On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:33 AM, <bugzilla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional > comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. > > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > ReportedBy: earthwormgaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > QAContact: fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx > CC: stickster@xxxxxxxxx, kwade@xxxxxxxxxx, > nb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, > oglesbyzm@xxxxxxxxx > 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? -- mike c -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
