From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QwMOS-0006uR-JM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:57:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA79621C2DD; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:57:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vx0-f181.google.com (mail-vx0-f181.google.com [209.85.220.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9884321C1E2 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:56:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxi39 with SMTP id 39so1432405vxi.40 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:56:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:content-type:mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; bh=ypEJsPmod0KgHmjRt68Rti0su8ekdIIJFfFziU0s4go=; b=AOkMcO8kgtJeSPbrbzxHLpDgcAKatkrmecoNyF5PvD0i6b20yTqwMmKXFbcCs2Heof Q7bFknSGxwcnU/VSyPESJkUjnVDbg+os10yx5YKI/Gb9VogfO9d1Lzlnws6GL0Z8tEpf ZFGmnOQrnuxFkMA9VpSItxJf/6J5CRjjJ/v7c= Received: by 10.52.26.163 with SMTP id m3mr5668129vdg.82.1314226617130; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:56:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.11.101] (bas2-sthubert21-1176155367.dsl.bell.ca. [70.26.180.231]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gr10sm2600339qab.4.2011.08.24.15.56.55 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:56:56 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Nick Gotsinas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1244.3) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] macbook pro boot from usb From: Nick Gotsinas In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:56:54 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <4148690D-7003-47D2-A7DC-1E76CF0A0CEC@gameforce.ca> References: To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1244.3) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3b1a546ad6809fe2d9a0b706aa431d48 I'm going to state the obvious and say did you try to hold ALT during = boot?=20 I made a systermrescue on USB stick and it works just fine on my = MacBook. I also have Gentoo installed with Bootcamp and had no issues. Just make = sure you partition with Guid On 2011-08-24, at 5:36 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Hello, >=20 > I would like to experiment with Gentoo on a Mac but I don't seem to > get past step 0, namely, booting from a gentoo usb stick > (systemrescuecd). The Mac does not recognize the usb stick. I don't > know much about Macs and searching the web has not been fruitful. In > other computers without a Mac bios, it is a matter of changing the > boot device order to the usb port. I don't know if such a thing exists > in a Mac. If you have a gentoo mac I would appreciate inputs. >=20 > Thanks, >=20 > -- > Valmor >=20