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