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Comment 3 for bug 633983

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Przemek K. (azrael) wrote : Re: can't boot Meerkat beta amd64 livecd on core 2 duo macbook

I can confirm this bug on Macbook 2,1 - I tried to boot latest Maverick daily live CD (64-bit amd64 iso) and it failed - rEFIt recognised it as 3 entries (Linux, Legacy OS, and some EFI64 entry). The first 2 result in a black screen with:
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Select CD-ROM Boot Type :
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The keyboard becomes unresponsive here and I can't go any further.
The third option says that it can't find a proper EFI image and offers to go back to rEFIt.

Similar bugs in Fedora/Red Hat:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527443
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540839

Also here you have some useful information on the same problem with booting 64-bit Windows Vista/7:
http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-631814.html

I don't think it is a bug with Linux - it's probably IsoLinux.