[SoaS] Booting Fedora live USB on MacBookPro

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm creating an EFI bootable USB image on my rawhide system with this
> command-line:
>
>  ./livecd-iso-to-disk.sh --format  --efi --overlay-size-mb 400 \
>        --delete-home --extra-kernel-args selinux=0 ./soas04.iso /dev/sdb1
>
> The resulting USB stick boots fine on a black MacBook, but not on
> a silver MacBook Pro.
>
> The bootable stick does not even show up in the list of boot devices.

I think there's some bugs with booting EFI devices in the various live
device (cd/usb) creation tools. The latest rawhide (released in the
last day or two) has an updated liveusb-creator which fixes alot of
the EFI issues, and a new livecd-tools I think is due soon.

Cheers,
Peter