canvasfly
March 5th, 2014, 04:04 PM
Hello
I have a 2006 MacBook Pro 2,1 that I upgraded to have 2 internal hard drives, removing the optical.
I have the rEFInd boot manager installed.
I previously installed Ubuntu successfully, dual booting with OS X, using a Mac specific ISO from Ubuntu's cdimage repository.
Now I would like to attempt a dual boot install again. This MacBook Pro has issues booting other OSes from USB, that's a known issue. I've tried creating a Live USB stick, but can't get it boot from that. So my only option is an Optical drive install.
I tried the previous install media I created and was receiving "Error Reading Sector XXXX" messages. I downloaded the ISO again and created a new DVD and now, when I boot from that DVD I get a message stating that "install/vmlinuz cannot be found."
I've done some research on this error and it seems to be a problem that people run into when trying to install from USB Sticks, not from ISO's.
Then I started wondering if this had anything to do with trying to Boot from an external drive. Even though the Mac is allowing it (though it takes a few reboots before the install DVD shows up in the boot menu), maybe there's an issue with the Mac's EFI vs the custom ISO build for Macs.
I've done a lot of searching but I'm stuck and I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions. The answer could just be that its not going to work. If that's the case, I'll install using VirtualBox.
Thank you for any suggestions.
I have a 2006 MacBook Pro 2,1 that I upgraded to have 2 internal hard drives, removing the optical.
I have the rEFInd boot manager installed.
I previously installed Ubuntu successfully, dual booting with OS X, using a Mac specific ISO from Ubuntu's cdimage repository.
Now I would like to attempt a dual boot install again. This MacBook Pro has issues booting other OSes from USB, that's a known issue. I've tried creating a Live USB stick, but can't get it boot from that. So my only option is an Optical drive install.
I tried the previous install media I created and was receiving "Error Reading Sector XXXX" messages. I downloaded the ISO again and created a new DVD and now, when I boot from that DVD I get a message stating that "install/vmlinuz cannot be found."
I've done some research on this error and it seems to be a problem that people run into when trying to install from USB Sticks, not from ISO's.
Then I started wondering if this had anything to do with trying to Boot from an external drive. Even though the Mac is allowing it (though it takes a few reboots before the install DVD shows up in the boot menu), maybe there's an issue with the Mac's EFI vs the custom ISO build for Macs.
I've done a lot of searching but I'm stuck and I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions. The answer could just be that its not going to work. If that's the case, I'll install using VirtualBox.
Thank you for any suggestions.