Retina Macbook pro... I never did find a linux distro that could do a live USB
which was what I really wanted. That was maybe 4 years ago though.
I was under the impression boot camp was the magic that made other OSs
possible...
-Curt
From: Ed Booher <edboo...@gmail.com>
To: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com>; Mercedes Discussion List
<mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 7:44 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: bootable USB stick, El Crap content
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.
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