I have a 4GB SD card on which I'd like to use like a Linux "LiveCD" (except of course it's not a CD) for my MacBook Pro. Any idea how I could do that? I'd prefer to not use rEFIt.
To boot Mac OS from an SD card it needs to have a GUID Partition Table and the OS must be installed on a HFS+ filesystem. I suppose I'd have to mimic a similar setup for Linux.
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Turns out the computer only wants an blessed EFI boot program, so installing rEFIt on the SD card is a viable option. I simply downloaded rEFIt, transferred the
efifolder to the root of a small (15MB) HFS+ partition, and run/efi/refit/enable.sh. Boom! SD card bootable, and rEFIt should know how to handle the OSes on it.