Can't flash Tiger to USB in Catalina

[sheich0608]

Hi again,

Trying to flash Tiger to a USB drive, but Disk Utility keeps erroring out. I've done this process a lot with Mojave, so wondering if Catalina's deprecation of 32 bit libraries has someone rendered it impossible to flash a 32 bit image to an external drive. Has anyone else encountered this?

sheich0608

 

[RogerWilco6502]

I don't think that would be the case, but idk for sure. DU is honestly a mystery to me and I don't like dealing with it when I don't have to. What error(s) does it give?

(btw, the new DU is just bad in general. I'd recomemend retrying with a machine running Yosemite or older if at all possible)

 

[sheich0608]

I don't think that would be the case, but idk for sure. DU is honestly a mystery to me and I don't like dealing with it when I don't have to. What error(s) does it give?

(btw, the new DU is just bad in general. I'd recomemend retrying with a machine running Yosemite or older if at all possible)

Ugh i know the new one is terrible. Sadly my machine is too new to boot into Yosemite. The errors I get are posted below. This same DMG worked under Mojave, which is why I ask. I've also tried mounting the Tiger image and restore it that way, and also an error.

 

[RogerWilco6502]

Ugh i know the new one is terrible. Sadly my machine is too new to boot into Yosemite. The errors I get are posted below. This same DMG worked under Mojave, which is why I ask. I've also tried mounting the Tiger image and restore it that way, and also an error.

That's really strange... For DMGs I try to avoid DU all together and use SuperDuper instead, which can clone DMGs to disks IIRC (unless it's the other way around). Here's a link to the SD site if you want to try it out:

SuperDuper!

 

[sheich0608]

That's really strange... For DMGs I try to avoid DU all together and use SuperDuper instead, which can clone DMGs to disks IIRC (unless it's the other way around). Here's a link to the SD site if you want to try it out:

SuperDuper!

I downloaded and installed, but it keeps crashing before I can flash anything...

 

[z970]

Try your luck with Etcher.

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[sheich0608]

Try your luck with Etcher.

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Tried that earlier, thinking it would be better. It will flash it, but complains about it not containing a partition table to make it bootable. PB G4 doesn't see it in Open Firmware. Also tried Carbon Copy, still doesn't see it. That's why I suspect it has to do with a Catalina change, since it worked great in Mojave.

 

[Amethyst1]

You could try using dd in Terminal - looking at your DU screenshot, your USB flash drive is /dev/disk2 but please make sure that is correct before running this, since it will delete everything on the drive, no questions asked:

sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
sudo dd if=/path/to/your/tiger.dmg of=/dev/disk2 bs=8192k

 

[Weaselboy]

Tried that earlier, thinking it would be better. It will flash it, but complains about it not containing a partition table to make it bootable.

Are you sure it is formatted HFS+ with a GUID partition table? Sounds like maybe you have it in MBR.

 

[sheich0608]

You could try using dd in Terminal - looking at your DU screenshot, your USB flash drive is /dev/disk2 but please make sure that is correct before running this, since it will delete everything on the drive, no questions asked:

sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
sudo dd if=/path/to/your/tiger.dmg of=/dev/disk2 bs=8192k

Trying this now, though my past attempts at using Terminal "worked" but the flashed drive isn't recognized by either the PB or my MBP.
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Are you sure it is formatted HFS+ with a GUID partition table? Sounds like maybe you have it in MBR.

It is HFS+, but it shouldn't be GUID because PPC Macs can't boot from that. I have it set to Apple Partition Map in Disk Utility.

 

[Amethyst1]

Trying this now, though my past attempts at using Terminal "worked" but the flashed drive isn't recognized by either the PB or my MBP.
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It is HFS+, but it shouldn't be GUID because PPC Macs can't boot from that. I have it said to Apple Partition Map in Disk Utility.

This does a block-by-block copy of the image to the flash drive, erasing any former partitioning. This is what I use for copying Linux ISOs to flash drives (for OS X, I use Snow Leopard's DU). So if the image itself is bootable, so should the resulting flash drive. PPC Macs sometimes need a little hand-holding to boot from USB tho.

 

[RogerWilco6502]

I downloaded and installed, but it keeps crashing before I can flash anything...

That's strange. At what point exactly does it crash?

You could try using dd in Terminal - looking at your DU screenshot, your USB flash drive is /dev/disk2 but please make sure that is correct before running this, since it will delete everything on the drive, no questions asked:

sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
sudo dd if=/path/to/your/tiger.dmg of=/dev/disk2 bs=8192k

dd is probably your best bet at this point. I use it a lot for this sort of thing as well.

 

[sheich0608]

That's strange. At what point exactly does it crash?


dd is probably your best bet at this point. I use it a lot for this sort of thing as well.

It crashes when I open it after having saved a previous session and reopened. I think it doesn't like that I renamed my flash drive, so I'll try it with the old name if dd doesn't work.

This does a block-by-block copy of the image to the flash drive, erasing any former partitioning. This is what I use for copying Linux ISOs to flash drives (for OS X, I use Snow Leopard's DU). So if the image itself is bootable, so should the resulting flash drive. PPC Macs sometimes need a little hand-holding to boot from USB tho.

Yes, it's so strange because I was doing this same process all the time last year with few hiccups. And these are the same dmg/iso files...

 

[RogerWilco6502]

It crashes when I open it after having saved a previous session and reopened. I think it doesn't like that I renamed my flash drive, so I'll try it with the old name if dd doesn't work.

Ok, I wish you the best of luck

 

[Amethyst1]

@OP - Did you succeed?

 

[sheich0608]

@OP - Did you succeed?

Not from Catalina’s disk utility. Was able to do it with a friends MacBook Air running High Sierra, so this confirms that it’s a Catalina issue. Was also able to use SuperDuper! finally on Catalina, so at least that works.

However, I could not get the PB to detect the drive in Open Firmware using any of the above solutions; USB port may be dirty. Trying to find someone around me who either has a install DVD copy or someone who can burn the image for me. I’m in the UK studying abroad, so I don’t have my DVD copy of Tiger or access to a DVD drive.

 

[RogerWilco6502]

Not from Catalina’s disk utility. Was able to do it with a friends MacBook Air running High Sierra, so this confirms that it’s a Catalina issue. Was also able to use SuperDuper! finally on Catalina, so at least that works.

However, I could not get the PB to detect the drive in Open Firmware using any of the above solutions; USB port may be dirty. Trying to find someone around me who either has a install DVD copy or someone who can burn the image for me. I’m in the UK studying abroad, so I don’t have my DVD copy of Tiger or access to a DVD drive.

Odd about the Catalina issue. What are you trying to run the USB drive on?