Installing fc23 on Mac Desktop

[JD]

Can older (5-6 years old) mac desktop
boot from non-mac optical media, such as
windows, any linux distro, ...etc ???

In my case it doe snot boot from any non mac media.

Is it a drive problem or a primary bootloader problem?

[Niels Kobschaetzki]

On 16/05/14 12:36, jd1008 wrote:
> Can older (5-6 years old) mac desktop
> boot from non-mac optical media, such as
> windows, any linux distro, ...etc ???
>
> In my case it doe snot boot from any non mac media.
>
> Is it a drive problem or a primary bootloader problem?

For Windows you just use BootCamp which is a part of OS X (iirc you find
it in /Applications/Utilities). For Linux you need something like
rEFInd.
Have a look here:
http://www.howtogeek.com/187410/how-to-install-and-dual-boot-linux-on-a-mac/

Niels

[JD]

On 05/14/2016 01:10 PM, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
> On 16/05/14 12:36, jd1008 wrote:
> > Can older (5-6 years old) mac desktop
> > boot from non-mac optical media, such as
> > windows, any linux distro, ...etc ???
> >
> > In my case it doe snot boot from any non mac media.
> >
> > Is it a drive problem or a primary bootloader problem?
>
> For Windows you just use BootCamp which is a part of OS X (iirc you find
> it in /Applications/Utilities). For Linux you need something like
> rEFInd.
> Have a look here:
> http://www.howtogeek.com/187410/how-to-install-and-dual-boot-linux-on-a-mac/
> Niels

I followed the links. I must say Mr. Rod's writeup does not seep to
clearly address
1. Where to obtain the script for refind-install   before discussing 
installing it.

Getting src code from sourceforge cannot be built on os x as it lacks
compilers/assemplers ....etc. FOr some reason, my friend's machine
doe snot have them.

[Chris Murphy]

On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 12:36 PM, jd1008  wrote:
> Can older (5-6 years old) mac desktop
> boot from non-mac optical media, such as
> windows, any linux distro, ...etc ???
>
> In my case it doe snot boot from any non mac media.
>
> Is it a drive problem or a primary bootloader problem?

Macs have been able to EFI boot from ISO 9660 and UDF optical media
for quite a while. Certainly by 6 years ago. So the problem is likely
bootloader related.

I'm pretty sure a disc using El Torito extensions is what activates
the CSM-BIOS, but this is almost certainly not what you want.