[uds-announce] Dual Boot Installation with Ubuntu

[Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman]

Hi,
Anyone can me with the broadcom wireless for MacBookPro7-1 ? unity not
working well to me so far , im in KDE environment now ... im surviving to
get the wireless working ....


On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 08:27:18PM +0100, Göran Gustafsson wrote:
> > Yes, Apple doesn't fully follow the specs. I've read that they use a mix
> of version 1 and 2.
>
> I think this is basically right. Mac firmware is based off of an older
> EFI 1.x version but has some features from newer 2.x versions.
>
> > From my experience you can only boot if the file is named
> EFI/boot/bootx64.efi. Otherwise you can't see the option when holding down
> the option key at boot.
>
> Or else the bootloader needs to be installed in the HFS+ partition and
> blessed.
>
> > On 2012-10-30, at 17:56, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 06:24:26PM +0100, Göran Gustafsson wrote:
> > >> If you are trying to boot using grub2 and EFI (without using refit and
> > >> a hybrid mbr partition table) then you need to make sure you got a
> > >> file named EFI/boot/bootx64.efi on /dev/sda1. Ubuntu drops the ball on
> > >> this one.
> > >
> > > Per the spec, /EFI/boot/bootx64.efi is only supposed to be required for
> > > booting from removable media.  For fixed disks, it is supposed to be
> > > sufficient to have /EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi plus an efibootmgr entry.
> > >
> > > However, Macbooks are probably hopelessly non-compliant with the UEFI
> > > spec ...
> > >
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> > > Colin Watson                                       [
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> > >
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