[Fedora-livecd-list] Booting live usb stick off iMac

[Stewart Adam]

On 2010/07/09 10:31 AM, James Heather wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how I can create a live USB stick that will boot from
> an iMac?
>
> The restriction here is that I mustn't alter the config of the Mac in
> any way (because it's not my machine and I can't risk screwing it up).
>
> Googling suggests that I need to mess with EFI, but I don't really
> understand the details.
>
> J.
See section "Making Fedora USB Media with dd" here:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/Making_USB_Media-UNIX_Linux.html#Making_USB_Media-UNIX_Linux-RHEL_Fedora-dd

Note that this method will erase all data currently on the disk.

YMMV, in my case booting from EFI is broken an hangs just after loading 
vmlinuz in GRUB.

Regards,
Stewart