Comments on: Make Bootable Mac OSX86 USB Stick Installer Yourself.

By: Krishna pathak

Krishna pathak — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:28:41 +0000

Umm I followed these exact same instrustions

I formatted my USB Drive as HFS+ (MBR)

Disk Utility successfully restored my iPC OSx86 Universal ISO

Then I used OSx86 Tools for PC EFI V8, that worked..

Upon boot for the USB Drive I just got a flashing hyphen -

By: solidkundi

solidkundi — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:04:50 +0000

hey i try to do this with my USB Wester Digital 1 terabyte…. i dont have any usb drive over 4gb at the moment…so i was trying to make my terabyte into a Mac Journaled format….but it keeps saying file system error??? any ideas why?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:43:32 +0000

Hello,
Thanks for posting such a clear tutorial. I have a problem, I have only a Tiger (10.4) available so no point in trying OSX Tools.
Where can I get good instructions for doing the samething through terminal.
Is something about placing boot0 into diskX , boot1h into HFS partition (diskXsN) and copy boot to / folder of the HFS partition (diskXsN ?
If that’s the case where can I get the right files ?

Thank you very much, your work for the community is excellent.

Best regards,
Andrew

By: Vinay

Vinay — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:56:29 +0000

@ Chris No you can do this on a Mac OS X only..

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:43:29 +0000

Hi,

Is there a way to do this on Windows XP (i.e. to partition it correctly and use something similar to OSx86 Tools but on Windows)?

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Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:27:04 +0000

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By: Gino

Gino — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:51:10 +0000

1. Instead of installing PC EFI can I also get the latest Chameleon2 RC2 installer and install it to the usb-drive?
2. Can I replace the vanilla kernel on with dmitri’s kernel so the installer boots on AMD machines?

By: 7eed

7eed — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:03:10 +0000

I did do this within Windows. I did it with a virtual version of Mac OSX using VMWare. The thing is you need at least 25 gigs of free space and about 6 hours for free time to do this. The benefit is that the install will be 10x faster than a DVD. Do I recommend it? Yes. Is the time worth it? Yes. So, good luck to all who do this. Make sure you have something to do in the meantime or else it will be very very very boring.

By: eli

eli — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:38:07 +0000

this solution wouldn’t work for me using a 16gb cruzer micro.

Had to install PCEFI v.9 (thanks Vinay!) to the flash drive instead of using OSx86 tools.

Now works perfectly!

By: Christa Buchanan

Christa Buchanan — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:45:51 +0000

i cant get it to work with my leo4all 10.5.2 install.iso i have followed all the instructions but the usb just wont boot

what have i done wrong?