Ubuntu 11.04 broke my MacBook Pro

[Alan Pope]

On 29 April 2011 15:41, Shawn Milochik <shawn at milochik.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the comments. I didn't do a dual-boot -- I let Ubuntu take over
> the entire disk. I tried to resize the OS X partition first, but the
> installer complained that it couldn't do it for HFS.
>

I've not tried a full disk install on my MBP to be honest, I dual
boot, so I am lacking experience here. Worth doing a memtest from an
Ubuntu CD? Also worth checking the disk with tools like smart and
badblocks?

> I understand the question-mark issue -- the problem is that the majority of
> the time I get just a black screen, no power-on tone, and no apparent
> activity -- it certainly seems like a hardware problem. If all I ever got
> was the gray question-mark screen I'd assume it was just a hard drive issue.
>

Hmm. Odd. Sorry, I don't know.

Cheers,
Al.