[ale] making a usb thumb drive bootable from a dvd install disk

[Brian Pitts]

Geoffrey wrote:

> 
> When the Mac boots, it looks for bootable devices and lists them.  You 
> select the one you want to boot.  For example, If I just boot it now, I 
> see an apple logo and a tux logo.  Selecting either does what you 
> expect.  Now if I stick the thumb drive in before booting, I get a third 
> logo, when I highlight it, it says: 'boot legacy OS from ???'.  If I 
> select to boot from it, it appears to try, but then ends up booting the 
> fedora 8.
> 

This is something of a tangent, but have you tried install rEFIt [0] and 
booting from it?

To clear up some confusion from earlier: Intel Macs us EFI, PowerPC macs 
use OpenFirmware.

[0] http://refit.sourceforge.net/

-Brian