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ISO with EFI image

Post by geg »

Hi everybody!
I have an old Macbook x86_64 that requires an EFI image to boot & install from.
Most "Plug & Play" Linux distros do not come with that, neither have -so far- any of my Linux Mint distros.
Several enterprise Linux gives it, and "Linux distros for nerds"; Arch & Debian based distros, like Puppy & Fedora. But I need a "Plug & Play" distro like Mint.
Any suggestion to solve this?
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Re: ISO with EFI image

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LM20.3 does, my boot is efi

My laptop is Win10 on the NVME SSD, so it boots intially off of the NVME
which presents a Grub menu then it boots up the 2nd SSD which is Linux
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the 2nd SSD

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Re: ISO with EFI image

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AZgl1800 is right, the 64 bit Mint ISO boots in EFI mode. In fact most people nowadays install Linux in EFI mode, since nearly all computers manufactured nowadays have an EFI firmware.
Perhaps there was a typo in your post ? e.g. your machine is 32-bit ?
Also some old macbooks had a 64-bit CPU but a 32-bit EFI.

In any case, please post the specification of your computer. Go to https://everymac.com/, find your model and post here the link.
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