Bootable usb drive won't boot!

[wflaw]

I'm sure this has been beat to death, however... I have a late 2006 macbook core2duo2,1. My end game is to get yosemite or better running on it. I have found the os x hackers yosemite thread. At this point I am trying to put on Lion. I made a usb bootable drive but when I try to hold option key and boot into startup manager , nothing happens. A short while ago I booted from a DVD and installed snow leopard so it will boot. I installed Leopard on a new hard drive also, and another partition I installed Linux. so now I've erased all but the startup of 10.6.8. I guess a question is: Is there any way to "force" the usb to boot? I now have a backup of 10.6.8 (on a usb drive) and yosemite bootable drive and also Lion bootable drive. I'd like to be able to use them. I don't know if it is a coincedence, but, when I install a blanc dvd in the optical drive to burn, it dosen't show up either. I figured (with the help of the internet) to have it open finder then it is on the desktop but not in the disk utitlity. I made a burn folder and put 10.7 in it, it remains to be seen if it will boot or not, that's next. I'm sorry this is so long but I sure could use the help.

Thanks
Walt

EDIT: I didn't make a good bootable DVD of 10.7. Doing a burn that way does not format the disk for Mac

 

[wflaw]

I'm sure this has been beat to death, however... I have a late 2006 macbook core2duo2,1. My end game is to get yosemite or better running on it. I have found the os x hackers yosemite thread. At this point I am trying to put on Lion. I made a usb bootable drive but when I try to hold option key and boot into startup manager , nothing happens. A short while ago I booted from a DVD and installed snow leopard so it will boot. I installed Leopard on a new hard drive also, and another partition I installed Linux. so now I've erased all but the startup of 10.6.8. I guess a question is: Is there any way to "force" the usb to boot? I now have a backup of 10.6.8 (on a usb drive) and yosemite bootable drive and also Lion bootable drive. I'd like to be able to use them. I don't know if it is a coincedence, but, when I install a blanc dvd in the optical drive to burn, it dosen't show up either. I figured (with the help of the internet) to have it open finder then it is on the desktop but not in the disk utitlity. I made a burn folder and put 10.7 in it, it remains to be seen if it will boot or not, that's next. I'm sorry this is so long but I sure could use the help.

Thanks
Walt

EDIT: I didn't make a good bootable DVD of 10.7. Doing a burn that way does not format the disk for Mac

Edit 2: Maybe this is in the wrong place, could someone steer me right. I tried search but didn't see anything.

 

[EugW]

Try a different drive. Many USB drives can’t boot properly on some Macs.