MX-15 on Apple

[antiX-Dave]

Hmm maybe an efi flag / boot flag or something similar in gparted then?

Edit: yes it needs the esp flag
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EF ... oned_disks

[dolphin_oracle]

uefi is supposed to require:

1. gpt partition table
2. a fat32 partition with a boot,esp flag set (gpt calls these labels, which get's confusing reading documentation).
3. a UEFI-type bios

my setup is attached.

[Hierax_ca]

Sorry, I must have missed adding the flags then. Can I add them after the fact in GParted and then just re-install GRUB (maybe with MX-Boot Repair) or will do you think it'll take a full reinstall?

[Hierax_ca]

antiX-Dave, you were right it, does need GPT Partition Table -- in my newbie foolishness I thought that because the EFI partition was ms-dos format and fat32 then the partition table was also ms-dos, got stupidly confused there. Live, err, and learn, eh?

dolphin_oracle, the helpful image with the boot and esp flags showed me they were also needed and missing.

In summary, I had to do a complete reinstall as follows:

• USB ran GParted

• GPT Partition Table (instead of

• same partitions as before: sda1= 200MiB fat32 EFI, sda2= 1.81TiB ext4 rootMX17, sda3= 8GiB linux-swap MXLINUX SWAP

• sda1 had to right click on it and "manage flags" to add "boot, esp"

• otherwise installed the same as above

So, a successful hardware install on a MacBook 13" (5,1 Late 2008) using the MX 17.1 May Snapshot which now from boots into MX-Linux in around 10 seconds -- much better -- THANK YOU!

Hopefully this is helpful, if even an idiot like me can get this to work (with the kind help here) perhaps more people can salvage their own old MacBooks into the glorious present and future of MX-Linux!

[bigbenaugust]

On my MacBookPro 1,1 (yeah, it's old), I just did a 32-bit MX 17.1 install with MBR and rEFInd had no trouble picking up the install.
So happy to have it running Linux again after Ubuntu MATE went silly on me.

[bigbenaugust]

On my MacBookPro 1,1 (yeah, it's old), I just did a 32-bit MX 17.1 install with MBR and rEFInd had no trouble picking up the install.
So happy to have it running Linux again after Ubuntu MATE went silly on me.

... well, it had no trouble picking up the install after I remembered not to pick XFS for the filesystem like I did on my other boxes. ;P