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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