Macbook Air 4,1 Boot from USB
Thanks for reading. Recently, I decided to nuke my OSX partition in favor of Ubuntu. Yay! However, I cannot figure out how to boot from a usb if the hard drive should fail. Boo! It used to be a simple key combination: press and hold the option key. Of course, this doesn't work now. With all things OSX removed (I did a clean install from a USB [18.04]), I'm not sure how to do this if there is an emergency in the future. For example, I had to hard reboot last week and then needed to Fcsk disk. I was able to, but if that had failed, I wouldn't have been able to get anything running. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks again!
The macbook air is a mid2011 if it helps.
boot grub2 usb macbook
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Thanks for reading. Recently, I decided to nuke my OSX partition in favor of Ubuntu. Yay! However, I cannot figure out how to boot from a usb if the hard drive should fail. Boo! It used to be a simple key combination: press and hold the option key. Of course, this doesn't work now. With all things OSX removed (I did a clean install from a USB [18.04]), I'm not sure how to do this if there is an emergency in the future. For example, I had to hard reboot last week and then needed to Fcsk disk. I was able to, but if that had failed, I wouldn't have been able to get anything running. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks again!
The macbook air is a mid2011 if it helps.
boot grub2 usb macbook
asked Jan 3 at 10:10
ricoNomadricoNomad
1
Possible duplicate of Boot from USB on a Macbook
– Marc Vanhoomissen
Jan 3 at 11:49
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Thanks for reading. Recently, I decided to nuke my OSX partition in favor of Ubuntu. Yay! However, I cannot figure out how to boot from a usb if the hard drive should fail. Boo! It used to be a simple key combination: press and hold the option key. Of course, this doesn't work now. With all things OSX removed (I did a clean install from a USB [18.04]), I'm not sure how to do this if there is an emergency in the future. For example, I had to hard reboot last week and then needed to Fcsk disk. I was able to, but if that had failed, I wouldn't have been able to get anything running. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks again!
The macbook air is a mid2011 if it helps.
boot grub2 usb macbook
asked Jan 3 at 10:10
ricoNomadricoNomad
1
Thanks for reading. Recently, I decided to nuke my OSX partition in favor of Ubuntu. Yay! However, I cannot figure out how to boot from a usb if the hard drive should fail. Boo! It used to be a simple key combination: press and hold the option key. Of course, this doesn't work now. With all things OSX removed (I did a clean install from a USB [18.04]), I'm not sure how to do this if there is an emergency in the future. For example, I had to hard reboot last week and then needed to Fcsk disk. I was able to, but if that had failed, I wouldn't have been able to get anything running. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks again!
The macbook air is a mid2011 if it helps.
boot grub2 usb macbook
boot grub2 usb macbook
asked Jan 3 at 10:10
ricoNomadricoNomad
1
asked Jan 3 at 10:10
ricoNomadricoNomad
1
asked Jan 3 at 10:10
ricoNomadricoNomad
1
asked Jan 3 at 10:10
ricoNomadricoNomad
1
asked Jan 3 at 10:10
ricoNomadricoNomad
1
1
Possible duplicate of Boot from USB on a Macbook
– Marc Vanhoomissen
Jan 3 at 11:49
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Possible duplicate of Boot from USB on a Macbook
– Marc Vanhoomissen
Jan 3 at 11:49
Possible duplicate of Boot from USB on a Macbook
– Marc Vanhoomissen
Jan 3 at 11:49
Possible duplicate of Boot from USB on a Macbook
– Marc Vanhoomissen
Jan 3 at 11:49
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Possible duplicate of Boot from USB on a Macbook
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