On 16/05/14 12:36, jd1008 wrote:
Can older (5-6 years old) mac desktop
boot from non-mac optical media, such as
windows, any linux distro, ...etc ???
In my case it doe snot boot from any non mac media.
Is it a drive problem or a primary bootloader problem?
For Windows you just use BootCamp which is a part of OS X (iirc you find
it in /Applications/Utilities). For Linux you need something like
rEFInd.
Have a look here:
http://www.howtogeek.com/187410/how-to-install-and-dual-boot-linux-on-a-mac/
Niels