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[Mactel-linux-users] R: Mactel-linux-users Digest, Vol 41, Issue 3

[Massimo Di S. <mas...@ya...>]

Hi All,
i'm on a MBP 2,2 running osx snow leopard + Linux "Sidux" (xfce 64bit)i have refit installed on my disk so at boot time i have a nice gui to select from which partition i want to boot, i have plugged an usb disk (on it i have a working linux with grub installed on)

unlucky i-m not able to learn how to boot linux from an external drive.
please, can you help me ?

thanks,

Massimo.



      

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] R: Mactel-linux-users Digest, Vol 41, Issue 3

[Sven A. <an...@an...>]

Massimo Di Stefano schrieb:
>
> Hi All,
>
> i'm on a MBP 2,2 running osx snow leopard + Linux "Sidux" (xfce 64bit)
> i have refit installed on my disk so at boot time i have a nice gui to
> select from which partition i want to boot, i have plugged an usb disk
> (on it i have a working linux with grub installed on)
>
> unlucky i-m not able to learn how to boot linux from an external drive.
> please, can you help me ?
>
> thanks,
>
> Massimo.
>
>
I think the only possibly way too boot linux from an external drive is
installing Linux on a Firewire HD. Maybe newer Macs can boot from
USB too, but for MBP2,2 this should be the only possible way.

Anybody correct me, if I'm wrong here...

Maybe you can configure GRUB (on the harddisk) to boot another Linux
system from an external USB HD. But I haven't tried this...

Regards
 Sven

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Re: [Mactel-linux-users] R: Mactel-linux-users Digest, Vol 41, Issue 3

[Tino K. <tin...@ti...>]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 23:02:55 +0000, Massimo Di Stefano wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> i'm on a MBP 2,2 running osx snow leopard + Linux "Sidux" (xfce 64bit)i have refit installed on my disk so at boot time i have a nice gui to select from which partition i want to boot, i have plugged an usb disk (on it i have a working linux with grub installed on)
> 
> unlucky i-m not able to learn how to boot linux from an external drive.
> please, can you help me ?

AFAIK you can not boot from USB using a legacy DOS bootblock (like the
one installed by grub-pc, lilo etc.) on an Intel Mac.

Regards,
Tino

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] R: Mactel-linux-users Digest, Vol 41, Issue 3

[cyberdork33 <cyb...@gm...>]

I have seen very, very few reports of it working (and those that did was older Intel machines). you can boot from USB with grub-efi (and elilo I'd imagine).


On Apr 11, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Tino Keitel wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 23:02:55 +0000, Massimo Di Stefano wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> i'm on a MBP 2,2 running osx snow leopard + Linux "Sidux" (xfce 64bit)i have refit installed on my disk so at boot time i have a nice gui to select from which partition i want to boot, i have plugged an usb disk (on it i have a working linux with grub installed on)
>> 
>> unlucky i-m not able to learn how to boot linux from an external drive.
>> please, can you help me ?
> 
> AFAIK you can not boot from USB using a legacy DOS bootblock (like the
> one installed by grub-pc, lilo etc.) on an Intel Mac.
> 
> Regards,
> Tino
> 
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