Booting Ubuntu from usb on a Mac

Question

Anybody ever integrated MCImageManager and Zend Framework? I want to use MCImageManager in standalone mode (not as part of TinyMCE). I'm really at a loss here - don't know where to put any of the files. Do I need to create a view helper that somehow references the main index.php file of MCImageManager?

Solution

The main difficulty here is that Macs use UEFI instead of BIOS. So, according to this page, the following steps should work (I have not tried this myself as I do not have a mac):

1. Get the ISO-2-USB EFI-Booter for Mac 0.01 beta and a recent version of Ubuntu Desktop Edition 64bit.

2. Format a USB drive to provide a single FAT32 partition featuring MBR.

3. Create the following directories on your USB drive: /efi and /efi/boot

4. Copy the bootX64.efi from “ISO-2-USB EFI-Booter for Mac 0.01 beta” into /efi/boot on your USB Drive.

5. Copy the Ubuntu image into /efi/boot/ on the USB Drive, too and rename it to “boot.iso”.

6. You should have 2 files on your USB drive now: bootX64.efi and boot.iso – both in /efi/boot.

7. You’re ready to reboot: During the startup of your Mac hold Alt/Option. You should see “EFI Boot” which has a nice little USB Drive Symbol on it in the appearing boot menu. Boot from your USB Drive by clicking on the little arrow below it.

   Good Luck!

   Ubuntu should be booting now…

Comments

[goldilocks]

Although you may have OSX installed on the same computer, if you boot another operating system, OSX is not involved. Ie, you do not "get osx to see the drive when booting up". The hardware bios boots the usb drive, and the usb drive has a bootloader on it which loads ubuntu. That's all.

[Jeremy Hicks]

Is there a better way to do this? Has anybody ever set this up as a view helper?