OSXRESERVED

[atdhe]

Did someone find out how to Create a OSXRESERVED like partition on OSX?
The little Partition that Bootcamp creates for installing windows.
I need it so i can deploy that partition and put WinPE on it.

Thank You

 

[Shirasaki]

EFI partition should be the partition you want.

And recovery partition, hmm.

You can create a new partition, and install boot loader inside it.

 

[atdhe]

EFI partition should be the partition you want.

And recovery partition, hmm.

You can create a new partition, and install boot loader inside it.

But with the Bootcamp Assistant created Partition it works with WinPE, so there must be a chance to create a partition like this via Terminal. I just couldn't find out how, so i thought i'd ask here maybe someone figured it out how this works.

 

[Shirasaki]

But with the Bootcamp Assistant created Partition it works with WinPE, so there must be a chance to create a partition like this via Terminal. I just couldn't find out how, so i thought i'd ask here maybe someone figured it out how this works.

I somewhat want to do the same, so I can try to install Windows PE for advanced maintenance tasks.
There must be a way. But unlike Windows, which we have bcdedit and integrated VHD support to make the life a hell lot easier, Mac OS X doesn't publicly let us know where is the boot volume.
I don't know how to view boot order under terminal, either.

 

[atdhe]

i found a way how to create the partition.

You just normally create 2 new fat32 partitions 1 for Windows and 1 for WinPE

But when you create these Partitions OSX is creating a MBR for the partition so that its Hybrid MBR with GPT (something like that )
When you successfully created those Partitions you need GPT fdisk (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/) to create a new protective Mbr.
after you installed gptfdisk open up Terminal and give in these Commands

- gdisk /dev/diskX
- x //to enter expert mode
- n //to create a new protective mbr
- w //write changes
- Y //confirm

and then copy the WinPE Files to the WinPE partition and start from the partition.

Tested under Yosemite and El Capitan.


Here is what i did exactly:

diskutil resizeVolume /dev/disk0s2 500G fat32 WINDOWS 0b
diskutil resizeVolume /dev/disk0s2 498G fat32 WINPE 0b
cp -R /winpe/* /Volumes/WINPE/
gdisk /dev/disk0
x
n
w
Y

 

[Shirasaki]

i found a way how to create the partition.

You just normally create 2 new fat32 partitions 1 for Windows and 1 for WinPE

But when you create these Partitions OSX is creating a MBR for the partition so that its Hybrid MBR with GPT (something like that )
When you successfully created those Partitions you need GPT fdisk (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/) to create a new protective Mbr.
after you installed gptfdisk open up Terminal and give in these Commands

- gdisk /dev/diskX
- x //to enter expert mode
- n //to create a new protective mbr
- w //write changes
- Y //confirm

and then copy the WinPE Files to the WinPE partition and start from the partition.

Tested under Yosemite and El Capitan.


Here is what i did exactly:

diskutil resizeVolume /dev/disk0s2 500G fat32 WINDOWS 0b
diskutil resizeVolume /dev/disk0s2 498G fat32 WINPE 0b
cp -R /winpe/* /Volumes/WINPE/
gdisk /dev/disk0
x
n
w
Y

Cool, guys. This is awesome.
Problem solved?

 

[atdhe]

Cool, guys. This is awesome.
Problem solved?

Yes Problem solved

 

[Shirasaki]

Yes Problem solved

Congratulations!