<p>Oh jake, duh I forgot when helping you that I have a usb optical drive ill pick it up and bring it to you at chm tonight.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 19, 2012 5:44 PM, "Jake" <<a href="mailto:jake@spaz.org">jake@spaz.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I have been trying for days to get my black macbook 2.1 (whatever that means) to boot linux from a USB stick. My preferred installation is Linux Mint Cinnamon and i have a Core 2 Duo CPU so i have been trying to do 64-bit installation.<br>
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It hasn't worked. My computer has rEFIt already installed on it so it totally recognizes USB sticks when it boots, but if i choose them it fails with various messages. The farthest i got had something to do with /boot/efi/elilo.efi and elilo.conf but i couldn't figure out what to put in elilo.conf and it shouldn't be this hard anyway should it?<br>
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i don't have an internal optical disc right now but i tried a stock linux boot DVD in an external (firewire) drive and the same thing happened as with the USB stick - rEFIt sees it but if i choose that volume to boot from, it errors out with some crap.<br>
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If you have any experience with this process please let me know. I'm trying to re-up my computer getting nowhere.<br>
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-jake<br>
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