[Noisebridge-discuss] booting off of a thumb drive?

[miloh]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:58 PM, d p fenn <weasel at meer.net> wrote:
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> Le Dec 20, 2010 à 2:03 PM, meredith scheff a écrit :
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>>  If I hold alt while booting, it doesn't show up as a bootable drive, if I select the image off the thumbdrive and try to run it, it asks to restart and then goes back to my regular desktop after restarting.
>> Can anyone give me some pointers?
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> check to make sure that you have a UUID 'boot partittion' rather than the older MBR style. the efi bootloaders on macs should do backwards compatible MBR boot, but i think this might depend on your EFI build.
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