For these reasons, grub 2 is the efi boot loader that i favor least. How to install kali on a usb stick with pure efi boot on a mac and lets. How to install kali on a usb stick with pure efi boot on a mac and. A mac or pc with 64bit uefi firmware any mac made since 2007 should work you have a mac with 32bit uefi firmware, which is not supported by default. Note that this installer should be treated as beta. The solution i found uses the iso 2 usb efi booter for mac with. Boot linux from a usb flash drive on a macbook astrofloyds blog. But in case you wish to do so i guess you ought use bootia32. Efi, bit how can i solve the problem so i can boot from it on my mac.
Shut down your mac, insert the installer usb stick and power on the machine while holding option or alt key until the boot menu appears. Now, open gdisk installed by default on kali to partition the drive be very. Format a usb drive to provide a single fat32 partition featuring mbr. I didnt expect it to be so difficult, but it eventually panned out. Create the following directories on your usb drive. While this is trivial on most pcs, it turned out not to be on an old macbook. Start the installation by clicking the bottomright cd icon and follow the wizard. You can build the boot loader from source though on 32bit linux, and that will create binaries that will boot on your mac. 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. So, according to this page, the following steps should work i have not tried this myself as i do not have a mac get the iso2usb efi booter for mac 0. Installing elementary os on my late 2006 macbook 2,1. Ubuntu installation on usb stick with pure efi boot mac.
I didnt manage to install linux without installing refind though, so in. I made a bootable usb stick with linux mint using terminal with the dd command. Ubuntu installation on usb stick with pure efi boot mac compatible. When i boot my mac and hold the alt key i see my macintosh hd. All three binary distributions can be used to install refit on a usb memory stick or other disk drives. So, according to this page, the following steps should work i have not tried this myself as i do not have a mac get the iso2usb efibooter for mac 0. My own mac isnt one of the affected models, so i cant comment further on this issue.
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