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Lenovo Y410p problems

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4th generation Intel® Core™ i7-4700MQ (2.40GHz 1600MHz 6MB)
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M 2GB
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Okay, so I use my moms mac and get Unibeast on my flash and I do all that, but when I get to my laptop and I shut it down and plug in the flash drive the flash drive doesn't come up as a boot option. When I finally turn on my laptop it says I need to format the disk to use it. How do I fix this problem?
 
Okay, so I use my moms mac and get Unibeast on my flash and I do all that, but when I get to my laptop and I shut it down and plug in the flash drive the flash drive doesn't come up as a boot option. When I finally turn on my laptop it says I need to format the disk to use it. How do I fix this problem?

Make sure you have USB boot enabled in BIOS. Also secure boot disabled.

Make sure you created the USB correctly:

MBR partitioning.
Make sure you created your USB with "Laptop Support" and without "Legacy USB"

Remove /Extra/Extensions/AppleACPIPlatform.kext
Add GenericUSBXHCI.kext to /Extra/Extensions on the USB: https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-Generic-USB3
Update VoodooPS2Controller.kext at /Extra/Extensions on the USB: https://github.com/RehabMan/OS-X-Voodoo-PS2-Controller
 
After I did all that it still doesn't appear as a boot option. Is it broken or something.
 
After I did all that it still doesn't appear as a boot option. Is it broken or something.

Check your BIOS settings. Make sure are pressing whatever key (or on some it is a special button for power up) will get you into the boot selection menu (not the same as BIOS setup). Refer to your user guide.

And also try different USB sticks. It works best with USB2 sticks that are 8GB.
 
The thing still doesn't come up the boot is f12 and the bios is f2 and I changed all the settings and stuff but every time I get on my computer it says "This flash drive has a file type that is unreadable please format disk" and that erases everything. Please tell me how to fix this issue.
 
I even got a USB 2.0 flash drive from kingston and that didn't change
 
The thing still doesn't come up the boot is f12 and the bios is f2 and I changed all the settings and stuff but every time I get on my computer it says "This flash drive has a file type that is unreadable please format disk" and that erases everything. Please tell me how to fix this issue.

With the device plugged in (to a Mac/hack), what is the output of:
Code:
diskutil list
# substitute disk1 for the actual identifier of your USB stick
sudo fdisk /dev/disk1

You could also try Clover UEFI...

For using Clover, I suggest you read here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/hp-proboo...-install-yosemite-hp-laptops-clover-uefi.html. Filter appropriately as some information is HP ProBook specific (omit HPFanReset.efi, most of the stuff in the ProBook Installer, for example).
 
So, I did all that then I got to the Clover boot screen, there were two boot options for mac, the Interal EFI boot and something else the Internal EFI just boots normally but when I boot the other thing it opens some Onekey recovery junk that will erase my computer if I continue.
 
So, I did all that then I got to the Clover boot screen, there were two boot options for mac, the Interal EFI boot and something else the Internal EFI just boots normally but when I boot the other thing it opens some Onekey recovery junk that will erase my computer if I continue.

Make sure you follow the guide carefully. It sounds like you did not create a partition and put the OS X installer there.
 
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