ubuntu 7.10 gutsy on apple intel xserve

[Sarunas Burdulis]

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Jason Joines wrote:
>     I'm a Linux person who just inherited a bunch of apple and dell 
> boxes.  Naturally the first thing I've done is begin replacing windows 
> on the dells with Ubuntu, no problems there.  Now on to the macs.
> 
>     I was given a macbook pro for a laptop and had no problems getting 
> Kubuntu on there.  However, I can't get the intel xserve to even boot 
> off of an Ubuntu CD.  I tried holding down the C key, the cd is just 
> ignored.  I tried powering on while holding down the system identifier 
> button, eventually it just spits the cd out.  I yanked the hard drives 
> out and powered on with the cd in the drive, it's been setting there 
> with a blinking question mark on the screen for more than an hour.  I 
> tried all of those things with both an i386 and an amd64 cd with the 
> same results.  Both cds had been used to install onto the dells.
>     A "mac person" tried to help me.  They went to a boot drive setting 
> in a system preferences application in os x.  I assume it writes changes 
> to the efi on disk or something like that.  However, the cd wasn't 
> listed which the mac person took to mean it wasn't a boot cd.
> 
>     When I put Kubuntu on the intel macbook pro, it was 7.04 feisty.  I 
> haven't tried 7.04 on the intel xserver yet and I haven't tried the 
> powerpc boot disk on any of the powerpc xserve boxes.  I thought using 
> the same thing that worked on the dells on the intel xserve boxes would 
> be the easiest starting point.
> 
>     Any ideas?
> 

This may be your answer...

http://community.brighton.ac.uk/ajd9/weblog/16003.html

Sarunas
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