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 1Qwe5f-000367-Cz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:51:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF54E21C166; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:51:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A95ED21C044 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:50:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkd1 with SMTP id 1so2786309bkd.40 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:50:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bminhuBy3+J6YRBVo0GCs3RLl+Mjg8OkR5TBQazch7M=; b=K4BKnAjW/pt1Uzv5cwKKLKvulvZBkdcBaseR0A//dDySLbGDuli09UC1zM8Y/vGjWy v7rH8FaVTtz3KgT8ZJOFD8fSAQQhYmu8DcEl7/hYHfhpBlTjldqfY+98vsmD0oMytFx4 9ECjh7jEbFUW4gGwgx19Q81AxR0xZuVoQMRxg= 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 Received: by 10.204.138.78 with SMTP id z14mr20478bkt.232.1314294604630; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:50:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.57.198 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:50:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <80B24E06-82C1-4421-A3D4-D5553C3154F5@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:50:04 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] macbook pro boot from usb From: Valmor de Almeida To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 6c986d3cd6ea60bafc7845b764b75947 On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Valmor de Almeida > wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Stroller >> wrote: >> [snip] >>> >>> You're fundamentally right, although I would go for "install linux Mac"= myself. The results may refer to installing other distros, such as Ubuntu,= but it's surely just a matter of adapting the instructions to get partitio= ns and a systemrescueCD root prompt. > > Just for the record. I tried an old Gentoo Minimal CD I had sitting > around (2009) and was able to boot the Mac from the CD. It seems this > particular Mac (OS maybe) is preventing any boot from the USB port. > > I will burn a systemrescueCD and try that. A CD worked. Booted into the rescue64 kernel. Now I am cloning the Mac HD for future firmware updates if needed. Assuming that in the future I will be able to boot from the external USB drive that has the Mac OS in it. -- Valmor > > -- > Valmor > >> > [snip] >>> >>> >>> >> >