Mac makes me sad.

August 31st, 2009 - Be the First Comment!

So I setup a USB key to support multibooting on a single partition using the multipass methods describe in hak5 episode 524 and episode 602. Unfortunately I discovered my fancy semi-new MacBook (now called a Macbook Pro after the renaming) doesn’t boot from a USB key like a normal computer. What kind of crap is this? How am I suppose to get my multipass on without the ability to boot from USB! I’m honestly contemplating ways to get a different laptop. So not only does it not keep my default opening settings, it doesn’t let me use multipass. For those of you who have a real laptop this is a sticky with a few guides to setup the multipass and here is a sticky with a bunch of different menu.lst entries. Let me mention really quick that it seems you can only install BT4 or Ubuntu, not both. They both need a casper folder with OS specific info in there. It might be possible to change it but I haven’t found out how yet! Also if you’re on a non Mac computer you can use VMware player and an image for that to test your USB boot stick, the information about it is here.

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