Install Linux Mint on Macbook A1181
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 12:58 pm
Hello,
[Let me just tell you that I am portuguese so english is not my native language so the text may have some errors I apologize in advance]
I need some help installing Linux Mint on my Macbook. It is a (2007) Macbook 2,1 - 2,16 Intel Core 2 Duo Processor - 4 GB RAM (I made an upgrade)
So I am try to create a MintBook so I will like to not keep the OSX I have in that laptop (is Snow Leopard btw)
I spend the last week try every possible tutorial I find and only one kind work because I could not install the OS grub fatal error.
I am here asking if anyone knows or try to install it and if is possible and I will appreciate any help that you can give me.
First of all I could not boot the liveCD USB from macbook direct I only can boot if I use refit/refind I don't know why but it is impossible so far.
Second I try in liveCD USB remove all disk partitions and create one 100mb boot partition with refind it work the first time the I got some problems with grub as I said and know I try to create that partitions but some how mac doesn't boot from that anymore.
Third even if I manage to put the refind partition in a disk to work again with the LiveCD USB I cannot complete the rest of linux installation because when the installation gets to the part that is installing grub always give me a fatal error I already try to install it in that boot partition (sdX1) and in sdX that is the supposed place to be install in a "normal" installation I try some command that I find in some forum that I think is use for arch linux installation but doesn't work ether.
I don't know what to do anymore and really giving up on the idea of having a mintBook.
Hope some one can help or at least know something.
Best Regards, skinvic23
[Let me just tell you that I am portuguese so english is not my native language so the text may have some errors I apologize in advance]
I need some help installing Linux Mint on my Macbook. It is a (2007) Macbook 2,1 - 2,16 Intel Core 2 Duo Processor - 4 GB RAM (I made an upgrade)
So I am try to create a MintBook so I will like to not keep the OSX I have in that laptop (is Snow Leopard btw)
I spend the last week try every possible tutorial I find and only one kind work because I could not install the OS grub fatal error.
I am here asking if anyone knows or try to install it and if is possible and I will appreciate any help that you can give me.
First of all I could not boot the liveCD USB from macbook direct I only can boot if I use refit/refind I don't know why but it is impossible so far.
Second I try in liveCD USB remove all disk partitions and create one 100mb boot partition with refind it work the first time the I got some problems with grub as I said and know I try to create that partitions but some how mac doesn't boot from that anymore.
Third even if I manage to put the refind partition in a disk to work again with the LiveCD USB I cannot complete the rest of linux installation because when the installation gets to the part that is installing grub always give me a fatal error I already try to install it in that boot partition (sdX1) and in sdX that is the supposed place to be install in a "normal" installation I try some command that I find in some forum that I think is use for arch linux installation but doesn't work ether.
I don't know what to do anymore and really giving up on the idea of having a mintBook.
Hope some one can help or at least know something.
Best Regards, skinvic23