[uds-announce] Dual Boot Installation with Ubuntu

[Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman]

\0/ finally !!!! the wireless work .....


On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman <
fenris at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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 ...
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Colin Watson                                       [
>> cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
>> > >
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