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["c.cobb" <chris.a.cobb@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would really like to help test this. Not sure what a "standard"
mackbook is, but I have a white model that has a 2.1GHz Intel Core 2
Duo.

I've been having many problems creating a USB that is bootable by my
older PC, but booting Ubuntu on this macbook works really well. After
long searching, I ran across a post with an EFI boot subdir tar file
attached, but different from yours. That one had three files:
bootx64.efi, bootx64.icns, and the grub.cfg. All I did was to copy these
into a /efi/boot subdir (on a 2GB stick with a single FAT32 partition),
and voila, the USB was recognized on the Mac when I booted holding the
option key. And no, I did not install rEFIt.

Until I screwed up yet another USB stick, I was successfully booting
Ubuntu on my MacBook and my PC from the same stick, so I know that this
is possible. I am trying to get this working again! Still haven't solved
my LiveUSB stick creation problems on the PC, and was hoping that maybe
your "make_live_device.sh" script would help point me in the right
direction.

After the USB stick booted Ubuntu on my MacBook, I tried it on my
neighbor's MacBook Pro but without success. The grub menu came up, but
after that it just hung there. Seems to take a long time to boot on my
Mac, so maybe I just didn't wait long enough?

Let me know what I can do to help. Simply install PureDyne and try
creating a USB? or something else?

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liveUSB keys do not boot on Mactels
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/508802
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Status in Puredyne liveCD/DVD/USB/HD: Confirmed

Bug description:
They just don't:

 1) Why?
 2) How do we solve this once and for all?