Issues With Making A Booting Usb For Mac
Apr 17, 2017 How to Boot a Mac from USB Drive. CD/DVD drives are disappearing from computers, leaving USB storage as the only option when re-installing an operating system. The process is fairly painless and, if you have a bit of time and patience you can complete the task on a Mac.
I created a bootable macOS Sierra to USB drive 16GB with Terminal method: ' sudo /Applications/Install macOS Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/sierra --applicationpath /Applications/Install macOS Sierra.app --nointeraction ' This method not detected as a startup disk if I try to chose it. I know I can booted it from ALT (Option) at startup but I have problem on my MacBook I can't do it. The only method I can be reset my OS is from Startup Disk.
Disk Maker work great it Detected on Startup Disk but is to slow for copy if have a another solution from Terminal or another apps to do bootable please. I think you forgot to reformat the thumb drive. Unless you reformat its set for FAT32 or exFAT which won't work for MacOS (OS-X). From a working Mac open Disk Utility and reformat the thumb drive to GUID partition map and create a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition, that should fix the thumb drive. Now either launch the OS installer or use the command line arguments to create a bootable drive and setup the OS installer.
• Here's a good writeup on how: When you startup your Mac with the thumb drive you may need to boot up under ask manager (Option key) so you can select the thumb drive as your boot drive.
Background I created an installation of Linux Mint 18 KDE onto a 16GB Kingston DataTraveler 102 (full install, not Live CD). The default Mint installer doesn't like using a USB flash drive as an installation target (Lord knows why), so I created a basic installation in VirtualBox, converted the virtual disk into a raw file, then imaged the raw file onto the thumb drive. Issues It boots successfully from my own laptop, an IdeaPad Yoga 13. However, it's not recognised as bootable by a 2010 Mac Book Pro or a Late 2009 24' iMac, and it causes a friend's laptop (white Sony 14', 320GB HDD, 3GB RAM, AMD Turion) to freeze at the BIOS screen, even though it actually booted successfully once on that machine. Best malware protection for mac 2018.
Has anyone run into this kind of issue with thumb drives before? @thread Quick update. The Sony doesn't have a 'legacy boot mode' (or Secure Boot) in its BIOS. I imaged the Kingston Data Traveler onto a 64GB USB 3.0 Lexar Jumpdrive - same result, an inconsistent detection for boot. I then swapped that for a Transcend 32GB USB 2.0 flash drive; crap write speeds but booted the Mint 18 KDE install consistently from all four USB 2.0 ports on the Sony, Considering the fact that the Kingston and the Lexar boot consistently on my own Lenovo IdeaPad, I would say that the Sony simply doesn't like them, for whatever reason.
@thread Quick update. The Sony doesn't have a 'legacy boot mode' (or Secure Boot) in its BIOS. I imaged the Kingston Data Traveler onto a 64GB USB 3.0 Lexar Jumpdrive - same result, an inconsistent detection for boot. I then swapped that for a Transcend 32GB USB 2.0 flash drive; crap write speeds but booted the Mint 18 KDE install consistently from all four USB 2.0 ports on the Sony, Considering the fact that the Kingston and the Lexar boot consistently on my own Lenovo IdeaPad, I would say that the Sony simply doesn't like them, for whatever reason.