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ixtab · 03-05-2013, 01:20 PM

Oh, I forgot: You could also try rEFIt. See here for instructions (the only relevant part is the rEFIt one, of course). But I'm not sure whether it works without BootCamp.

Regarding dd: it's normal for it to take a while. You can try to speed it up by setting the blocksize (bs=4096 seems a good choice generally). And of course, make sure that you are writing to the DEVICE, not to a partition on it. (Yes, that will overwrite everything on the USB stick).

03-05-2013, 01:20 PM	#12
ixtab (offline) Posts: 2,907 Karma: 6736094 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: K3, K4, K5, KPW, KPW2	Oh, I forgot: You could also try rEFIt. See here for instructions (the only relevant part is the rEFIt one, of course). But I'm not sure whether it works without BootCamp. Regarding dd: it's normal for it to take a while. You can try to speed it up by setting the blocksize (bs=4096 seems a good choice generally). And of course, make sure that you are writing to the DEVICE, not to a partition on it. (Yes, that will overwrite everything on the USB stick). Last edited by ixtab; 03-05-2013 at 01:41 PM.