You need to hold down the 'option' key while the MacBook boots. That will present you with a boot devices menu.
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Kevin Cotham <kevin.cotham at gmail.com> wrote: > My purpose was to install Milax without installing OpenSolaris. The easiest > solution for me was to boot up my MacBook with the 2008.11 OpenSolaris Live > CD. > > First thing's first, make sure the drive is formatted in FAT 32 and has the > milax032.usb and usbcopy.v200.sh files on it. I then booted the machine with > the Live CD. Using the GUI (which, let's face it, is so much easier than > command line stuff people), made it very easy. I didn't have to worry about > permissions to mount the USB drive or getting the path correct. A few simple > commands in the terminal is all it took. > > I haven't been able to test the installation because I haven't quite figured > out how to get the MacBook to boot from the USB drive. I suppose it will > have to wait until I have a BIOS machine at my disposal. Anyone with > experience on running Milax from an USB drive on a Macintosh, let me know. > I'd like to test it here. > > On a BIOS machine, I assume you just stop the boot sequence, go into the > BIOS, make the system look to the USB port for a system, right? > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-help mailing list > opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org >
