Making a bootable USB OS X Installer from iso on Linux I followed the procedure for using dd to put an OS X iso on a USB stick from Linux that is described here. The problem I'm having is that my Late 2006 Intel MacBook does not recognize the USB stick at all. I cannot use a Mac to install this because the Mac boots into a kernel panic(which is why I am reinstalling the OS).

command used that failed: sudo dd bs=4M if="./macosx" of=/dev/sdb &amp;&amp; sync
I think that you also need to bless that partition in order to make it bootable.

This is what I'd use on a Mac, but not sure if it still works on Linux box.

sudo bless -folder /Volumes/TARGET/System/Library/CoreServices