Comment 6 for bug 508802

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?