Macs will not boot with anything other than OS X. The Linux distros that run on Mac always bootstrap off an existing Mac OS to run. I went down this road a couple years ago when I first got my Macbook Pro, I'd had troubles with PC laptops in the past and had been saved by bootable USB drives. I never could get one to work on my Mac. I consider this a HUGE limitation of the Mac... -Curt
From: Curly McLain via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: Curly McLain <126die...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2016 10:23 AM Subject: [MBZ] OT: bootable USB stick, El Crap content Last night I finally got the Disk Utility to make what was supposed to be a bootable USB with the El Crapitan installer on it. It was not recognized as bootable when booting with the option key. I also tried, before that, making a format with GParteD linux disk utility, them marking it has bootable. Same thing. Not recognized as bootable. I wish they'd give us the installer as 2 .iso or .dmg disk images that could be put on two dvds. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com