Booting from USB drive fails on Macbook

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Hello everyone,

I followed these instructions and created a bootable USB disk. When booting from it on my Macbook, nothing happens, the screen turns black. What should I do? I tried it multiple times with a NET and a full DVD image.

Thanks for your help.

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Hi and welcome to the Forum :slight_smile:
What model MacBook? If you press the e key at grub and at the linuxefi at the end of the line (after quiet) add nomodeset and press F10 to continue to boot and see if that helps.

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Hi Malcolm,

thanks for your reply. It’s a 2015 MacBook Pro with an Intel Core i5 CPU and an Intel Iris Graphics 6100 adapter.

I don’t even reach GRUB. First comes the Mac-internal bootloader and I select the USB drive to boot from. Then the screen turns black.

I went through the same process with an Ubuntu image and it works (after the Mac bootloader comes GRUB), so the problem seems to be SUSE-specific.

Any more ideas?

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Update: It works with Tumbleweed! Where’s the difference with Leap?

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Did you ever find out why Leap did not work? Thinking about installing in a 2016 Macbook as well.