- Mac Linux USB Loader is powered by Enterprise, a custom boot manager designed to make it easier to boot Linux® on your PC or Mac. The program automatically installs Enterprise on your USB storage or external hard drive alongside your chosen Linux® distribution.
- Mac Linux USB Loader is a utility tool application developed by SevenBits Technologies, particularly for Mac devices. Without the need to burn a CD or format your drive, it enables you to create bootable live USB drives for Ubuntu, Linux distributions, and other specified PC platforms.
Mac Linux Usb Loader
Apr 18, 2018 Mac Linux USB Loader allows you to put a Linux distro on a USB drive and make it bootable on Intel Macs using EFI. Mac Linux USB Loader is an application that allows you to create bootable USB drives containing a Linux distribution that can boot natively on Apple's Macintosh computers using their EFI system, regardless of whether or not the selected distribution has UEFI support.
Mac Linux USB Loader
Tool allowing you to put a Linux distribution on a USB drive and make it bootable on Intel Macs using EFI.
Mac Linux USB Loader is an application that allows you to create bootable USB drives containing a Linux distribution that can boot natively on Apple's Macintosh computers using their EFI system, regardless of whether or not the selected distribution has UEFI support. Mac linux usb loader free download. Etcher Etcher is a powerful OS image flasher. It protects a user from accidentally overwriting hard-drives.
General Information
This is the Mac Linux USB Loader, a tool allowing you to take an ISO of a Linux distribution and make it boot using EFI. It requires a single USB drive formatted as FAT with at least 2 GB free recommended. Live interior 3d pro mac. Mac Linux USB Loader is available under the 3-clause BSD license.
The tool is necessary to make certain Linux distributions boot that do not have EFI booting support. Many distributions are adding this with the release of Windows 8, but it has not been finalized and is still nonstandard by most distributions. Many common distributions are supported, like Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
If you wish to contribute to the code or fork the repository, please do so. All development currently takes place on the master branch, and this is where code should be submitted for pull requests. The legacy branch contains the code for pre-3.0 versions of Mac Linux USB Loader; it will not be maintained and is present for historical interest only.
I created this tool, if you care, for several reasons:
- None of the other tools available (esp. unetbootin) feel native and operate as you would expect on the Mac platform.
- None of the other methods of which I am aware have the ability to make the archives boot on Intel Macs.
- It was personally a pain in the neck getting Linux distributions to boot via USB on Macs.
That being said, it does have a few shortcomings:
- Linux fails to have graphics on some Macs (i.e Macbook Pros with nVidia graphics), which in some cases prevents boot, but this is not necessarily an issue with Mac Linux USB Loader as much as it is an issue with the video drivers that ship with most distributions. Luckily, with Enterprise, which has been included with Mac Linux USB Loader since 2.0, you can use persistence to install the necessary video drivers on distributions like Ubuntu, helping to alleviate the issue.
Building from Source
Free pro tools plugins autotune. Requirements: Xcode 9, OS X 10.12 SDK. OS X 10.8+ required to run built app
- Clone from git:
git clone https://github.com/SevenBits/Mac-Linux-USB-Loader.git
- Run
pod install
(requires Cocoapods). - Open
Mac Linux USB Loader.xcworkspace
and do an archive build, or simply run and debug it with Xcode
Mac Linux USB Loader utilizes the OS X app sandbox, and so it requires that it be code-signed to use all features. This should not be a problem if you are a registered Apple developer.
Acknowledgements
- Used some icons from KDE's Oxygen
- Mac Linux USB Loader icon by Todd Gaunt
- Special thanks to Leander Lismond for translating the application into Dutch!
- Special thanks to Stephan Rusch for translating the application into German!
- Special thanks to Cai Argimon for translating the application into Spanish!
- Special thanks to Daniele Isoni for translating the application into Italian!
- Special thanks to Uhucream (@TK_CH291) for translating the application into Japanese!
- Special thanks to Thor-Jakob G. Løberg for translating the application into Norwegian Bokmål!
- Special thanks to lightsing for translating the application into Simplified Chinese.
Boot from USB on MAC
I tried to boot Slax on a MAC computer from USB stick long time ago and I wasn't successful, it seemed that MAC computers don't boot from USB at all. Few weeks ago the makeuseof website published an article about making a Linux distro bootable from USB on MAC. The article is here:
I'm not able to test this myself, since I don't have MAC (and definitely will not buy one in near future), so I would appreciate if there is anybody who has MAC computer and is willing to give it a go and try to boot Slax from USB on MAC, with or without the help of the utility mentioned in the article. I'd be mostly interested in how to make an USB drive with Slax which could be universal to boot on both MAC and regular PCs, that could be beneficial for all Slax users. I'll be happy for you suggestions! :) Thank you.
User comments Mark De Silva2013-07-08 12:55Hi Tomas, Slax has been able to boot from Intel based Macs for some time? My bioinformatics distro has been used by students to boot from their Macs. There were issues with drivers (had to make lzms specifically for the Macs) but other than that I don't recall any problems. This was with Slax 6 by the way, haven't tried with 7 as yet.
Martin Pavlik2013-07-09 09:09Hi Thomas,
today I've tried to boot MB air via usb created by copying slax on usb and running the batch file on windows machine. That did not work.
So I've tried the tutorial you posted, but the tool for mac just created empty efi directory on the flash drive :(
I am willing to do more tests if will have a clue how to proceed.
hey tomas, have you heard about this https://github.com/SUSE/hackweek/wiki/Lightweight-KDE-based-desktop ?
Barry Hoffman2013-07-24 08:22This is the Mac Linux USB Loader, a tool allowing you to take an ISO of a Linux distribution and make it boot using EFI. It requires a single USB drive formatted as FAT with at least 2 GB free recommended. Live interior 3d pro mac. Mac Linux USB Loader is available under the 3-clause BSD license.
The tool is necessary to make certain Linux distributions boot that do not have EFI booting support. Many distributions are adding this with the release of Windows 8, but it has not been finalized and is still nonstandard by most distributions. Many common distributions are supported, like Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
If you wish to contribute to the code or fork the repository, please do so. All development currently takes place on the master branch, and this is where code should be submitted for pull requests. The legacy branch contains the code for pre-3.0 versions of Mac Linux USB Loader; it will not be maintained and is present for historical interest only.
I created this tool, if you care, for several reasons:
- None of the other tools available (esp. unetbootin) feel native and operate as you would expect on the Mac platform.
- None of the other methods of which I am aware have the ability to make the archives boot on Intel Macs.
- It was personally a pain in the neck getting Linux distributions to boot via USB on Macs.
That being said, it does have a few shortcomings:
- Linux fails to have graphics on some Macs (i.e Macbook Pros with nVidia graphics), which in some cases prevents boot, but this is not necessarily an issue with Mac Linux USB Loader as much as it is an issue with the video drivers that ship with most distributions. Luckily, with Enterprise, which has been included with Mac Linux USB Loader since 2.0, you can use persistence to install the necessary video drivers on distributions like Ubuntu, helping to alleviate the issue.
Building from Source
Free pro tools plugins autotune. Requirements: Xcode 9, OS X 10.12 SDK. OS X 10.8+ required to run built app
- Clone from git:
git clone https://github.com/SevenBits/Mac-Linux-USB-Loader.git
- Run
pod install
(requires Cocoapods). - Open
Mac Linux USB Loader.xcworkspace
and do an archive build, or simply run and debug it with Xcode
Mac Linux USB Loader utilizes the OS X app sandbox, and so it requires that it be code-signed to use all features. This should not be a problem if you are a registered Apple developer.
Acknowledgements
- Used some icons from KDE's Oxygen
- Mac Linux USB Loader icon by Todd Gaunt
- Special thanks to Leander Lismond for translating the application into Dutch!
- Special thanks to Stephan Rusch for translating the application into German!
- Special thanks to Cai Argimon for translating the application into Spanish!
- Special thanks to Daniele Isoni for translating the application into Italian!
- Special thanks to Uhucream (@TK_CH291) for translating the application into Japanese!
- Special thanks to Thor-Jakob G. Løberg for translating the application into Norwegian Bokmål!
- Special thanks to lightsing for translating the application into Simplified Chinese.
Boot from USB on MAC
I tried to boot Slax on a MAC computer from USB stick long time ago and I wasn't successful, it seemed that MAC computers don't boot from USB at all. Few weeks ago the makeuseof website published an article about making a Linux distro bootable from USB on MAC. The article is here:
I'm not able to test this myself, since I don't have MAC (and definitely will not buy one in near future), so I would appreciate if there is anybody who has MAC computer and is willing to give it a go and try to boot Slax from USB on MAC, with or without the help of the utility mentioned in the article. I'd be mostly interested in how to make an USB drive with Slax which could be universal to boot on both MAC and regular PCs, that could be beneficial for all Slax users. I'll be happy for you suggestions! :) Thank you.
User comments Mark De Silva2013-07-08 12:55Hi Tomas, Slax has been able to boot from Intel based Macs for some time? My bioinformatics distro has been used by students to boot from their Macs. There were issues with drivers (had to make lzms specifically for the Macs) but other than that I don't recall any problems. This was with Slax 6 by the way, haven't tried with 7 as yet.
Martin Pavlik2013-07-09 09:09Hi Thomas,
today I've tried to boot MB air via usb created by copying slax on usb and running the batch file on windows machine. That did not work.
So I've tried the tutorial you posted, but the tool for mac just created empty efi directory on the flash drive :(
I am willing to do more tests if will have a clue how to proceed.
hey tomas, have you heard about this https://github.com/SUSE/hackweek/wiki/Lightweight-KDE-based-desktop ?
Barry Hoffman2013-07-24 08:22Hi-
I can confirm that Slax boots successfully on the latest Mac versions (built Winter 2012 or more recently). I was able to get it to work with EFI as well which eliminates to need to run bootinst.bat. With the Linux Foundations UEFI boot loader, it even works on Windows 8 machines that have Secure Boot enabled.
Best regards,
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Mac Linux Usb Loader For Mac Os
2013-07-26 02:45Project Byzantium worked around this problem by using the isohybrid utility from syslinux to turn the ISO into a hybrid ISO. It was then dd'd onto a USB key and booted from a couple of relatively modern Macbooks (MacBook Air and MacBook, both manufactured in early 2013). Here's a writeup of everything that went into the effort:
http://project-byzantium.org/isc-grant-milestone-achieved-v0-3-2a-runs-on-macs/
It is possible even without additional loaders, just put built kernel efi image into /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI on FAT32 usb flash - then most of UEFI computers should run automatically this image. No need additional bat or sh scripts - just unpack archive into your flash, and boot!
Igor2013-07-30 07:22Descargar adobe para mac. Where else is loaded Slax-weirdly interesting.
It does not load after 7.05-this is bullshit.
7.09-gamma should be checked up on the washing machine.
Hi, try booting slax from a computer but the monitor does not take me, I think it may be the monitor, turn it down on a notebook, from a friend, with windows 7 and I tried it was wrong, but when I move to my pc, the stay in black screen, I can see when it loads but when it comes to the desktop everything is black exept the pointer, if the monitor is old but before I could use,
In? Change the drivers?
A note antrior.I do Booting from USB
Porter Fish2013-08-20 05:08If someone could open a discussion of this in the forum and post an example of a working setup for Macs that would be greatly appreciated.
Dewayne Eddie CozartBoot Mac From Linux Usb
2013-08-23 13:45The instructions for putting Slax on usb, hdd, don't work. Always can't find kernel. Please update instructions.
Rohitasch2014-01-24 19:33Install rEFIt on a Mac and reboot twice. Plug in any USB boot drive (with Slax on it) and reboot. At the new boot screen installed by rEFIt, choose Slax.
Rohitasch2014-01-24 19:35Here's rEFIt:
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities/rEFIt.shtml
Mac nc25 foundation. M-Audio on Monday posted new drivers for its USB and FireWire line of peripherals for Intel Mac-based musicians.Drivers available today include the Fast Track USB, Fast Track Pro, MobilePre USB, JamLab, Transit USB, Audiophile USB, FireWire Solo, FireWire Audiophile, FireWire 410, FireWire 1814, ProjectMix I/O, Ozonic, M-Audio Ozone, Oxygen 8, MIDISPORT 2x2, MIDISPORT 1x1, MIDISPORT 4x4, MIDISPORT 2x4 and MIDISPORT 8x8/s.The driver release brings Intel-based Mac compatibility to all non-PCI M-Audio interfaces and controllers, the company said.
Usb Loader For Mac
Luana Gustavo BRAZIL2014-06-04 18:25Save Friends! guys . I loved the site, including the OS plus stable . slax is comfortable for me . I'm new to linux, and here too. help me please . can not install from the conventional apt-get much less in the other packs . not to mention the difficulty I have when I open my pen drive in slax, and does not recognize when I insert other usb on pc. = / Sorry for the ignorance, 'but thank you very much for your help . a hug! Grateful now.
Andras Kovacs2015-06-04 16:22Mac Linux Usb Loader
Cd to 1 8 mm. I've managed to make the slax-English-US-7.0.8-x86_64.zip distro to boot on a Mac mini (late 2012). What I had to do:
1) format the (16 MB) USB stick with FAT32 (on Ubuntu Linux)
2) using parted, set the boot flag on the FAT32 partition
3) unzip the slax distro onto the USB stick
4) because the bootinst.sh can't be made executable with chmod (due to the filesystem being FAT32), I've copied bootinst.sh over to bootinst.bat (which already had executable bit set), then renamed bootinst.sh to bootinst0.sh, then renamed bootinst.bat to bootinst.sh
5) ran # sudo ./bootinst.sh
and after that I was able to boot using the USB stick on the Mac.