ubuntu 7.10 gutsy on apple intel xserve

[Victor Padro]

i actually installed ubuntu on a intel based imac and a powerpc g4, and both
worked, using feitsy and dapper in both, currently they're booting feitsy, i
downloaded the alternate cds for x86 and powerpc respectively, because
normal cds didn't work as you say.

hope it helps.



On 10/31/07, Jason Joines <joines at okstate.edu> wrote:
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> Subject: Re: ubuntu 7.10 gutsy on apple intel xserve
> From: Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas at math.dartmouth.edu>
> To:
> Date: Wed Oct 31 16:00:28 2007
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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
>
>
>
>      I'm not sure if that's the issue or not.  I started down the efi
> path when I first started trying to get Kubuntu on the intel macbook
> pro.  However, I was able to boot off of the installer CD.  I then used
> dd to wipe the drive which got rid of the efi partition and let me
> install grub to the mbr.  Without wiping the efi partition away, I could
>   not get a bootloader to work.  The macbook pro was supposed to be 64
> bit  but I had to use the i386 cd as the amd64 said the cpu was not 64
> bit.  Unfortunately on the xserve, I can't boot off either cd.
>
>      Right now I'm installing the latest osx so I can install boot camp
> so I can install linux so I can dd the drive and see what happens.  I'll
>   probably end up being stuck with a dual boot configuration.
>
>
> Jason
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