Closed cardinal701 closed 3 years ago
jazzace
commented
3 years ago This is not an issue with AutoDMG. AutoDMG correctly creates the bifurcated boot drive arrangement that was introduced with Catalina. The fact that it is difficult to copy using Disk Utility cannot be fixed with changes to AutoDMG.
cardinal701
commented
3 years ago This is not an issue with AutoDMG. AutoDMG correctly creates the bifurcated boot drive arrangement that was introduced with Catalina. The fact that it is difficult to copy using Disk Utility cannot be fixed with changes to AutoDMG.
Do you know of any other solutions to apply the image created by AutoDMG?
jazzace
commented
3 years ago I haven't done it, but I believe asr at the command line should work with the right incantation. You may want to search in the MacAdmins Slack or online generally for help with this (and whether this is even a viable workflow based on your context).
mpermann
commented
3 years ago @cardinal701 if you use a command similar to the one below from Terminal you should be able to restore the AutoDMG created DMG to the system.
sudo asr restore --source /Users/mpermann/Desktop/Base_macOS_10.15.7-19H15.apfs_01-28-2021.dmg --target /dev/disk3 --erase
Substitute the path to your AutoDMG created base macOS 10.15.7 for the following
/Users/mpermann/Desktop/Base_macOS_10.15.7-19H15.apfs_01-28-2021.dmg
Substitute the APFS container disk identifier (typically in your situation it would be /dev/disk1 for the following
/dev/disk3
That should allow the restore to happen.
Description of issue
In the past I have used AutoDMG to create a system image for Mojave, copied it to a USB drive, booted into the built in macOS Recovery Disk Utility, and used the Restore option along with the .dmg created by AutoDMG to install Mojave. However now I am trying to do the same process for Catalina and it's not working. I was able to create the system image, however the Restore process isn't working.
Expected behavior
The restore process installs Catalina on the internal disk.
Actual behavior
When trying to Restore I see the following message: The disk image "Mac Labs Catalina.dmg" contains more than one APFS volume. Choose which volume to restore." The two volumes listed are Macintosh HD, and Macintosh HD-Data.
I have tried restoring from both and receive the same error messages for both:
Restore process has failed. Image "/Volumes/Files/Mac Labs Catalina.dmg" doesn't have any appropriate volumes to restore. Could not validate source - Invalid argument The operation couldn't be completed. (OSStatus error 22.)
Steps to reproduce
Log file
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