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1. OCZ SSD UTILITY UPDATE FIRMWARE BY USB BOOT HANGS HOW TO
2. OCZ SSD UTILITY UPDATE FIRMWARE BY USB BOOT HANGS FOR MAC
3. OCZ SSD UTILITY UPDATE FIRMWARE BY USB BOOT HANGS 64 BIT
4. OCZ SSD UTILITY UPDATE FIRMWARE BY USB BOOT HANGS SOFTWARE

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OCZ SSD UTILITY UPDATE FIRMWARE BY USB BOOT HANGS FOR MAC

Don’t forget to enable TRIM! Any questions?įeel free to ask me anything and please say hello if you are the creator of the tools behind „ISO-2-USB EFI-Booter for Mac 0.01 beta“ you saved my life.

Nothing special.Īfter you’ve booted into Ubuntu just follow the official guide. I used a 2GB USB thumb drive a friend of mine forgot at my place.This whole „/efi/boot“-thing is pretty straight forward and seems to be part of EFI specifications but I can’t prove this.I don’t know where „ISO-2-USB EFI-Booter for Mac 0.01 beta“ comes from… Maybe it is extracted from rEFIt oder even elilo.This shouldn’t be restricted to Ubuntu, but I never tried another Distribution as I was veeeeery glad that at least one thing worked.Your USB Drive should be able to carry 4 partitions in MBR, but I tried to evade any confusion.But in case you wish to do so I guess you ought use „bootIA32.efi“ from „ISO-2-USB EFI-Booter for Mac 0.01 beta“. Boot from your USB Drive by clicking on the little arrow below it. You should see „EFI Boot“ which has a nice little USB Drive Symbol on it in the appearing boot menu. You’re ready to reboot: During the startup of your Mac hold Alt/Option.You should have 2 files on your USB drive now: bootX64.efi and boot.iso – both in /efi/boot.Copy the Ubuntu image into /efi/boot/ on the USB Drive, too and rename it to „boot.iso“.Copy the bootX64.efi from „ISO-2-USB EFI-Booter for Mac 0.01 beta“ into /efi/boot on your USB Drive.Create the following directories on your USB drive: /efi and /efi/boot.Format a USB drive to provide a single FAT32 partition featuring MBR.

Get the ISO-2-USB EFI-Booter for Mac 0.01 beta and a recent version of Ubuntu Desktop Edition 64bit.

OCZ SSD UTILITY UPDATE FIRMWARE BY USB BOOT HANGS 64 BIT

Here’s what I did to boot Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop Edition 64 bit as a live system from an external USB Drive on a MacBook Pro 13’3 early 2011 that was equipped with a 320GB HDD and a 120GB OCZ Agility 3 :

OCZ SSD UTILITY UPDATE FIRMWARE BY USB BOOT HANGS HOW TO

I found it in a German Mac Forum and it comes with a very detailed description how to use it but this description didn’t work for me. Okay, I found an EFI-loader that has been able to boot nearly every version of Ubuntu and is very easy to setup and it even doesn’t need rEFIt. My Solution How To Boot A Linux Live System As mentioned earlier boot processes crashed or froze.

(Update: Things have changed, but I still don’t want to mess around, just to update my SSD) A common workaround seems to be rEFIt but it isn’t compatible with OS X Lion and I don’t like to modify system tools. Everything crashed or froze or didn’t even show up in the boot menu. I experienced a decent lack of EFI support when I used Linux live systems.

OCZ SSD UTILITY UPDATE FIRMWARE BY USB BOOT HANGS SOFTWARE

Interested in installing Linux on your Lion-driven-Mac permanently? Go here. But you didn’t buy a 1000$+ combination of hard- and software just to exchange it’s superior personal-computing software, or did you? Some Problems I Experienced