Select the downloaded ITEAD OS mirror image and Micro-SD card drive. In this case, Micro-SD card drive is E and OS mirror address is D:/itead.img Click 'Write', select 'Yes' in the pop-up dialogue box,and write ITEAD OS mirror image to Micro-SD card. After it is successfully.
Apple hasn't shipped operating systems on physical media in almost a decade, but there are still good reasons to want a reliable old USB stick for macOS Mojave. Luckily, it's not hard to make one—either with a handy graphical user interface or some light Terminal use. Here's what you need to get started.
Connect the SD card or USB drive to your computer – make sure the SD card is empty and you do not have any valuable data on it. Go to Command prompt – In order to do that, go to Start menu and type cmd and hit Enter. Go to diskpart – To do that, go to start menu and type diskpart and press Enter. The sd-card is larger than the usb device, if this is not the case see the note at the bottom. Both devices are large enough to hold a full Tails install (=3.5GB). With that said, the following steps should allow you to boot tails on a device that otherwise presents problems from the Tails installer. Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts w/ Justin Bieber - Duration: 13:23. The Late Late Show with James Corden Recommended for you.
- A Mac that you have administrator access to. We've created Mojave USB stick from both High Sierra and Mojave, but your experience with other versions may vary.
- An 8GB or larger USB flash drive or an 8GB or larger partition on some other kind of external drive. A USB 3.0 drive will make things significantly faster, but an older USB 2.0 drive will work in a pinch.
- The macOS 10.14 Mojave installer from the Mac App Store in your Applications folder. The installer will delete itself when you install the operating system, but it can be re-downloaded if necessary.
- If you want a GUI, take a look at Ben Slaney's Install Disk Creator from MacDaddy. There are other apps out there that do this, but this one is quick and simple.
If you want to use this USB installer with newer Macs as they are released, you'll want to periodically re-download new Mojave installers and make new install drives periodically. Apple rolls support for newer hardware into new macOS point releases as they come out, so this will help keep your install drive as universal and versatile as possible.
AdvertisementThere's also one new consideration for newer Macs with Apple's T2 controller chip—as of this writing, the iMac Pro and both 2018 MacBook Pros. Among this chip's many security features is one that disallows booting from external drives by default. To re-enable this feature, hold down Command-R while your Mac reboots to go into Recovery Mode, and use the Startup Security Utility to 'allow booting from external media.' If you're trying to install an older version of macOS, you may also need to go from Full Security to Medium Security to enable booting, but if you're just trying to install the current version of macOS, the Full Security option should be just fine.
The easy way
Once you've obtained all of the necessary materials, connect the USB drive to your Mac and launch the Install Disk Creator. This app is basically just a GUI wrapper for the terminal command, so it should be possible to make install disks for versions of macOS going all the way back to Lion. In any case, it will work just fine for our purposes.
Install Disk Creator will automatically detect macOS installers on your drive and suggest one for you, displaying its icon along with its path. You can navigate to a different one if you want, and you can also pick from among all the storage devices and volumes currently connected to your Mac through the drop-down menu at the top of the window. Once you're ready to go, click 'Create Installer' and wait. A progress bar across the bottom of the app will tell you how far you have to go, and a pop-up notification will let you know when the process is done. This should only take a few minutes on a USB 3.0 flash drive in a modern Mac, though using USB 2.0 or other interfaces will slow things down.
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The Install Disk Creator is just a wrapper for the terminal command to create macOS install disks, so if you're comfortable formatting your USB drive yourself and opening a Terminal window, it's almost as easy to do it this way. Assuming that you have the macOS Mojave installer in your Applications folder and you have a Mac OS Extended (Journaled)-formatted USB drive (which is to say, HFS+ and notAPFS) named 'Untitled' mounted on the system, you can create a Mojave install drive using the following command.
References design 2 3 8 x 8. sudo '/Applications/Install macOS Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia' --volume /Volumes/Untitled --nointeraction --downloadassets
The command will erase the disk and copy the install files over. Give it some time, and your volume will soon be loaded up with not just the macOS installer but also an external recovery partition that may come in handy if your hard drive dies and you're away from an Internet connection. If you'd like to create an install drive for a macOS version other than Mojave, just tweak the paths above to refer to Sierra or High Sierra instead.
Whichever method you use, you should be able to boot from your new USB drive either by changing the default Startup Disk in System Preferences or by holding down the Option key at boot and selecting the drive. Once booted, you'll be able to install or upgrade Mojave as you normally would. You can also use Safari, Disk Utility, or Time Machine from the recovery partition to restore backups or troubleshoot.
This page describes how to install on an SD card on systems where the BIOS cannot boot from SD (e.g. IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad). This can be useful e.g. to set up an older laptop which did have a SD card slot but not an SSD but a slower classic HD (may be with some worn out bad sectors after all those years, so you don't entirely trust that disk anymore?), or if you want to have an entire OS on a portable SD you can swap between computers. (If your laptop's BIOS CAN boot from SD cards like it can from harddisks and USBs, then no special instructions are needed, as it's a standard install.)
You'll want to use a fast SD card for this purpose, maybe one you had lying around from a Raspberry Pi experiment? The SD card may likely be SLOWER than a SSD or even the original HDD. (Speed Class 10, see https://www.sdcard.org/developers/overview/speed_class/; an old SD card from a photo camera may or may not be fast enough for this approach to make sense in practice.)
The idea to get around the BIOS is to have just GRUB and /boot on either an internal HDD, or a USB stick you leave plugged in, and have the rest of the OS (maybe incl. /home etc.) on the SD card.
Start by doing a normal standard installation, but choose Installation type: Something else (You can create or resize partitions yourself, or choose multi.). Now put '/' on the SD (say as ext4 on /dev/mmcblk0p2, if you put a Swap /dev/mmcblk0p1 maybe) BUT make sure that /boot goes on say /dev/sda1 (or a USB stick device, slower than the SD), giving it 1 or few GBs. You may also want to use the rest of the space not needed for /boot on your HDD (or USB) to be e.g. /dev/sda2 on /media/hdd - in case you run out of space on that SD. As Device for boot loader installation, use /dev/sda (NOT /dev/sda1, and certainly NOT /dev/mmcblk - as your BIOS cannot boot from that).
You may try restarting now - but it won't work, yet. This is because while GRUB's initial stage IS loaded from the MBR on, and the Kernel CAN be loaded because /boot isn't on the SD, when that early initial Kernel which runs with the filesystem from /boot/initrd.img* wants to hand-over to our 'real' filesystem on the SD, it gets stuck.
The trick is to add support for SD cards into initrd.img:
How to add additional modules to initrd.img
We need to chroot into the 'real' OS from the Live CD (Repair) session, and to do that want to set up a 'shadow' of it inside /mnt, so, similarly to what is explained on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCdRecovery:
We first take a look at how what's mounted where in our 'real' (non-LiveCD) running system:
And mount that inside /mnt (which should be empty): Bloons tower 5.
We also have to have some of the special directories in /mnt before we chroot:
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Connect the SD card or USB drive to your computer – make sure the SD card is empty and you do not have any valuable data on it. Go to Command prompt – In order to do that, go to Start menu and type cmd and hit Enter. Go to diskpart – To do that, go to start menu and type diskpart and press Enter. The sd-card is larger than the usb device, if this is not the case see the note at the bottom. Both devices are large enough to hold a full Tails install (=3.5GB). With that said, the following steps should allow you to boot tails on a device that otherwise presents problems from the Tails installer. Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts w/ Justin Bieber - Duration: 13:23. The Late Late Show with James Corden Recommended for you.
- A Mac that you have administrator access to. We've created Mojave USB stick from both High Sierra and Mojave, but your experience with other versions may vary.
- An 8GB or larger USB flash drive or an 8GB or larger partition on some other kind of external drive. A USB 3.0 drive will make things significantly faster, but an older USB 2.0 drive will work in a pinch.
- The macOS 10.14 Mojave installer from the Mac App Store in your Applications folder. The installer will delete itself when you install the operating system, but it can be re-downloaded if necessary.
- If you want a GUI, take a look at Ben Slaney's Install Disk Creator from MacDaddy. There are other apps out there that do this, but this one is quick and simple.
If you want to use this USB installer with newer Macs as they are released, you'll want to periodically re-download new Mojave installers and make new install drives periodically. Apple rolls support for newer hardware into new macOS point releases as they come out, so this will help keep your install drive as universal and versatile as possible.
AdvertisementThere's also one new consideration for newer Macs with Apple's T2 controller chip—as of this writing, the iMac Pro and both 2018 MacBook Pros. Among this chip's many security features is one that disallows booting from external drives by default. To re-enable this feature, hold down Command-R while your Mac reboots to go into Recovery Mode, and use the Startup Security Utility to 'allow booting from external media.' If you're trying to install an older version of macOS, you may also need to go from Full Security to Medium Security to enable booting, but if you're just trying to install the current version of macOS, the Full Security option should be just fine.
The easy way
Once you've obtained all of the necessary materials, connect the USB drive to your Mac and launch the Install Disk Creator. This app is basically just a GUI wrapper for the terminal command, so it should be possible to make install disks for versions of macOS going all the way back to Lion. In any case, it will work just fine for our purposes.
Install Disk Creator will automatically detect macOS installers on your drive and suggest one for you, displaying its icon along with its path. You can navigate to a different one if you want, and you can also pick from among all the storage devices and volumes currently connected to your Mac through the drop-down menu at the top of the window. Once you're ready to go, click 'Create Installer' and wait. A progress bar across the bottom of the app will tell you how far you have to go, and a pop-up notification will let you know when the process is done. This should only take a few minutes on a USB 3.0 flash drive in a modern Mac, though using USB 2.0 or other interfaces will slow things down.
AdvertisementThe only slightly less-easy way
The Install Disk Creator is just a wrapper for the terminal command to create macOS install disks, so if you're comfortable formatting your USB drive yourself and opening a Terminal window, it's almost as easy to do it this way. Assuming that you have the macOS Mojave installer in your Applications folder and you have a Mac OS Extended (Journaled)-formatted USB drive (which is to say, HFS+ and notAPFS) named 'Untitled' mounted on the system, you can create a Mojave install drive using the following command.
References design 2 3 8 x 8. sudo '/Applications/Install macOS Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia' --volume /Volumes/Untitled --nointeraction --downloadassets
The command will erase the disk and copy the install files over. Give it some time, and your volume will soon be loaded up with not just the macOS installer but also an external recovery partition that may come in handy if your hard drive dies and you're away from an Internet connection. If you'd like to create an install drive for a macOS version other than Mojave, just tweak the paths above to refer to Sierra or High Sierra instead.
Whichever method you use, you should be able to boot from your new USB drive either by changing the default Startup Disk in System Preferences or by holding down the Option key at boot and selecting the drive. Once booted, you'll be able to install or upgrade Mojave as you normally would. You can also use Safari, Disk Utility, or Time Machine from the recovery partition to restore backups or troubleshoot.
This page describes how to install on an SD card on systems where the BIOS cannot boot from SD (e.g. IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad). This can be useful e.g. to set up an older laptop which did have a SD card slot but not an SSD but a slower classic HD (may be with some worn out bad sectors after all those years, so you don't entirely trust that disk anymore?), or if you want to have an entire OS on a portable SD you can swap between computers. (If your laptop's BIOS CAN boot from SD cards like it can from harddisks and USBs, then no special instructions are needed, as it's a standard install.)
You'll want to use a fast SD card for this purpose, maybe one you had lying around from a Raspberry Pi experiment? The SD card may likely be SLOWER than a SSD or even the original HDD. (Speed Class 10, see https://www.sdcard.org/developers/overview/speed_class/; an old SD card from a photo camera may or may not be fast enough for this approach to make sense in practice.)
The idea to get around the BIOS is to have just GRUB and /boot on either an internal HDD, or a USB stick you leave plugged in, and have the rest of the OS (maybe incl. /home etc.) on the SD card.
Start by doing a normal standard installation, but choose Installation type: Something else (You can create or resize partitions yourself, or choose multi.). Now put '/' on the SD (say as ext4 on /dev/mmcblk0p2, if you put a Swap /dev/mmcblk0p1 maybe) BUT make sure that /boot goes on say /dev/sda1 (or a USB stick device, slower than the SD), giving it 1 or few GBs. You may also want to use the rest of the space not needed for /boot on your HDD (or USB) to be e.g. /dev/sda2 on /media/hdd - in case you run out of space on that SD. As Device for boot loader installation, use /dev/sda (NOT /dev/sda1, and certainly NOT /dev/mmcblk - as your BIOS cannot boot from that).
You may try restarting now - but it won't work, yet. This is because while GRUB's initial stage IS loaded from the MBR on, and the Kernel CAN be loaded because /boot isn't on the SD, when that early initial Kernel which runs with the filesystem from /boot/initrd.img* wants to hand-over to our 'real' filesystem on the SD, it gets stuck.
The trick is to add support for SD cards into initrd.img:
How to add additional modules to initrd.img
We need to chroot into the 'real' OS from the Live CD (Repair) session, and to do that want to set up a 'shadow' of it inside /mnt, so, similarly to what is explained on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCdRecovery:
We first take a look at how what's mounted where in our 'real' (non-LiveCD) running system:
And mount that inside /mnt (which should be empty): Bloons tower 5.
We also have to have some of the special directories in /mnt before we chroot:
Sd Card Reader For Mac
You may want to set-up a few more things before you chroot, e.g. this is useful:
Now we'll make /mnt our new root, so that we can run commands 'as if' we weren't on the LiveCD file systems anymore, but in the running 'real' OS (which doesn't boot yet / anymore):
And now we can start fixing things in it, e.g. this is what we need to get the SD card to work during the initial early kernel which runs with the file system loaded from initrd (which in our case is on HDD/SSD/USB), before it hands over to our real filesystem (which in our case is on the SD) :
And now we can finally rebuild our initrd.img* in /boot:
And restarting now should get you booted from the SD!
SD suspend/resume issues
E.g. IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad have an issue wherein resuming from suspended state with OS on SD doesn't work (see http://www.thinkwiki.org/w/index.php?search=sd+card).
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