I have a Macbook Air 3,2 which is unable to boot from USB media. I’ve tried a myriad of different solutions now, and maybe it’s starting to approach “file a bug”-time, but I’m asking to see if anyone can spot anything I’ve done wrong.
So far I’ve tested:
OpenSUSE 12.2
OpenSUSE 12.3 Milestone 1
Both on GPT and MBR USB media and both i386 and x86_64 Live GNOME/KDE exhibit this problem.
Fedora 17 and Fedora 18 Beta 1 same approach.
Now, I’ve used several utilities for transferring the ISO image to the USB key. ImageWriter from the OpenSUSE site, Fedoras own utility for creating usb keys, unetbootin, dd and linuxlive creator. I also tried the advice from a Microsoft support site which claimed it could work of you just copy and paste the files, this did not have any effect. So right now I’m not getting anything installed on it, so any help is greatly appreciated!
If you’d have a PC or “normal” laptop at hand that would be handy, you could try the USB install media, but my guess is you don’t. Could it be it’s the Mac Book itself that’s blocked to boot from USB?
I have a desktop computer running Windows 7/OpenSUSe, and a few other laptops laying around. The install image I made on a key was just now used to install OpenSUSE 12.2 on a Lenovo E510, so I have tested the keys and know they boot.
On 12/10/2012 03:36 PM, JonJahren wrote:
>
> I have a desktop computer running Windows 7/OpenSUSe, and a few other
> laptops laying around. The install image I made on a key was just now
> used to install OpenSUSE 12.2 on a Lenovo E510, so I have tested the
> keys and know they boot.
During the process of fixing the use of b43 on an Apple portable, Linus stated
that “he hates Apple because they design their hardware to be incompatible”.
That may be the problem you are having.
Other than that bit of “wisdom”, I have nothing else to offer. My only Apple
device is a PowerPPC, and booting anything on it requires special settings even
though I’m running the OpenFirmware boot system.
On Mon 10 Dec 2012 09:49:02 PM CST, Larry Finger wrote:
On 12/10/2012 03:36 PM, JonJahren wrote:
>
> I have a desktop computer running Windows 7/OpenSUSe, and a few other
> laptops laying around. The install image I made on a key was just now
> used to install OpenSUSE 12.2 on a Lenovo E510, so I have tested the
> keys and know they boot.
During the process of fixing the use of b43 on an Apple portable, Linus
stated that “he hates Apple because they design their hardware to be
incompatible”. That may be the problem you are having.
Other than that bit of “wisdom”, I have nothing else to offer. My only
Apple device is a PowerPPC, and booting anything on it requires special
settings even though I’m running the OpenFirmware boot system.
Hi
I had the same issue booting the DVD from an external USB device, it
seems the right efi bits aren’t there. I had to pop the hdd caddy out
and the dvd back in for the dvd in uefi mode.
It could be a BIOS issue with the hardware, as previously indicated i
probably won’t revisit the issue until early next year…
I do think a bug is in order that USB boot should support UEFI boot…
If the OP creates a bug, please post back the number and would be happy
to add my 2 cent’s worth
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.11-2.16-desktop
up 4 days 7:54, 4 users, load average: 0.12, 0.06, 0.05
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU
Since I also had this issue with Fedora, I opened a bug there as well. I’m currently following some of Matthew Garretts instructions, I’ll report back and open a bug when I’ve dissected it a bit more.
On Mon 10 Dec 2012 10:16:02 PM CST, JonJahren wrote:
malcolmlewis;2510082 Wrote:
> Hi
> I had the same issue booting the DVD from an external USB device, it
> seems the right efi bits aren’t there. I had to pop the hdd caddy out
> and the dvd back in for the dvd in uefi mode.
>
> It could be a BIOS issue with the hardware, as previously indicated i
> probably won’t revisit the issue until early next year…
>
> I do think a bug is in order that USB boot should support UEFI
> boot…
>
> If the OP creates a bug, please post back the number and would be
> happy to add my 2 cent’s worth
>
Since I also had this issue with Fedora, I opened a bug there as well.
I’m currently following some of Matthew Garretts instructions, I’ll
report back and open a bug when I’ve dissected it a bit more.
Hi
Do you have the bug link for that one?
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.11-2.16-desktop
up 4 days 8:24, 4 users, load average: 0.08, 0.15, 0.12
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU
I don’t have a MacBook Air and I’m not sure, but it seems that most (?) MacBook Airs have been blocked in EFI (however they have a 64bit EFI firmware) from booting 64bit OSes. >:(
