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Glad it worked out for you.

If only we could get Windows 7 to EFI boot we would be in business. I have tried multiple different things but the Windows 7 EFI bootloader always crashes. I was able...

Hope it works out for you! You will get a black screen for 15 seconds or so even with the correct nvidia drivers and efi boot so be sure to wait at least that long as I didn't the first time...

Here is my How to Install Ubuntu 12.10 x64 on a Mac Book Pro 5,1 (5.1) then fix it so it boots in EFI mode so the 9600M GT video card can be powered down and the 9400M video card used instead.

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Thanks for the link to http://www.rodsbooks.com/ubuntu-efi/index.html I had tried using refitnd but hadn't studied hsi page in depth.

I kept trying differnt refitnd.conf setting in my Mac...

Tried Ubuntu 12.04 x64 ended up at the same b43 firmware missing panic as with 12.10.

So lame.. Why make an installer panic if it can't load the network drivers, just continue to boot and allow...

Thanks for the reply. Were you running the x64 or 32 bit version of ubuntu.

Frustrating! I can't boot using standard Ubuntu 12.10 cd in efi mode. If I use
nouveau.noaccel=1 b43.blacklist=yes as grub boot I hang at
Magic Number: 8:204:495 but no b43 error and no black...

Seems silly that Uduntu Mac ALternitive CD doesn't offer the EFI boot. Why would they exclude it from that CD?

You are absolutly correct. I ran

[ -d /sys/firmware/efi ] && echo "Installed in EFI mode" || echo "Installed in Legacy mode"

and got "Legacy Mode" I thought installing refit before doing the...

NYCAP,

I am getting the same error message. Were you able to figure out how to add op25 to the python search path I tried using environment variable PYTHONPATH but it didn't seem to work for me.
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I still haven't made any progress on booting with only the 9400M on my Macbok Pro 5.1. No mater what I seem to do "lspci | grep VGA" always shows only the 9600M GT.

I am running Ubuntu 12.10 x64...

First off I am a new to Ubuntu with limited Linux experince but am a master in windows and I am a software engineer by trade. I want to learn Ubuntu like I know windows so decided to install it for...