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Since I want to install Ubuntu on my MacBook Air (Early 2015), I have tried using flash drive as an installation disk to install Ubuntu. But attempting to boot Ubuntu after install is a great pain. I heard that rEFInd could be a great tool for Mac to boot other system beside macOS.
NAILED: HOWTO install bootable mac ubuntu on your external firewire harddrive
This is version 0.1 of this document.Purpose and Rationale
To explain to you, the eager Mac linux noobie, how to get your Ubuntu system of your dreams up and running. I am performing the surgery on a dual 800 G4 mac; YMMV. The idea is to be able to install Ubuntu onto an external firewire drive so you don't have to trash your existing Mac OS X set-up. I use my Mac to run Logic Pro, so I had no interest in re-partitioning my internal hard drives. I am also a software developer and wanted to be able to use familiar Linux tools and not have to mess with weird Darwin/BSD hack arounds for my projects.
- Easy First, download the Ubuntu ISO image you want and prepare the bootable medium (optical disc, flash drive, external hard drive, etc.), if using an optical disc, make sure your Mac has an optical drive, if not, you will need the SuperDrive or o.
- ) and use option 'D' instead of 'A' (in the script) after you have downloaded Ubuntu. If you have any questions/concerns, drop a comment below. Hope you found this video helpful.
- I would like to install Ubuntu 64 bit on Intel Mac with Yosemite. I would like to continue using both OS X and all the applications and Ubuntu. Since the latest version of Ubuntu allows double installation without partition, can I choose this option without loosing anything previously installed on my Mac?
- I am having trouble installing Ubuntu on a partition on my hard drive, and none of the other similar questions helped me. I have a partition set up for Ubuntu, and also a 5 gigabyte transfer partition. I have a disk with the Ubuntu installer on it (it works).
- OSX, Win7-64 and Data. I have shrunk the data partition to make some free space. I've then installed rEFIt as the new boot menu. My plan is to install Ubuntu 11.10 or 12.4 in the newly-freed 20 GB of space via a single partition, but every single install documentation I've seen says Linux needs three partitions. System, user and swap.
Known Issues
I don't currently have instructions for how to download, build, and install a debian linux kernel with the SCSI stuff compiled in (rather than built as a module). Thanks and praise are due to Brent Stephens who hooked me up with the deb packages I needed. I am a Redhat hacker by trade, so I am new to all this debian stuff.
I plan on creating a condensed HOWTO to explain how to download, build, and install a debian linux kernel at the 'yaboot install failure' juncture. For now, you'll have to rely upon the kindliness of strangers to provide you with the necessary
Background
A quick and dirty explanation of why you can't just install Ubuntu to your firewire drive. Nerds, feel free to correct my crude explanations. Be sure to flame me for how stupid I am to further enhance my impression of engineering culture. No cynicism here, no siree bob.
I know this explanation is crap, but it gives a high level explanation of some kind. Ubuntu is designed to work with a kernel image. The kernel image lives on your hard drive. In order to access your hard drive, the bootstrap process needs to be able to access the SCSI drive on which your kernel lives. If the SCSI code for the kernel lives in a module, the kernel image won't be able to find itself, and you're screwed.
The bootstrap thingy is called yaboot. It creates a Mac-readable partition known as a bootstrap partition. It has special magic powers that enable it to find a linux kernel image when you provide it with the path to the image. Apple uses something called Open Firmware, which is a very rough and tumble boot loader among other things. One tricky bit about this whole business is that you have to provide yaboot with Open Firmware paths to your image, which is a relatively obscure activity that the Ubuntu installer doesn't know how to deal with. So it will die when it tries to perform the sacred ritual known as installing yaboot. Ubuntu just uses plain old /dev/sdX, and mkofboot needs Open Firmware (I'll refer to it as OF) paths in order to work.
Another note is that the usual way to boot up linux is to use an initrd, which I think is a bootstrap kernel that gets loaded into memory, which then finds your real kernel (/boot/vmlinux). What we're doing here doesn't require initrd, which maybe one day we'll both understand how cool that is.
Make it work for me dammit! I want my Mommy
You need to roll your own yaboot.conf and install it, but that's easier said then done. Here's some step-by-step with some generous hand holding. Be sure to do some t'ai ch'i breathing and review your typing carefully. Welcome to the real world, boys and girls. Btw, once you get this thing up and running, you'll never have to deal with this crap again. You can happily use all the friendly Ubuntu GUI stuff afterwards.
Credit where it's due: Brent pointed out this article which was really helpful, but it is intended for hackers in the know.
- Follow the usual instructions to download and burn an Ubuntu install CD iso.
- Begin the install process by restarting your mac with your iso in the drive. Hold down 'C' to boot off of your CD-ROM.
- Go about the installation tasks as usual -- follow the wiki above if need be. Be sure to make a note of the BOOTSTRAP partition and the ROOT partition. For me, these were /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3, respectively.
- Your install will crap out when it tries to install yaboot. Now the fun begins. Drop to a terminal by typing 'alt-f2' (aka option-f2).
- Note: this doc will be updated since we can't count on Brent Stephens to leave these deb packages lying around forever. I'm making these notes for posterity.
- Type chroot /target
- You need to figure out the OF path of your FW drive. Type 'echo /proc/device-tree/pci*/firewire*/node*/sbp-2*'. Write down what it says carefully and legibly.
- Type 'apt-get install wget'. Make sure your cdrom is still mounted and all that jazz. If it got ejected, apt-get will magically remount it so don't worry about it.
- Type 'cd /tmp', then type 'wget http://brent.warehouse6.com/misc/kernel.tbz2'
- Type 'tar xvjf kernel.tbz2'.
- cd into that dir, kernel-2.6.14.2 or something like that, mine is blown away now
- type 'dpkg -i *'. you can ignore whatever warning messages safely.
- Now you need to make your yaboot.conf. Use your favorite editor, like vi /etc/yaboot.conf. In the file, put the following:
Unix path to the bootstrap partition (Note: this will be where ever you put it, as noted above)
Open Firmware path to the bootstrap partition. Remember the output from the 'echo /proc/device-tree/..' command? Follow my example above for formatting help. The number 2 in my example is the bootstrap partition. Like /dev/sda2 means use the number 2 at the end. You can ignore everything before the node part from the output of the echo command.
Open Firmware path to the root partition, more or less. You specify the actual partition next, this is just the path to the device.
number of the root partition (like mine is /dev/sda3, so use the number 3)
Now there's some stock stuff that goes in here which I'm not going to explain. just do it.
Ok, that 'root=8:3' part is tricky. Go here to figure out the correct values for your installation.
- My yaboot.conf:
- Ok, now you must install this gizmo onto your bootstrap partition. Type 'mkofboot -v' and hope it works! You should see some promising output.
- Switch back to the install by pressing alt-f1. Bail out of there and restart. Hold down ALT + APPLE KEY + O + F to get to the OF bootloader thingy.
- At the bootloader, type 'boot fw/node/sbp-2/disk@0:2, yaboot' substituting YOUR bootstrap partition for the number 2 in the disk@0:2 part.
- Type 'mac-boot' or 'mac-start' or whatever it says, it tells you in the OF boot thing, I'll look it up later.
- Congrats, you're at the yaboot prompt. The screen will flash and your computer will convulse for a minute. when you get the 'boot:' prompt, type Linux and go! The Ubunutu install process will magically continue.
Install Ubuntu On Mac Partition Mac
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I would like to install Ubuntu 64 bit on Intel Mac with Yosemite. I would like to continue using both OS X and all the applications and Ubuntu.Since the latest version of Ubuntu allows double installation without partition, can I choose this option without loosing anything previously installed on my Mac?
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Yeah you can use both OS harmoniously.All you need to do is freeing up some space to install Ubuntu.You can do it either by using Disk Utility on OS X and shrink your working partition.On El Captian it look like this.
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Or, you can let Live Ubuntu media to do it while installation by adjusting the slider (red circled), here it's showing Windows 7 but the procedure for OS X is exactly the same.
Then install Ubuntu alongside OS X and by default GRUB will be installed. Select Ubuntu to use Ubuntu or OS X to use OS X.
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If GRUB is not installed you still can boot into Ubuntu by pressing down your option key on the Macbook while booting.
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