Making a bootable usb for a white MacBook 2008. Nothing working.
Hi all,
This may be covered somewhere, but I wouldn't know how to search it.
I got a nice Macbook for a student. I did all the hardware rebuild, and it's chiming and looking for something to boot to. I have an erased 60gig ssd waiting for an OS.
Thats where I lost it. This unit shipped with OSX Lion. I searched, at least, 50 articles. They all say the same wrong thing. Download Lion OSX, open the dmg, and find supporting files, create boot media (or similar).
This folder does not exist on Lion 7.0 to Lion 7.04. It isn't there. Another group says restore to a USB from the dmg file, fails every time. Restore from image to USB. Fail.
Out of ideas, even tried OSX disk maker, fails. I am trying to make this from the latest OS, Monterey. All I get is failures. I even tried creating a dvd, fails.
What's the magic combination, please? I give up after 2 weeks of trying. Thanks.
Thom
Update (12/05/2021)
No Shared Resources Folder.
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Lets first deal with the SSD you’ve installed make sure it is able to run at SATA I (1.5 Gb/s) many of todays SSD's are fixed speed SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) which is too fast for your system. There ae a few auto sense drives still on the market like Samsung 870 EVO Make sure your SSD clearly states on the interface line 1.5 Gb/s.
Dan 의
I tried rotational drives, too. Just trying to get to the install menu, and I will just drop a 320g rotational in it to start. Placeholder, can't get far enough to worry about HD, yet.
Thom Hemler 의
Thanks all. I knew it was Lion, and I tried CD's, but too small. Have go find a dvd.
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