[Bug 1955611] Re: Unable to boot Live USB on Mac

[Scott]

Thanks for your reply Chris,

The software used to create the media was rufus 3.17, following this
tutorial: https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows

The media boots without error from within a virtual machine via plopboot and plopkexec, but not on bare metal of the same hardware, and successfully boots on a Lenovo Thinkcentre M700. 
I'm not sure why the media is failing to boot only on bare metal for the Macbook. 

If there are any other validation steps I can take I would be glad to do
so.

The issue has been posted on ask ubuntu and the suggestions so far have
been to validate the media: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1383225/how-
to-boot-from-a-live-usb-stick-on-a-mac

I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards, Scott.

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Title:
  Unable to boot Live USB on Mac

Status in casper package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Live USB boot reaches grub but fails some time after and fails to
  completely boot on Macbook Pro 11,3 with Ubuntu 20.04.3

  After selecting 'Ubuntu' or 'Ubuntu with safe graphics' the splash
  screen shows, and after a while the screen is filled with lines of
  `/init: line 49: can't open /dev/sdb: No medium found` with one line
  at the bottom of `Unable to find a medium container a live file
  system. Attempt interactive netboot from a URL?`

  Booting with debug option from grub does not give keyboard access. I
  have attached a photograph of the output at boot time to this ticket
  as extracting logs from the system does not seem possible.

  Full hardware specs of the exact model can be found here:
  https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-
  core-i7-2.5-15-dual-graphics-mid-2014-retina-display-specs.html

  The iso file used is ubuntu-20.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso

  The SHA256 of the downloaded iso file and MD5 sum of all files on the USB using the included md5um.txt have been confirmed OK.
  All USB ports on the machine, and multiple USB devices have been tested.
  The Live USB install boots to Ubuntu desktop when run from within a virtual machine under VMWare Player 16.

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