[Bugs] #421 UNSP: Sugar on a Stick not booting into Sugar

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#421: Sugar on a Stick not booting into Sugar
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    Reporter:  CarolineM                  |          Owner:  marcopg                    
        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  closed                     
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  SoaS                       |        Version:  Unspecified                
    Severity:  Blocker                    |     Resolution:  fixed                      
    Keywords:                             |   Distribution:  SoaS                       
Status_field:  Unconfimed                 |  
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Comment(by bernie):

 Some comments from #fedora-devel:

 (16:32:51) bernie: has anyone tried booting live fedora usb sticks on
 macbooks recently?
 (16:33:33) wwoods: bernie: that ain't gonna work.
 (16:33:54) jeremy: bernie: macbooks don't boot from USB unless the USB
 stick is set up as EFI bootable.  and then you're in a whole other world
 of pain
 (16:34:05) clumens: YOU ARE ENTERING A WORLD OF PAIN.
 (16:34:09) wwoods: thanks for that, apple
 (16:34:42) bernie: wwoods, jeremy: oh, I see
 (16:34:45) skvidal: wwoods: didn't you get the pointy stick with your
 apple?
 (16:34:56) skvidal: wwoods: the one they ship w/the laptops so you can jab
 yourself in the eye
 (16:37:04) bernie: wwoods: there's no easy way to build a bootable EFI USB
 stick with Fedora on it?
 (16:37:15) wwoods: bernie: none that I know of
 (16:37:24) wwoods: there might be a *hard* way
 (16:37:33) bernie: not even with bootcamp?
 (16:37:52) jeremy: livecd-iso-to-disk has a --mactel/--efi switch which
 works on many.  but then you get into efi + modesetting failures in a lot
 of cases
 (16:37:57) bernie: it makes XP boot, doesn't it mean that it fakes a PC
 BIOS?
 (16:38:05) jeremy: bernie: all that bootcamp does is partitioning
 (16:38:26) jeremy: bernie: when bootcamp was originally released, they
 also included a firmware update which does a fake bios.  that works for cd
 booting, but their bios doesn't support usb booting
 (16:38:42) mjg59: And also doesn't have that support on the Xserve
 (16:38:49) bernie: jeremy: I see... apple is great
 (16:39:02) mjg59: They implmented what they needed
 (16:39:14) skvidal: bernie: keep drinking that kool-aid :)
 (16:39:22) pjones: well, a CSM.  which isn't necessarily a "fake" bios,
 but still.

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