[Fedora-livecd-list] Fwd: Would like instructions to build a bootable USB with F14 for the Mac

[Scott Dowdle]

Greetings,

----- Original Message -----
> I have not received any type of answer to my question over the past
> week, so now I am curious. Is it even possible to build a USB stick
> running Fedora 14 that will boot a Mac Intel machine? Any incite is
> appreciated.

I've seen the question a few times and the last time I saw it I replied that you can't boot from USB on a Mac... but I was later corrected... that yes you can boot from USB on a Mac (See for example - http://hintsforums.macworld.com/archive/index.php/t-77649.html).  I have yet to run into anyone who knows HOW to do it... and it would be useful if you could find any product, Linux or not, that will boot from USB on a Mac... to see how they did it.

Looking at the syslinux website (http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/The_Syslinux_Project) and looking over their changelog and also doing a search... there are 0 results found for both Macintosh and iMac.

>From what I can gather, booting from an Intel-based Mac requires the boot media to have a GPT type partition table.  Linux supports GPT partition tables but I'm not sure about our bootloaders.

Please report what you find out.

TYL,
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