[Noisebridge-discuss] how do you install linux on a macbook?

[Taylor Alexander]

I'm not sure if this helps, but I do know you get a different boot menu
(before rEFIit) if you hold down the option key (at least with current
macs, no idea on older ones). Have you tried booting from that menu instead
of rEFIit? I'm not sure how that deals with USB sticks though.


On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:11 PM, miloh <froggytoad at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh jake, duh I forgot when helping you that I have a usb optical drive ill
> pick it up and bring it to you at chm tonight.
> On Nov 19, 2012 5:44 PM, "Jake" <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>
>> I have been trying for days to get my black macbook 2.1 (whatever that
>> means) to boot linux from a USB stick.  My preferred installation is Linux
>> Mint Cinnamon and i have a Core 2 Duo CPU so i have been trying to do
>> 64-bit installation.
>>
>> It hasn't worked.  My computer has rEFIt already installed on it so it
>> totally recognizes USB sticks when it boots, but if i choose them it fails
>> with various messages.  The farthest i got had something to do with
>> /boot/efi/elilo.efi and elilo.conf but i couldn't figure out what to put in
>> elilo.conf and it shouldn't be this hard anyway should it?
>>
>> i don't have an internal optical disc right now but i tried a stock linux
>> boot DVD in an external (firewire) drive and the same thing happened as
>> with the USB stick - rEFIt sees it but if i choose that volume to boot
>> from, it errors out with some crap.
>>
>> If you have any experience with this process please let me know.  I'm
>> trying to re-up my computer getting nowhere.
>>
>> -jake
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