Interestingly, whether the USB stick is partitioned using MBR or GPT doesn't make a difference.Īfter that, the MBA's EFI bootloader (hold down Option while turning on) shows two items called "EFI boot", the first of which should refer to the HFS+ partition. So I used Disk Utility to create a HFS+ as well as a FAT partition on the USB key and copied the contents of the GParted image into both partitions using $ pax -rwĪ possible optimisation would be to try and work out which files exactly are really required on each partition, but since GParted unly uses about 120MB space shouldn't be an issue even for small USB sticks. However, only HFS+ partitions appear to be attached in a way that GRUB can see, but GParted's initrd cannot mount HFS+ (or even exFAT) partitions, saying hfsplus not found in p or exfat not found in p, respectively. I wanted to boot GParted-0.13.0-1 (kernel 3.2.0-3-486) from a USB stick on my MacBook Air 11" (late 2010) using the EFI bootloader which appears when holding down Option while turning on the laptop.
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