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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@fedoraproject.org ReportedBy: earthwormgaz@googlemail.com QAContact: fedora-docs-list@redhat.com CC: stickster@gmail.com, kwade@redhat.com, nb@fedoraproject.org, eric@christensenplace.us, oglesbyzm@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?