Prep USB drive
Plug in your USB
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Open terminal and execute sudo diskutil unmountDisk diskX (remember to substitute X for the unique Disk Identifier - i.e. 1)
BE VERY CAREFUL to accurately copy the Disk Identifier. If you get it wrong, the dd command below will quickly and irrevocably overwrite one of your drives, possibly your main boot drive.
Prep ChromeOS Image
Write to USB
Execute sudo dd if=ChromeOS-Flow.img of=/dev/rdiskX bs=4m (remember to substitute X for the unique Disk Identifier - i.e. 1)
Type your Mac OSX user account password when prompted
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You'll know it's done when it gives you your shell prompt back
Once it's finished you can remove your USB and boot from a normal PC or try to
boot from your mac
Check out this YouTube video for a visual walkthrough of the write process 1):
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If you get an error such as “Resource busy”, it's because you forgot unmount the volume
If you get a “corrupt image” error:
Re-download the file to your desktop
Extract using above method
Execute cd Desktop; md5 ChromeOS-Flow.img
Compare this output to the checksum on the
main page