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Make sure SecureBoot is off...
And more than likely, youll need to turn off UEFI, or enable legacy mode.. This is in your BIOS.


If a dual boot with Win10, may want to make sure fastboot is also off, this is in Windows..

I have downloaded the ISO a couple times and cannot boot to it with either my Windows machine or my iMac. I will try it again with the Windows machine to make sure.

Well, one quick update;

Apparently it is my iMac as the Windows laptop boots to it fine.

I am just not sure why other distros burn and boot on the iMac but not Linux Lite.

Hi All,

I went ahead and purchased Mac Linux USB Loader for $5 and the only thing it was able to do was give me an EFI Boot icon but will not boot the ISO. When I was creating the USB it stated that the LL.iso was not an EFI enabled kernel/iso so I am guessing that is why it is not working on my iMac. I am not really sure there is anything more that can be done at this point but I wanted to give an update and appreciate all the input.

Have you checked the bios, you can turn off uefi/efi. This is usually done by enabling legacy mode.

If your unsure the is a beta LL UEFI build that you can download and install to usb. The same way.

**Update resized fonts on above

UEFI build here - http://repo.linuxliteos.com/uefitests/4.2/

[member=5414]firenice03[/member] It's not always possible to change to legacy mode because there is no such option in bios. Like in my case. I just bought Acer Spin , to make it LL machine, but it simply ends on WTF? Only uefi bootable. No legacy mode. Maybe it's possible, but not like turn on/off.

Hi,

Pretty sure iMacs are UEFI only since Apple likes to "push" technology on users .
I dont have an iMac handy but I'm not even sure they have BIOSes...

Using the UEFI beta build from Jerry will get you better results.

Cheers!

(11-23-2018, 10:28 AM)zygmunto link Wrote: [ -> ][member=5414]firenice03[/member] It's not always possible to change to legacy mode because there is no such option in bios. Like in my case. I just bought Acer Spin , to make it LL machine, but it simply ends on WTF? Only uefi bootable. No legacy mode. Maybe it's possible, but not like turn on/off.

Rest of my posts font size was tiny, to which I suggested the beta uefi build for this case...
Which should work. Although I haven't installed linux on a mac..

Thank you all for the input!!



Okay, the Beta UEFI build was bootable and worked fine!


Now, my next questions. Presently I have been using KDE Neon and want to switch to LL if possible but here is the quandary. When I do a speed test on LL it only gives me 20mbps and when I do the speed test on KDE Neon it gives me 65mbps. Is it possible to get the same drivers from KDE Neon working in LL?


Attached is a picture of the drivers listed from KDE Neon.