Jeremy, ----- "Jeremy Katz" <[email protected]> wrote:
> PowerMacs (PPC) are an entirely different beast and there's not > really been any work done on getting them booting off of USB. Indeed - not too bothered about them. > For the x86 based Macs, it can work, but it's definitely far from > just working everywhere right now. The first question is if your machine > is 32bit or 64bit EFI as we require matching x86 vs x86_64, > respectively, based on that. Most of the original Core Duo stuff is 32bit > EFI, the > newer is 64bit. If you're using a 64bit EFI machine, right now, > you're out of luck -- the kernel even in Fedora 10 was broken with 64bit EFI > :( Yes I saw that. Like I said I'd just be happy to even get one of my Macs to recognise the USB drive as a boot device at this point! I suppose I should test on a new MacBook too for completeness. I would have thought the Mac Mini should work though as that is x86_64 and has the Core Duo 2. > I never managed to get rEFIt to boot off of an MBR-based USB device. > Some people said they did, but I have no clue what they did to do so > :) I found the same kind of confusion too - some say it can be done others say it can't. To be honest booting a MBR USB stick on Mac is still probably the best way to go because the 3D gfx for ATI/Nvidia doesn't work under EFI atm. I think I'm going to have to try booting of a CD just for the GRUB/SysLinux boot and then mount the USB stick after the kernel boots up and the initrd scripts begin. Thanks for the reply. Daire -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list
