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#CREATE A LINUX BOOTABLE USB FOR OLD MAC HOW TO#
#CREATE A LINUX BOOTABLE USB FOR OLD MAC INSTALL#
#CREATE A LINUX BOOTABLE USB FOR OLD MAC 64 BIT#

Just download the Arch Linux ISO, and with local administrator rights use the USBwriter utility to write to your USB flash memory. This method does not require any workaround and is as straightforward as dd under Linux. Simply select your iso image and the target USB drive letter (you may have to format it first to assign it a drive letter), and click Write. Win32diskimager is another graphical USB iso writing tool for Windows. $ xorriso-dd-target -with_sudo -plug_test -DO_WRITE -image_file archlinux- version-x86_64.iso For example, to use it as a regular user who can elevate to root using sudo: Xorriso-dd-target (from libisoburn) is a shell script which attempts to reduce the risk of overwriting the wrong storage device. SUSE Studio ImageWriter is a Qt based tool made by the OpenSUSE development team. Popsicle is a tool made for flashing ISO files to multiple USB devices in parallel by the PopOS development team. Kindd is a Qt based graphical frontend for dd. Gnome-multi-writer is a simple GTK3 based graphical tool to write an ISO file to one or multiple USB devices at once. When GNOME Disk Utility opens, specify the flash drive from the Destination drop-down menu and click Start Restoring. iso file, and select Open With Disk Image Writer. Linux distributions running GNOME can easily make a live CD through nautilus and gnome-disk-utility. If this does not work, you may also try updating your motherboard's firmware. Tip: If the UEFI version of the USB's Arch ISO hangs or is unable to load, try repeating the medium creation process on the same USB drive one or more times. This method is recommended due to its simplicity and universal availability, since these tools are part of coreutils (pulled in by the base meta-package). Using the ISO as is (BIOS and UEFI) In GNU/Linux Using basic command line utilities

3.2.1.2 Copy the needed files to the USB flash drive.

3.2.1 Loading the installation medium from RAM.

1.1.1 Using basic command line utilities.

Put the Grub2 bootia32.efi file to /efi/boot/grub (EDIT: corrected path to /efi/boot/grub as on printscreen)Ĭreate a text file “grub. We are going to use the “manual” way described by Sergey (with some minor differences).ġ) Prepare the flashdrive partitions and folderĬreate GPT partition table (in Gparted e.g.)Ĭreate the EFI partition: FAT 210 MB, name EFI with boot flagĬreate the Linux partition: EXT4 (several GB based on the drive size)Ĭreate folders /efi/boot and /boot/grub on the EFI partitionĢ) Copy the relevant files to the EFI partitionĬopy vmlinuz (kernel) and initrd.lz (initial ramdisk) from Linuxmint iso /casper folder to /boot/grub

#CREATE A LINUX BOOTABLE USB FOR OLD MAC HOW TO#

This tutorial explains how to achieve it quite easily (hopefully) based on the post of Sergey’s blog. The advantages of EFI are the support of the additional SATA connectors, and based on my own experience, a better thermal and fan control without additional software on my own system (Mac 1,1 upgraded to 2,1 and a double quad-core X5355).

#CREATE A LINUX BOOTABLE USB FOR OLD MAC INSTALL#

There are different ways to install Linux, most use the « legacy » mode, while other install the EFI mode but at the expense (IMHO) of very complex processes for a beginner or using Refind, which is OK but I prefer to skip additional tools when I can.

#CREATE A LINUX BOOTABLE USB FOR OLD MAC 64 BIT#

As most are aware, these old machines had an early version of EFI, in 32 bits, while the CPU can support a 64 bit OS.