Ubuntu on MacBookPro7,1

[pklat]

Has anyone had any success installing ubuntu (lucid or other) on the new 13'' MacbookPro7,1 ?

I've installed rEFIt after which both live and alternate lucid CDs start booting but soon stop as they "can't find a CD-ROM drive/driver".

Arch seems to give a similar error. Fedora 12 hangs in boot up due to what seems to be a graphics issue.

Any ideas?

[jaco223]

Has anyone had any success installing ubuntu (lucid or other) on the new 13'' MacbookPro7,1 ?

I've installed rEFIt after which both live and alternate lucid CDs start booting but soon stop as they "can't find a CD-ROM drive/driver".

Arch seems to give a similar error. Fedora 12 hangs in boot up due to what seems to be a graphics issue.

Any ideas?

Did you use Bootcamp to create a partition to install Ubuntu on?
If you want to install Ubuntu Lucid place the cd in the drive, power off your computer,
start it up while holding down the "c" key, it should boot to the install screen, where you
have the option of trying it without installing, or you can choose to install.
At this screen you can press the "f6" key and disbale acpi and choose nomodesest,
try these options and see if you can boot. It takes a couple of minutes to start a "live"
session which will boot up to the Ubuntu desktop.
Hope this helps.

Jaco

[pklat]

Thanks for the quick reply.

Yes, I have a BOOTCAMP FAT32 partition. The install screen boots up after holding the C key. Then I select acpi=off and nomodesest as you instructed. The boot up starts and hangs on the following screen:

Busy Box v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu9) built in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built in commands.

(initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system

[pklat]

I managed to boot into live lucid from a usb drive. Now in the install guide there is no hard drive to install to. Gparted also only finds the usb stick at /dev/sda1

[jaco223]

Thanks for the quick reply.

Yes, I have a BOOTCAMP FAT32 partition. The install screen boots up after holding the C key. Then I select acpi=off and nomodesest as you instructed. The boot up starts and hangs on the following screen:

Busy Box v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu9) built in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built in commands.

(initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system

Maybe the problem is with the the ".iso" you have downloaded. Did you try
downloading a different image? Perhaps trying a daily build?

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/

Try burning the image at a slow speed like 4x.

It could be that the image you downloaded is corrupt.

Hope this helps.

Jaco

[jaco223]

May I ask why you're using Busy Box?
Can you uninstall Busy Box and try installing Ubuntu?

Jaco

[binary10]

You'll always see the busybox message when initrd fails to find the root disk or some other issue with your devices. It gives you a limited command set to do some script debugging etc

[Seq]

@jaco223: Busybox is part of the initramfs.

@pklat: It sounds like the sata adapter is not recognized. Do you know what chipset is in this? You'll have to find out either from tech specs, or from within Mac OS X (About this Mac > System Information, if memory serves). I only have a mbp5,3 at my disposal, so I can't reproduce your problem, obviously.

Unfortunately, you're a very, very early adopter and likely one of the first to try Linux on this particular machine.

[Seq]

Unfortunately, you're a very, very early adopter and likely one of the first to try Linux on this particular machine.

Wow, a google search for "macbookpro7,1 linux" brings up this thread.

[pklat]

The only way I can start a live lucid environment is by booting from a CD and USB simultaneously. Apparently once it cannot find CD rom it looks for the USB. Live ubuntu environment works fine except for WiFi and recognising any of the SATA drives. I don't know what's new from previous versions of Macbook, but here is some info

Hardware Overview:

  Model Name:	MacBook Pro
  Model Identifier:	MacBookPro7,1
  Processor Name:	Intel Core 2 Duo
  Processor Speed:	2.4 GHz
  Number Of Processors:	1
  Total Number Of Cores:	2
  L2 Cache:	3 MB
  Memory:	4 GB
  Bus Speed:	1.07 GHz
  Boot ROM Version:	MBP71.0039.B05
  SMC Version (system):	1.62f5
  Serial Number (system):	W80140U3ATM
  Hardware UUID:	183BD947-DFF3-5C0E-9C39-5AA0A03467FC
  Sudden Motion Sensor:
  State:	Enabled

Serial-ATA

NVidia MCP89 AHCI:

  Vendor:	NVidia
  Product:	MCP89 AHCI
  Link Speed:	3 Gigabit
  Negotiated Link Speed:	1.5 Gigabit
  Description:	AHCI Version 1.30 Supported

TOSHIBA MK2555GSXF:

  Capacity:	250.06 GB (250,059,350,016 bytes)
  Model:	TOSHIBA MK2555GSXF                      
  Revision:	FH405B  
  Serial Number:	           3097C1H4T
  Native Command Queuing:	Yes
  Queue Depth:	32
  Removable Media:	No
  Detachable Drive:	No
  BSD Name:	disk0
  Rotational Rate:	5400
  Medium Type:	Rotational
  Partition Map Type:	GPT (GUID Partition Table)
  S.M.A.R.T. status:	Verified
  Volumes:
Macintosh HD:
  Capacity:	215.82 GB (215,822,106,624 bytes)
  Available:	176.2 GB (176,199,225,344 bytes)
  Writable:	Yes
  File System:	Journaled HFS+
  BSD Name:	disk0s2
  Mount Point:	/
BOOTCAMP:
  Capacity:	33.89 GB (33,892,073,472 bytes)
  Available:	33.87 GB (33,874,395,136 bytes)
  Writable:	Yes
  File System:	MS-DOS FAT32
  BSD Name:	disk0s3
  Mount Point:	/Volumes/BOOTCAMP

Looks like the new thing is the chipset NVIDIA MCP89.

I only planned to use OS X for movie editing. Everything else ubuntu does better (for my needs)...well apart from flash