[ubuntu-in] UNR on macbookpro 5,1

[Linux Lingam]

On 7/22/09, Sameep Kaul <sameep at tuxwire.com> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Linux Lingam" <linuxlingam at gmail.com>
> To: "Ubuntu India Local Community" <ubuntu-in at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 4:05:46 AM GMT +05:30 Chennai, Kolkata,
> Mumbai, New Delhi
> Subject: [ubuntu-in] UNR on macbookpro 5,1
>
> dear all,
>
> hope someone on this list has a solution for this:
>
> bought a new 4GB thumbdrive, downloaded and installed Ubuntu Netbook
> Remix (UNR) based on 9.04, for generic i386.
> i already have ubuntu 9.04 installed in a partition on my macbookg pro
> 5,1, and use GRUB under rEFIt since more than a month.
>
> how do i get the macbookpro to sense and boot from the thumbdrive into UNR?
> have also posted this query on the forums several days ago, with no
> response:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/netbook-remix/+question/65090
>
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> The regular way of doing this is to press the option key and press the power
> button on your macbook. keep the option key pressed till you get a boot
> device choice.
>
> I'm not sure if GRUB has changed that.
>

thanks sameep for your prompt response. Have already tried this
age-old mac-technique. It shows me two volumes 'mac' and 'windows'
even though there is only ubuntu on the hard-disk and UNR on the
thumbdrive. On selecting 'windows' i only get the grub again,
installed as it were on the hd. The thumbdrive is not sensed. What
gives?
>
> Regards,
>
> Sameep
> [tuxwire.com]
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