[other] Successful install: Macbook Pro 4,1(early 2008) with Lubuntu 18.04

Hi,

I hope it's OK to post about successful installs.

I am happy to share that my early 2008 Macbook Pro 4,1 is smoothly running Lubuntu 18.04 LTS alongside OS X Lion.

Steps taken when it finally worked:

1. Installed OS X Lion
2. Shrunk the SSD drive and left only 40GB for OS X using Disk Utility in OS X
3. Used Rufus on a Windows PC to create a UEFI bootable USB with Lubuntu 18.04
4. Booted the Macbook off that USB
5. Picked 'Try Lubuntu' and installed to hard drive alongside OS X
6. Grub install failed as most cases do, so booted back into OS X and installed rEFInd from OS X's terminal
7. The first time it didn't boot to Lubuntu, so re-ran the rEFInd install script, rebooted and it worked
8. All the hardware is working, but WiFi took a little more work but was not that hard

Though I did a lot of internet searching looking through other posts and forums, only a couple of sites were on point for me:

1. Freedompenguin: https://freedompenguin.com/articles/...-installation/
2. For wifi: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1365...-a-macbook-4-1
3. For rEFInd: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/

Hope this helps others as well.