Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Booting GNU/Linux CDs from an external optical drive

[Sebastian T. <se...@sm...>]

Hi all,

I got it working after a few days but I've been mega-busy since then.  In the
end I did it using a USB flash drive as a boot disk and installer disk
all-in-one, i.e., I gave up on the external optical drive.

I found that the trick was to put a GPT partition table on the USB drive.  (I
did this using Mac's Disk Utility, but I've no doubt it would work using
parted).  Then, once you've built grub2 and put it on the boot disk, rEFIt
finds it and grub2 runs no problem.

Apart from that, pretty much everything you need to know is documented here:

 http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook

Hope this helps.

Seb
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