How to install kali on a usb stick with pure efi boot on a mac and. The builtin boot selector of a mac mini expects the grub efi file inside the efi partition at its official place. Format a usb drive to provide a single fat32 partition featuring mbr. A multiboot usb flash drive allows booting multiple iso files from a single device. One of the ways to succeed booting is to use a pretty much obscure, apparently grub based efi loader, iso2 usb efibooter for mac, obtainable here zip contains bootia32. Currently, the new ssd disk has a gpt partition table. This guide shows how to prepare a 32bit efi bootable usb drive which has the debian installer and an i386. Debian installer releases for jessie have uefi support only in the. Ubuntu installation on usb stick with pure efi boot mac.
While this is trivial on most pcs, it turned out not to be on an old macbook. Boot linux from a usb flash drive on a macbook astrofloyds blog. One of the ways to succeed booting is to use a pretty much obscure, apparently grubbased efi loader, iso2usb efibooter for mac. Aug 04, 2016 ubuntu installation on usb stick with pure efi boot mac compatible marco miglierina. Unetbootin is a wellknown tool with versions for linux, windows and macos. I was unable to get the mac to see any of 4 distros on 3 different usb sticks, trying all usb ports on the computer. Create the following directories on your usb drive.
Preliminary work in os x how to boot from usb installing ubuntu partitioning manually. Boot linux from a usb flash drive on a macbook astrofloyds. Installationiso2usb community help wiki ubuntu documentation. I have managed to install refind on the esp from os x running in an external enclosure. This page is called iso2usb, but the methods described are valid for. Easy2boot uses open source grub4dos utilities and plaintext scripts e2b is not a windows utility easy2boot e2b supports both usb flash and usb hdd drives fat32, ntfs, exfat, ext234 because easy2boot is not a utility, you can prepare an easy2boot drive under windows or linux. Ubuntu installation on usb stick with pure efi boot mac compatible. Put the desired configuration in etccrypttab and update the initial ramdisk.
Installing elementary os on my late 2006 macbook 2,1. An efimode grub should be able to chainload the os x boot loader, but the grub prober might not know where to find it. The result was a mac mini that would boot ubuntu trusty in pure efi mode, with no. Ubuntu installation on usb stick with pure efi boot mac compatible marco miglierina. Download iso 2 usb efi booter for mac, and unzip the archive. For an uefi only boot flash drive you need no installer. All three binary distributions can be used to install refit on a usb. In case you want to boot isos in uefi mode, you have to install grub. Jan 14, 2014 in order to install linux on the replacement of a crashed harddisc drive in a 2006 macbook core duo, i wanted to boot linux from a usb flash drive in order to then install it. In order to install linux on the replacement of a crashed harddisc drive in a 2006 macbook core duo, i wanted to boot linux from a usb flash drive in order to then install it. Many mac users prefer to use something other than grub as the default boot loader, relegating grub to secondary status or not using it at. Super grub 2 diskdownload this handy cd image from its home page. Even though the process should leave your mac s hard drive intact this was my case, i strongly. Burn the disc and check that it includes directories called boot, install, isolinux, and.
Option to boot into usb linux was not available during the mac s boot process. The solution i found uses the iso 2 usb efi booter for mac with unclear origin to boot from the iso image of a livecd, but with some small but important changes. This release adds a configuration option for the default boot choice, fixes the linuxgrub. These discs reportedly do not boot on macs although i suspect they might with.