Official from Apple: Making NetInstall Image of 10.4.9/10 will not work.

[rozewskic]

Here’s the back story. I created an image on an Intel mac mini, completely patched and updated to 10.4.10. When I went to grab an image of it everything went smoothly. Booting OS X, going into startup disk allowed me to see the image being hosted on my NetBoot server. When the machine reboots and attempts to boot from that image (doing this in verbose mode now), it will complain about quartz, and coreimage. Ultimately it will not boot and give an ‘error code 133’.

I called Apple to confirm what jdonaldson said here: https://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=17184
Apple enterprise support confirmed that taking an image of a 10.4.9/10 machine will certainly fail. The alternative is to create an image with a maximum version of 10.4.8 (I used 10.4.7 off of the install CD), patch it completely with the exception of the 10.4.10 Combo Update, download the combo update from apple.com, and add it as a .pkg in System Image Utility.

Hope that helps if anyone’s having a similar problem.

[RobertHammen]

Just ran into this issue this morning. Found an apparent solution on the Apple Discussion forums. I say “apparent” because my NetBoot no longer errors out immediately, and it’s imaging a test Intel machine right now, so I don’t know for sure if it works until it’s done. It does appear to be working, though…

Mount a Universal 10.4.9 or 10.4.10 drive or machine (i.e. via FireWire – the drive you made the NetInstall image from).

Mount the image from your NetInstall set (i.e. /Library/NetBoot/NetBootSP0/ImageXXXXXXX.nbi/Install.dmg – it should come up as Read/Write.

Copy the /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreVideo.framework from the 10.4.9 or 10.4.10 drive to the mounted Install.dmg image (in the same location – it shouldn’t ask to replace the file, as the problem is the file’s not there/it’s missing from the image).

Now, eject the mounted Install.dmg image.

Try to NetInstall from a target machine (use Command-V verbose mode to debug). Does it work? It is apparently doing so for me…

[madconqueror]

I order you a virtual drink for this workaround!

It worked like a charm, no intimidating log entries after the install. Seems perfect (time will tell).

Thank you!

–gregor

[bolton]

Doesn’t seem to work on the new Model IMac though….

Is this a System Image Util issue or netboot server issue?

Anyone tried Netrestore to create the 10.4.10 netinstall image?

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