Warning: The driver descriptor says the physical block size is 2048 bytes, but Linux says it is 512 bytes.Īll these warnings are safe to ignore, and your drive should be able to boot without any problems. Try making a fresh table, and using Parted's rescue feature to recover partitions. Is this a GPT partition table? Both the primary and backup GPT tables are corrupt. Or perhaps you deleted the GPT table, and are now using an msdos partition table. Perhaps it was corrupted - possibly by a program that doesn't understand GPT partition tables. However, it does not have a valid fake msdos partition table, as it should. dev/xxx contains GPT signatures, indicating that it has a GPT table. This is a crucial step in getting your laptop back to the ‘factory fresh’ feeling.Ubuntu images (and potentially some other related GNU/Linux distributions) have a peculiar format that allows the image to boot without any further modification from both CDs and USB drives.Ī consequence of this enhancement is that some programs, like parted get confused about the drive's format and partition table, printing warnings such as:
To continue with the series, head to the next chapter where completely wipe your Macbook Pro clean and delete all the files (including the ones slowing it down!). If you need to create a Mavericks install drive while booted into Snow Leopard, you should use Disk Utility instructions found here. It works only in Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks.
Keep this for any future projects (although you’ll want to update to the newest version of OS X Mavericks installer before attempting this process again if any length of time passes by.) NOTE: (4.): This process will not work with Snow Leopard. Once done, congratulations! You have your bootable OS X Mavericks drive. Maybe an hour if your computer is really slow. If you think it’s messed up, just wait longer. I was a bit worried that it was taking longer than expected. This process will take about 30 minutes or so (depending on the speed of you computer). Enter your admin-level account password when prompted.Įrasing Disk: 0%.Warning: This step will erase the destination drive or partition, so make sure it doesn’t contain any valuable data. Paste the copied command into Terminal and press Return.Sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/Untitled -applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app -nointeraction Select the text of this Terminal command and copy it:.We’re going to add a piece of code that will copy OS X Mavericks to the thumb drive.
You’ll see a scary-looking programming box come up.Go to Applications›› Utilities ›› Terminal.(The code we’re going to enter will assume this drive is named Untitled.) Click on the name of the drive once, so it highlights.Plug your flash drive into a USB port on your computer.While you’re waiting for Mavericks to download, you can prepare your flash drive to be productive. This will take some time to download (it will download to your Applications folder, which we want).ī.It may ask Would you like to continue? Yes, continue.Find OS X Mavericks and click Download (chances are you already have it).This little flash drive will plug into the side of the computer and we’ll tell the computer to read from it and install the operating system.
When you wipe your Macbook Pro clean, it needs some direction on how to come alive again. This guide describes step by step how you can make a Mavericks USB installer on Linux without any running OS X. In this step, we’re going to make a OS X Mavericks boot drive. How to make a bootable OS X 10.9 Mavericks USB install drive on LINUX. In this next chapter, we’ll learn how to create an OS X Mavericks boot drive so once the computer is wiped clean, we can tell it to reinstall an operating system and come back to life.
It also serves as an important archive for your data so you can access it and grab files whenever you want them on your ‘new’ Macbook Pro. In our last chapter, we learned how to backup your Macbook Pro with Time Machine in the event we have an issue while reformatting your Macbook Pro. You can always refer back to the table of contents to follow the entire process.
Note: This post is part of the the series: Reformat Macbook Pro to make brand new.