Hi Mika,

thx for the link. For the previous attempts I just dd'ed the ISO onto the USB-stick. Now I used GNU parted to create the GPT and the FAT32 partition so I don't need a Mac to create a grml-stick to boot a Mac:

(parted) mklabel gpt (parted) mkpartfs primary fat32 32k 1024MB WARNING: you are attempting to use parted to operate on (mkpartfs) a file system. [...] Ignore/Cancel? i (parted) toggle 1 boot (parted) print Model: SanDisk Cruzer Micro (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc: 1025MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 31,7kB 1025MB 1025MB fat32 primary boot

(parted) quit

[&& mount $STICK_DEV $USB_MOUNTPT && cp -r $ISO_MOUNTPT/* $USB_MOUNTPT/]

Works fine with grml64-2013-09 and the "No Kernel-Mode-Setting" boot option (nVidia graphics). Too bad I need a special thumbdrive for Macs but at least now I know about this ;)

Regards, FLorian

On 07.10.2013 17:45, Michael Prokop wrote:

• Florian Ermisch [Mon Sep 30, 2013 at 03:37:25PM +0200]:

...

well, too bad I only got my hands on an older MacBook Pro today (to fix some booting troubles), because I can't boot grml on this thing. USB-sticks with grml96 don't show up and grml64 on both USB-stick and CD (the MBP is old enough to still have an optical drive) stop at "Searching for disk". A USB-stick with Ubuntu 12.04.3 amd64 on the other hand boots fine (after not showing the boot menu and some messed up logo at boot).

How did you create the USB stick?

The EFI setup is supposed to work fine:

http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=usb#building_an_efi_usb_key_on_a_mac

regards, -mika-

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On Monday, 2013-09-30 at 11:10:01 -0300, gilberto dos santos alves wrote:

IMHO could some one write a brief of signs of release name Grml 2013.09 - Hefeknuddler

I don't understand "a brief of signs". But if you want to know what the word "Hefeknuddler" means - literally it's yeast cuddler. Meaning a hobby brewer.

All of we understand debian names because debian wiki about toy story! Where we found this for grml? Main reason is for all of us that use romani language ancestor, latin. thanks!

Those guys use Austrian expressions that are quite out of the mainstream, making it even hard for us Reichsdeutsche (Germans from the former German Reich, i.e. the Federal Republic of Germany ;-) to decypher. But it's fun to find out. I agree that people without any knowledge of German are quite left out.

Lupe Christoph