Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Booting From USB Drive

[Geoffrey <li...@se...>]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>> Is it possible to boot Linux from a USB drive without modifying the Mac?
>>> In theory, it is possible: all Intel Macs can boot from USB (AFAIK).
>>> But the legacy BIOS in those Macs does not support booting from USB.
>>> So you'll have to boot using EFI.
>>> I've been trying to do that on-and-off, in the hope to get my trusty
>>> "rescue USB key" to also work on my Macbook Pro, but until now I haven't
>>> had much success, tho it seems that some people do get to boot Linux via
>>> EFI on their Mac.
>>> Any information about this would be welcome,
>> I have used rEFIt for this purpose: http://refit.sourceforge.net/
> 
> rEFIt doesn't boot Linux.  So it's not a solution to this problem.

Um, unless I mis-understand what you're saying, that's not correct.  I'm 
booting Linux via rEFIt.  Or are you saying you can't boot Linux from a 
USB device via rEFIt?

>> Just plug in the USB stick prior to booting and an additional icon
>> will show up on the initial selection.
> 
> What USB stick?  What do you need to put on it?
> 
> This said, I have finally managed to get Grub2's EFI support to work.
> Incidentally, I do use rEFIt on top of Grub2 (basically, I use rEFIt to
> choose between Grub2-ia32 and Grub2-amd64, since rEFIt luckily uses
> a fat-binary whereas Grub2 doesn't).
> 
> 
>         Stefan
> 
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