#78 rEFIT will not detect boot CD/DVD
Hi,
I have a new MacBook pro 8.1. I install rEFIT, and after two restarts I have the rEFIT menu when I start up. The issue I have is when I have a boot Cd or DVD in my hard drive and I start up the macbook, the only possibility i have is to boot on hard drive MacOS, but no Windows CD boot icon or Linux CD boot icon will appear. I tried with 3 install DVDs: Windows 7 professional, Windows Vista, Linux Ubuntu 11.04.
I have been looking in rEFIT troubleshooting questions, but there does not seem to be anyway to force the computer to boot on DVD/CD from the rEFIT menu.
Any suggestions?
I am disappointed because I have seen what rEFIT can do on tutorials, and this is really what I wanted to have. I am going to have to use Boot Camp now and I will not be able to try Ubuntu.
Cheers,
Olivier
Maybe your MacBook Pro 8,1 is too new for rEFIt and it's doing something different for CDs/DVDs than expected.
Press the C key to boot the CD.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1533
Or press Option and use the Apple boot menu to select the CD.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1310
Boot Camp Assistant is just used to partition your hard drive and boot. I think it will allow you to boot Ubuntu since it's just another Legacy OS like Windows (Legacy means it uses BIOS which loads boot code from the MBR of the hard disk or CD).
Thank you very much Joevt. It did work by using the keyboard during startup.
I could install Ubuntu, no problem!