I am trying to use CentOS 8 host to boot an image (OS X) that I created using dd. First I tried fdisk -l image_file.img - all looks good so I did fdisk image_file.img - this works - but seems in CentOS 8 fdisk there is no longer a toggle bootable flag option. How do I do that ? Thanks, Jerry
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 12:12 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:> I am trying to use CentOS 8 host to boot an image (OS X) that I created > using dd. > > First I tried fdisk -l image_file.img ...fdisk has been deprecated for quite a long time, I think parted is the preferred command line tool now. -- -john r pierce recycling used bits in santa cruz
On Jun 30, 2020, at 1:25 PM, John Pierce <jhn.pierce at gmail.com> wrote:> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 12:12 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am trying to use CentOS 8 host to boot an image (OS X) that I created >> using dd. >> >> First I tried fdisk -l image_file.img ... > > > fdisk has been deprecated for quite a long time, I think parted is the > preferred command line tool now.Even to the extent that it works, it?d only support MBR partitioning, and you almost certainly want GPT for a macOS boot image. ?and then ?bootable? flags go out the window anyway, because EFI doesn?t care about that.