(I suspect this is the point where you "choose Ubuntu and begin start up I have a choose cd-rom screen, and my keyboard is locked.") To add nomodeset, press the "e" key when you see the grub screen & your desired boot option is highlighted - this will take you to a screen with the boot commands behind that option. My mac required the EFI boot.Īnother error I experienced when booting required me to add "nomodeset" to the grub boot command. If you have an EFI based system (and not a BIOS based system), use the EFI boot. When you boot from the DVD, there is a "Window" option and an "EFI" option. I believe Linux Mint 13 is a fairly stable OS for older computers - you might want to try that one out. The Xfce desktop works better for my mac than the other desktops. I have a MacBook Pro 5.1 and I have had success installing Linux Mint 17 Xfce. I would be more accurate to say "there are no known Wiki's that tell you how to install a particular version of Ubuntu on a MacBook Pro 1.1" It finds any bootable drives and gives you the option of choosing what you want to boot into.This site indicates there is likely no known version of Ubuntu that works on a MacBook Pro 1.1:Īlbeit, that is not directly stated. This is extra software that runs before your operating system boots up. MacBooks aren't designed to boot non-macOS operating systems from external USB drives so I had to install and configure rEFInd in the EFI partition on my hard drive before I could even test a Linux distribution properly. Note that I also have an iMac that runs macOS, Pop!_OS, and Windows 10 as well as the ability to reinstall macOS on my MacBook Air if I ever decide to revert.Īctually installing Linux took some work. This will be a trial run before making that leap.
Despite my best efforts to breath new life into this machine it's just slow (hey, it IS six years old).I decided to replace macOS on this MacBook for three reasons:
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