[mac4theblind] Re: Is there a way to make 2 boot disks via partitions?
- From: Sarah k Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mack for the blind list blind list <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 16:51:31 -0700
Ok. I got it to work but not the way you had suggested. Vo shift m did nothing
on his new partition. What we had to do was literally drag his 10.9 partition
on to the destination drive of the bas system.dmg thing. After that we were
able to resume with th instructions. I’m compiling a blog post on how we did it
in case anyone wants to know how this was done.
Tc.
On Nov 2, 2013, at 12:19 AM, Edward Lewis Redfern <edwardredfern@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> you can achieve a multi-boot drive with os X very easily within disk utility.
>
> Providing you’ve used terminal to create your mavericks volume first, you can
> go into disk utility, grab your mountain lion install dmg file
> (installESD.dmg, mount it, go to disk utility, select your pen drive at it’s
> header, create another partition (do not use the top pull down menu, this
> kills your created first partition) you need to select the add partition
> button below the partition edit window. this will split your partition map in
> two and allow you to set your partition for mountain lion as OS X Extended
> Journaled, rename the volume as Mountain lion (initial name) and it’s volume
> size. in fact, if you had a large enough drive, you could encapsulate the
> full boot installer range from Tiger through to mavericks and select boot.
> Once you’ve performed the partition resize and add structure, click Apply.
> this rewrites the partition map but does not affect the boot load method or
> GUID structure.
>
> the next bit is doing a restore process. ensuring that installESD.dmg is in
> Disk utility’s “Selected Disks” pane, you select your Mountain lion
> partition, tab to the Restore tab, navigate back to “Selected Disks” pane and
> select your Mountain lion partition, VO Shift M and “Set as destination” and
> then go down the list to “installESD.Dmg”, do a VO Shift M again and then
> “Set as source”. now tab into the restore tab to the source and destination
> fields.
>
> Source: installESD.dmg
> Destination: Mountain Lion
>
> if either are incorrect, go back to the “Selected Disks” pane and resolve as
> above. Once done. run the Restore and it will verify your choice and ask for
> admin password.
>
> once created, you have 2 bootable partitions for recovery work.
>
> lew
>
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