[SoaS] Booting Fedora live USB on MacBookPro

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi,

My MacBook is a 4,1. Will it work on my machine?

Caryl

> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:32:26 -0500
> From: pjones at redhat.com
> To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
> CC: soas at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [SoaS] Booting Fedora live USB on MacBookPro
> 
> On 11/10/2009 02:40 PM, Bernie Innocenti 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.
> 
> 
> Which generation of MBP and MBP, and are you using the i386 tree or
> the x86_64 tree? It sounds like the MacBook is a Santa Rosa (MacBook3,1)
> or later and the MacBook Pro is an earlier generation, and you're using
> x86_64.  Or vice-versa regarding the ages, and you're using the i386 tree.
> 
> This won't work, as pre-Santa Rosa mac will only boot 32-bit EFI images,
> and post-Santa Rosa macs will only boot 64-bit EFI images.
> 
> -- 
>         Peter
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