Select the USB drive as a startup disk when the option appears. Press and hold the Option (Alt) key on the keyboard when the computer starts. Use the sudo gdisk /dev/disk1 command, then press x, then n to create a new protective MBR, and to write the changes press w. Here are the steps to boot Mac from the USB flash drive: Power on the system. With gdisk tool you can solve this problem.
In PMBR contents should appear, otherwise if in contents says MBR Windows and Mac OS X will not boot. When you identify your USB drive uses sudo gpt show /dev/disk1 to identify the MBR is protective MBR appears something like: The USB drive can identify that as disk1. For Windows and Mac OS X run correctly is necessary that the drive where they are installed using protective MBR.Įnd of Mac OS X can use diskutil list to view the list of connected drives. It is possible that after installing Linux do not boot Windows and Mac OS X, may be because the MBR when installing Linux was affected. When installing Linux fails to install the bootloader ( GRUB) and that Mac is better rEFInd. Choose the 'Diskimage' button and then click on the '' button to select the iso file that you have downloaded. Download and install the UNetbootin utility. Click on the info button and write down the device name. Linux distributions that have been running well in Mac are Ubuntu, Fedora, Kali. Open Disk Utility and select your USB drive on the left. You must create a partition on the USB drive of 1/3 of the total space.Īfter you install Mac OS X, the Disk Utility creates a new partition on the USB drive 1/3 should be in the file system Mac OS Extended (Journaled), that's where you will install the Mac OS X.įinally, install the Linux distribution you want. Make the USB drive boot WININSTALL recognize the USB drive to where you want to install Windows. Connect to your Mac the two USB drive, one of which is where Windows will install and the other is WININSTALL you created with the Boot Camp. Windows starts in your USB drive installed in the version you prefer (7, 8 or 10) using the Boot Camp Assistant creates a USB drive to install Windows. You can install rEFInd on the hard drive of your Mac or USB drive.
If you want to create the USB will use a Mac computer first have to install a bootloader, rEFInd is an excellent bootloader that supports Mac OS X (El Capitan), Windows and Linux. This step-by-step guide will show you how to make a bootable USB for a Mac, so you can install it on any computer without downloading it from the App Store. There are unofficial distributions calls Hackintosh. The OS X is an operating system very jealous and hardly does boot on any computer that is not a Mac.