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