You may not have used a Mac since the switch to Intel then, I have had both Windows and Red Hat Linux running on a Mac Mini without any OS X install on the disk at all. Although, I will say that since the Intel Macs all use EFI and not Legacy BIOS, you have to be very sure the OS you are trying to install is *fully* EFI compliant. Most versions of Windows before 7 force EFI to act like Legacy BIOS, thus don't work very will on Mac hardware without Boot Camp to help. 7, 8 and 10, however, do EFI and GPT so don't need OS X at all.
Linux is even more hit or miss because most of the "Live CD" distros that also offer the recovery tools all want Legacy BIOS as well. So getting those to boot straight has interesting characteristics. However, a modern Mac is modern Intel (x64, EFI, GPT) and will boot and run anything that meets those requirements. EdB On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Macs will not boot with anything other than OS X. The Linux distros that > run on Mac always bootstrap off an existing Mac OS to run. > I went down this road a couple years ago when I first got my Macbook Pro, > I'd had troubles with PC laptops in the past and had been saved by bootable > USB drives. I never could get one to work on my Mac. I consider this a HUGE > limitation of the Mac... > -Curt > > From: Curly McLain via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Curly McLain <126die...@gmail.com> > Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2016 10:23 AM > Subject: [MBZ] OT: bootable USB stick, El Crap content > > Last night I finally got the Disk Utility to make what was supposed > to be a bootable USB with the El Crapitan installer on it. It was > not recognized as bootable when booting with the option key. > > I also tried, before that, making a format with GParteD linux disk > utility, them marking it has bootable. Same thing. Not recognized > as bootable. > > I wish they'd give us the installer as 2 .iso or .dmg disk images > that could be put on two dvds. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > -- "Das beste oder nichts." - *Gottlieb Daimler* _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
