there was an error creating your Unibeast drive: Couldn't modify plist

[saeid7ka]

there was an error creating your Unibeast drive: Couldn't modify plist
HELP ME

 

[danz69]

I found this it might help second post down

http://www.tonymacx86.com/el-capita...-capitan-any-supported-intel-based-pc-14.html

 

[GabLeRoux]

I had same issue with UniBeast 6.0.1, I first thought it was about disk size so I went out and bought a 16gb usb3 stick (but used old mac with usb2). Ran again and had same issue. Then found danz69's link. In short, I needed to use GUID.

Check your current drives

diskutil list
/dev/disk3 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *15.5 GB    disk3
   1:                  Apple_HFS TRAVELDRIVE             15.5 GB    disk3s1

Here's the command to format a disk

diskutil eraseDisk -h
Usage:  diskutil eraseDisk format name [APM[Format]|MBR[Format]|GPT[Format]]
        MountPoint|DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode

I did this:

diskutil eraseDisk HFS+ nasty GPT /dev/disk3

See now that the drive is using GUID.

diskutil list
/dev/disk3 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *15.5 GB    disk3
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS nasty                   15.2 GB    disk3s2

Here we go, tried again, I've read in a few post where it says to keep open the finder window on "OS X Base System" opened by UniBeast when it's running. Created disk successfully. Disk is now 7,53Gb used so it should work on a 8Gb disk too.

 

[exadeci]

Thanks that worked perfectly, should be added in unibeast as a possible solution.

 

[Obvious Answer Man]

Thanks that worked perfectly, should be added in unibeast as a possible solution.

That is noted in the troubleshooting post and in the guides.

"Format the USB stick as GPT (GUID Partition Table)"

 

[DustyTheDingo]

I've tried this and still cannot load unibeast on my drive. The problem is that Disk Utility got a major "overhaul" and now i can't write my drive how i want as per the instructions. I honestly have no idea how to fix this.

 

[robertschlackman]

I also had a problem using Disk Utility in El Capitan. I chose GUID, but when the thumb drive was formatted the setup with Unibeast 6 didn't work.

I was able to get it to work with the command above. But for some strange reason I had to eject the drive first and put it back in.

Ran 'diskutil list' to find out that the drive was disk4. I could see it wasn't formatted as GUID even though I had selected that option with the OSX Disk Util app.

I then ran

diskutil eraseDisk HFS+ nasty GPT /dev/disk4

Then 'disktutil list' showed the following.

0: GUID_partition_scheme *16.0 GB disk4

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk4s1

2: Apple_HFS nasty 15.7 GB disk4s2

After that, unibeast setup worked without a problem.

 

[ilampirai]

when I used GUID partition my pen drive is not detected by UniBeast 6.2 but when I switched to apple partition it worked but ended up in "Plist couldn't modify" error.

Any suggestions ?

 

[kwaidans]

I had same issue with UniBeast 6.0.1, I first thought it was about disk size so I went out and bought a 16gb usb3 stick (but used old mac with usb2). Ran again and had same issue. Then found danz69's link. In short, I needed to use GUID.

Check your current drives

diskutil list
/dev/disk3 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *15.5 GB    disk3
   1:                  Apple_HFS TRAVELDRIVE             15.5 GB    disk3s1

Here's the command to format a disk

diskutil eraseDisk -h
Usage:  diskutil eraseDisk format name [APM[Format]|MBR[Format]|GPT[Format]]
        MountPoint|DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode

I did this:

diskutil eraseDisk HFS+ nasty GPT /dev/disk3

See now that the drive is using GUID.

diskutil list
/dev/disk3 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *15.5 GB    disk3
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS nasty                   15.2 GB    disk3s2

Here we go, tried again, I've read in a few post where it says to keep open the finder window on "OS X Base System" opened by UniBeast when it's running. Created disk successfully. Disk is now 7,53Gb used so it should work on a 8Gb disk too.

Thanks GabLeRoux, it works perfectly for me. After formatting my USB stick 8Gb using Disk Utility, Unibeast 5.2.0 recognizes it perfectly but not Unibeast 6.2.0 for El Capitan install.
I had to format the USB stick as Master Boot Record with Disk Utility to get it recognized by Unibeast 6.2.0 and while it was on the Select Destination step, I formatted the USB stick as GUID using your code in Terminal. It did the trick