[CentOS] fdisk boot partition

Wed Jul 1 07:42:19 UTC 2020
Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com>

On Jun 30, 2020, at 1:25 PM, John Pierce <jhn.pierce at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 12:12 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I am trying to use CentOS 8 host to boot an image (OS X) that  I created
>> using dd.
>> 
>> First I tried fdisk -l image_file.img ...
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> 
> fdisk has been deprecated for quite a long time, I think parted is the
> preferred command line tool now.

Even to the extent that it works, it’d only support MBR partitioning, and you almost certainly want GPT for a macOS boot image.

…and then “bootable” flags go out the window anyway, because EFI doesn’t care about that.