Is it possible to install elementary OS on a flash drive without loading a bootloader for a Mac?
Create a live drive with the latest version of elementary. I proceeded to form another drive with 200 mb for an EFI partition and the rest for an ext4 with root.
Since I did not find in the new installer io.elementary.installer the option to not install bootloader, I opened a terminal console and ran:
sudo apt get ubiquity
Then I ran the ubiquity as installer with the no bootloader option
ubiquity -b
I managed to install elementary completely on my USB and then I installed refind on the EFI partition following this procedure:
We will be using a super awesome 3rd party boot manager rEFInd. It can detect any operating systems installed in EFI mode and boot them.
Download rEFInd zip and extract it Open Terminal and navigate to rEFInd directory Run diskutil list and find the name of your flash drive’s EFI partition. (In my case /dev/disk2s1) Run ./refind-install --usedefault /dev/diskXXX (replace XXX with appropriate name)
Then I rebooted and pressed the option key to boot the efi drive which ran the refind and I was able to boot the system, but I always got the password error. I repeated the process several times and it always gave a password error. It was not the keyboard layout, I even tried with the on screen keyboard.
Is there any way to install and boot an elementary OS on a Mac flash drive or should I move to Ubuntu?
I'm not talking about lives with persistence
Thanks
