On 01/07/2020 08:42, Warren Young wrote: > On Jun 30, 2020, at 1:25 PM, John Pierce <jhn.pierce at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 12:12 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> 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 ... >> >> >> 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. fdisk has been updated: # fdisk /dev/sdb ... Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.23.2). ... Command (m for help): m Command action ... g create a new empty GPT partition table ... How good it is, I leave to others. -- J Martin Rushton MBCS