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1st post.  Hi everyone!

I don't have a mac, but am running a hackintosh.  I've also been running my
installations off a fat32 thumb drive with grub2.  Finally to make things
more complicated to install ubuntu, I also use LVM.

A few things I've learned,
1) kernel switch "iso-scan/filename=thumbdrivedir/quanta-desktop-i386.iso"
2) alternate iso does not support the above switch but there is a workaround
3) grub2 supports efi & gpt partitions

so if you want to install & boot from a thumb drive then you should be able
to.  say you have grub installed on your thumb drive.  try:

set root=(hd0,1)
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0.6-generic ro root=/dev/sdb1
initrd /boot/initrd-3.5.0.6-generic






On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Ron Mitchell <rm2892@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm still attempting to find a way of installing Lubuntu AMD64+Mac to an
> external USB drive. There are all sorts of posts on the net dealing with
> efi and the issues associated with OS X Lion. To complicate things, as
> mentioned in a previous message, I have Bootcamp installed on my MacBook
> and through it, Windows 8 pre-release.
>
> I'm reluctant to touch my internal hard drive, hence the idea of using an
> external USB drive for testing Lubuntu.  However I've yet to find a way to
> make that work.
>
> A question.
>
> There is WUBI, which I've tried. The installation to my external USB drive
> appeared to go ok, but failed to boot on completion.
>
> I noticed that WUBI wanted to download a Lubuntu image from the net before
> installing, even though I already had the latest disk present in my DVD-Rom
> drive. Any reason for that?
>
> Cheers
> Ron Mitchell
>
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