tomreid
January 3rd, 2019, 07:08 PM
Hi all, hoping someone can help me.
I have a Macbook pro I have now been using since November 2007. I always wanted to replace Mac OSX with Ubuntu when the time came that the OSX version it would take was no longer supported.
However I have got stuck today. When booting from the bootable USB stick I made of the latest 64bit Ubuntu LTS, I get as far as "try ubuntu without installing it" at the first GRUB menu. When I select this option, the screen goes blank and nothing else ever happens. I can hear the system's fan working quite hard whilst I'm looking at the blank screen, which makes me think that maybe it's doing something I can't see which maybe points to a Graphics card compatibility issue? it's running a Nvidia card, and i tried this workaround I found here but to no avail: https://www.lifewire.com/dual-boot-linux-and-mac-os-4125733
Modifying the GRUB Boot Loader Command
Shut down your Mac by pressing and holding the Power button.
Once your Mac shuts down, restart and return to the GRUB boot loader screen using the instructions above.
Select Try Ubuntu without installing, but do not press the Enter or Return key. Instead press the 'e' key to enter an editor that will allow you to make changes to the boot loader commands.
The editor will contain a few lines of text. You need to modify the line that reads:
linux/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/Ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
Between the words 'splash' and '---' you need to insert the following:nomodeset
The line should end up looking like this:
linux /casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/Ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash nomodeset ---
To make the edit, use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the location just after the word splash, then type 'nomodeset' without the quotes. There should be a space between splash and nomodeset as well as a space between nomodeset and ---.
Once the line looks correct, press F10 to boot with the new settings.
The system spec is:
2.6 GHZ Intel Core Duo
4 GB RAM
around 100 GB Spare SSD Space
I did (in around 2009) get Ubuntu working well on a very similar system. But now am completely stuck. Hope someone can help.
Thanks
Tom.
I have a Macbook pro I have now been using since November 2007. I always wanted to replace Mac OSX with Ubuntu when the time came that the OSX version it would take was no longer supported.
However I have got stuck today. When booting from the bootable USB stick I made of the latest 64bit Ubuntu LTS, I get as far as "try ubuntu without installing it" at the first GRUB menu. When I select this option, the screen goes blank and nothing else ever happens. I can hear the system's fan working quite hard whilst I'm looking at the blank screen, which makes me think that maybe it's doing something I can't see which maybe points to a Graphics card compatibility issue? it's running a Nvidia card, and i tried this workaround I found here but to no avail: https://www.lifewire.com/dual-boot-linux-and-mac-os-4125733
Modifying the GRUB Boot Loader Command
Shut down your Mac by pressing and holding the Power button.
Once your Mac shuts down, restart and return to the GRUB boot loader screen using the instructions above.
Select Try Ubuntu without installing, but do not press the Enter or Return key. Instead press the 'e' key to enter an editor that will allow you to make changes to the boot loader commands.
The editor will contain a few lines of text. You need to modify the line that reads:
linux/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/Ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
Between the words 'splash' and '---' you need to insert the following:nomodeset
The line should end up looking like this:
linux /casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/Ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash nomodeset ---
To make the edit, use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the location just after the word splash, then type 'nomodeset' without the quotes. There should be a space between splash and nomodeset as well as a space between nomodeset and ---.
Once the line looks correct, press F10 to boot with the new settings.
The system spec is:
2.6 GHZ Intel Core Duo
4 GB RAM
around 100 GB Spare SSD Space
I did (in around 2009) get Ubuntu working well on a very similar system. But now am completely stuck. Hope someone can help.
Thanks
Tom.