Unable to make an installation USB stick with macOS Big Sur on Windows due to missing recovery package
See original GitHub issueI’m trying to download macOS Big Sur and make a bootable USB stick on Windows, but I get an error. That’s what I’m doing:
- Run gibMacOS.bat.
- Enter “m” and then “10.16”.
- Enter “1” to download macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 (20B29).
- After the download is complete, I close this app and run MakeInstall.bat as administrator.
- Enter “D” and then “2”, since I have a USB stick under that number, and then enter “y”.
- In gibMacOS folder, I follow the path “macOS Downloads\publicrelease”, right-click the folder “001-79699 - 11.0.1 macOS Big Sur” while pressing Shift, select “Copy as path”, then paste it into the console and click Enter.
- I am getting the error:
001-79699 - 11.0.1 macOS Big Sur is not in the available recovery package names: recoveryhdupdate.pkg, recoveryhdmetadmg.pkg
Ensure you're passing a proper recovery package.
Am I doing something wrong or is there a problem with the app? I was thinking about adding recoveryhdmetadmg.pkg from Catalina, but I’m not sure if it will work correctly.
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- Created 3 years ago
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- Comments:8 (1 by maintainers)
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There is no Big Sur recovery package in the software update catalog - as such, MakeInstall is incompatible with it. Apple changed the way it delivers updates with Big Sur.
-CorpNewt
Maybe it would help to at least post a big warning that states “Big Sur and above are not supported for the MakeInstall.” On the main page? Or did I miss that?
Would save a lot of time for folks.