For some time now, I’ve had a misbehaving Mac in the shop. It’s a pretty good box – 4 processor cores, 12 GB of RAM, a terabyte of disk. But, it’s not been playing ball at all well.<\/p>\n
When given to me the box had MacOS on it (I forget which version) but it needed to be rebuilt. The Apple folks were wayyyyyy less than helpful, so I abandoned the idea of rebuilding it as a Mac.<\/p>\n
Linux was the first attempt, and that went fairly well. I got CentOS 6.9 into the box with little trouble. However, once running CentOS, I could not get it to boot from any other DVD. I would get this weird prompt where it would ask me to “Select CD-ROM Boot Type”, but would take nothing whatsoever for an answer.<\/p>\n
After a great many attempts to get it to boot off the internal DVD drive, desperation became the mother of invention. I grabbed a USB DVD burner and put the disk that wouldn’t boot into it. Booted up, first try!<\/p>\n
I then installed ESXi-6.0 on the box, having determined that 6.5 won’t install. I installed it to a thumb drive, and sure enough the Mac booted off the thumb drive as pretty as you please.<\/p>\n
So, it appears that to make a Mac behave, you should boot it via USB. You’re welcome.<\/p>\n
Epilog: after more experience booting macs, it’s clear now that while macs will boot to a CD, they won’t boot to DVDs for some reason. I think the reason is that mac install discs are not booted to. They are run, presumably from within Free-BSD. But, I’m not a mac person, so take that with a grain of salt.<\/p>\n
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