Macbook

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 10/17/06, Luis Felipe Strano Moraes <luis.strano at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/17/06, Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe.alfaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/16/06, Luis Felipe Strano Moraes <luis.strano at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 10/14/06, Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe.alfaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > 1. Grub cannot yet be used with the GRP partitioning used by Apple,
> > > > > so install LILO instead -- and yes, install it to /dev/sda3 in order
> > > > > to avoid annoying duplicate icons in rEFIt.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, you can use use GRUB with Apple BootCamp and rEFIt. I know
> > > > because that's what I'm using right now to boot up Edgy on the MacBook
> > > > Pro. Previously, GRUB made some BIOS calls that upset BootCamp, but
> > > > they recently fixed this. Also, probably version 1.1.1 of BootCamp
> > > > could probably help in dealing with those issues.
> > > >
> > > How did you install it ??? I just tried installing ubuntu again (the
> > > Edgy Beta CD)
> > > and it crashed yet again during the grub installation stage (this time
> > > I let it try to
> > > install on the default hd0).
> >
> > Oh! Yes, it crashed during install, but later I reinstalled it
> > manually. Also, I think the latest version of Edgy solves most of
> > these problems.
>
> Well, I downloaded the daily build, and tried again, but still no luck.
> It locks up with grub and lilo, and it goes OK with elilo (tough it only
> gives me an option of installing it on /dev/sda1, which is the MacOSX
> partition) during the installation but it doesn't work during boot (it just
> gives an error message saying to insert a bootable disk).
> Could you be more specific on how you installed it manually ? Was it
> just grub-install hd0 ?

Err... I didn't use grub-install, but grub's command-line interface,
and yes, I did install it into the MBR. However, I'm also using rEFIt
which I think is mandatory in order to mantain the GPT and MBR
partition tables in sync.

A few links that may be useful to you:

http://felipe-alfaro.org/blog/2006/08/19/installing-ubuntu-linux-on-a-macbook-pro/
http://felipe-alfaro.org/blog/2006/09/19/installing-refit-on-the-hidden-efi-system-partition/

After installing LILO and booting up Linux, I replaced LILO with GRUB.
So, make sure you can boot with LILO in first place, then replace LILO
with GRUB.