Raspberry Pi reveals the final PCB design for the $25 PC

Re:Raspberry Pi reveals the final PCB design for the $25 PC by kennywinker on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @11:59PM (#3241867)

I tossed a ubuntu cd in my MacBook Pro, rebooted holding down option, and it booted up just fine. Could it be easier?

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Re:Raspberry Pi reveals the final PCB design for the $25 PC by DanBC on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @02:13AM (#3242187)

One thing that could be easier is booting MacBook Pro from USB stick. A Unetbootin that works on Mac, and builds usb sticks bootable on Macs, would be good.

Or maybe bootcamp could mention Linux.

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Re:Raspberry Pi reveals the final PCB design for the $25 PC by 101000101 on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @03:28AM (#3242330)

My preference is to use only the bootloader for the OS I'm booting, as opposed to a "boot manager" that presents a menu of OS's. I avoid using chaining techniques the way something like GRUB does. And I don't use MBR's if I don't have to. Disklabels alone will suffice. So the stick contains only an OS-specific bootloader and the OS, usually just a kernel with embedded ramdisk or a loadable kernel module containing a filesystem and userland. I keep it very simple.

This works well for me with PC's. Would this work with today's x86 Macs?

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