On 04/03/2014, at 12:35 PM, James Linder wrote: > On 4 Mar 2014, at 4:00 am, [email protected] wrote: >> It is trivial to make Linux boot on a Mac - I have a number of Mac Pros >> booting into Ubuntu at work. Either single, double or triple (or more) boot. >> Same hard drive or different ones. You can use rEFIt for help in choosing a >> boot partition. > > Actually it is extraordinarily non trivial: > > I have an iMac 27. > OpenSuse - does not see the USB at all > Arch - EFI boot and boots sweetly > Ubuntu - does not see the USB - many methods to make USB including > http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx > XUbuntu - does see the USB (thats bizare, many checks - it’s true!) but after > boot ‘cannot find a live filesystem') > > Every USB stick works elsewhere even on EFI bios machines :-( > James
Ah yes. And there is no CD/DVD drive on the latest MacBook Pro Retina models. HDMI, SDXC, Thunderbolt anyone? Cheers, Ian W. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
