It might be good to document that somewhere. Still haven't had any luck with the installer but that's similar to all the other distros tried.
On Nov 16, 2017 8:16 AM, "Lennart Sorensen" <lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 06:26:33PM -0800, Colin Williams wrote: > > Yes I fumbled the block partition information on top of the block device > > but gave it another shot. sudo dd bs=4M > > if=/home/colin/Downloads/debian-mac-testing-amd64-netinst.iso > of=/dev/sde > > and it still wasn't bootable. However as mentioned previously the debian > > daily build found here > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/ > arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/ > > booted to the splash screen. No luck beyond that when playing with the > > options. > > > > debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso > > Well apparently the -mac- versions of the iso only contain BIOS boot, > not UEFI boot and are intended for some early x86 macs with very buggy > firmware. Apparently newer machines should work fine with the normal > installer. > > -- > Len Sorensen >
