Note: The operating system used to create the bootable flash drive was macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6.ĭownload the latest gparted-live-*-amd64.zip file.

How to Create a GParted Bootable Flash Drive Note: This answer does not require any third party tools or the use of the Terminal application. Macbook Pro 17' Early 2011 that are not able at all to boot anything other from USB than OS X). This will bring up GParted Live.īut beware, there are some Macs (e.g. When booting the Mac now press alt and there should be an option to boot to that is called EFI boot. I put the German screenshot in, I think it's pretty clear. OS X will show a dialog to Initialise., Ignore or Unmount the USB stick when it is put into the slot.

Which do you want to use?įinally, sudo fdisk /dev/diskX will show Disk: /dev/disk1 geometry: 942/255/63 Sudo gdisk -l /dev/diskX will show this (aborting the question is possible with ctrl C): GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1įound valid MBR and GPT. The USB stick then looks like this with diskutil list: /dev/disk1 You should not be using the s1 extensions: these are partitions on the disk, not the disk itself. We use the r for raw in of=/dev/rdiskX to make the copy faster.

Copy the downloaded file with sudo dd bs=1m if=file.iso of=/dev/rdiskX.

Make sure you don't dd to a wrong disk, e.g.

Unmount the stick in terminal (nowhere else) with sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskX This can be found by clicking the icon 'Info'. Put a USB stick in the slot and look into Disk Utility for its device number (disk1, disk2, diskX, etc). Since I had a lot of trouble creating Live USBs on Ubuntu and Mac and wanted to dig a bit deeper into the subject and will also list the output of the successful partition schemes.ĭownload.

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