Can not boot from the installation image on MacBook

Issues & Assistance Garuda Installer Images
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I have this (with 4GB RAM)
https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/specs/macbook-core-2-duo-2.0-aluminum-13-late-2008-unibody-specs.html

I tried to boot the (Xfce Edition) installation image from USB by starting and keeping Alt key pressed, but the USB device is not listed. I tried Arch installation image, too, and it could be selected and booted. But how to boot the Garuda image? I just used dd to make the installation device from the .iso file.

BTW the wiki tells to use nvidia-390xx driver for old NVIDIA graphics cards, but my hardware works by nvidia-340. Is that an issue?

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I'm not a Mac user, but at least I can leave you the wiki guide:

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It does not help. I could boot another, regular PC by the USB drive, though.

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I found a trick that worked: I pressed Alt and kept it down until I saw symbol for the hard drive of the Macbook. Then I (removed and) inserted the USB drive and voila, its symbol appeared.

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I suppose I should boot with open source drivers due to the old NVIDIA graphics card. At least it doesn't seem to be able to show desktop with proprietary drivers.

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So I did. With free drivers I get the Xfce desktop, but with something wrong with window borders. I wonder why is that, but it got better once I switched Window Manager theme to something else (and back to default) .

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