Booting a Macintosh from a USB Thumbdrive
by Tiberius
Elements tested:
- 2.4GHz mid 2007 Macbook Pro 15″ (model #1226) running OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3
- 32GB Corsair Survivor GTR USB Thumbdrive running “The Ultimate Bootable Flashdrive Tool.”
-rEFIt boot manager installed from a mac disk image.
Goal: To boot from the Corsair thumbdrive.
Results: Unable to boot from Corsair thumbdrive.
Reason for Result: The rEFIt website clearly states that the Apple firmware has poor support for booting from external devices under their troubleshooting section.
[...] Elements tested: – 2.4GHz mid 2007 Macbook Pro 15" (model #1226) running OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3 – 32GB Corsair Survivor GTR USB Thumbdrive running "The Ultimate Bootable Flashdrive Tool." -rEFIt boot manager installed from a mac disk image. Goal: To boot from the Corsair thumbdrive. Results: Unable to boot from Corsair thumbdrive. Reason for Result: The rEFIt website clearly states that the Apple firmware has poor support for booting from exter … Read More [...]