On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Robin Smidsrød <[email protected]> wrote: > On 19.06.2013 21:03, Yadin Flammer wrote:
> >> Anyway, now that I can actually get the .usb cloned to USB, I face a >> different set of issues. >> >> Some Mac systems simply will not see the drive as bootable, others >> will. I suspect this has to do with the vintage of the firmware and the >> type of file system that's being written to the drive. For those that >> will boot from it, here's what fails: > > I've heard on the list a while back that some Macs boot in legacy/BIOS > mode when booting with CD, but boot in UEFI mode when booting using USB. > If that is the case on your Mac, then no amount of trying to write the > BIOS version of iPXE to a USB stick will work. > I'm fairly certain that the Intel macs will only do an EFI boot from USB, see the large quantities of people that are unable to boot from USB optical media... If I needed to install Windows to a large number of Intel Apple computers, I would probably look at using DeployStudio instead http://wiki.afp548.com/index.php/Create_a_Boot_Camp_image. As an alternative to using an Apple server for NetBoot, you might take a look at this https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=3849 Cheers Arne _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
