If you can, use Ubuntu (yes, from a different PC) to create the USBĭrive with Ubuntu by means of "Startup Disk Creator" (See If you don't have FileVault enabled, I recommend you install rEFItįrom your Mac OS X using the dmg installer, and follow the steps at I am sure it works with Snow Leopard as well) and may be even withįileVault2 (full-disk encryption) enabled. (I've used Ubuntu) with a MacBook Air that perhaps has Lion (although So here I give you the facts for booting a linux live image There are many tutorials out there but most of them either don't work,Īre not for the correct combination of hardware/software or miss someĭetails.
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I've spent a while figuring out how to boot linux on my MacBook airģ.2 (aka late 2010) from an USB stick, since I needed to image its disk before and after enabling full disk encryption (Lion's FileVault So, is it possible to boot from this partition, and boot into a non-OS X operating system?īooting linux from USB drive on a recent MacBook air (e.g. So this got me to thinking - since you can boot any OS on a Mac from CDROM, and there are USB-based CDROM drives that one can boot from, what if a USB device emulated a CDROM? And that led me down the rabbit hole to the (now-extant) U3 spec from SanDisk, which did just that - emulated a full CDROM on a partition of a USB drive. which is why booting non-OS X operating systems is generally not possible from USB drives. And (at least I think) I know that when a non-OS X operating system is booted, a Mac switches into BIOS emulation mode during the boot process, which actually disables USB support until the OS loads the appropriate drivers for the USB subsystem. I know that because OS X uses EFI rather than BIOS for the boot process, the only way to boot from USB is generally if you're booting an EFI-capable operating system - meaning OS X.
Is it possible to boot an Intel Mac to Linux, or any non-OS X operating system, from the U3 partition of a USB drive?
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