


Use the arrow keys to highlight the Linux drive, and press “ Return/Enter“. Here, you will see all of the drives that your Mac can be booted up from, including the “Macintosh HD” which contains macOS Sierra. Most probably, you will only have two options available, one of which will be “Macintosh HD” and other will be the Linux USB drive dubbed “ Windows or EFI“. Then, press the power button, and press and hold the “option” key, until you reach the “ Startup Manager“.Ģ. Keep the Live USB plugged in to your Mac, and shut it down. If you don’t know how to open Startup Manager on Mac, just follow the steps given below:ġ. Now that the Live USB has been created, let’s see how we can boot into it, using the Mac Startup Manager. If you want any changes you made to persist between reboots, you can do that by setting a value under “ space used to preserve files across reboots (Ubuntu only)“. So, if you install apps, and create documents in Ubuntu while it is in Live mode, they will not be available the next time you fire up the OS with its Live USB. Windows 10 is a very specific bootable media, so the process is a bit involved. Windows 10 bootable USB vs Linux ISO USB. All of these need to be done in the Terminal app. Note : By default, when you shut down a Live Session, any changes you make are deleted. Here are the steps I had to take on my MacBook, originally procedure was written in macOS High Sierra, but I tested it in MacOS Mojave 10.14.2 as well. UNetbootin will now work through a couple of steps, and create a bootable Live USB that you can use to boot into Linux, on your Mac.
