mac bootable esxi/ ect

diskutil list

diskutil eraseDisk MS-DOS "ESXI" MBR disk#

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk#

sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk#

Flag the first partition on the volume as active and bootable. “f 1“
Write the changes. “write“
Quit fdisk. “quit“

f 1
write
quit

Mount the ESXi Installation ISO and copy all the contents from the ISO to the USB flash drive.

Locate the file ISOLINUX.CFG on the flash drive and rename it SYSLINUX.CFG file.

Edit the SYSLINUX.CFG file with TextEdit, Don’t use a Word program it will mess up the file. Find the line starting with APPEND -c boot.cfg and append -p 1 to it.

APPEND -c boot.cfg -p 1

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