Table and creating a small HFS+ partition on the external drive Think it's coming from Windows somewhere, but clearly that's not Message coming from, anyway? Several of these people seem to So how does this relate to the problem I'm having? Where is this Windows (which isn't even installed correctly anyway). The problem they're having is not that they see this messageĪfter selecting an external boot device, but that they see itĪlways, and don't know how to get back to OS X or Still thinks they need to run it and has botched an install. Who's complaining about it is some recent Windows convert who Message, and accidentally mistyped versions of it, but everybody So why won't it boot? I try Google there are many hits for this Read the output of hexdump -C /dev/sdb), it's most

Into the install CD and checking by hand (yes, I can actually Well I'm pretty sure that device is bootable. No bootable device - insert boot disk and press any key So I select it, and wait a moment while it brings up.

When I reboot and hold option again, I see the Firewire disk asĪ boot option (once again labeled 'Windows'). Install the bootloader on the external disk. Save one step at the end, where I specifically tell it to It detects everything and installs without any help from me. So I plug the disk in, hold option, and boot from an Ubuntu 9.10Īmd64 CD (despite it being labeled 'Windows'). Installing Linux by making it totally automatic.) Time to see how far they've come in taking all the fun out of (Back when I had desktop machines I always ran Linux, but sinceĢ004 when I got a laptop I've been using Mac OS X. Pro can boot from firewire after all, so maybe I don't have to (Ubuntu 9.10, specifically) on the external drive - the Macbook

I figured a good thing to try and do would be install GNU/Linux

Machine, and after setting that up, I had my previous backupĭisk (250GB, not too small) available to do something cool with. The other day I got a fancy new 1.5TB external disk for Time Installing Linux on a Macbook Pro on an external Firewire drive Installing Linux on a Macbook Pro on an external Firewire drive Or, how Apple's EFI firmware boots 'legacy' operating systems

Putting a mac on linux