


There were often complications along the way, to the point where I refrained from upgrading to Lion. We'll cover this in a later step." However, they do not actually, "cover this in a later step.Since OS X Lion was released, if you wanted to build a Hackintosh (and I would like to think the tutorial on this site is the most comprehensive how-to out there), you had to get your hands on a copy of Snow Leopard, install that, and then upgrade to Lion. This is because Apple's ‘Startup Manager', summoned by holding the Option/alt (⌥) key when booting, won't detect the USB stick without a specific partition table and layout. COMMENT: The first page of instructions on the above Ubuntu tutorial state, "There are a few additional considerations when booting the USB stick on Apple hardware.RESULT: After installing and flashing a USB stat-up disk through Etcher on the MacBook Air, again the USB was not recognized, and only the Mac HD icon appeared when holding ALT/Option key during reboot.RESULT: The suggested utility for creating the bootable disk, "Etcher" ( ), will not run on the MacBook Pro.RESULT: On the MacBook Air, I could create a bootable USB through the UNetbootin interface, but again the USB was not recognized, and only the Mac HD icon appeared when holding ALT/Option key during reboot.I tried USBs formatted as both FAT32 and a Mac journaled (GUID), but neither of these were discoverable through UNetbootin.

RESULT: On the MacBook Pro, could not create a bootable USB, as no USB device was listed/available in the menu items of the UNetbootin interface (although the Mac did have the USB icon on the desktop).Tried to create a bootable USB using UNetbootin ( ).Also reviewed and followed this video covering the same process ( ), again same results, USB is not recognized as a bootable device when restarting the MacBook Pro.RESULT: No errors reported during this process when done on both the MacBook Pro and MacBook air, however the USB is not recognized as a bootable device when restarting the MacBook Pro: only the Mac HD icon appears when holding ALT/Option key during reboot."How to install Ubuntu on MacBook using USB Stick",.I have attempted the following on both the above machine, and on a newer MacBookAir6.2 running, OSX 10.9.5:
