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Was looking at making a bootable USB drive for Macs. Everything I tried seems to use/base off Ubuntu so far. Ubuntu 16.04 doesn't boot on my test Mac is the same way it didn't in 2014, which is to say I have to poke the video card settings in GRUB or I get a black screen. Ubuntu 17.10 doesn't boot 2011 Mac in a: Couldn't get size: 0x800000000000000e MODSIGN: Couldn't get UEFI db list Couldn't get size: 0x800000000000000e Maybe https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2377181 ? If anyone knows what that is please shout. Ubuntu 16.04 then doesn't load the packages for the non-free WiFi cards. This is all well trodden paths and documented on many how to make your Mac run Ubuntu blog posts. Before I dive into become Mac hardware guru, and Grub expert (I already seem to be ahead of the person who wrote the Ubuntu tutorial on understanding partitioning, and I don't understand the partitioning), have any liveboot distros been here before me, and embedded this sort of Mac hardware knowledge into grub/package selection? I found some Mac flavoured LiveBoot distros, but they had just taken what Ubuntu have done. Going to kick Kali in the vague hope that if anyone has sorted the WiFi packages, and the toolset wouldn't be a bad choice for my plans. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq