An Intel Mac is an Intel PC. While Apple has added some customization to the ROM with the EFI, it is still the base reference Intel EFI underneath. As long as the GRUB you are using has the support for EFI in it you should be able to boot. Also, GPT disks are usually a thing in the Apple world, but I've got standard MBR disks to boot in my Mini. As I said in an earlier post, though, I've had to install the Linux OS on a straight IBM PC and transplant the disk.The Intel EFI will recognize the MBR and attempt to boot it. Ran CentOS 6 on Mini for a while this way.
However, the Apple bit in the EFI is looking for GPT stuff, so *sometimes* the Live CDs don't boot completely, or can't see the MBR disk once booted because the Apple portion of the BIOS ROM didn't pass off the HDD as available because it wasn't GPT. I haven't looked at it real low level or anything, so I'm not 100% sure where the hiccups start happening. I just know that I was jaw dropped surprised when I took a disk from a failed CentOS 6 laptop and dropped into the Mini with a dead HDD that I looked away to find a disk to boot Mac OS X with and came back to my login prompt on CentOS 6. I've used the workaround / trick a couple times since. EdB On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Puppy is a good, lightweight distro, I've used it a lot as a portable OS > on a USB drive. Sadly Mac won't support that, or I've never gotten it to > work anyway. > Curt > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android > _______________________________________ 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
