Comments on: Make a Bootable Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Installer from a USB Flash Drive

By: Make a Bootable Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Installer from a USB Flash Drive | SDA

Make a Bootable Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Installer from a USB Flash Drive | SDA — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:45:22 +0000

[...] Make a Bootable Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Installer from a USB Flash Drive [...]

By: flint ibrah

flint ibrah — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:39:46 +0000

help please i have installed leopard but my macbook does not boot from HD when it boots from HD it stops on ablue screen i dont wats happening

By: Malcolm Derrick

Malcolm Derrick — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:02:46 +0000

The files were on the stick so, after zapping pram, it has now started up and is reinstalling Lion.

By: Malcolm Derrick

Malcolm Derrick — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:25:16 +0000

I’ve followed the instructions but when the ‘copying’ to the USB is nearly finished I get an error box saying the restore has failed & says something about an ‘argument’, any ideas please?

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 18:51:48 +0000

I made the disk and all goes well, I hold Option when booting my mac book pro that needs installed {new hdd} it shows me the correct picture for the Install, I click it then i get a Circle with a Diagonal Line, then it shuts off. Anyone got an idea what is wrong here? The system is an Intel CPU so thats not it. The only thing that is slightly different is when I made the disk the step that says Right-Click then restore, I do not get that option only the top 4, so I used the Restore Tab is this the problem? If so why don’t I see the other options when I right-click?

By: Creating a bootable Mac OS X USB drive, plus utilities | Brandon Muramatsu

Creating a bootable Mac OS X USB drive, plus utilities | Brandon Muramatsu — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 03:28:14 +0000

[...] OS X Installer on the Install partition. I basically followed the instructions from OSX Daily page: Make a Bootable Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Installer from a USB Flash Drive. (Though About.com has a nice set of instructions as well.) I had a copy of the Lion installer, [...]

By: Multiple Lion Taming – Episode #358 | MyMac Podcast

Multiple Lion Taming – Episode #358 | MyMac Podcast — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 01:41:17 +0000

[...] OS X Daily’s instructions to make a USB Installation stick [...]

By: John Wordsworth

John Wordsworth — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:43:23 +0000

Spot on, many thanks. I just wanted to confirm that this works perfectly with Mountain Lion too. I was having problems trying to restore the DMG directly, and mounting it first and restoring the contained disc image is what I had to do.

Thanks again!

By: Bones

Bones — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 02:22:44 +0000

I know this is way old, but I love the philosophy, seriously you spent a thousand dollars on a computer spend thirty bucks on an OS!

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:09:23 +0000

Ok, so I’m in a bit of trouble here. I only have one Mac(Macbook Pro). I purchased Lion with my brothers Apple ID. He forgot his password to his ID(and any forms of recovering it) and my macbook is stuck on the Recovery boot screen. Is there any possible way to do this on a windows computer but for a Mac boot?

By: Spencer

Spencer — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:16:13 +0000

Okay. After Lion’s release last summer, I downloaded it and made a bootable Lion flash drive, which works great. Now, I want to burn Lion from the flash drive to a DVD.

On the flash drive, when I open Contents of “Install Mac OS X Lion.app,” I do not see a Shared Support folder.

Can I make a bootable DVD from my bootable Lion USB flash drive?

By: Carlos Velazquez

Carlos Velazquez — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 02:51:02 +0000

theguy,

I did the restore process 5 times getting the Restore Failure massage, I was dragging the InstallESD.dmg file.

Solution: Re-dowload OS X Lion, Open Disk Utility, locate InstallESD.dmg file from SharedSupport folder and double click it (Automatically the InstallESD.dmg and Mac OS X Install ESD is going to mount in the Disk Utility application on the left side), Drag the Mac OS X Install ESD file to the Source and Drag your usb partition (if you have more than one partition on your usb) to the Destination and RESTORE.

Note: I have a 16GB SanDisk Cruzer Media USB with (2 Partition Layout), a 5GB partition for MAC OS X Lion Installer.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 02:35:03 +0000

It is very likely that your usb cannot be used as a bootable unit. I suggest trying a different usb drive.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:24:03 +0000

Interestingly, the USB 3 drive does show up on my wife’s older Black MacBook when I hold down the option key. When it select it and open it I’m taken to the installing dialog.

Not sure if this is because the USB Flash Drive is USB 3.0, or because my MacBook Pro in a brand new Mid- 2012 model.

Question: Is there a way to run a complete Desktop Version of Lion 10.7.4 from a USB Flash Drive? Rather than simply running the Lion Installer?

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:48:23 +0000

Thanks for your reply. Yes, the drive is formatted just as it should be. One partition, GUID. Interestingly, you can even select it as a Set Start-up Drive in the Start Up Disk control panel in System Preferences. But when you press Restart, once it’s been selected in that panel, the MacBook Pro never completes its boot cycle – you just get the Chime, followed by a light grey screen.