On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Matt Wronkiewicz <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter Robinson wrote: >> You don't need a Mac to test it. You shouldn't need it for a Mac (you >> just need to use the 64 bit version of it) > > A MBR-partitioned USB stick will boot on an Intel Mac with an EFI > firmware? The Wiki made it sound like that was not possible. I guess I > should try it.
Results of my testing on a MacBook Pro: Attempt 1: Boot helper CD (soas-3-boot-test) in drive USB stick partitioned MBR, formatted FAT, labeled FEDORA, loaded with Fedora-13-i686-Live-SoaS, plugged in "option" key held down at power-on EFI boot menu comes up, double-click CD icon Automatic boot Boots USB stick successfully Attempt 2: No CD in drive USB stick partitioned MBR, formatted FAT, labeled FEDORA, loaded with Fedora-13-x86_64-Live-SoaS, plugged in "option" key held down at power-on EFI boot menu comes up, shows USB drive (!), double-click USB stick labeled "EFI boot" Automatic boot Stuck at screen "Booting Fedora-13-x86_64-Live-SoaS in 0 seconds..." Attempt 3: No CD in drive USB stick partitioned MBR, formatted FAT, labeled FEDORA, loaded with Fedora-13-x86_64-Live-SoaS, plugged in "option" key held down at power-on EFI boot menu comes up, shows USB drive, double-click USB stick labeled "EFI boot" Tab to enter GRUB boot menu Press "a" to enter command line mode Change disk label from "Fedora-13-x86_86-Live-SoaS" to "FEDORA" Text disappears, stuck at blue boot screen Attempt 4: No CD in drive USB stick partitioned MBR, formatted FAT, labeled FEDORA, loaded with Fedora-13-i686-Live-SoaS, plugged in "option" key held down at power-on EFI boot menu comes up, shows USB drive, double-click USB stick labeled "EFI boot" Automatic boot Fedora starts to boot with a garbled screen Eventually gets stuck on a black screen with a flashing cursor, but I was not able to read the error message because the text was garbled Attempt 5: No CD in drive USB stick partitioned MBR, formatted FAT, labeled FEDORA, loaded with Fedora-13-i686-Live-SoaS, plugged in "option" key held down at power-on Boot menu comes up, shows USB drive, double-click USB stick labeled "EFI boot" Tab to enter GRUB boot menu Press "a" to enter command line mode Change disk label from "Fedora-13-i686-Live-SoaS" to "FEDORA" Fedora starts to boot with a garbled screen Eventually gets stuck on a black screen with a flashing cursor, but I was not able to read the error message because the text was garbled Attempt 6: No CD in drive USB stick partitioned MBR, formatted FAT, labeled FEDORA, loaded with Fedora-13-i686-Live-SoaS, plugged in "option" key held down at power-on Boot menu comes up, shows USB drive, double-click USB stick labeled "EFI boot" Tab to enter GRUB boot menu Press "a" to enter command line mode Change "quiet" to "nomodeset xdriver=vesa" Fedora starts to boot with a better but still garbled screen Eventually gets stuck on a black screen with a flashing cursor, but I was not able to read the error message because the text was garbled Summary: - MacBook Pro will boot a USB stick created with the standard 32-bit Windows/Linux instructions, with a helper CD - MBR-partitioned USB sticks can probably be made to boot the MacBook Pro without a helper CD, but I couldn't get it to work - Without a helper CD, the 32-bit stick definitely got further along than a 64-bit one Matt _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
