch to Manjaro I just used the dd CLI to create the bootable USB.The only thing I can think of is I didn't format the USB correctly from windows. It is reformatted and set to the factory defaults of FAT32.