

If the unexpected happens with an Apple computer, you can use a macOS bootable USB with the installation media to repair it. It’s a matter of time until the computer refuses to start, which could happen for many reasons, including (and not limited to) file corruption, hardware failure, or buggy update. Now you can boot up from your newly bootable disk and either Install OSX10.9 on another device or use the Terminal/Disk Utility or Firmware Password Utilities on another device.It doesn’t matter whether you use macOS, Windows 10, or Windows 11.

Remove the existing Packages alias link from the newly restored image rm /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/System/Installation/PackagesĬopy the full OSX Mavericks Packages over to the new image….takes a while cp -R /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/Packages/ /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/System/Installation/PackagesĪnd there it is! – to eject the new bootable USB OSX Mavericks 10.9 disk ‘cd’ to home and eject cd ~/ hdiutil eject /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/

This will change ‘ BootDisk‘ to ‘ OS X Base System‘ This puts you back in the Finder in front of the newly mounted InstallESD.dmg, go back to Terminal and clone the BaseSystem.dmg to the remote USB drive sudo asr restore -source /Volumes/OS\ X\ Install\ ESD/BaseSystem.dmg -target /Volumes/BootDisk/ -erase -noverify Swap to the newly mounted image cd /Volumes/InstallESD.dmg Mount the InstallESD.dmg buried deep in the app hdiutil attach /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg -noverify Just for the crazy ones……after Mavericks is downloaded….and again this assumes you external disk is named BootDisk If you want all to return back to normal and hide the system files run a couple more commands in the Terminal defaults write AppleShowAllFiles FALSE killall Finder How to create the OSX 10.9 Mavericks Bootable Drive just via Terminal
