alex_chen2
July 31st, 2013, 10:53 PM
I am trying to install Ubuntu (13.04) on a Mac (Intel 64-bit) running Lion but am having some problems. This is what I have done so far:
a. Download rEFInd 0.7.1 (successor of rEFIt) and installed it on the Mac.
b. Insert a Ubuntu boot disk and reboot the machine. This seems to be working because I can see boot menu from rEFInd instead of Mac's boot menu.
c. Use the 'esc' key to force eEFInd to re-scan the boot loader in the CD and a new Bootcamp icon with a small CD image shows up next to Apple's logo.
d. Use the cursor key to move the highlight box to the Bootcamp icon to boot.
e. Screen goes blank and a new message shows up like this
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2.
Select the CD ROM type to boot:
The text cursor stays at the end of the line but the machine does not respond to any keyboard input no matter what I try.
I also try Centos 6 boot disk with the same result. However, I can use the same ISO image to installed the system on VMware's VM machine running on a Windows machine, therefore the ISO image itself seems to be fine.
Has anyone seen this problem?
Thanks for any help.
a. Download rEFInd 0.7.1 (successor of rEFIt) and installed it on the Mac.
b. Insert a Ubuntu boot disk and reboot the machine. This seems to be working because I can see boot menu from rEFInd instead of Mac's boot menu.
c. Use the 'esc' key to force eEFInd to re-scan the boot loader in the CD and a new Bootcamp icon with a small CD image shows up next to Apple's logo.
d. Use the cursor key to move the highlight box to the Bootcamp icon to boot.
e. Screen goes blank and a new message shows up like this
1.
2.
Select the CD ROM type to boot:
The text cursor stays at the end of the line but the machine does not respond to any keyboard input no matter what I try.
I also try Centos 6 boot disk with the same result. However, I can use the same ISO image to installed the system on VMware's VM machine running on a Windows machine, therefore the ISO image itself seems to be fine.
Has anyone seen this problem?
Thanks for any help.