MakeInstall problem

[liuchunxiao]

MakeInstall problem

[corpnewt]

Windows' diskpart can be quite picky. I added the option to MakeInstall to prevent it from formatting the disk itself, and just use the partitioning as-is. This requires you format the disk using some other tool ahead of time though.

Per the main menu of MakeInstall, you'll want to include F in your command to have it skip formatting:

    F = Skip formatting the disk - will install the boot manager to the first
        partition, and dd the recovery image to the second.

In order to properly format the device ahead of time, you'll need 2 partitions. The first should be a 200 (or so) MB FAT32 partition, this is where the EFI will reside. The second needs to be a RAW partition of a size large enough to hold the HFS+ image for the recovery environment (usually 1GB or more). It is important that it is a RAW partition, as MakeInstall uses dd to write the contents of the BaseSystem.dmg to the partition - and Windows cannot natively read/write HFS+ - so it needs a blank canvas per se for that data.

-CorpNewt

[liuchunxiao]

thanks.However, I use DiskGenius software, but I cannot find the function of creating a raw partition in GPT mode. How can I create a raw partition? Should I use the diskpart tool that comes with the system? Or is there any other better software?

[corpnewt]

The diskpart that MakeInstall uses is the one that comes with the system. It just generates a script for that to run with the disk info filled out - and pipes it to diskpart via the /s switch. You might have luck using Disk Management - which acts like a GUI front-end to diskpart - but that may also encounter the same issues.

I'm not sure how to do the formatting in DiskGenius though, as it's not something I've ever used.

-CorpNewt