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

[meredith scheff]

fixed by some loving human being taking pity and giving me a disk.

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:08 PM, miloh <froggytoad at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:58 PM, d p fenn <weasel at meer.net> wrote:
> >
> > Le Dec 20, 2010 à 2:03 PM, meredith scheff a écrit :
> >
> >>  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?
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
>
>
> More options:
>
> Get more flexibility for future and current multi-os installations
> with rEFIt   http://refit.sourceforge.net/
>
> I can show you how I set up linux/osX on my white macbook plastic,
> macbook 2,1 on Tuesday afternoon if you want.
>
> -rma
>



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