January 16, 20206 yr I spent all morning trying to make a bootable disk on my mac and failed, disabled sip, added full disk acces. The disk is created but is not bootable. If I try manually, using the script I get errors from syslinux abount being able to unmount. If I run syslinux myself manually (same command that the script does) syslinux doesn't error and says it completed corretly, but again, the disk is not bootable. Eventually I booted into Windows, ran the utility there and it worked first time. It would be nice to have prepared images available so that we can use other software like etcher which has never failed me.
February 10, 20206 yr Following my USB failure last night, I tried to create a new USB key under Catalina and again was unsuccessful, disk was not bootable. The tool or make_bootable_mac script didn't work, I've disabled SIP. When I run the script, I get: INFO: The following drive appears to be the unRAID USB Flash drive: /dev/disk5 61.5GB Permit UEFI boot mode [Y/N]: y To continue please enter your admin INFO: Unmounting /dev/disk5 Forced unmount of all volumes on disk5 was successful INFO: Writing MBR on /dev/disk5 0+1 records in 0+1 records out 447 bytes transferred in 0.002103 secs (212544 bytes/sec) INFO: Mounting /dev/disk5 Volume(s) mounted successfully syslinux for Mac OS X; created by Geza Kovacs for UNetbootin unetbootin.sf.net shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory "/dev/disk5s1" unmounted successfully. /dev/disk5s1: invalid media signature (not an FAT/NTFS volume?) INFO: the Unraid OS USB Flash drive is now bootable and may be ejected. Unsurprisingly the disk isn't bootable. I managed to borrow my daughters windows laptop this morning, used the USB creator and copied across a backup of the config and the disk booted up straight away, no issues. We desperately need another solution to this, Catalina has been out a while and the USB creator is still broken. If you can't fix it (and even if you can) in the mean time can you supply an img that can be written using balena etcher so that there's an easy way of creating a working USB stick with no fuss under Catalina.
February 11, 20206 yr 17 hours ago, Fizzyade said: The tool or make_bootable_mac script didn't work This worked for me in Catalina. Just to be sure, you formatted the flash drive as fat32 and named it UNRAID before running make_bootable_mac?
March 14, 20206 yr I cannot even get the app to run on mac os 10.15.3. PasteBoard error: "The application with bundle ID com.limetech.UnraidUC is running setugid() , which is not allowed. Exiting".
March 14, 20206 yr 15 minutes ago, steve_of_2620 said: I cannot even get the app to run on mac os 10.15.3. PasteBoard error: "The application with bundle ID com.limetech.UnraidUC is running setugid() , which is not allowed. Exiting". Did you disable SIP?
April 23, 20206 yr On 3/13/2020 at 7:34 PM, wgstarks said: Did you disable SIP? Neither the USB creator app nor the manual install script is working on MacOS Catalina 10.15.4. SIP disabled, and the app has full disk access. USB drive is formatted FAT32 and named UNRAID. The script make_bootable_mac doesn't even look like it would work right -- it appears to be copying files to/from the wrong places. I'm pretty good with this stuff, but it's extremely difficult (impossible?) to make a bootable USB stick on a Mac running Catalina right now. I eventually gave up and used my kid's Windows box to make the USB drive. I'm still really looking forward to bringing my first unRAID box online! Edited April 23, 20206 yr by grigsby typo, added positive comment last sentence
April 29, 20206 yr not working for me on 10.15.4... my only method of is with a Mac... my Windows machine is my VM on unraid so that doesn't help. Will there be a compatible creator for 10.15?
June 12, 20206 yr I am evaluating Unraid and the USB creator is broken on Catalina (10.15.5) and the alternative shell copy and run command mode is riddled with errors. Not the start I was hoping for, it feels like building my Hackintosh.... Adding my 2 cents here: The USB stick does seem to boot but I am not exactly having the warm fuzzies for my first boot. Any solution here? (beside pulling out a windows machine to make a bootable USB stick) --- xxxxx-MacBook-Air:UNRAID locmer$ sudo ./make_bootable_mac Password: INFO: make_bootable_mac v1.3 INFO: The following drive appears to be the unRAID USB Flash drive: /dev/disk2 30.8GB Permit UEFI boot mode [Y/N]: Y To continue please enter your admin INFO: Unmounting /dev/disk2 Forced unmount of all volumes on disk2 was successful INFO: Writing MBR on /dev/disk2 0+1 records in 0+1 records out 447 bytes transferred in 0.001260 secs (354750 bytes/sec) INFO: Mounting /dev/disk2 Volume(s) mounted successfully syslinux for Mac OS X; created by Geza Kovacs for UNetbootin unetbootin.sf.net shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory "/dev/disk2s1" unmounted successfully. shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory /dev/disk2s1 DOS_FAT_32 /Volumes/UNRAID shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory mountpoint is '/Volumes/UNRAID' checkpoint1 checkpoint2 checkpoint3 Processing: /Volumes/UNRAID/ldlinux.sys checkpoint4 checkpoint5 checkpoint6 checkpoint7 Processing: /Volumes/UNRAID/ldlinux.c32 checkpoint8 checkpoint9 checkpoint10 shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory "/dev/disk2s1" unmounted successfully. checkpoint11 checkpoint12 checkpoint13 checkpoint14 checkpoint15 shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory /dev/disk2s1 DOS_FAT_32 /Volumes/UNRAID syslinux installed successfully! INFO: the Unraid OS USB Flash drive is now bootable and may be ejected. xxxxxx-MacBook-Air:UNRAID locmer$
October 17, 20214 yr Any updates on this condition? I got this message: Your flash drive is corrupted or offline. Post your diagnostics in the forum for help And when I try to use the Creator: “Unraid USB Creator.app” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software This software needs to be updated. Contact the developer for more information." tower-diagnostics-20211017-0652.zip Edited October 17, 20214 yr by -jim
January 14, 20224 yr On 10/17/2021 at 6:52 AM, -jim said: Any updates on this condition? When I try to use the Creator: “Unraid USB Creator.app” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software This software needs to be updated. Contact the developer for more information" I needed to use the unRAID creator tool 5 days ago, January 10 and received the same error message. How is this constantly being ignored...? “Unraid USB Creator.app” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software This software needs to be updated. Contact the developer for more information."
January 14, 20224 yr 4 minutes ago, unRAIDuser7 said: I needed to use the unRAID creator tool 5 days ago, January 10 and received the same error message. How is this constantly being ignored...? “Unraid USB Creator.app” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software This software needs to be updated. Contact the developer for more information." @jonp I’m tagging LimeTech on this. They may not even be aware. The manual method should still work though.
March 19, 20224 yr Yeah, this is 100% broken. The USB creator doesn't register any USB drives regardless of USB3 or USB2. Nothing I do can get around this. Sadly the previously created and working USB drive just got corrupted and not my unRAID server is down until I can figure out how to get a new one created which right now isn't looking so good. This is a MASSIVE issue!!!!!!!!!! I'm left without a working server. Unacceptable!
March 19, 20224 yr Try the manual method. Should work. https://wiki.unraid.net/Articles/Getting_Started#Manual_Install_Method
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