No mountable file systems Mac Ubuntu
I ran into an interesting macOS error while working with a customer. I didn't find a lot of good search results addressing the issue, so I decided to write up a post about it myself. The error was as the screenshot above shows; trying to open a dmg (disk image), macOS showed the error "no mountable file systems". If you see the "no mountable file systems error" while opening a dmg, here's what you should try:
One footnote for people having issues opening ISO files. Another new discovery is that "hybrid" ISO files (think Linux installers) don't open correctly automatically and need to be manually attached and mounted (this is NOT advice for normal .dmg files.) Credit to the this superuser.com discussion and this Apple forum discussion for solutions. |