Mac OS Sonoma 14.1.1 USB bootable installer fails

majortom1967 wrote:

Can’t bless the destination volume.

—Verify you have Terminal.app added to the >System Settings>Privacy&Security>Full Disk Access

—is the full installer ~12GB sitting in your Applications folder or you specified correctly in the command line(?)

—do you have the destination volume specified correctly...(?) copy&paste:

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sonoma.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume 

please note—notice the trailing blank space; now drag & drop your USB directly onto the Terminal window to complete the path if in doubt.

majortom1967 wrote:

Hi.

I'm trying to make a bootable installer from the Sonoma 14.1.1 installer app and there is no way: can't bless the destination volume. I then went back to 14.1.0. As the same problem is with the latest Ventura (13.6.2) but the not with the previous (13.6.1) looks something is now different in the latest releases.

Anyone here with the same issue?

TNX

Simon

should be no different then here—

Create a bootable installer for macOS

what is the error?

majortom1967 wrote:

I’ m following the same correct procedure which is the same for High Sierra and later. On the same disk I have installers from Lion to Sonoma. On 2 different volumes I have 13.6.1 and 14.1.0. Installing 13.6.2 and 14.1.1 returns the blessing problem but back to installing 13.6.1 and 14.1.0 everything is ok.

 you can file a bug report /submit your Apple Feedback here:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/macos.html

Same issue, later Sonoma version. The Terminal consistently returned the "can't bless" message. Tried from both Monterey on an M2 MacBook Air and from an M1 Mac Mini. Kept failing. No MacOS system settings / software tweak or Erase settings would resolve it.

Tried a different USB drive and it went through the first time (on MBA - have not tried again on Mac Mini).

The USB drive that failed is brand new. It's a SanDisk Ultra Dual Drive 3.1 Luxe 64GB which has specified read speed of 150MB/s (write speeds don't get specified by WD/SanDisk). Gets ridiculously hot as soon as I insert it in a USB C port on any machine. And consistently fails to become a working Sonoma bootable installer.

Then I tried a much older USB drive that has DTmicroDuo 3C written on it. Also 64GB, but it appears slower than the SanDisk one. Gets warm while putting the Sonoma installer on it, but not hot. No problems with this one other than the time it takes to copy the whole Sonoma installer to the drive. It was slow. Went through the first time tho. No changes to settings in MacOS between last failed and the successful attempt.

Don't know what difference between these drives is relevant to the success on the older USB drive.

Try another drive. Maybe it works for you too.

I have the same problem. did you manage to solve it?

yes, been trying since yesterday.