We need to see the BaseSystem.dmg inside the InstallESD.dmgĬrank open Terminal and run: defaults write AppleShowAllFiles TRUE killall Finder Navigate to Shared Support folder to see the InstallESD.dmg fileĭouble click to mount the image. To find the actual InstallESD.dmg file, control/left click the ‘Install OS X Mavericks’ app and choose show contents – then navigate to Shared Support folder. (Probably you cannot find Maverics in App store anymore, so do what I said above and put the file containing the OS in the Applications folder)Ĭontrol / Left click Options, Show in Finder to get to the app, don’t install at this stage. To make a boot disk of OSX 10.9 Mavericks, first of all get the app or download via the App store, if downloaded it will file in the folder Applications. Instructions(taken from ) to create an «Install USB» System Disk: Kingston HYPERX FURY 120GB SSD Graphics card: ASUS Radeon HD 5450 1GB (EHA5450 SILENT/DI/1GB) Motherboard: GIGABYTE 990XA-UD3, AM3+ socket, dual UEFI BIOS, AMDx chipset, HD Audio Next, get a App Store edition of OS X 10.9 Maverics edition (vanilla).ġ) If you cannot find OS X 10.9 Maverics from the App store (most likely) try a torrent download, but make sure it’s a vanilla edition. (I used a Virtualbox Maverics installation on a Linux / Elementary OS Freya host) First of all, you need a working OS X installation, real or in a virtual machine.

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