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No problem , i'm sorry i wasn't able to help you further.

good luck in the future though.

I downloaded and attempted to test the buntu mac iso but for some reason it doesnt even show up for me.

I don't think there's much else you can do, did you try fallback mode on the regular iso ?...

Hold the key, open refind, and then try to launch the installer.

don't worry about the conversion it probably doesn't affect anything.

Hello,

i believe the bios mode will work with refind, if it doesn't though i don't know what to do next. Have you tried connecting the external drive and seeing if it boots straight into refind ?...

that's the mode you want. use legacy, if you boot into EFI you'll have the same problem.

Best of Luck

Well my final push is seeing how closed apple is. And never knowing how far they can go. Sometimes, i look onto the future and see laptops without root access.

But not only that, not only because...

I've had it with apple and windows too. Never looked back. Unfortunately no one makes hardware like apple does.

Anyway, make sure you boot in fallback mode or whatever it's called. I don't think...

Hello,

i was in your position once. there's a thread around here somewhere.

i fiddled with it until it finally worked. these days i know exactly what to do so running linux is easy and...

Actually that's not needed you should have a 8600.

I suspect this has to do with EFI booting, but i can't be sure. the only way around this, is to install using the mac image, which will use...

Hello,

what pic ? and what gpu do you have

could you also post the output of : lspci | grep VGA
take a pic if you can

in that case there's a replace mac os x with ubuntu no? that'll take care of things for you.

keeping os x on a separate drive is a good idea because it's the only way to get firmware updates. i...

Hello,

sure, if you want to keep MAC OS X, i recommend you shrink the partition using disk utility on the mac OS X side, this will give you a "free space" partition.

Also, after you resize the...

Hey,

great that's the screen i get too! that's the grub bootloader:

http://d.pr/i/vvCP

select install linux, and then don't click enter, click e instead.

http://d.pr/i/nfd

Hello, i would prefer you to use the regular image which will install it in efi mode. let me reboot and see which screen shows up

Hello,

did you try EFI mode and EFISTUB ( the fall back ) mode ?

what screen do you get ?

Hello,

Let's try nomodeset first, follow the directions on this link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132&p=10069997#post10069997
scroll down to:
How to enable kernel options on...

after googling for "macbook 3.1 ubuntu nomodeset" i found this:

http://ubuntuguide.net/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-macbook-air-3-1-via-usb-flash-drive

this may indeed fix your issues.

just to make sure , there is no other error about the drive mounting ?

just a black screen ? if this is so ,this may be solved by setting nomodeset in grub. take a look here :...

did you try the mac version ?

Hello,

it's okay, working with the terminal is easy. here, i will show you.

So, first to make things simple, let's move the ubuntu download iso to the desktop.

then we open a terminal, and...

Hello, you are welcome.

Do not be afraid of the terminal. We all were at some point.
If you do not know where your ubuntu image is downloaded on your drive, you can always "drag" it to the...

Hey,

I digged around the internet for a bit, this seems to be a common problem.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/16521


i have followed the recommendations by Customer support to create a...

Hello,

it seems to me you're having problems with EFI boot, and you're not even getting to grub which kinda sucks. However, i suspect that EFISTUB (bios compatibility mode) which is represented by...

Hey tara2,

I'm not exactly sure what is going on since i don't own a macbook 3.1, what exactly do you mean by black screen ? it just hangs there ? is there a flashing _ at the top left corner ?
...

doublepost :(