How to make a bootable flash drive?

[xcrozx]

There are steps for atvusb-creator, but the step of Insert a "bootable" USB drive into mac is giving me hard time.

I know i sound dumb, but please help me with this.

[davilla]

You have a USB flash drive of the correct minimum size?

You have an Intel OSX Macintosh?

There are USB ports on all Intel OSX platforms.

Take your USB flash drive and stick it into the USB port.

:)

[cdude]

You have a USB flash drive of the correct minimum size?

You have an Intel OSX Macintosh?

There are USB ports on all Intel OSX platforms.

Take your USB flash drive and stick it into the USB port.

:)

It must also be formatted to the correct format... FAT32, which is what most flash drives are out of the box, won't work. You need Mac OS Standard format.

Just erase the drive with Disk Utility first (it's an easy program in your Utilities folder), and select the right format, and you're set to start making the patchstick.

[dave]

Note; as some of us have found the USB stick *MAY* need to say "boot capable." You do not image the drive with a boot OS, or use any other utilities other than the patch stick creator.

Just follow the instructions in my sticky. Nothing to see here.. Please move along. :)

How to install patch stick and how to create a OS-X formatted USB stick:
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=593