Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Nick Gotsinas <darf@×××××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] macbook pro boot from usb
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:57:56
Message-Id: 4148690D-7003-47D2-A7DC-1E76CF0A0CEC@gameforce.ca
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] macbook pro boot from usb by Valmor de Almeida
1 I'm going to state the obvious and say did you try to hold ALT during boot?
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3 I made a systermrescue on USB stick and it works just fine on my MacBook.
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5 I also have Gentoo installed with Bootcamp and had no issues. Just make sure you partition with Guid
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7 On 2011-08-24, at 5:36 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
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9 > Hello,
10 >
11 > I would like to experiment with Gentoo on a Mac but I don't seem to
12 > get past step 0, namely, booting from a gentoo usb stick
13 > (systemrescuecd). The Mac does not recognize the usb stick. I don't
14 > know much about Macs and searching the web has not been fruitful. In
15 > other computers without a Mac bios, it is a matter of changing the
16 > boot device order to the usb port. I don't know if such a thing exists
17 > in a Mac. If you have a gentoo mac I would appreciate inputs.
18 >
19 > Thanks,
20 >
21 > --
22 > Valmor
23 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] macbook pro boot from usb Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@×××××.com>