[ubuntu-in] UNR on macbookpro 5,1

Easwar Hariharan meindian523 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 26 15:46:05 BST 2009


On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Linux Lingam<linuxlingam at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/22/09, Sameep Kaul <sameep at tuxwire.com> wrote:
>>
>> ----- 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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]
>>
Um,I don't know anything about Macs or Macbooks,but my desktop (Intel
based) box identifies my USB pendrive as an additional hard disk
rather than removable media in the BIOS.Maybe you have a similar case.

Regards,
Easwar
Registered Linux user #442065



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