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UBUNTU BOOTABLE USB FOR MAC ISO
UBUNTU BOOTABLE USB FOR MAC MAC

Thats it! Now when you restart and hold down Alt, you can select the USB from the list of boot options, no Refit install required. Your USB drive should now look like this: (image taken from my chormebook, the drive is named UNTITLED)

UBUNTU BOOTABLE USB FOR MAC ISO

Rename your 32-bit Ubuntu install ISO you just copied to boot.iso Make bootable USB (32-bit)ĭownload the obscure German USB creator from here.įormat a USB stick to FAT32 and manauly create the folder structure efi/boot/ inside of it.Ĭopy a 32-bit Ubuntu install ISO (I used 14.04 desktop) and the file bootIA32.efi from the german package into the /efi/boot directory you just created. Below are the detailed steps I took to get this working. I spent days sifting through message boards and this was the only method that worked for me. Major kudos to all the authors and contributors in the mentioned blogs and threads for paving the way for this to work. This allowed me to boot and install a 64-bit version of Ubuntu without a DVD drive. Using unetbootin inside the 32-bit Ubuntu, I then made a bootable partition on my hard disk from a 64-bit Ubuntu ISO which could then be booted from the GRUB. To summarize this all up… I made a 32-bit bootable USB drive which installed a 32-bit version of Ubuntu along with the GRUB launcher. Finally, using Unetbootin within my new 32-bit Ubuntu installation, I made a Frugal Install of a 64-bit Ubuntu Live ISO which I could then boot from the hard drive, allowing me to install a 64-bit version of Ubuntu and then dual-boot into into either one. Following this, my 32-bit Ubunutu install booted with no issues. Once the Ubuntu Live USB booted up, I had one more minor issue where the boot loader failed to install, but I just selected don't install boot loader, completed the installation, then manually installed the boot loader using the boot-repair tool as seen in this thread. Following this, I used a 32-bit installation of Ubuntu along with the 32-bit EFI loader from the German package to boot from USB, and everything seemed to work fine.

UBUNTU BOOTABLE USB FOR MAC MAC

I tried this with a 64-bit Ubuntu ISO, but no luck and I had this same issue which revealed that 2007 mac minis don’t support x86_64-efi ( 64-bit EFI booting). Finally I came across this blog post which refers to a super easy method for making bootable USB drives that comes from some German forums. Creating Bootable USB drives using standard methods on the Ubuntu website didn’t seem to work either. My Mac Mini has a busted Superdrive, so booting from a DVD wasn’t an option. Below are the steps I went through to get this working. Finally I got it installed after picking up some tips from a few forums. This was a nightmare to finally find a method that works, as the standard documentation from the Ubuntu website did not apply to my machine. Due to the lack of support for newer Mac OS’s on older Mac Minis, I opted to wipe my mac and install Ubuntu over it.

Ubuntu bootable usb for mac