Libreelec 12 beta does not want to install on Macbook Pro 2012

AllegroBus · March 30, 2024 at 6:55 AM

When i try to boot in to the USB drive on my Macbook pro, the Macbook boot menu freezes and gets stuck until the mac runs out of battery. I have already tried multiple USB drives, USB 3.0, and 2.0.

**chewitt** · March 30, 2024 at 8:45 AM

Older Apple hardware often pays lip-service to EFI specs and might refuse to work with syslinux. Unless you fancy experimenting with tools like "rEFInd" (a great tool but sometimes hard to understand) the easiest option will be to experiment with a recent Ubuntu LiveUSB to see if that boots. If it does; the version of grub Ubuntu is using on the LiveUSB can can be installed to our boot USB (replacing/overwriting syslinux). You may need to create grub boot config/menu files.

Two further comments:

a) Laptops are not and never have been target hardware for LE, and Apple laptops full of quirks are no exception.

b) LE isn't going to magically add capabilities or performance improvements over the native macOS Kodi app.