[SoaS] Finally: painless way to boot soas mango lassi usb on macbookair

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 07.04.2011, at 12:47, Raffael Reichelt wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>  
> I finally managed it to painlessly boot up my Macbook Air from a 1GB USB Stick into Mango Lassi! Here is the way to do it:
>  
> Prerequisites:
>  
> Bootcamp Partition with WIN7
> EasyBCD - download at: http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1
>  
> Procedure:
> 
> Run EasyBCD. You need to add a new entry and then install the Bios Extender. The Bootmenu is showing up with an additional item wich leads to a new dialog to choose where to boot from (choose USB). Worked immediately. Maybe someone will give it a try with other Intelmacs.
> 
> BTW: Worked only with 32Bit Image,  64Bit Image DID NOT BOOT. I used: Fedora-14-i686-Live-SoaS.ISO
> 


Interesting. Do you actually have to install Win7, or is just making a bootcamp partition enough?

- Bert -

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