are you confident in your USB boot device? How did you make it?
1. What brand of flash drive are you using?
2. Did you hold alt when booting up the macbook and then choose the flash drive?
3. Tell me what options you have when holding alt at the startup and what external devices you have plugged into your MacBook.
4. What happens when you try to boot from the USB drive?
Thank you
I'm using sandisk 8GB cruser slice, I followed this guide to make my mavericks USB flash drive - http://www.tips-and-tricks-in-mavericks.com/how-to-create-an-os-x-mavericks-install-drive/ - looked easy enough
yes, the USB flash drive comes up on the list as OS X Base System (I really don't think it would make a difference if you rename the USB flash drive), also got Mac HD and Recovery HD on that list
NO external devices plugged into macbook other than the USB flash drive
When I boot from USB drive, apple logo comes up, I can see the USB flashing but then it just goes into my login screen..... I also replaced the boot.efi and replaced the files in both system/../... and usr/../... folders and also put the board id into the OSinstall.mpkg and InstallableMachine.plist files - all this done on the USB flash drive and NOT on the system itself.
I'm starting to think this cannot be done on just a standard macbook 2,1 (AND NOT MACBOOK PRO which this thread seems to be relating to) because of the GMA 950 graphics accleration, you'd experience issues like not being able to adjust brightness and no sound coming up.
do you have screenshots of your current macbook settings, just so I can verify that you're using a macbook late 2006 model? I've been through other threads but that all seems to relate to the macbook PROS and not the actual white/black macbooks themselves.