How to install 9.10 on a MacBook?

[vibe3]

Hi all,

I've been looking through the various threads with all the problems involved in installing Karmic 9.10 on a MacBook. Could someone post comprehensive instructions on how to do this on a clean MacBook install? I was searching through some threads which seem to have bits and pieces of info, but the official help page:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ma...elInstallation

has been "under revision" for a while now and I can't seem to find some simple easy to follow instructions.

[groovete]

Confused, because the website with a detailed howto is online!

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ma...elInstallation

[vibe3]

Confused, because the website with a detailed howto is online!

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ma...elInstallation

Yes but that does not seem to be updated for 9.10 which switches to the new grub2 boot loader. I've read some threads of people saying that rEFIt breaks things in 9.10 etc.

[ColdLunch]

Don't install rEEFIt. You don't need it.

Pop in the Ubuntu Live CD.
Partition your drive with gparted.
Start installation.
On last screen of installation, hit "Advanced". Set grub to dev/sda/1.
???
Profit.


Thats what I did and it works great.

[Who]

Don't install rEEFIt. You don't need it.

Pop in the Ubuntu Live CD.
Partition your drive with gparted.
Start installation.
On last screen of installation, hit "Advanced". Set grub to dev/sda/1.
???
Profit.


Thats what I did and it works great.

Did you keep OS X?

[zAfi]

I did it the same way as ColdLunch but installed grub on my /boot partition (sda3 in my case). After syncing the partition table with a rEFIt disc I can choose what I want to boot by holding the option key.

[aprigiosimoes]

no problems efi with grub2.

http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook

[ian_hawdon]

I haven't had a problem with grub2 and rEFIt, apart from it thinking it's a legacy OS, so the Tux icon doesn't appear!

Does using grub2 for EFI make (k)ubuntu perform any better then the current method (which seems to be a PC BIOS emulation)... if so, how do I convert my current setup to use Grub2 instead of rEFIt?

[_mario_]

I haven't had a problem with grub2 and rEFIt, apart from it thinking it's a legacy OS, so the Tux icon doesn't appear!

same for me. but that's not a big problem...

Does using grub2 for EFI make (k)ubuntu perform any better then the current method (which seems to be a PC BIOS emulation)...

depends on the flavour. the PC variant of grub2 (that is beening used by the install disc) also causes the EFI firmware to enable BIOS emulation.

the EFI variant must be installed explicitly to the efi-folder of OSX's system partition to be used, and afaik, since no BIOS emulation is enabled, some drivers, in particular the proprietary Nvidia driver, refuse to work (at least when i tried the last time).

if so, how do I convert my current setup to use Grub2 instead of rEFIt?

this is not advisible at all. but you might convert from grub1 to grub2: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2.

ciao,
Mario

[aprigiosimoes]

problems?

install ubuntu and then enter the live cd of ubuntu open console and mount the partition that ubuntu is installed and use chroot to enter the partition.

mount / proc and install grub 1 (grub or grub-legacy) and run grub-install / dev / HARD OR update-grub

and reboot.