Hi-
I have been working at repurposing a mid-2009 MacBook Pro (5,5) as dual-boot OS X and Ubuntu 12.04
I have gotten fairly far, but post-installation of Ubuntu, it is failing to reboot. This was a machine with a failing HD, and I decided that while I was upgrading the drive, I would make it dual boot
What I have done so far:
1) Single boot install from live 12.04 CD of Ubuntu (worked fine, standard .iso) - I did this to test and make sure ubuntu would install and work ok.
2) erase and re-partition and reinstall of OS X Lion. (partitioned disk... I now have working OS X including the EFI partition, OS X main partition, Recovery partition) In Disk Utility I created additional partiton for linux. + one for shared files. - Created these as hfs+
3) Install Refit - Verify that I can boot into OS X fine.
4) Install ubuntu 12.04 --- This seemed to work fine, ( I erased one of the hfs+ partitions, and re-created an ext4 and a swap partition from the free space)
but I had a problem at the end of the install - It gave an error attempting to install grub into the ext4 partition I installed linux on. It have me additional chance to try to re-install grub, I tried to install onto the drive (sda) - I also tried creating a small additional boot partition by dividing up the swap into two partitions, and installing onto this.
After this, I tried fixing things with boot-repair, and taking the defaults. at one point I also ran the refit partition sync. Now, whether I try booting directly via EFI (option key) or via Refit, the Ubuntu install shows up (as tux penguin under refit, or as "windows" under EFI/option key) - but in both cases I get a black screen with "missing operating system"
Here is my boot-repair pastebin link: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1503917/
I suppose I could just do a re-install of ubuntu, but i want to use this as a learninng experience about the wacky-world of dual boot mac intel.:D
Thanks!
I have been working at repurposing a mid-2009 MacBook Pro (5,5) as dual-boot OS X and Ubuntu 12.04
I have gotten fairly far, but post-installation of Ubuntu, it is failing to reboot. This was a machine with a failing HD, and I decided that while I was upgrading the drive, I would make it dual boot
What I have done so far:
1) Single boot install from live 12.04 CD of Ubuntu (worked fine, standard .iso) - I did this to test and make sure ubuntu would install and work ok.
2) erase and re-partition and reinstall of OS X Lion. (partitioned disk... I now have working OS X including the EFI partition, OS X main partition, Recovery partition) In Disk Utility I created additional partiton for linux. + one for shared files. - Created these as hfs+
3) Install Refit - Verify that I can boot into OS X fine.
4) Install ubuntu 12.04 --- This seemed to work fine, ( I erased one of the hfs+ partitions, and re-created an ext4 and a swap partition from the free space)
but I had a problem at the end of the install - It gave an error attempting to install grub into the ext4 partition I installed linux on. It have me additional chance to try to re-install grub, I tried to install onto the drive (sda) - I also tried creating a small additional boot partition by dividing up the swap into two partitions, and installing onto this.
After this, I tried fixing things with boot-repair, and taking the defaults. at one point I also ran the refit partition sync. Now, whether I try booting directly via EFI (option key) or via Refit, the Ubuntu install shows up (as tux penguin under refit, or as "windows" under EFI/option key) - but in both cases I get a black screen with "missing operating system"
Here is my boot-repair pastebin link: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1503917/
I suppose I could just do a re-install of ubuntu, but i want to use this as a learninng experience about the wacky-world of dual boot mac intel.:D
Thanks!