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Unable to make an installation USB stick with macOS Big Sur on Windows due to missing recovery package

See original GitHub issue

I’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:

  1. Run gibMacOS.bat.
  2. Enter “m” and then “10.16”.
  3. Enter “1” to download macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 (20B29).
  4. After the download is complete, I close this app and run MakeInstall.bat as administrator.
  5. Enter “D” and then “2”, since I have a USB stick under that number, and then enter “y”.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Reactions:3
  • Comments:8 (1 by maintainers)

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corpnewtcommented, Nov 14, 2020

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

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qwertym0nkcommented, Apr 21, 2022

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.

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