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#11 USB-Stick won't boot on MacBooks (and probably other Apple computers)
After installing http://refit.sourceforge.net/ the stick is recognized as a bootable device, booting starts but the screens stays blank
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It is my guess that the problem is that the Apple computers use EFI as a pre-booting program instead of good old BIOS. The problem seems to occur when the EFI wants to give control to Grub. Ubuntu has an EFI-aware Grub but it seems to be mutually exclusive with a BIOS aware Grub
Not sure about rEFIt, but Intel Macs can boot directly from USB pendrives provided it is formatted with a GUID partition table.
Good point. The Sticks I was uising so far were MBR
Must have a look whether GUID breaks compatibility on some older machines (whether it will be possible to have one stick that boots on Macs and on the majority of the BIOS-booters)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
Repartitioned the Stick with GUID. Made it bootable with UNetBootin on a Linux-machine. Tried to boot it on my MacBook. rEFIt recognizes it ("USB with legacy OS") but I get nothing more than the two words "Boot Error".
Stick boots on normal PC (which only proves that GUID isn't incompatible with ALL PCs)
This link describes how to format sticks with GUID but doesn't add any new information:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7449550
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Bernhard