![]() And, yes, I have been patient and have left it a while, but nothing happens. It goes so far - loads Linux, loads RAM disk, then gets stuck on loading the kernel. I read that if I remove the 64 bit EFI file, and put in a file called bootia32.efi, that will work. Seems that if I use a tool like Mac Linux USB Loader, I can get something working - I can actually see the file structure, and there’s a single folder structure: OK, so I then find out that there needs to be a little tinkering to get the installer to work. img files are not mountable, and the USB stick is not mountable either, so I don’t know what is (or isn’t) in the file structure that may need changing. Worth pointing out that at this juncture, the. Hdiutil convert /path/to/ubuntu.iso -format UDRW -o /path/to/target.img Same as before - no show on the boot screens on the Mac.Īpparently, it will work if you use some command line to convert the. Rinse and repeat, using Etcher to make the USB stick. rEFINd and even booting with the ALT key held down reveals no bootable drive. I started with the most current version - 20.04. I have followed various instructions on making a USB stick with the live CD image on it, but nothing seems to work. ![]() I can not for the life of me get the Ubuntu live CD to boot. I even tried an install on a virtal machine on a newer Mac to see what to expect in the Ubuntu install process. My understading from everything I’ve read up until now is that it would be simple. ![]() I have been down a very deep rabbit hole with a lot of stuff I don’t fully understad (GRUB, EFI stuff, etc. The machine supports 64bit, but has a 32 bit EFI. So after a hit of reading, I partitioned the HD, and also got rEFInd working. I have this old MacBook Pro, model 2,2 (from late 2006) that I thought I’d revisit, and put Ubuntu on (the optical drive doesn’t work anymore, so making a live DVD won’t help).
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