Re: Ubuntu 12.10 wont progress past the boot menu on any of my Macs (Mac Mini, Macboo
I am able to boot up a Ubuntu 12.10 live usb disk on my 13" MBA 2010, which I made on a PC running Ubuntu using unetbootin. Everything works fine except persistence (I have a thread started on this problem), but this suggests that the problem isn't hardware. What is different between your setup and mine is that you are running BootCamp and rEFit and I am not, but I don't see why that should stop your MBA from booting up a live disk. I am running Mountain Lion on my MBA, but even if you are running something earlier, I don't see how that would affect a startup from a Ubuntu disk, since that comes into play before the MacOS is started. I did do the recent firmware update; perhaps that affects things. However the more likely possibility is either the process used to create the disk, the possibility that you had some errors in the download or the OS you used to make the disk. If you can, I suggest the following:
- download the live iso again and check it for integrity
- use unetbootin on a computer running Linux or PC if possible, not your Mac
By the way, I can make changes to the Live usb on a PC that stick, but as soon as I boot the usb on my MBA, I can't see the changes and I can't make any further changes. So while a live usb can be booted from a Mac or PC, something is different about the way it operates on these two platforms.
I hope that helps.
Last edited by mfox; November 1st, 2012 at 10:39 PM.
Main distros: Ubuntu 20.04 and Linux Mint 19.3
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