Creating bootable SD card on Mac OS X

[Drew G]

I use ApplePi-baker for Mac and have succesfully created a bootable SD card from Ubuntu and Remix OS img file. Now trying Debian. Will try Android later today.

Any luck with ApplePi-baker creating an Android SD card on you Mac?

[lvcargnini]

Hi, I'm also use Mac OSX.
First open diskutility and format the FLASH drive, set 1 partition, FAT format and, and make it bootable, you can choose than MBR or GUID as booting format of the flash drive.
Also look into:

http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentatio...ges/mac.md

this links definitely will help

[littletree]

This then begs the question, what is the right way to get a Micro SD properly formatted and set up using my Macintosh?

As far as i can tell. you have to use :  Allwinner PhoenixCard Bootable SD-Card Creator which is Windows only.

If you are in Mac just run a Virtual Machine it will work just connect it when it's in Windows mode.

So the short version is, if I'm not running Windows I'm screwed. 

Not at all as I have burn 32GB microSD card with Android 6 on iMac running macOS 10.11 and macOS 10.12 successfully and booted up on Pine64 2GB board.
You can pick following two options depend on how familiar you are with Unix:

-- In Unix terminal application.
diskutil list    (to find out what is the device for card reader eg /dev/disk1)
diskutil unmountDisk <card reader device eg /dev/disk1>
dd if=<image file> of=<card reader device eg /dev/disk1> bs=1m
Within the same terminal window, press key combination CTRL+T to monitor progress until it is done.

-- Install etcher within macOS finder.
https://etcher.io/
Run the utility first select where is the downloaded image file and then card reader will be selected automatically, just hit the burn button.
Block size is selected automatically and burning process is faster and you will not select burning to hard disk accidentally, furthermore validation of burned mircoSD card is automatic.

No Windows is required at all (I have removed Windows installation in bootcamp partition long time ago and never need it again for long time as software developer).

[MarkHaysHarris777]

No Windows is required at all (I have removed Windows installation in bootcamp partition long time ago and never need it again for long time as software developer).

I have not ( personally ) used windows for anything since January of 1998.

... gnu+linux and mac-OSx can be used very well to burn images for the pine board using either the dd program utility or using the Etcher product;  no problem.