[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 08:19:53AM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
>I had an idea in the shower this am (some of my best ideas come while I 
>am in the shower).  I think I may know what is going on with the Macs 
>and live Sugar CDs and how it might be fixed.
>
>
>According to Apple, when you boot with the option key down, the 
>computer looks for all bootable items, eg the Mac HD, a Windows section 
>(via Boot Camp), an external drive, a USB stick, or a CD in the Macs 
>optical drive.  The item must contain all elements needed to be 
>bootable.  Sooo....

Please beware that Apple might have a different interpretation for the 
term "bootable".

It might very well be (as was for sure with pre-Intel Macs!) that the 
nice Apple boot selector only lists things looking Mac-like (i.e. looks 
like a Darwin kernel).

[...some google searching...]

Indeed, that seems to be the case: You need to boot from a HFS+ 
partition that is "blessed".  A solution seems to be here: 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869324


Beware that if "blessing" is similar to that of classic MacOS, then it 
includes adding a small binary piece that is *not* free software.  In 
other words, it may be illegal to publish SoaS as pre-blessed images. 
:-(


  - Jonas

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