[ale] making a usb thumb drive bootable from a dvd install disk

[Geoffrey]

Brian Pitts wrote:
> Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>> When the Mac boots, it looks for bootable devices and lists them.  You 
>> select the one you want to boot.  For example, If I just boot it now, I 
>> see an apple logo and a tux logo.  Selecting either does what you 
>> expect.  Now if I stick the thumb drive in before booting, I get a third 
>> logo, when I highlight it, it says: 'boot legacy OS from ???'.  If I 
>> select to boot from it, it appears to try, but then ends up booting the 
>> fedora 8.
>>
> 
> This is something of a tangent, but have you tried install rEFIt [0] and 
> booting from it?

That's what I'm using.

> 
> To clear up some confusion from earlier: Intel Macs us EFI, PowerPC macs 
> use OpenFirmware.
> 
> [0] http://refit.sourceforge.net/
> 
> -Brian
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Until later, Geoffrey

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