{"id":123,"date":"2015-12-14T01:09:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T01:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morsello.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2015-12-14T01:09:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T01:09:59","slug":"booting-linux-on-mac-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morsello.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/14\/booting-linux-on-mac-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"Booting Linux on Mac Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are two ways to boot flavors of Linux on Mac hardware:<\/p>\n

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  1. Boot from an external device, such as a USB stick<\/li>\n
  2. Dual-boot<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Per answers like those provided at How-To Geek<\/a>,\u00a0 the fundamental problem of booting non-Mac operating systems on Macs is the unique Apple EFI code.<\/p>\n

    My situation is complicated by having a 32-bit EFI on the original Mac Pro, which requires a hack even to boot a modern Mac OS X version.<\/p>\n

    Unfortunately, I’ve had little luck even on my recent Macbook Pro trying to boot from a USB drive. \u00a0While Linux succeeds in the initial boot phase, it gets lost trying to start XWindows.<\/p>\n

    Supposedly, \u00a0rEFInd is the relevant tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There are two ways to boot flavors of Linux on Mac hardware: Boot from an external device, such as a USB stick Dual-boot Per answers like those provided at How-To Geek,\u00a0 the fundamental problem of booting non-Mac operating systems on Macs is the unique Apple EFI code. My situation is complicated by having a 32-bit…<\/p>\n

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