Create Bootable Usb Mavericks

Posted on 15-09-2021 by admin

In this guide I will create bootable USB installer using latest MyHack 3.3.1. Process is quite the same like in the older versions of Myhack, the only thing diferent now is an option to create latest 10.9 Mavericks. Again, no terminal or coding required, just use this simple tool to create your own bootable USB installer.

To complete this tutorial you will need:
– Install OS X Mavericks.app from the app store or the InstallESD.dmg from it. The OS X Mavericks Install app is free on App store if you allready have osx 10.6.8 or later.
– USB Flash Drive with min. 8GB of space.
– myHack (version 3.3.1 in this tutorial)
– Working OS X 10.6 or newer to prepare your installation device (this can be a real mac, a hackintosh, or windows with OS X virtual machine).

Make sure that the external stick that you will be creating the OS X installer on is mounted and it has an empty HFS+ formatted partition of at least 8GB in size on it. You can partition and format it using Disk Utility. The partition scheme may be either “GUID Partition Table” (GPT) or “Master Boot Record” (MBR). MBR is used if you need multi boot with diferent operating systems, if you only use mac than GUID is right choice

Sep 15, 2020 Thank you so much. I have download the El Capitan OS after checking the compatible macOS with my old MacBook 2010. I was not able to make a bootable USB with the DMG file extension so I contacted the apple support team and they advise me to double click on the dmg then drag the.app to the application folder after that I can run the command on the terminal. Plug the USB Drive in to your Mac and open “Disk Utility” (found under applications / utilities in finder) Select the USB Drive. Select the Erase tab. Ensure that the format is Mac OS Extended (Journaled) IMPORTANT – Leave the name as “Untitled”. If you change this the next step won’t work. Create the Bootable Mavericks USB Drive. Simply insert your drive, power on the computer, and hold down the Option key to access the boot selection menu. From there, select the USB drive partition and press enter to initiate the boot.

Create Bootable Mavericks Usb From Windows

So first plug your USB drive to working Os X, open Disk Utility from /Applications/Utilities and select your USB Disk from the left menu. Click “Partition” in the upper menu, select “1 Partition”, Name it the way you want, in my case “OSXINSTALL”, under Format select “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)”. Click Options and select “GUID Partition Table” . At the end click Apply and Partition and wait until finish. Close disk utility.

Run the myHack.app, myHack will ask you to enter your administrative password, enter your password and proceed to the next step, the password will only be stored in your system memory it is not recorded, stored, or transmitted anywhere.
Than select “Create OS X 10.9 Install Disk”, as a target select your USB drive (“OSXINSTALL”). When “myHack needs the location of the installation source” appears click “Browse Manually”, browse to your InstalESD.dmg file, or app, select it and click “Open”. Wait for a while and when “Ready to copy installation data to target” appears just click “Ok” to continue. Wait for a while, be patient until “myHack finished” message.

Now your bootable OS X 10.9 Mavericks USB Installer is ready to use, or modify if needed.
Start your computer and boot with it.

Mavericks OS X is the latest update from the Apple for the MAC users. The new OS update is available as a free download via the App Store. On the same day we posted an article 2 Ways to Create Bootable Mavericks OS X USB Drive. But most of the users are looking for the way to create a bootable Mavericks ISO disc. Today we found a new guide which allows you to create the ISO disc from the Mavericks OS X installer package, with this way you can easily install the new OS on multiple systems.

The process is simple and take only five to ten minutes to complete the process. All you have to enter some commands on Terminal app and you will create the ISO image of the new OS X. So, to create a bootable ISO file from the Mavericks App, Download OS X Mavericks here and If it tries to start the installation, just close it. Other wise you will lose the installation package from your hard drive. After that follow the steps below.

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Create Bootable ISO from Mavericks App

Open the Terminal app on your Mac and run the following Terminal commands one by one.

# Mount the installer image
hdiutil attach /Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg -noverify -nobrowse -mountpoint /Volumes/install_app

# Convert the boot image to a sparse bundle
hdiutil convert /Volumes/install_app/BaseSystem.dmg -format UDSP -o /tmp/Mavericks

# Increase the sparse bundle capacity to accommodate the packages
hdiutil resize -size 8g /tmp/Mavericks.sparseimage

# Mount the sparse bundle for package addition
hdiutil attach /tmp/Mavericks.sparseimage -noverify -nobrowse -mountpoint /Volumes/install_build

# Remove Package link and replace with actual files
rm /Volumes/install_build/System/Installation/Packages
cp -rp /Volumes/install_app/Packages /Volumes/install_build/System/Installation/

# Unmount the installer image
hdiutil detach /Volumes/install_app

# Unmount the sparse bundle
hdiutil detach /Volumes/install_build

# Resize the partition in the sparse bundle to remove any free space
hdiutil resize -size `hdiutil resize -limits /tmp/Mavericks.sparseimage | tail -n 1 | awk ‘{ print $1 }’`b /tmp/Mavericks.sparseimage

# Convert the sparse bundle to ISO/CD master
hdiutil convert /tmp/Mavericks.sparseimage -format UDTO -o /tmp/Mavericks

# Remove the sparse bundle
rm /tmp/Mavericks.sparseimage

# Rename the ISO and move it to the desktop
mv /tmp/Mavericks.cdr ~/Desktop/Mavericks.iso