Cannot boot 10.9 #7
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I'm experiencing the same issue. Tried ISOs made from 10.9.5 and 10.9.4 installers w/o luck. Next attempt was to install 10.8.5 and update that in-place. Unfortunately, this failed with an error "Could not find intallation information for this machine" after it "verified the computer's eligibility with Apple" online. The installer refused to work when the network was disabled. Despite these old installers not being signed, I even tried to reset the date with not luck. I was finally able to get a running Mavericks VM by converting the disk of a VM installed with VMware Fusion on a Intel mac to qcow2 format and put that into the OS X 10.9 UTM template from this repo. But I'm still wondering why it won't boot the installer ISOs... |
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Next time I get a chance, I’ll re-do my 10.9 install and see what hoops I needed to jump through; it was definitely the most difficult one to get booting (other than 10.6 which I’m still unable to boot).I do know that I needed to change the date once I got to the initial install screen, but I’ve never had issues booting my iso to that point. I may have to break down and submit that image to IA for preservation if others are struggling this much to get a usable one.I found that creating the image from the app failed to create a viable install in a number of interesting ways before I finally sorted out the method in the config notes.-Em On Sep 16, 2022, at 8:33 AM, Tobias Bussmann ***@***.***> wrote:
I'm experiencing the same issue. Tried ISOs made from 10.9.5 and 10.9.4 installers w/o luck.
Next attempt was to install 10.8.5 and update that in-place. Unfortunately, this failed with an error "Could not find intallation information for this machine" after it "verified the computer's eligibility with Apple" online. The installer refused to work when the network was disabled. Despite these old installers not being signed, I even tried to reset the date with not luck.
I was finally able to get a running Mavericks VM by converting the disk of a VM installed with VMware Fusion on a Intel mac to qcow2 format and put that into the OS X 10.9 UTM template from this repo.
But I'm still wondering why it won't boot the installer ISOs...
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I got this to work, but you're not going to like the method...
It will reboot. It will possibly crash upon reboot. This may happen several times during these various steps in fact. Just close the machine, and try again. It will also ask you to log in to iCloud. I advise against it. :D In the end, you will have a machine capable of running Software Update in its App Store. From that you can install Safari 9.1.3, various security updates, etc. |
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Definitely a doable route if you can’t get your hands on a 10.9 iso.It does require that you have already “purchased” 10.9 in the app store, as Apple won’t make it available to people who haven’t already downloaded it before.-Em On Jan 26, 2024, at 10:07 PM, Garrett Birkel ***@***.***> wrote:
I got this to work, but you're not going to like the method...
Start with a UTM install of 10.7 built according to the config at https://github.com/adespoton/utmconfigs/blob/main/README.md (Getting 10.7 up and running is left as an exercise to the reader.)
Start file sharing, connect to it from your host OS via AFP, and copy on an "Install OS X Mavericks.app" downloaded in 2014 that installs 10.9.2 . (I told you... You wouldn't like it!)
Download the 10.9 UTM configuration from the same place above https://github.com/adespoton/utmconfigs/blob/main/README.md
Open it up and switch the network interface to "Intel Gigabit Ethernet". Save, and close UTM.
"Show contents" on the .utm package for the 10.7 and the 10.9 configs, and manually copy the disk-0.qcow2 from the 10.7 image to the 10.9 image, overwriting it.
Boot this new 10.9 monstrosity. It will launch OS X 10.7 of course, but using the EFI files in the 10.9 configuration.
Use terminal inside the machine to set the date back to 2014
Run the installer for 10.9
After a reboot/install, switch the network interface from "Intel Gigabit Ethernet" to "usb-net" and press the button to randomize the MAC address.
Boot again. Things working OK? Good for you.
Download the 10.9.5 Mavericks combo update from https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1760?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Add it to the read-only IDE device #2 in the config
Boot the machine
Install that update
It will reboot. It will possibly crash upon reboot. This may happen several times during these various steps in fact. Just close the machine, and try again. It will also ask you to log in to iCloud. I advise against it. :D
In the end, you will have a machine capable of running Software Update in its App Store. From that you can install Safari 9.1.3, various security updates, etc.
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I had the same issue and solved it. To anyone who was having trouble with this:
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Latest UTM on m1 MacBook Air. The image was downloaded from the recommended URL (https://archive.org/download/os-x-mavericks-installer-app/10.9%20Mavericks.dmg) and converted with createinstalliso running with Rosetta 2.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: