Don't bother with the Crossover for playing with EFILive, it currently won't work.
I loaded Wine 1.2 rc2 and it loaded fine.
Yes, the USB thingy is an issue, and I'm trying the "fix". If it works, I'll post how I did it.
It's pretty complicated for a newbie like me and required recompiling Wine it seems. After 2 hours I still didn't get it completely set up. I'll try again today.
Paul - I put in a service ticket at Codeweaver, there is a problem with their system and the EFILive installer. I uh, well.... also mentioned to them that you are interested in a Linux port. Don't hate me.
they do that stuff professionally and are top level Wine developers (they develop Wine and the Codeweaver product).
Sure, Wine is not really native Linux, but you can't really tell. It hauls butt, and doesn't require a Win license or Win updates. Any solution that works, works. Plus it would allow you to package a Linux version without releasing source code for EFILive, which I don't believe the Linux license permits?