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Summary: Intel Mac and Live USB
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693635
Summary: Intel Mac and Live USB
Product: Fedora Documentation
Version: devel
Platform: x86_64
OS/Version: Mac OS
Status: NEW
Severity: medium
Priority: unspecified
Component: docs-requests
AssignedTo: nobody(a)fedoraproject.org
ReportedBy: earthwormgaz(a)googlemail.com
QAContact: fedora-docs-list(a)redhat.com
CC: stickster(a)gmail.com, kwade(a)redhat.com,
nb(a)fedoraproject.org, eric(a)christensenplace.us,
oglesbyzm(a)gmail.com
Classification: Fedora
Story Points: ---
Description of problem:
Hi,
I just spent a couple of days trying to put the F15 Alpha Live CD image onto a
USB stick for use with my Macbook Pro.
It turns out this isn't possible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_USB#Limitations
I think this ought to go on the documentation somewhere, just to save people
time.
In my case, my CD drive is dead, so I can't install Fedora.
There is a way around this which works pretty well for some machines -
if you can get the PLOP bootloader to boot then you can select a usb
device that has a bootable install iso on it.
http://www.plop.at/en/bootmngrusblog.html
It has a number of different ways to start up apart from using a CD
drive - I use it on an old machine (without usb boot) that has grub
available and put the binary in the /boot area and make a grub stanza
to boot it - once it boots to plop you can select the plugged in
usbkey.
I am not familiar enough with the Macbook Pro to know if you can get
the binary to boot without using the CD drive but it may be worth
exploring? I have seen from postings elsewhere that PLOP does support
booting from EFI so maybe it is worth trying to explore?
--
mike c