
if you have another Mac, buy yourself a firewire cable, boot the second Mac into target disk mode (hold down 'T' at bootup), insert the DVD into it, and you should be able to boot off of the DVD through the other computer.īorrow a USB DVD drive, and boot off of it.If not, it means that your computer doesn't recognize the drive as something it can boot off of.If you can get that far and it gets stuck, can you share some of what it says, especially anything near the end or anything that looks suspicious like it may have gotten stuck there?) (You can also hold down Command-V while doing so to boot in verbose mode it should give you white text on a black background, logging details of what the computer is doing. If so, you can select it to boot off of it.Do you see your USB flash disk an something to boot off of?.Did you do it that way? It also appears that you need a flash drive that is at least 8 GB in size. With that said, one of the comments notes that you need to partition your USB thumbstick with a GUID partition table, and, while not stated, I would certainly use the HFS+ filesystem for your partition. The first article was written with Leopard in mind and does advocate the use of SuperDuper, much as you've done. Make a Bootable Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Installer from a USB Flash Drive.How to Create a Bootable Mac OS X USB Disk.I've done a bit of searching, and found these two articles:
